課程名稱︰戲劇選讀一
課程性質︰外文系必修
課程教師︰王寶祥
開課學院：文學院
開課系所︰外文系
考試日期（年月日）︰2012/11/09
考試時限（分鐘）：120分鐘
是否需發放獎勵金：是
試題 :
I. Multiple choice questions: Pick the best answer.(50%)
1.Select the correct depiction of Tesman? He 1)studied Renaissance history
2)inherited a mansion 3)He and Thea were once engaged 4)He has a slight
fetish (strong attachment) about old shoes.
2.In what capacity was Thea hired in Mr. Elvsted's house? As a 1)housekeeper
2)bookkeeper 3)governess 4)mistress
3.Who is not exactly a nocturnal creature that comes alive under the cloak
of darkness? 1)Hedda 2)Thea 3)Lovborg 4)Judge Brack
4.Select the false statement about Isben: 1)He supported Norwegian
neutrality during Prussian-Danish War. 2)The Master Builder is a
symbolist drama 3)Edvard Grieg composed incidental music for Peer Gynt
4)He finished Peer Gynt in Italy.
5.Pick the false description. 1)Hedda and Tesan's honeymoon lasted almost
half a year. 2)Tesman was brought up by his grandmother 3)The couple
live in an used residence formerly taken up by a high-level Secretary
4)Hedda is with child by Tesman
6.Which play was not staged in Nationalist China (before Communism)? 1)A
Doll's House 2)The Ghosts 3)Little Eyolf 4)The Lady from the Sea
7.Which play does not belong to Ibsen's great cycle of prose dramas?
1)Brand 2)A doll's House 3)A Public Enemy 4)Hedda Gabler
8.Who is not regarded as part of the Nordic culture in Ibsen's time?
1)Kiekregaard 2)Georg Brandes 3)The Copenhagen Bohemians 4)Edvard Munch
9.Pick the true statement. 1)Miss Julie was born out of wedlock 2)Julie's
mother married against her will. 3)Jean worked as a hotel manager in
Sweden. 4)Kristine is a devout Catholic.
10.WHich goddess' name is invoked with irony in both Hedda Gabler and Miss
Julie? 1)Thea 2)Diana 3)Juno 4)Athena
11.What is false about Strindberg's life? 1)the son of a servant from the
maternal side 2)wrote Miss Julie after his Inferno period 3)married three
times 4)fascinated by the occult
12.When is Miss Julie set? 1)Spring time in April 2)Midsummer eve 3)Ash
Wednesday 4)Winter solstice
13.Strindberg is a man of multiple talents and broad interests, but he is
not known as a 1)playwright 2)novelist 3)painter 4)composer
14.Select the correct description 1)Jean learned German in Switzerland
2)Julie prefers red wine to beer 3)Jean has woked as a sommelier
4)Krisitn is a lapsed churchgoer
15.Strindberg came into contact with diverse intellectual currents, but not
including "Impudent politeness"is a rhetorical figure of speech often
referred to as 1)Nietzsche 2)Swedenborg 3)Ingmar Bergman 4)Otto Weininger
16.To which play's preface does the Strindberg quote derive from? "The
characters split, double, multiply, dissolve, condense, disperse" 1)Dance
of Death 2)To Damascus 3)Ghost Sonata 4)A Dream Play
17.Which does not work as an animal symbol in Ibsen and Strindberg? 1)canary
2)greenfinch 3)dog 4)wild duck
18.Which is not used as a Biblical reference in Miss Julie? 1)Salome 2)Adam
and Eve 3)Diana 4)Joseph
19.What is true about Wilde's Salome? 1)written for actress Sarah Bernhardt
2)written in French and translated by Wilde himself 3)written in German
and translated by Richard Strauss 4)illustrated by John Ruskin
20.What is Wilde's pseudonym in exile? 1)Guy de Maupassant 2)Sebastian
Melmoth 3) Melmoth the Wanderer 4)Walter Sickert
21.Who wrote the play Guy Domville which failed in West End while in the
same year Wilde mad an enormous success with Earnest? 1)Bernard Shaw
2)Anton Chekhov 3)Henry James 4)W.E. Yeats
22.Pick the correct description of Wilde. He was 1)married with children. 2)
imprisoned for debt. 3)awarded the Nobel Prize. 4)buried in London
23.Which is not a featured item in Wilde's play? A)club sandwich B)cigarette
case C)piano D)Maypole
24.What flower serves as the coded gay emblem for Wilde's inner circle? 1)
white lily 2)yellow sunflowers 3)green carnation 4)blue lilacs
25.Who never wrote a play about Wilde? 1)Tom Stoppart 2)A.E. Housman 3)David
Hare 4)Terry Eagleton
II. Short Q&A (50% 4 pts each unless otherwise indicated)
1.How are the dual forces of naturalism at work in the battle of the sexes
in Miss Julie? Mark the point of reversal in your discussion (5pts)
2.Interpret the symbols of Julie's and Jean's respective dream.
3.How can the ring of the bell relate to the psychology of authority in
Miss Julie?
4.Briefly illustrate the rhetorical devices of synecdoche and oxymoron in
Miss Julie.
5.Analyze the class dynamic in Hedda's marriage. (3 pts)
6.Characterize the "comradeship" between Hedda and Lovborg. (3 pts)
7. How does Judge Brack's the train metaphor work for Hedda? (3 pts)
8.What do Hedda and Hulie have in common in their backgrounds? Give two
examples.
9.Ibsen is a major exponent of realism, just as Strindberg is known for
his naturalism. Yet traces of symbolism and expressionism can be
detected in their plays. Illustrate with two concrete instances and
interpret those moments of departure. (10 pts)
10.With Kierkegaard's three stages of existence in mind, choose Hedda or
Julie for a discussion of her priorities. (5 pts)
11.In Wilde's play, what is "the society"? What kind of women is "a woman
with a past"? (2 pts)
12.Paraphrase any epigrammatic statement from Wilde and analyze what
distinguishes his wit. (3 pts)
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