課程名稱︰ 西洋文學概論一
課程性質︰ 外文系必修
課程教師︰ 古佳艷老師
開課學院： 文學院
開課系所︰ 外文系
考試日期（年月日）︰ 950119
考試時限（分鐘）： 兩節課
是否需發放獎勵金： 是，謝謝
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試題 :
PART 1 (不能翻課本)
i. Identifiction: 20%
1. Who says the words? _______
The Trojan women raised a cry---but my heart
sang---for I had come round, long before,
to dreams of sailing home, and I repented
the mad day Aphrodite
drew me away from my dear fatherland,
forsaking all--child, bridal bed, and husband--
a man without defect in form or mind.
2. Who is this woman? _______
She stoked them, each in return, with some new chrism;
and then, behold! Their bristles fell away,
the coarse pelt grown upon them by her drug
melted away, and they were men again,
younger, more handsome, taller than before.
3. To whom is the speaker talking? ________
Child, you always were mistrustful!
But there is one sure mark that I can tell you:
that scar left by the boar's tusk long ago.
I recognized it when I bathed his feet
and would have told you, but...
4. Who is the prince? ________
Long before anyone else, the prince ..........
now caught sight of Athena---for he, too,
was sitting there unhappy among the suitors,
a boy, daydreaming. What if his great father
came from the unknown world and drove these men
like dead leaves through the place, recovering
honor and lordship in his own domains?
5. Who is the Ancient? _________
First he took on a whiskered lion's shape,
a serpent then; a leopard; a great boar;
then soasing water; then a tall green tree.
Still we hung on, by hool or crook, through everything,
until the Ancient saw defeat, and grimly
opened his lips to ask me:
"Son of Atreus,
who counseled you to this? A god: what god?
Set a trap for me, overpower me---Why? "
6. Who says these words? ________
Better, I say, to break sod as a farm hand
for some poor country man, on iron rations,
than lord it over all the exhausted dead.
7. Who says these words? ________
O master dancers of the Phaiakians!
Perform now: let our guest on his return
tell his companions we excel the world
in dance and song, as in our ships and running.
8. What is this passage about? _______________________________
I leaned on it
turing it as a shipwright turns a drill
in planking, having men below to swing
the two-handled strap that spins it in the groove.
So with our brand we bored that great eye socket
while blood ran out around the red hot bar.
9. To whom is the speaker talking? ___________
I could not
Welcome you with love on sight! I armed myself
long ago against the frauds of men,
imposters who might come---and all those many
whose underhanded ways bring evil on!
10. What eventually did the speaker find in that bag? _______
He's welcpme everywhere:
hail to the captain when he goes ashore!
He brought along so many presents, plunder
out of Troy, that's it. How about ourselves---
his shipmates all the way. Nigh home we are
with empty hands. And who has gifts from Aiolos?
He has. I say we ought to crack that bag,
there's gold and silver, plenty, in that bag!
ii Short answer questions: 10%
1. What does Odysseus learn form Agamemnon in the Underworld?
_________________________________________________________
2. What advice does Circe give Odysseus regarding Scylla and Charybdis?
_________________________________________________________
3. In what ways are the Laistrygonians like the Cyclopes?
_________________________________________________________
4. What is unusual about the wolves and lions around Circe's residence?
_________________________________________________________
5. Who is Elpenor?
_________________________________________________________
Part 2.1
i. Answer any TWO of the following questions: 30%
1. Discuss the significance od dreams in the story of Joseph.
2. Give an explication of Psalm 19.
3. What does the story of Jonah teach about the role of the prophet?
Part 2.2
ii. Answer any TWO of the following questions: 40%
1. Human weakness play a significant part in the story of Odysseus. Think
carefully about the speech of Zeus at the beginning od Bool 1, Odyssey.
What does it suggest about human behavior and the tragic fate of human
individuals? What is the relevance of Zeus'
speech to Odysseus' wanderings at sea and his final reunion with Penelope?
2. Characters in Odyssey live in a top-down society. The leaders we meet
(Odysseus, Alcinous, Menelaus) do not rule democratically. However, these
kings or heroes have their individual ways of maintaining power and
leadership. Discuss the important qualities of leadership cherished in
ancient Greek civilization.
3. Though Odyssey is mainly about a hero' journey and wanderings at sea, Ian
Johnston (a Canadian scholar) once maintains that " central to the vision
of the Odyssey is the upholding of the major moral principle of the
universe: the value of the home." Do you agree with his reading
(or interpretation) of this epic?
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