世新大學八十八學年度轉學考試
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I. Identification 40% (From the titles given, choose the correct one to identify the works from which the passages are quoted.)
A. Canterbury Tales
B. Faust
C. Paradise Lost
D. The Song of Roland
E. The Divine Comedy
F. Aucassin and Nicolette
G. The Book of Ruth
H. The Aeneid
I. Macbeth
J. The Merchant of Venice
L.
The Koran
M.
Antigone
N.
The Clouds
O.
The Iliad
P.
Lysistrata
Q.
Don Quixote
R.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
S.
The Tempest
T.
Othello
U.
Genesis
V.
King Lear
W.
The Decameron
X.
The Tragic History of the Life
and Death of Dr. Faustus
Y.
Prometheus Bound
Z.
Oedipus the King
1. “His right-hand glove he’s tendered unto Christ,
And from his hand Gabriel accepts the sign.
Straightway his head upon his arm declines;
With folded hands he makes an end and dies.
God sent to him His Angel Cherubine,
And great Sr. Michael of Peril-by-the-Tide;
St. Gabriel too was with them at his side;
The County’s soul they bear to Paradise.”
2. “Waking from his swoon, the Pilgrim is led by Virgil to the first Circle of Hell,
known as Limbo, where the sad shades of the virtuous non-Christians dwell.”
3. “Why, this hell, nor am I out of it.
Think’st thou that I that saw the face of God,
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells
In being deprived of everlasting bliss?”
4. “XXX: What can you say to draw
A third more opulent than your sisters’? Speak.
YYY: Nothing, my lord.
XXX: Nothing?
YYY: Nothing.
XXX: Nothing will come of nothing, speak again.
YYY: Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave
My heart into my mouth. I love your Majesty
According to my bond, no more no less.”
5. “No, by my honor, madam, by my soul,
No woman had it, but a civil doctor,
Which did refuse three thousand ducats of me,
And begg’d the ring, the which I did deny him,
And suffer’d him to go displeas’d away—
Even he that had held up the very life
Of my dear friend. What should I say, sweet lady?
I was enforc’d to send it after him, …”
6. “When you did me the kindness of telling me that you wished to breakfast with me, I considered it right and roper, having regard to your excellence and merit, to do everything within my power to prepare a more sumptuous dish than those I would offer to my ordinary guests. My thoughts therefore turned to the falcon you have asked me for and, knowing its quality, I reputed it a worthy dish to set before you, So I had roasted and served to you on the trencher this morning, and I could not have wished for a better way of disposing of it.”
7. “There was Anu, lord of the firmament, their father, and warrior Enlil their counselor, Ninurta the helper, and Ennugi watcher over canals; and with them also was Ea. In those days the world teemed, the people multiplied, the world bellowed like a wild bull, and the great god was aroused by the clamor. Enlil heard the clamor and he said to the gods in council, ‘The uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible by reason of the bable.’ So the gods agreed to exterminate mankind.”
8. “In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Behold, We sent it down on the Night of Power;
And what shall teach thee what is the Night of Power?
The Night of power is better than a thousand months;
in it the angels and the Spirit descend,
by the leave of their lord, upon every command.
Peace it is, till the rising of dawn.”
9. “’Poor Andromache! Why does your heart sorrow so much for me?
No man is going to hurl me to Hades, unless it is fated,
but as for fate. I think that no man yet has escaped it
once it has taken its first from, neither brave man nor coward.
Go therefore back to our house, and take up your own work,
the loom and the distaff, and see to it that your handmaidens
ply their work also work; but the men must see to the fighting,
all men who are the people of Ilion, but I beyond others.’”
10. “None that I more love than myself. You are a councilor; if you can command these elements to silence and work the peace of the present, we will not hand a rope more. Use your authority. If you cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it so hap. Cheerly, good hearts! Out of our way, I say!”
11. “Experience, even if there were no other authority
in this world, would be grounds enough for me
to speak of the woe that is in marriage,
for, my lords, since I was twelve years old,
thanks be to eternal God,
I have had five husbands at he church door—
If I may have been legally married so often;
And all were worthy men in their different ways.”
12. “…Out, out. Brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
13. (He kissed her.)
“O balmy breath, that dost almost persuade
Justice to break her sword! One more, one more.
Be thus when thou art dead, and I will kill thee
And love thee after. One more, and that’s the last.
So sweet was ne’er so fatal. I must weep.
But they are cruel tears. This sorrow’s heavenly,
It strikes where it doth love. She wakes.”
14. “For when I drive pollution from the land
I will not serve a distant friend’s advantage,
but act in my own interest. Whoever
he was that killed the king may readily
wish to dispatch me with his murderous hand;
so helping the dead king I help myself…
Come, children, take your suppliant boughs and go;
Up from the altars now. Call the assembly
and let it meet upon the understanding
that I’ll do everything. God will decide
whether we prosper or remain in sorrow.”
15. “When Dawn
Swept earth with Pheobus’ torch and burned away
Night-gloom and damp, this queen, far gone and ill,
Confided to the sister of her heart:
‘My sister Anna, quandaries and dreams
Have come to frighten me—such dreams!”
16. “You duty is clear.
Pop him on the griddle, twist
The spit, braize him, baste him, stew him in his own
Juice, do him to a turn. Sear him with kisses,
Coyness, caresses, everything—
But stop where Our Oath begins.”
17. “To Earth’s far-distant confines we are come,
The tract of Scythia, waste untrod by man.
And now, Hephaestus, thou must mind the task
Ordained thee by the Father—to enchain
This malefactor on yon mountain crags
In indissoluble bands of a adamant.
The flower, fount of the arts, the light of fire,
He stole and gave to mortals. Such the sin
For which he must make recompense to heaven,
And so be taught to accept the tyranny
Of Zeus, and check his charity to man.”
18. “And Naomi said unto her two daughters-in-law, ‘Go, return each to her mother’s house: the Lord deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me. ‘The lord grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.’ Then she kissed them: and they lifted up their voice, and wept “And they said unto her, ‘Surely, we will return with thee unto thy people.”
19. “And he said, ‘Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?”
20. “Set your heart at rest;
The fairy land buys not the child of me.
His mother was a vot’ress of my order,
And in the spiced Indian air, by night,
Full often hath she gossip’d by my side,…
And for her sake do I rear up her boy;
And for her sake I will not part with him.”
II. Comprehension questions (Answer the following questions as briefly as possible.)30%
1. What is an epic?
2. What is a parable?
3. What is an allegory?
4. Write down the five books of the Torah.
5. According to the Bible, briefly retell the story of “The Tower of Babel”?
6. According to the Bible, who are Rachel and Leah?
7. According to the Greek mythology, who is Demeter?
8. According to the Roman mythology, what is the story of Narcissus and Echo?
9. Briefly tell the story of Pygmalion and Galatea.
10. Briefly tell the story of Apollo and Daphne.
11. Briefly tell the story of Orpheus and Eurdice.
III. Essay questions 30% (Answer only Two of the following questions. The answers must be written in essay form in good English.)
1. What makes the Metamorphoses of Ovid important? Please cite at least one story as an example.
2. What are Aristotle’s ideas about tragic plot? How sis he cite Oedipus the King as an esample?
3. Why is the prologue of The Canterbury Tales remarkable?
4. Shakespeare’s comedy usually involves a leap from one world into another.
This makes his comedies unique. Please name at least one play which can illustrate this observation and discuss.