課程名稱︰小說選讀一
課程性質︰戲劇小說四選三必修
課程教師︰朱偉誠
開課學院：文學院
開課系所︰外國語文學系
考試日期（年月日）︰2014.11.17
考試時限（分鐘）：150分鐘（實際可寫170分鐘）
試題 :
National Taiwan University
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Fiction 1
Mid-Term
1. Translate (into Chinese) the following passage from Mrs.Dalloway: (5%)
She would not say of any one in the world now that they were this
or were that. She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably
aged. She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time
was outside, looking on. She had a perpetual sense, as she watched
the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she
always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live
even one day. Not that she thought herself clever, or much out of
the ordinary. How she had got through life on the few twigs of
knowledge Fraeulein Daniels gave them she could not think. She knew
nothing; no language, no history; she scarcely read a book now,
except memoirs in bed; and yet to her it was absolutely absorbing;
all this; the cabs passing; and she would not say of Peter, she
would not say of herself, I am this, I am that.
2. Explain the following passage from Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway: (5%)
Elizabeth really cared for her dog most of all. The whole house
this morning smelt of tar. Still, better poor Grizzle than Miss Kilman;
better distemper and tar and all the rest of it than sitting mewed in a
stuffy bedroom with a prayer book! Better anything, she was
inclined to say. But it might be only a phase, as Richard said,
such as all girls go through. It might be falling in love. But
why with Miss Kilman? who had been badly treated of course; one
must make allowances for that, and Richard said she was very able,
had a really historical mind. Anyhow they were inseparable, and
Elizabeth, her own daughter, went to Communion ... For it was not her
one hated but the idea of her, which undoubtedly had gathered in to
itself a great deal that was not Miss Kilman; had become one of those
spectres with which one battles in the night
3. Describe Clarissa's action (i.e. what she actually does) so far in
Mrs. Dalloway. (5%)
4. Describe the part of Clarissa's psychological drama involving other
people that is revealed so far in Mrs. Dalloway. (15%)
5. Use the following passage from German explorer Alexander Von
Humboldt's Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions
of America, During the Year 1799-1804 as a guide to the "solitude" of
Latin America and discuss the relevant plot covered so far in Gabriel
Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude: (15%)
We found at Calabozo, in the midst of the Llanos, an electrical machine with
large plates, electrophori, batteries, electrometers; an apparatus nearly as
complete as our first scientific men in Europe possess. All these articles
had not been purchased in the United States; they were the work of a man who
had never seen any instrument,who had no person to consult, and who was
acquainted with the phenomena of electricity only by reading the treatise of
De Lafond,and Franklin's Memoirs. Senor Carlos del Pozo, the name of this
enlightened and ingenious man, had begun to make cylindrical electrical
machines, by employing large glass jars, after having cut off the necks....
It is easy to judge what difficulties Senor Pozo had to encounter, since the
first works upon electricity had fallen into his hands, and that he had the
courage to resolve to procure himself, by his own industry, all that he had
seen described in his books. Till now he had enjoyed only the astonishment
and admiration produced by his experiments on persons destitute of all
information, and who had never quitted the "solitude" of the Llanos...
(emphasis added)
6. It has also been suggested that a certain part of the plot of One Hundred
Years of Solitude is like an allegory of the civilization process (from
prehistoric time to the modern). Try to discuss the novel from this
perspective and include as many details as possible. (15%)
7. It is obvious that love (or passion) and politics are two of the most
dominant themes of the novel. Choose one to discuss its representation in it.
(15%)
8. Summarize, as best as you could, the plot of the novel that unfolds so far
by focusing on the characters (what has happened to them most
characteristically) along the generation divisions. (25%)
9. Choose one particular character that impresses you the most and discuss it
in details capable of showing how fascinating s/he is. (10%)
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