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）︰2015/1/16
考試時限（分鐘）：120
試題 :
I. Multiple Choice Questions: pick the best answer. (48%)
1.Choose the wrong description. 1)The Cherry Orchard is Chekhov's last play
2)Chekhove's wife is also his leading lady on stage 3)Chekhov is the son of an
aristocrat 4)Chekhov went to Far East as an doctor
2.The distinguished theater that produced most of Chekhov's major play is 1)
St. Petersburg Theater 2)Bolshoi Theater 3)Moscow Art Theater 4)Guthrie Theater
3.The advocate of the psychologically realistic acting style in the theater
above is 1)Meisner 2)Michael Chekhov 3)Meyerhold 4)Stanislavsky
4.What is Wilde's pseudonym in exile? 1)Guy deMaupassant 2)Sebastian Melmoth
3)Melmoth the Wanderer 4)Walter Sickert
5.Who wrote the play Guy Domville which failed West End while in the same
year Wilde made an neormous success with Earnest? 1)Bernard Shaw 2)Anton
Chekhov 3)Henry James 4)W. E. Yeats
6. Pick the incorrect description of Wilde. He was 1)married with children.
2)imprisoned for debt. 3)never awarded the Nobel Prize. 4)an Oxonian. 5)Buried
in Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
7.Pick the inaccurate depiction about Salome. 1)penned in French 2)translated
by Wilde's love Lord Douglas 3)dedicated to Lord Douglas 4)performed by French
actress Sarah Bernhardt in Paris
8. Which is a less than accurate character portrayal? 1)Herod is superstitous
2)The Page of Herodias is anxious about Narraboth gazing at Salome 3)Salome is
obsessed with Jokanaan 4)Herodias is dreamy and impractical
9. Who is the Prophet that the Jews rejects that Jokanaan is his
reincarnation? 1)Jeremiah 2)Elias 3)Daniel 4)Joshua
10.King Herod Antipas is referred to in the play as ______. 1)Tripod 2)
Trident 3)Tetrarch 4)Pentagon 5)Tetralogy
11.Wilde fully demonstrated his credentials as a classics scholar in Salome,
which is strewn with references from Africa to Near East Asia, but does not
include 1)Cappadocia 2)Syria 3)Tyre(Lebanon) 4)Nubia 5)Casablanca 6)Babylon
12.What is the part of Jokanaan that Salome doesn't quite worship? 1)eyes
2)body 3)hair 4)mouth
13.Which is wrong about the Young Syrian's description? 1)the Page may have
a crush on him 2)an exiled Prince 3)enslaved by Herod but promoted to Captain
4)murdered for disloyalty
14.Select the false statement about Nina during the two years of absence.
1)She had an affair with Trigorin 2)Her parents disowned her. 3)She had an
abortion. 4)She was a mediocre actress.
15.It comes as little surprise that The Seagull abounds in literary and
artistic allusions since the play is set in the literati circles. However, this
reference never comes up. 1)Maupassant 2)Gogol 3)Turgenev 4)Dostoevsky
5)Pushkin 6) Shakespeare
16. Which characterization is inaccurate? 1)Dorn has a penchant for humming
tunes 2)Trigorin harbors a passion for fishing 3)Masha has a weakness for
smelling salts 4)Polina has a crush on the country doctor
17. Which attempt has been successful for Treplyov? 1)experimental theatre
2)shoot himself 3)drown himself 4)duel
18. Pick the correct English explanation in the context of The Seagull. 1)
Masha "pours out a shot for each": shooting 2)Dorn, "I've lived my life with
variety and discrimination.": bias 3)Shamraev flares up: burst into flames
4)Sorin: I'll give him a talking-to: give him a piece of my mind 5)Trigorin is
no Turgenev: Trigorin tries to disguise as Turgenev 6)Arkadina:"You want to put
the hex on me again!": flatter me
19. Select the incorrect depiction of Medvedenko. 1)the schoolteacher is
despised by his in-laws 2)not very bright, but quite decent 3)adores Masha
4)supported by Masha financially
20. "The romantic lead and idol of all six houses at that time is amond us,
may I present _____." Arkadina is reminiscing about the past regardint 1)Sorin
2)Trigorin 3)Shamraev 4)Dorn
21. Which pair is married? 1)Konstantin and Nina 2)Arkadina and Trigorin
3)Nina and Trigorin 4)Masha and Medvedenko
22. The last epithet one would attach to Arkadina's personality would be
1)imperious 2)demanding 3)magnanimous 4)parsimonious
23. Whose self-assessment is this? "I've got no will of my own. Wishy-washy,
spineless, always giving in... 1)Trigorin 2)Konstantin 3)Medvedenko 4)Sorin
24. Which description of act ending is inaccurate? 1)Act I with Masha's
confession 2)Act II with Nina's confession 3)Act III with a kiss 4)Act IV with
a shot
II. Short Q&A (52%): 3pts each unless otherwise indicated
1. Under what charge was Oscar Wilde sentenced to two years of labor? Give
the official name at the time.
2. Draw a chart of the sequence of gaze for six different characters in
Salome.
3. What doe Jokanaan's damning "bed of abominations" refer to?
4. What's particular and peculiar about the God that the Jews believe in?
5. Explain why Salome keeps changing the parts of Jokanaan she worship.
6. How do the parents of Salome respond to her demand to decapitate Jokanaan?
7. Many characters in Salome make comments about the moon. Give three
examples and interpret what and why the moon signifies in a particular way (6pts)
8. Comment briefly on Salome's "The mystery of Love is greater than the
mystery of Death."
9. Konstantin shoots himself twice in the play, state the evident reason and
explore the underlying grounds for such a desperate act. (2/3)
10. Whose comment on yound people is this? Who can best illustrate this
passage and why? A man who's young, intelligent, living in the country, in the
sticks, with no money, no position, no future. Nothing to keep him occupied.
Gets ashamed of himself and alarmed by his own idleness.
Commentator:
11. What does "the quiet angel just flew by" mean? Why does Chekhov choose
to represent a moment of pause in which absolutely nothing happen? (2/3)
12. Explain the following words in the context of The Seagull:
"If ever my life is of use to you, come and take it."
13. One the literal level, what are the three forms the sea gull has taken
in the play?
1)
2)
3)
14. Nina assumes the gull to be "obviously a symbol too" since Konstantin
has taken to speaking in codes and symbols. What does she make of the symbol?
Is Trigorin's creative fantasy inspired by the dead gull convincing as an
interpretation? Should the audience interpret the symbol, and how, or why not?
(6 pts)