双语教学试卷B卷

The final examination of English and American Literature (B)

Name: Grade: Course number:

Ⅰ: Fill in the blank (2/20)

1. Thomas Hardy is the last one of the important novelists in the late age and one of the greatest poets in the early 20th century.

2. Shakespeare’s four great tragedies are Hamlet, , , .

3. There are two key places in Wuthering Heights. One is Wuthering Heights, the other is .

4. The most important and representative type of novel in Hardy’s novels is .

5. Ernest Hemingway’s winning Nobel Prize for Literature owes directly to his novel titled .

6. T. S. Eliot’s The waste Land is composed of five parts which include The Burial of the Dead, A Game of Chess, , , .

Ⅱ: Multiple- choice questions (3/30)

1. How does Ophelia die? ( )

A Claudius stabs her

B Hamlet strangles her

C She slits her wrists

D She drowns in the river

2. Why does Hamlet decide not to kill Claudius after the traveling players’ play? ( )

A Claudius is praying

B Claudius is asleep

C Claudius pleads for mercy

D Gertrude is in the next room

3. Who sets the fire in Rochester’s bedroom? ( )

A Jane

B Bertha

C Mrs. Fairfax

D Grace Poole

4. What does Rochester lose in the fire at Thornfield? ( )

A His hand and his eyesight

B His eyesight and his fortune

C His eyesight and his dog

D His fortune and his fiancée

5. How does Alec die? ( )

A He commits suicide

B Angel kills him

C Tess kills him

D He does not die

6. In which of these places did Mellors serve in the army? ( )

A Europe

B Canada

C Italy

D India

7. How does Jane earn a living after leaving Thornfield? ( )

A She paints

B She writes and sells short stories

C She becomes a governess at a different manor house

D St. John Rivers finds her a teaching job in the town of Morton

8. In what region of England was Emily Bront? raised? ( )

A Sussex

B Gloucestershire

C Yorkshire

D Warwickshire

9. To give himself confidence, Santiago remembers his contest with “the great negro of Cienfuegos.” At what sport did the old man beat this challenger? ( )

A Fencing

B Tennis

C Arm wrestling

D Boxing

10. What kind of fish does Santiago finally catch? ( )

A a tuna

B a marlin

C a shrimp

D a Portuguese man-of-war

Ⅲ: Explain the following concepts (2/20)

1. Shakespeare’s Sonnets

2. Gothic novels

Ⅳ: Discuss the following questions (15/30)

1. How do you understand the symbol significance of the old man, Santiago?

2. How do you think the themes about “love versus autonomy” in Jane Eyre?

Answers for B

Ⅰ

1. Victoria

2. Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

3. Thrushcross Grange

4. the novels of character and environment

5. The Old Man and the Sea

6. The Fire Sermon, Death by Water, What the Thunder Said

Ⅱ

1. D 2. A 3. B 4.A 5. C 6. D 7. D 8. C 9. C 10. B

Ⅲ

1. Shakespearean sonnet is also called the English sonnet, with three quatrains (every stanza has four lines, the rhyme scheme is abab or abba) and a two-line unit called a couplet (对子).

The typical rhyme scheme for the English Sonnet is as follows: first stanza (quatrain): abab; second stanza (quatrain): cdcd; third stanza (quatrain): efef; Couplet: gg.

2. The Gothic novel is a literary genre, which is popular in the late 18th century, in which the prominent features are mystery, doom, decay, old buildings with ghosts in them, madness, hereditary curses and so on. Gothic novel is designed to both horrify and fascinate readers with scenes of passion and cruelty; supernatural elements; and a dark, foreboding atmosphere.

Ⅳ

1. Christian symbolism, especially images that refer to the crucifixion of Christ, is present throughout The Old Man and the Sea. During the old man’s battle with the marlin, his palms are cut by his fishing cable. Given Santiago’s suffering and willingness to sacrifice his life, the wounds are suggestive of Christ’s stigmata, and Hemingway goes on to portray the old man as a Christ-like martyr. As soon as the sharks arrive, Santiago makes a noise one would make “feeling the nail go through his hands and into the wood.” And the old man’s struggle up the hill to his village with his mast across his shoulders is evocative of Christ’s march toward Calvary. Even the position in which Santiago collapses on his bed—he lies face down with his arms out straight and the palms of his hands up—brings to mind the image of Christ on the cross. Hemingway employs these images in order to link Santiago to Christ, who exemplified transcendence by turning loss into gain, defeat into triumph, and even death into life.

2. Jane Eyre is very much the story of a quest to be loved. Jane searches, not just for romantic love, but also for a sense of being valued, of belonging. Thus Jane says to Helen Burns: “to gain some real affection from you, or Miss Temple, or any other whom I truly love, I would willingly submit to have the bone of my arm broken, or to let a bull toss me, or to stand behind a kicking horse, and let it dash its hoof at my chest” (Chapter 8). Yet, over the course of the book, Jane must learn how to gain love without sacrificing and harming herself in the process.

Her fear of losing her autonomy motivates her refusal of Rochester’s marriage proposal. Jane believes that “marrying” Rochester while he remains legally tied to Bertha would mean rendering herself a mistress and sacrificing her own integrity for the sake of emotional gratification. On the other hand, her life at Moor House tests her in the opposite manner. There, she enjoys economic independence and engages in worthwhile and useful work, teaching the poor; yet she lacks emotional sustenance. Although St. John proposes marriage, offering her a partnership built around a common purpose, Jane knows their marriage would remain loveless.

Nonetheless, the events of Jane’s stay at Moor House are necessary tests of Jane’s autonomy. Only after proving her self-sufficiency to herself can she marry Rochester and not be asymmetrically dependent upon him as her “master.” The marriage can be one between equals. As Jane says: “I am my husband’s life as fully as he is mine. . . . To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company. . . . We are precisely suited in character—perfect concord is the result” (Chapter 38).

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