A&P
Quiz 2
1. Which of the following is correct
about narrative point of view?
1. Third-person point of view cannot be that of
a character.
2. First-person point of view tends to be
objective and impersonal.
3. “The Story of an Hour” is told from a thirdperson but selective point of view.
4. The narrator of “A Very Old Man with
Enormous Wings” is quite emotionally
involved in the story.
2. Which of the following is not part of
Sam’s descriptions of the girls
1. He gives them nicknames such as Queenie,
Plaid and Big Tall Goony-Goony.
2. He describes their appearances in great
details.
3. He appreciates their mind and physical
beauty equally.
4. He imagines what happens in Queenie’s
house party.
3. Which of the following is NOT
a feature of Sam’s language?
1. It is original with a lot of coined words such as
“cat-and-dog-food-breakfast-cereal-macaroni….aisle.”
2. It is vivid with metaphors such as “sheep” and
“house-slaves.”
3. It is colloquial with a lot of dashes and inserted
phrases such as “a kind of dirty-pink—beige
maybe, I don't know—bathing suit.”
4. It is objective in describing one of the girls as
“very ‘striking’ and ‘attractive’ but never quite
[making] it.”
4. Which of the signs does NOT
show class difference?
1. Fancy herring snack
2. "Hello (bing) there, you (gung) hap-py pee-
pul (splat)"—
3. Schlitz in tall glasses
4. they were all holding drinks the color of
water with olives and sprigs of mint in them
5. "It was they who were embarrassing us."
I started to say something that came out “___."
It's a saying of my grandmother's, and I know she
would have been pleased.
"I don't think you know what you're saying,"
Lengel said.
"I know you don't," I said. "But I do."
 The blank is:
1. Suits yourself 2. Fiddle-de-doo
3. You didn't have to embarrass them
4. I said I quit.
6. Which of the following Chinese
translations is correct?
1. … if she'd been born at the right time they
would have burned her over in Salem [(非國
教徒的)禮拜堂]
2. women with six children and varicose (靜脈
曲張的) veins mapping their legs
3. I just saunter (閒逛) into the electric eye
4. a powder-blue Falcon station wagon(四輪運
貨馬車)
7. Open Q: What’s wrong with
going to a supermarket in bikinis?
Would you do that?
7. Open Q: The Film vs. The Short
http://www.spike.com/video/p/978359
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