Mock final

The actual final will be in exactly the same format. You will take it in Moodle between 12:00 and 2:30 pm on Tuesday, December 14, 2021.

I.D. and Textual Analysis.

Do only 25 (x 6 = 150 minutes); 4-points each. Identify the title and the author of the work from which the excerpt is taken. Name the character making the remark if in quotation marks. Elaborate on the meaning of each excerpt, discussing the importance of such details as image, theme, characterization, narrative point of view, metaphor, allegory, symbolism, and tone of voice (irony, sarcasm, satire, etc). No plot summary needed.

  1. “If a man be unworthy he possesses nothing with which to control a woman; if a woman be unworthy she possesses nothing with which to serve a man.”
  2. “Perhaps there are still children who haven’t eat men? Save the children!”
  3. “Fugui, I am dying for you!”
  4. “I come; I see; I learn.”
  5. “And now he saw eyes more terrible even than the wolf’s: dull, yet penetrating eyes that, having devoured his words, still seem eager to devours something beyond his flesh and blood.”
  6. “I am my own mistress; no one has any right to interfere with my life.”
  7. “He was sitting alone in his room with four fine porcelain tea bowls decorated with red fish standing on the table before him. …He turned them around, one by one, until the fish designs painted on them were all facing him. Once arranged in this manner he leaned back, examining them like a painter who had just completed a section of a new painting. Next he arranged them so that the fish on the other side of the bowls were all lined up neatly in front of him.”
  8. “I am not King of Chu; I am only a fake king on stage.”
  9. “My poor shadow! You have followed me for 21 years, and now this sea is going to bury you. Though my body has been insulted and injured, I should not have let you grow so thin and frail. O shadow, my shadow, please forgive me.”
  10. _“I don’t want to answer questions.”  _“An interview is I asking questions and you answering them. That is the nature of an interview.”
  11. _“There’s no need to wear masks any more. Let’s talk business. You tell me how much for one night. How does $3,200 sound to you?” _“You dogs set up trap after trap to force women like me to sell ourselves in one way or another. But the nets above and snares below that you take for granted will one day.”
  12. “He was them astonished to discover that his other hand was full of money, full of bills and coins, and the lady was blushing and smiling at him from the far-off entrance of the station”.
  13. _“If you buy two cakes of soap, and give her a good scrubbing, the result won’t be bad at all.”
  14. History is a riddle, it can also be read as: history is lies, and it can also be read as: history is nonsense, and yet it can be read as: history is prediction.
  15. _“The moon of 30 years ago has gone down long since; the people of 30 years ago are dead; but the story of 30 years ago is not yet ended—can have no ending”.
  16. It was Shousheng who shouted. He slipped his finger in the tea and then wrote on the table the one word, “Go”. Mr. Lin shook his head. Tears flowed from his eyes. He looked at his wife, he looked at his daughter, and he sighed.
  17. _“Shoot me.”
  18. _“To seduce someone and then abandon her is perfectly natural, and it would be presumptuous of me to resent it.”
  19. _“You murderers! You murder people! You murder people!”
  20. Something heavy knocks against her leg, and as she glances down, she sees the bag of kitchen garbage. She still has it clasped tightly in her hand. Now, finally, the tears pour down.
  21. Now just as Chin was beginning to see a glimmer of hope that she might become a strong and self-reliant woman, a “human being” like Nora in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, she had collapsed, weak and frightened, at the first real danger she had to face.
  22. _“Japanese women also can read a lot of books. All those devil soldiers carried a few well-written letters, some from wives, some from girl-friends. Some were written by girls they didn’t even know. They would include a photograph and use syrupy language. I don’t know if those girls were sincere or not, but they always made the devils hold their letters to their hearts like precious treasures.”
  23. He had on a ragged lined jacket and was squatting cross-legged on a mat, which was attached to his shoulders by a straw rope.
  24. “Master, try the bullets of your servant.”
  25. _“… if you are really here, and can hear me, make that crow fly on to your grave as a sign”. …and the crow, on the rigid bough of the tree, its head drawn in, perched immobile as iron.
  26. _”That day, an Oriental woman came in. Her name was Jenny Xu. She was in bad shape. Her water was broke and her baby was in the wrong position. I was instructed by Dr. Grant to call her husband because she might have to have an emergency C-section. … I had to page him because apparently he was in some meeting that was more important than the birth of his child. . . . He had no regard to the life of his child ever. He said, ‘Save the wife, not the child.’ You Orientals are barbarians”.
  27. In vain have I given you my true love. I’ve opened this box in front of al lthese people to show you that a trifling thousand taels means little to me. Like jade I have kept my heart and soul pure for you nut you have eyes that cannot see. I escaped from the bitter lot of a courtesan only to be cast aside by you.
  28. I thought: hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.
  29. It is this.” She drew two paces nearer, and whispered very confidentially: “After a person dies, does he turn into a ghost or not?
  30. -“We need to be quick today; I got a dinner date.” “I can’t make love in a hurry.