1. A & P
Quiz 2

2. 1. Which of the following is correct about narrative point of view?
Third-person point of view cannot be that of a character.
First-person point of view tends to be objective and impersonal.
“The Story of an Hour” is told from a third-person but selective point of view.
The narrator of “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” is quite emotionally involved in the story.
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3. 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.
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4. 3. Which of the following is NOT a feature of Sam’s language?
It is original with a lot of coined words such as “cat-and-dog-food-breakfast-cereal-macaroni- ….aisle.”
It is vivid with metaphors such as “sheep” and “house-slaves.”
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.”
It is objective in describing one of the girls as “very ‘striking’ and ‘attractive’ but never quite [making] it.”
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5. 4. Which of the signs does NOT show class difference?
Fancy herring snack
"Hello (bing) there, you (gung) hap-py pee-pul (splat)"—
Schlitz in tall glasses
they were all holding drinks the color of water with olives and sprigs of mint in them
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6. 5. "It was they who were embarrassing us
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."
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The blank is:
1. Suits yourself Fiddle-de-doo
3. You didn't have to embarrass them
4. I said I quit.

7. 6. Which of the following Chinese translations is correct?
… 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]
women with six children and varicose (靜脈曲張的) veins mapping their legs
I just saunter (閒逛) into the electric eye
a powder-blue Falcon station wagon(四輪運貨馬車)
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8. 7. Open Q: What’s wrong with going to a supermarket in bikinis?
Would you do that?

9. 7. Open Q: The Film vs. The Short Story