ENG 218 - Final Exam

Put badly, much too simply, and without the many exceptions and qualifications that rightly spring to mind, it may be said that a central and characteristic Western impulse, from the Greeks on down, has been to see the world around us as..."

"Something to be acted on: weighed, measured, managed, used, even (when economic interests prevail over all others) fouled." Westerners feel like they have to do something.

put oversimply, it may be said that a central and characteristic Eastern counterpart to this over many centuries . . . has been to see that same world as..."

"Something to be received: contemplated, touched, tasted, smelled, heard, and most especially, immersed in until observer and observed are one." Easterners receive the world.

In short, what does the reader of a translation read?

"The reader who reads a translation reads everything that matters." Interpretation

Match the following quotation with the character, object, or idea being described: He "was a clean, fresh peasant lad, grown stout on town food and always cheerful and bright."

Gerasim

Name the speaker of the following quotation: "We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?"

Gerasim

Universality

- The appeal in a piece of writing to readers of all time - "When writing presents the great human emotions common to peoples of all civilizations—jealousy, love, pride, courage, etc.—in literary FORM and through CHARACTERS and actions that remain meaningful to other ages, it is said to have universality Of all qualities which make for universality in literature, the successful portrayal of human CHARACTER is the most important, but only slightly more so than fidelity to the unchanging physical facts of the natural world" (Holman 545).

What was the new name that Tortoise gave himself?

All of you

Indicate the speaker of the following quotation: "Ekwefi, Agbala greets you. Where is my daughter, Ezinma? Agbala wants to see her."

Chielo, the priestess

Name the speaker of the following quotation from Wit: "It is not wit, Miss Bearing. It is truth. The paper's not the point. . . . Vivian. You're a bright young woman. Use your intelligence. Don't go back to the library. Go out. Enjoy yourself with your friends."

E. M. Ashford

Indicate the speaker of the following quotation: "That boy calls you father. Do not bear a hand in his death."

Ezeudu

Indicate the character or object being described by the following quotation: "He wept on account of his helplessness, his terrible loneliness, the cruelty of man, the cruelty of God, and the absence of God."

Ivan

Indicate the speaker/thinker of the following quotation: "Left alone, [he] groaned not so much with pain, terrible thought that was, as from mental anguish. Always and forever the same, always these endless days and nights. If only it would come quicker! If only what would come quicker? Death, darkness?. . .No, no! anything rather than death!"

Ivan

Name the speaker of the following quotation: "When I am not, what will there be?"

Ivan

Indicate the speaker/thinker of the following quotation: "It is as if I had been going downhill while I imagined I was going up. And that is really what it was. I was going up in public opinion, but to the same extent life was ebbing away from me. And now it is all done and there is only death."

Ivan Ilyich

Name the character, object, or idea being described by the following quotation: "Once when mounting a step-ladder to show the upholsterer, who did not understand, how he wanted the hangings draped, he made a false step and slipped, but being a strong and agile man he clung on and only knocked his side against the knob of the window frame."

Ivan Ilyich

Name the character, object, or idea being described by the following quotation: He "had at first no definite intention of marrying, but when the girl fell in love with him he said to himself: 'Really, why shouldn't I marry?'"

Ivan Ilyich

Name the speaker of the following quotation: "Death. Yes, death. And none of them know or wish to know it, and they have no pity for me. Now they are playing. It's all the same to them, but they will die too! Fools! I first, and they later, but it will be the same for them. And now they are merry . . . the beasts!"

Ivan Ilyich

Name the speaker of the following quotation: "Exaggerating! don't you see it? Why, he's a dead man! Look at his eyes--there's no light in them. But what is it that is wrong with him?"

Ivan's brother-in-law

Indicate the character being described in the following quotation: She "came in full evening dress, her fresh young flesh exposed (making a show of that very flesh which in his own case caused so much suffering), and death, because they interfered with her happiness."

Ivan's daughter

Name the speaker of the following quotation from Wit: "Cancer's the only thing I ever wanted."

Jason Posner

What three factors affect the character of a translation?

Language (linguistic characteristics) Period (age) Translator (translators have their own vocabulary)

Indicate the speaker of the following quotation: "Is it our fault? It's as if we were to blame! I am sorry for papa, but why should we be tortured?"

Lisa

Name the speaker of the following quotation: "Now use it in a sentence. What has a soporific effect on you"?

Mr. Bearing

Indicate the characters being described by the following quotation: "It was always said that [they] had one mind. . . .[T]here was a song about them. He could not do anything without telling her."

Ndulue and Ozoemena

Indicate the character being described by the following quotation: "It was not the mad logic of the Trinity that captivated him. He did not understand it. It was the poetry of the new religion, something felt in the marrow. The hymn about brothers who sat in darkness and in fear seemed to answer a vague and persistent question that haunted his young soul -- the question of the twins crying in the bush and the question of Ikemefuna who was killed."

Nwoye

Indicate the character being described by the following quotation: He "knew that it was right to be masculine and to be violent, but somehow he still preferred the stories that his mother used to tell, and which she no doubt still told to her younger children--stories of the tortoise and his wily ways, and of the bird eneke-nti-oba who challenged the whole world to a wrestling contest and was finally thrown by the cat."

Nwoye

Indicate the speaker/thinker of the following quotation: "This is the money from your yams. I sold the big ones as soon as you left. Later on I sold some of the seed-yams and gave out others to sharecroppers. I shall do that every year until you return. But I thought you would need the money now and so I brought it."

Obierika, Okonkwo's friend

The second egwugwu had the springy walk of whom?

Okondwo

Indicate the character being described by the following quotation: He "encouraged the boys to sit with him in his obi, and he told them stories of the land--masculine stories of violence and bloodshed."

Okonkwo

Indicate the character being described in the following quotation: "He . . . was called a flaming fire. How could he have begotten a woman for a son?"

Okonkwo

Indicate the speaker/thinker of the following quotation: "I must thank my mother's kinsmen before I go [back to Umuofia]."

Okonkwo

Indicate the character being described by the following quotation: He "promised to deliver the message, and then flew away. But when he reached Tortoise's house he told his wife to bring all the hard things in the house."

Parrot

In chapter 17, what land were the missionaries given?

Part of the Evil Forest

Match the following novel, character, or novelist with the appropriate definition: Gerasim

She/He is young, near to "nature," and free from hypocrisy.

Name the character being described in the following quotation: She is "Vivian's primary nurse" who "gives Vivian her chart, then puts her in a wheelchair and takes her to her first appointment: chest x-ray."

Susie Monahan

Which one of the following was Tolstoy's first work of fiction after his conversion?

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

In chapter 16, why did many people laugh at the Igbo interpreter for the white man?

The Igbo language has high and low tones so that the same word may have different meanings, according to its pronunciation; the white man meant to use the tone for the word meaning "strength" but, because of his incorrect tone, pronounced the word meaning "buttocks."

Match the following novel, character, novelist with its appropriate definition: Anna Karenina

This is a novel of contemporary manners, a narrative of adultery and suicide; a second story is that of Levin, seeking the meaning of life.

Indicate the speaker of the following quotation: "Tell my wife to bring out all the soft things in my house and cover the compound with them so that I can jump down from the sky without very great danger."

Tortoise

Name the speaker of the following quotation: "You think you are the greatest sufferer in the world? Do you know that men are sometimes banished for life? Do you know that men sometimes lose all their yams and even their children? I had six wives once. I have none now except that young girl who knows not her right from her left. Do you know how many children I have buried--children I begot in my youth and strength? Twenty-two."

Uchendu

Match the following quotation with the character, object, or idea being described: "It seemed to Ivan Ilyich that [he] was the only one besides Gerasim who understood and pitied him"

Vasya

Name the character being described by the following description: "She walks on the empty stage pushing her IV pole. She is fifty, tall and very thin, barefoot, and completely bald. She wears two hospital gowns--one tied in the front and one tied in the back--a baseball cap, and a hospital ID bracelet."

Vivian Bearing

Name the speaker of the following quotation from Wit: "I have become something of a celebrity. Kelekian and Jason are simply delighted. I think they foresee celebrity status for themselves upon the appearance of the journal article they will no doubt write about me."

Vivian Bearing

Name the speaker of the following quotation from Wit: "You can come to this class prepared, or you can excuse yourself from this class, this department, and this university. Do not think for a moment that I will tolerate anything in between."

Vivian Bearing

Name the speaker of the following quotation from Wit: "Am I in pain? I don't believe this. Yes, I'm in *!@#!* pain. I have a fever of 101 spiking to 104. And I have bone metastases in my pelvis and both femurs. There is cancer eating away at my *!@#!* bones, and I did not know there could be such pain on this earth."

Vivian Bearing

Boon

a benefit bestowed, especially in response to a request

Ashram

a hermit's enclave

Choose the correct definition for the following word: sumac

a material used in tanning and dyeing that consists of dried powdered leaves and flowers of various sumacs

Paragon

a model of excellence or perfection

Seer

a person credited with extraordinary moral and spiritual insight

Millennium

a span of one thousand years

league

a unit of distance equal to 3 miles (4.8 kilometers)

Indicate the speaker/thinker of the following quotation: "Well, he's dead but I'm alive."

all who heard of Ivan Ilyich's death

ca.

an abbreviation for the Latin word "circa," which means "about" or "around"

Ibex

any of several wild goats of the genus Capra, especially C. ibex, native to mountainous regions of Eurasia and northern Africa and having long, ridged, backward-curving horns

With the exception of Gerasim and Vasya, Ivan's son, how could the people around Ivan IIyich be categorized?

as egotists and hypocrites

comely

attractive

byre

cow shed

The West

cultures derived from European origin; in short, those cultures that came from the United States, Europe, Australia, and Canada

3rd World

cultures not in the West or the East: Africa and South America

The East

cultures of Asia and Eastern Europe: Russia, India, the Far East, the Middle East, and Central Asia

Choose the word that matches the following definition: worthless, empty men

efulefu

In chapter 16, what did Chielo, the priestess of Agbala, call the Christian converts to the new faith?

excrement of the clan

According to Margaret Edson, "I would have liked to have called the play 'Love,' or "Redemption' or 'Grace,' but that would have done what?

given away the ending

Choose the word that matches the following definition: a fever accompanied by jaundice, probably caused by malaria

iba

The Anglo Saxon root for "wit" means what?

knowing power strength of power strength of knowing

Match the following word with the correct definition: deft

marked by facility and skill; dexterous

Irascible

marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger

Suppliants

needy individuals who formally request protection or some other kind of help from those in power

foil

one that by contrast underscores or enhances the distinctive characteristics of another

Stoic

one who is seemingly indifferent to or affected by joy, grief, pleasure or pain

All of Tolstoy's books, concerned with the good life, say that the good life lies where?

outside civilization, near the soil, in simplicity and humility and in love of one's neighbor

Match the following word with the appropriate definition: "le phoenix de la famille."

rare bird; prodigy

Choose the correct definition for the following word: inexorably

relentlessly; inflexibly

Tolstoy's characters are drawn by means of what?

repeated emphasis on certain physical traits

Venerated

respected; revered

Indicate the character or object being described in the following quotation: Into it Ivan "was being thrust by an invisible, resistless force."

the black sack

Indicate the character or object being described in the following quotation: Ivan thought "that he and his pain were being thrust into [it], but though they were pushed further and further in they could not be pushed to the bottom."

the black sack

What tormented Ivan Ilyich most?

the deception, the lie

Indicate the speaker of the following quotation: "Well now, how are you? What sort of a night have you had?"

the doctor

Match the following quotation with the character, object, or idea being described: He had an "important air" and "questions which called for answers that were foregone conclusions and were evidently unnecessary, that the look of importance. . . "

the doctor

Match the following quotation with the character, object, or idea being described: " [W]as his case serious or not?"

the important question

Name the character/s being described in the following quotation: "[S]eeing that the new religion welcomed twins and such abominations, [they] thought it possible that they would also be received. And so one Sunday two of them went into the church. There was an immediate stir; but so great was the work the new religion had done among the converts that they did not immediately leave the church when [they] came in.

the outcasts or osu

Dharma

the religious and moral code, code of righteousness

cuneiform

writing typified by the use of characters formed by the arrangement of wedge-shaped elements and used in ancient Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian writing