1、When did Coetzee become a Nobel Laureate?
A、2003
B、2013
C、1993
D、2014
2、Before winning the Nobel, what award did he win twice?
A、Governor General Award
B、The Booker Prize.
C、Le Prix de Flore
D、The Pulitzer Prize
3、What is the nationality of J. M. Coetzee？
A.He is an Australian
B.He is a South African
C.He is an American
D.He is a British person
4、What kind of birth defect does K suffer from?
A、Cerebral palsy
B、Deaf-mute
C、Harelip
D、Limb
5、Where does the story happen?
A、In Australia.
B、In South Africa
C、In America
D、In Great Britain
6、Which side is K on, the government or the rebels?
A、The government militants
B、The rebels
C、The camp
D、None of the above
7、Why does the author quote the words about war in the prologue
A、Because the novel is a reflection of social upheaval in South Africa
B、Because the story is about powerlessness one feels in the time of war.
C、Because K is an obscure soldier who struggles to get out of war
D、Because the author of the quote
8、Why is K described as eating the apples quickly and “chewing quickly as a rabbit, his eyes vacant”?
A、To show the moment of K’s life, when he is possessed by the urge to eat.
B、To show that his sadness after the death of his mother.
C、To show the state of great hunger.
D、To show his stupidity.
9、When K hides in the mountain, why are his senses interaction with world depicted in detail?
A、To show the effect of war.
B、To present an animal-like state in which he loses connection with society.
C、To show his inability in rational thinking.
D、To show his stupidity.
10、What is the symbolic meaning of fasting?
A、It can mean purification of one’s body.
B、It means denial of one’s earthly needs.
C、It means dissatisfaction over one’s body.
D、Both a and b.
11、Why is K fascinated by the picture of pork and pineapple in the magazine?
A、He wants to provide his mother with such kind of life.
B、He has never seen such kind of delicacy before.
C、It shows his longing for better food and stable life.
D、It shows his simple-mindedness.
12、Why is the food in the magazine depicted with vivid coloring and detail?
A、To indicate aesthetic pursuit of human beyond basic needs.
B、To depict an ideal life.
C、To show the importance of food.
D、To show the poor condition he is in.
13、Why does K refuse the food in the labor camp?
A、Because it causes damage to one’s health.
B、Because it is too coarse and innutritious.
C、Because it has a flavor of forced labor and exploitation.
D、Because he does not have money to pay for it.
14、What is the reason for depicting K as “feeling stupid” when hearing words such as morality, responsibility?
A、Because K is a being whose simple way of living questions the definition of social and natural aspects of human being.
B、Because K is depicted as a simple person to show the meaning of the simplest existence as a human being.
C、Because K does n
15、In what way is K’s life representative of human being in a time of social upheaval?
A、He is an invalid leading a life of recluse.
B、He contributes his own bit although he is caught in an uncontrollable force.
C、He gives up almost everything he has, even his will to live.
D、He has lost his mother to the war.
16、Why is he overjoyed in eating the first slice of pumpkin?
A、Because it is the first taste of food that is grown by himself.
B、Because it tastes really delicious.
C、Because it means that he will not go hungry again.
D、Because it is fresh out of the field.
17、Why is the act of growing crops given such kind of significance in the story?
A、Because it gives K supply of energy to go on living.
B、Because growing crops will be able to help the rebel’s resistance and fighting.
C、Because cultivation is what sustains human civilization.
D、Because it is his profession.
18、How is K’s cultivation different from Crusoe’s in Robison Crusoe?
A、K’s cultivation is for basic survival, while Crusoe’s is also for accumulation of assets.
B、K is in South African but Crusoe is the owner of the island.
C、K is an invalid who follows his instinct of survival while Crusoe is a enterprising perso
19、Why is K’s farm depicted as suffering from the shortage of water?
A、It corresponds to the shortage of all the other vital supplies people suffer in the novel.
B、It shows a time of social upheaval when any material possession is scarce.
C、Water is the source of life.
D、Both a and b.
20、In the novel, which two are posed as being in conflict with each other?
A、Conflict of animal being and social being.
B、Conflict of peaceful nature and unrest society.
C、Duality of sensual body and rational thinking.
D、Duality of mind and emotion.
