1、When did Alice Munro win the Nobel Prize?
A、2012
B、2013
C、1998
D、1993
2、What kind of family background is Munro from?
A、lower middle class
B、high class
C、middle class
D、intellectual family
3、What is the title of the short story collection that won her Nobel Prize?
A、Runaway
B、Dance of the Happy Shades
C、Too Much Happiness
D、Dear Life
4、What kind of conflicts do the heroines in her story usually have to face?
A、The conflicts between personal aspirations and social responsibilities.
B、The conflicts between physical world and psychological world.
C、The conflicts between marriage and self-actualization.
D、The conflicts between responsibility as a daugh
5、Why does the narrator feel out of place in the college in contrast with Nina?
A、Because her outfit is shabby comparing with Nina’s blending-in dress.
B、Because her outfit is not the common apparel of college students.
C、Because she cannot excel in all subjects as Nina does.
D、Because Nina is rich.
6、For scholar students like the narrator, Kay and Beverly, what could be the possible future?
A、Get married or be a school teacher.
B、Be an interpreter in United Nations.
C、Climb up the social ladder and be someone important.
D、Teach in high school.
7、Why does the narrator feel like a simpleton?
A、Because she is from countryside and doesn’t know much about city life.
B、Because she is intimidated by Nina’s sophisticated experience.
C、Because she has only focused on her study all her life.
D、Because she is threatened by Nina’s money.
8、In the following statement, which shows that the narrator is stringent on her own body?
A、She would fold her dress carefully so that it would be decent to wear for the second day.
B、She would be on strict diet after the Sunday dinner with Cousin Ernie.
C、She would take fruit as dinner.
D、She would refrain from eating dinner.
9、In what way is Nina seen as out of place in a college?
A、Her dresses are too expensive.
B、She stares at her textbook without being able to understand the lectures.
C、She is a kept woman of Mr. Purvis.
D、She is too worldly.
10、How does the narrator indicate her dislike of Nina?
A、She is offended by the body odor Nina gives out.
B、She is annoyed by her constant movement in the shared room.
C、She is jealous of Nina’s way of life.
D、She is annoyed by the noises Nina makes.
11、Why is the process of the Narrator’s undressing depicted in detail?
A、To show that she is scared of sexual assault.
B、To show her inner conflict of accepting or refusing the Nina’s way of life.
C、To show her contempt toward Mrs. Winner.
D、To show that she enjoys the process.
12、Why are the Latin words on her dress, ave atque vale, depicted in detail?
A、To show the confusion she feels at her own decision.
B、To indicate her past honor.
C、To show the irony of her ambition and her present situation.
D、To indicate her struggle in making decisions at present.
13、In the undressing scene, what does the depiction of applying the lotion mean?
A、It implies the narrator’s moral stain.
B、The lotion has been the distinct smell of Nina which is associated with selling of one’s body.
C、The lotion makes one more attractive to the prospective mate.
D、The lotion makes the narrator feel nause
14、Why does Mr. Purvis talk about Greek philosophy with the narrator?
A、To show that he is interested in philosophy.
B、To show that he is a learned man.
C、To lead to the question which is intended to humiliate the narrator.
D、To brag about his knowledge.
15、What is the theme of the poem Wenlock Edge?
A、It shows the passage of time and the smallness of human being.
B、It shows a poet contemplating the issue of life and death.
C、It laments about the death of youth.
D、It shows the stillness of nature.
16、Why does Mr. Purvis’voice become “tired, old, crumpled and indifferent?
A、Because he senses the narrator’s reconciliation with present awkward state.
B、Because he spends too much time listening to the poem.
C、Because he fails to humiliate the narrator in any way.
D、Because he is actually an old man.
17、Why is the narrator able to reconstruct her ethical value of small Canadian town?
A、She eventually understands that the meaning of life does not lie in material pursuit.
B、She is able to see the life of human being in the perspective of history and culture.
C、She is able to forgive the vices in humanity.
D、She is able to gai
18、Why is Nina impressed by the way the cupboard is arranged in Ernie’s house?
A、Because it poses sharp contrast with her messy life.
B、Because it shows that Ernie is a man of integrity.
C、Because she can be the hostess of the house.
D、Because she is thinking of having a baby of Ernie’s.
19、What does the space of the library represent?
A、It is a place that stores and disseminates the fruits of human civilization.
B、It is a space that shows the equality people have concerning knowledge.
C、It represents systematic storage of ideas.
D、It is a kind of public sphere representing p
20、Of the four characters in the story, which two represent the small town ethics of Canada?
A、Ernie and Nina.
B、Nina and the narrator.
C、Ernie and the narrator.
D、Nina and Mr. Purvis.
