课程名称︰西洋文学概论二
课程性质︰外文系群组必修(西概一二与欧洲文学四选三)
课程教师︰姜台芬
开课学院：文学院
开课系所︰外国语文学系
考试日期（年月日）︰2014.6.19
考试时限（分钟）：至多90分钟
是否需发放奖励金：是
（如未明确表示，则不予发放）
试题 :
[姜台芬班]
[范围：
New Testament - Luke 2
Matthew 5-7, 26-28
Augustine, Confessions, Book 1, 8
Dante, Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto 1
Paradiso, Canto 33]
[试题开始]
Choose to answer any three of the following:
1. Explain: a] salvation; b] the Gentiles.
2. Why does Jesus say, "Therefore all things whatsover ye would that men should
do to you, do ye even so to them ,for this is the law and the prophets"?
3. How does Augustine's Confessions register the transition from the ancient
world to the Middle Ages?
[老师的口头解释与提示：Combination of the two traditions]
4. Midway along the journey of our life
I woke to find myself in a dark wood,
for I had wandered off from the straight path.
How hard it is to tell what it was like,
this wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn
(the thought of it brings back all my old fears),
a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitter.
The above are the opening lines of The Divine Comedy.
Explain the significance:
a] the use of "our" instead of "my"
b] the changes in tense.
[试题结束]