一、单项选择题
1、 What artistic talent does Miss Emily possess in “A Rose for Emily”?
A:Still-life painting
B:Embroidery
C:China painting
D:Pottery
2、Who is considered to be “a Northerner, a day laborer”?
A:Mr. Grierson
B:Colonel Sartoris
C:Baron Homer
D:Homer Barron
3、Why does Miss Emily buy the arsenic?
A: To poison Homer Barron
B:To poison Mr. Grierson
C:To poison herself
D:As medication
二、简答题
1、Discuss the narrative structure of “A Rose for Emily.” Why does Faulkner present the story’s events in non-chronological order? Would the story be successful if he had told it in a strictly linear fashion? Why or why not?
2、How does the narrator’s opinion of Miss Emily change throughout “A Rose for Emily”? Does the narrator’s admiring her, even after she kills Homer Barron and sleeps with his corpse, bother you? What does the narrator’s accepting Miss Emily’s actions suggest about Southern culture?
单项选择题参考答案见第二页:<!--pagebreak--> 1. C 2. D 3. A
