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G-LITT001 BSA34 CLASSIC LITERATURES OF THE WORLD 2nd Sem ( 2022-2023 )
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Question 1
Following the relativity of truth, we can say that all the characters were actually telling the truth except for Masago.
Response: False
Question 2
Following the relativity of truth, we can therefore say that no one tells a lie.
Response: True
Question 3
What is the name of the literary magazine which Akutagawa founded with his colleagues?
Response: Shin Shicho
Question 4
Few days after Ryunosuke Akutagawa was born, his mother had gone insane, and his father gave him to his uncle. Who is Akutagawa's
uncle?
Response: Akutagawa Dosho
Question 5
On their statements describing the bandit's description, both the Policeman and the Woodcutter said that he was wearing a blue silk
kimono.
Response: False
Question 6
Among the people who gave their statements, everybody gave contradicting accounts except for the Buddhist Priest and the Woodcutter.
Response: False
Question 7
According to the Old Woman, her son-in-law, Tajomaru, was not from Kyoto.
Response: False
Question 8
In 1913, Akutagawa attended which university?
Response: Tokyo Imperial University
Question 9
While attending university, Akutagawa, together with his colleagues founded a literary magazine in which he first published one of his
famous short stories. What is the title of this story?
Response: Rashomon
Question 10
The concept of self-preservation suggests that all the characters' statements were lies.
Response: True
Question 11
Post modern truth is subjective and relative.
Response: True
Question 12
Tajomaru, Masago, and Takehiko said that the small sword took the life of the samurai.
Response: False
Question 13
One way of interpreting In A Grove is that it only shows the very human nature of defending oneself against possible harm or prejudice.
Response: True
Question 14
It is said that in his entire career, Akutagawa had written 150 short stories, and two of these were made into a film by known director,
Akira Kurosawa. What is the title of the story on which the story line of the film was based.
Response: Yabunonaka
Question 15
It was explicitly indicated in the story that seven people were questioned by a Police Commissioner.
Response: False