Southern Baptist College

Liberal Arts Department

Afro-Asian Literature Midterm Exams Name: _____________________________ Course: ______ Date: ________ I. Score: ______

TRUE OR FALSE. Write TRUE if the statement is correct and write FALSE if the statement is wrong.

_________ 1. Arabian Nights, which is also called A Thousand and Ten Nights is a collection of stories that includes Alibaba, Sinbad and Alladin. __________2. Stories like Alibaba, Sinbad and Alladin, originally came from Saudi Arabia. __________3. In the story Feast of the Dead, Gulnaz work was washing clothes tow or three times a week. __________4. In the movie, Sharazadh saved the kingdom of her partner Saidi because of her wit and talent in telling stories. __________5. The story Feast of the Dead shows the life of a middle class family. __________6. Arabian literature has something to do with their religion Islam and their culture and tradition. __________7. The Arabs produced one of the famous collections of tales in the world known as Arabic Literature. __________8. The Arabic poems give praises to such virtues as truthfulness, generosity and love of freedom. __________9. In the story Feast of the Dead, Dursun Agha was 50 years old when he died. __________10. The movie Arabian Nights depicts a classical Islamic kingdom. II. ESSAY. Read and answer the following questions. Try to be succinct and direct to the point.

From the story Feast of the Dead 1. Describe the tradition of Moslems wherein this tradition saved Gulnaz and hertwo sons. 2. Life outside went on as before. Gulnaz hears people moving about in the street. What do these people have which Gulnaz does not have? 3. Why is the story told against a wintry background? How does the extreme cold contribute to the ideas about the relationship between man and society? 4. Does the writer blame society for what happens to Dursun Aghas family? Justify your answer.

From the movie Arabian Nights 1. How does the ability of Sharazadh as a storyteller saved her life? 2. Describe Saidi as the ruler of the kingdom. How does he change as the story unfolds? 3. Comment on the movie itself. How does the four stories, which was told by Sharazadh, being integrated in the movie?