Model Question Paper B.A. English Degree Examination

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B.A.ENGLISH DEGREE EXAMINATION

MODEL QUESTION PAPER

(For the candidates admitted from 2017 – 2018 onwards)

SECOND SEMESTER-INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

Time: 3 hours                                                                            Marks – 75

SECTION –A

                                                                                                           10 X 2 = 20

I. Answer the following questions:

1).How does Sarojini Naidu express her relationship with the sea?

2).What is it that the girl child reminds to her mother in the poem ‘The Voice of an Unwanted Girl’?

3).What were the favourite books very close to Kalam’s heart?

4).From which source the text ‘A Long Time on the Little Road’ has been taken?

5).What was the sum for which Laxmi’s life was insured?

6).What did Laxmi’s mother-in-law say when Laxmi was about to go with Vinod to seek the blessings of a holy man?

7).Write a note on Dolly’s initial appearance.

8).Who are the sons of Raj Kumar? What happens to them at the end?

9).Why did the soldiers throw Mohan Lal out of their compartment?

10).What was the fate of Bayaji?

SECTION-B

5X5=25

II.Answer the following questions

11)a Give an account of the imagery used in the poem ‘Coromandel Fishers.’ (or) b)Discuss the theme of the poem ‘Dawn At Puri.’

12)aWhy did Kalam decide to meet the students?(or)

b)  What does Satyajit Ray highlight in the text ‘A Long Time on the Little Road’?

13)a.Give an account of the opening act of the play ‘Brides are not for Burning.’(or) b) Comment on the ending of the play ‘Brideds are not for Burning.’

14)a. Explain the triangle of love involving Dinu, Arjun and Alison in ‘The Glass Palace.’(or) b)What gives rise to the concept of hybridity in the novel ‘The Glass Palace’?

15)a How is Mohan Lal made to eat the humble pie at the end of the story ‘Karma’?(or) b)Describe the fire accident and the scene of the tragedy in ‘the Storeyed House.’

SECTION-C

10X3=30

16)    Comment on how the poem ‘Gulzaman’s Son’ presents a struggle between life and death, and hope and despair. Are these conflicts resolved by the end of the poem? Explain your answer with reference to the text.

17)  How did Dr. Abdul Kalm get his role model?

18)  Justify the title of the play ‘ Brides are not for Burning.’

19)  Discuss Ghosh’s concept of colonization as revealed in his novel ‘The Glass Palace.’

20)  How does Waman Hoval depict the Dalit versus non-Dalit forces in the story ‘The Storeyed

House’?

B.A.ENGLISH DEGREE EXAMINATION

MODEL QUESTION PAPER

(For the candidates admitted from 2017 – 2018 onwards)

SECOND SEMESTER
PROSE
Time : 3 hours	Marks – 75
SECTION A	10 X 2 = 20
I. Answer the following questions:
1).How one should read books according to Bacon?
2).What is the nature of Ambition?
3).Write a brief account of Sir Roger
4).What was the last play seen by Sir Roger?
5).Who is James Elia?
6).Who has written a poem upon insects?
7).Who is a smart man?
8).How is our ignorance far and wide?
9).Who is a true Bore?
10). Why was Mr. Kelada called as Mr. know all?
SECTION-B	5X5=25
II. Answer the following questions
11) a How do studies serve man according to Bacon?(or)
b) Discuss the usefulness of Ambitious men
12) a How does the spectator describe Sir Roger De Coverley? (or)
b) How was Sir Roger escorted to the Theatre?
13)a.Attempt a character sketch of Lamb’s Aunt (or)
b) Why according to Leigh Hunt is shaving villainous?
14)a. What are the problems of Today’s youth? (or)
b) What is the great pleasure of ignorance according to Lynd?
15)a Write an account on the various bores described by Lucas (or)
b)Describe Mr.Kelada
SECTION-C	10X3=30
III. Answer Any Three of the Following Questions

16)  How does Bacon emphasize the value of experience and what rules of study does he prescribe in his essay "Of studies"?

17)  How does Steele describe the members of the Spectator Club?

18Summarise Charles Lamb’s essay “My Relations”

19)  Describe the pleasure of ignorance that Robert Lynd informs in his essay.

20)  Do you think the title “Mr.Know All” is appropriate?

B.A.ENGLISH DEGREE EXAMINATION

MODEL QUESTION PAPER

(For the candidates admitted from 2017 – 2018 onwards)

SECOND SEMESTER

Allied -II - HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

Time: Three hours                                                          Maximum: 75 marks

SECTION A͚- (20 Marks)

I . Answer the following multiple choice questions: (10 x 2 = 20)

  

1.a).In The Canterbury Tales there are___________ pilgrims

a) 27                  b) 29                     c) 31

b).   ___________ is called the father of the essay form.

a)Steele         b)Bacon                                 c) Addison

2.a. kyd was influenced by_________

a) Seneca                           b)Aristotle                         c)  Sophocles

b).Shakespeare has written___________ plays

a)39                                      b)38                      c)37

3. a)Milton’s paradise lost  is ____________

a) Ballad            b) An epic          c) lyric

b). __________ was the founder of the metaphysical poetry.

a)Donne                             b)Herbert                           c)Crashaw

4)a. Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel is a__________.

a). Satire              b) Fable                                c) Tragedy

b)”The Rape of The Lock” by Pope is a___________

a) mock-epic                      b) lyric                                 c)ballad

  

5)a. Addison and Steele wrote__________ essays

a) 625                    b) 635                    c) 645

b).Johnson’s Dictionary of the English language was published in___________

a) 1735                                 b) 1745                                 c) 1755

6)a. The Battle of the Books and Gulliver’s Travels are written by

a) Fielding                         b) Dryden          c) Swift

b) The Master piece of Sherdian is_______

a) The Rivals   B)The School for Scandal         C)The Critic

7)a. According to Wordsworth _________is a moral teacher

a) Classicism                     b) Aesthetics                     c) Nature

b). Lamb’s sister was _________Lamb

a) Mary                b) Jane                  c) Charlotte

8)a ___________ is a dramatic monologue by Browning

a) My last Duchess       b) Ulysses          c) Pauline

b) _______ is the master piece of Charles Dickens.

a)David copperfield    b)Great Expectations  c) Hard Times

9)a. T.S.Eliot became a friend of __________

a) Ezra pound b) Lloyds    c) Imperial

b) G.K.Chesterton was an ____

a) Poet                 b) Essayist         c) Dramatist

10)a. ______________is a member of the Fabian society.

a)Shaw                b)Arnold            c)Scott

b). The novel Kangaroo was written by ___________

a) Lawrence       b) Arnold            c) Scott

Section B: 5 x 5 = 25

II. Answer the following questions in about 100 words each:

11.  a) Chaucer is the father of Modern English Poetry-Discuss(or)

b)  Ben Jonson and his Comedy of Humors

12.  a) Milton’s paradise lost (or)

b)  The Age of Dryden is the Age of Modern English Poetry – Discuss. 13.a) Establish Congreve as a writer of Comedy of Manners (or)

b)  Dr.Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language

14.  a) Comment on the features of Tennyson’s poetry (or) b) Bring out the features of Hardy’s novels.

15.  a) T.S.Eliot’s poetical career. (or)

b)  Comment on Chesterton’s works.

Section C: 3 x 10 = 30

III. Answer any three of the following questions in about 200 words each:

16.  Bacon is the Father of English Prose –Discuss

17.  Characteristics of the Metaphysical of Poetry.

18.  Establish Addison as an Essayist

19.  Discuss Wordsworth’s theme of Nature

20.  Analyse the various features of Shaw’s plays

B.A., B.Sc., B.Com., B.C.A., B.B.A., B.C.S., B.B.M.

SECOND SEMESTER

PART II ENGLISH-PAPER -II

[From the academic year 2017-2018]

MODEL QUESTION PAPER

Time : 3 hours                         Marks – 75

			SECTION ‘A’    10 X 2 = 20
(1) Choose the correct synonym				4x1/2=2
1.	Prospect	- chance, possibility, promise, hope
2.	realization	-	understanding, comprehension, awareness, recognition
3.	organism	-	living being / inanimate things / plants
4.	combustion	-	freezing temperature / burning / condense
2. Choose the correct antonym				4x1/2=2
1.	recollection	-  remember / offering / forget
2.	mention	-  declare / unhappy / conceal
3.	chum	-	fiend / friend / acquaintance
4.	disrupt	-  interrupt / consistent / disturbance
3. Unscramble the following words				4x1/2=2

a.    ERORWDBO

b.   LDUIFSEGCRA

c.    NIONPAHPRSEE

d.   NDEPTOLIE

4. Fill up the blanks using the words given below

4x1/2=2

Television is one of the most ________media in most of the households. It has become an indispensable device in the life of ________. Through television, people are able to see and know what is ________ around them. However, the question that you need to ask is; are there _________of watching TV?.

	( happening, popular, disadvantages, humans)
5. Answer the following multiple choice questions		4x1/2=2
a. Todd borrowed a dollar from the narrator because
I.	he needed the money to pay for the Bermuda trip.
II.	he didn’t have the change to pay for the taxi.
III.	he missed his wallet on the way to the railway station.
IV.	he wanted to have it as a remembrance.

b. What is the unexpected turn the author introduces in the beginning of the story?

I.         Swami was allowed by his father to play cricket.

II.        Swami’s father reading the incident involving a brave boy in the newspaper.

III.        Swami’s was asked to sleep in the office room.

IV.   Swami’s encounter with a tiger in the forest.

c.  The worst thing about television programmes is that

I.            people become addicted  to watching television programmes.

II.they crush the imagination of the people and limit their thinking.

III.only rich people could afford to buy television.

IV.       politicians manipulate the public by projecting fake news about themselves.

d.     If the present rate of increase in greenhouse gases continues, by 2040 global temperatures could rise from

I. 0.50 to 1.00 0 F.

II. 40 to 90 C.

III. 20 to 40 C.

IV. 550 to 600 F.

6.

State whether the following statements are True or False

4x1/2=2

a.          Only Todd had borrowed a dollar from the narrator.

b.      In his dream, Swami was chased by a tiger.

c.       According to the prediction of some scientists, global warming melts the glaciers and polarice caps which might result in large quantity of fresh or drinking water.

d.         The narrator somehow managed to get back his dollar from Todd

7. Pick the odd one out from the following list

4x1/2=2

a.       bank / teller / cashier / buyer

b.      Police / thief / convict / burglar

c.       industrialisation /automobile use /deforestation /carbon dioxide

d.      gloomily / happily / miserably / hopelessly

8. Give the Meaning of Following Confusables

2x1=2

1.a) Storey b) Story

2.a) sight b)Side

9. Answer the following Riddles

2x1=2

a. I run in and out of town all day and night and yet I never get tired? What am I?

b. I pass before the sun, yet make no shadow. What am I?

10.	Answer the following Mind Benders	2x1=2
	a. Define pangrams with an example
	b. Define palindrome with an example
	SECTION ‘B’ 5x5=25
II. Answer the following questions 11. Complete the story with the correct forms of the verbs given in brackets                                                                                                                        5x1=5

A young man aged 15 ___________ (robbing) a bank at Salem last night. He ___________

(uses) his toy gun and ___________ (traveling) by his father's red BMW. He _________ (carrys) the money in his sister's school bag. The young man ___________ (moving) to his grandmother’s house to hide the money there.

12. a) Identify the appropriate article from the given options  3x1=3

I.            The kidnapper was sent to ----- prison.

A.    a

B.     an

C.     no article

D.    the

II.----- food you cooked tasted good.

A.    a

B.     an

C.     the

D.    no article

III.Our city will have ----- football ground in another one year.

A.    a

B.     an

C.     the

D.    no article

(b) .  Identify the appropriate passive forms from the options given  2x1=2

1.He opens the door.

I.            The door is opened by him.

II.The door was opened by him.

III.The door is opened by he.

2.  I am going to bring him here.

I.He is to be brought here by me.

II.He is going to be brought here by me.

III.He has been going to be brought here by me.

13. Read the following text and make notes.              1x5=5

The coffee plant, an evergreen shrub or small tree of African origin, begins to produce fruit 3 or 4 years after being planted. The fruit is hand-gathered when it is fully ripe and a reddish purple in colour. The ripened fruits of the coffee shrubs are processed where they are produced to separate the coffee seeds from their covering and from the pulp. Two different techniques are in use: a wet process and a dry process.

First the fresh fruit is pulped by a pulping machine. Some pulp still clings to the coffee, however, and this residue is removed by fermentation in tanks. The few remaining traces of pulp are then removed by washing. The coffee seeds are then dried to a moisture content of about 12 per cent either by exposure to the sun or by hot-air driers. If dried in the sun, they must be turned by hand several times a day for even drying.

In the dry process the fruits are immediately placed to dry either in the sun or in hot-air driers. Considerably more time and equipment is needed for drying than in the wet process. When the fruits have been dried to a water content of about 12 per cent the seeds are mechanically freed from their coverings.

The characteristic aroma and taste of coffee only appear later and are developed by the high temperatures to which they are subjected during the course of the process known as roasting. Temperatures are raised progressively to about 220-230°C. This releases steam, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and other volatiles from the beans, resulting in a loss of weight of between 14 and 23 per cent. Internal pressure of gas expands the volume of the coffee seeds from 30 to 100 per cent. The seeds become rich brown in colour; their texture becomes porous and crumbly under pressure. But the most important phenomenon of roasting is the appearance of the characteristic aroma of coffee, which arises from very complex chemical transformations within the beans. The coffee, on leaving the industrial roasters, is rapidly cooled in a vat where it is stirred and subjected to cold air propelled by a blower. Good quality coffees are then sorted by electronic sorters to eliminate the seeds that roasted badly. The presence of seeds which are either too light or too dark depreciates the quality.

14. Prepare a resume suitable to the post given below					1x5=5
		Diamond Metal Works Pvt. Ltd.
	142/6, JWL road, Kelambakkam, Chennai – 603 103.
			diamondmtl@gmail.com
			Wanted
		Supervisor Maintenance
	Qualification	: UG (B.A., B.Sc., B.Com)
	Experience	: 5 year in the relevant departments
	Salary	: An exciting package for potential candidates
		including PF, Gratuity, performance bonus, etc
	.Interested candidate should send your resume to the above email ID.

15. (a)  Give directions to a visitor to reach the bus terminal from your home 1x5=5
(or)

(b)   Draft a script for vote of thanks to be delivered at your department association function

SECTION ‘C’ 10x3=30

III.   Answer the following in about 200 words

16 a) Discuss whether Swami’s father was justified in forcing him to sleep alone. (Or)

b)  Elucidate the causes of global warming and measures governments and individuals should take to tackle the issue

17 a) How does the poem Quality of Mercy establish that mercy is an important human quality?(Or)

b)    Do you agree with the optimism of the poet Aruna? Do you expect the Day ‘soon shall come’?

18 a) What sort of role did Lata Mangeshkar’s family members play in her interest in music?(Or) b) Trace the hard path travelled by Mariyappan to achieve greatness.