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M.A. (Eng.) First Semester Examination (Year 2015)

Poetry

Subject Code: MAEH- 101

Paper Code: SRS-81 Time : 20 Minutes

M.Marks : 10

Section A

(Objective Type Questions)

Attempt all questions. Each question carries 1 marks. Use the symbol () in the box for marking the

correct answer.

Q. 1. Answer all questions. Choose the correct option.

1. Who called Chaucer ‘The Father of English Poetry’?

a) Arnold b) Dryden

c) Pope d) Sydney

2. How many characters are there in ‘The Prologue?

a) 24 b) 29

c) 31 d) 39

3. Paradise Lost was published in: -

a) 1650 b) 1648

c) 1667 d) 1668

4. Paradise Lost is written in: -

a) Blank verse b) Heroic couplet

c) Free verse d) Spenserian style

5. The Sonnets of Shakespeare were dedicated to a person named: -

a) Mr. W.W. b) Mr. H.W.

c) Mr. W.H. d) Mr. H.H.

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6. John Donne represented the: -

a) Jacobean Age b) Victorian Age

c) Elizabethan Age d) Romantic Age

7. Dryden's Mac Flecknoe was a satire attacking: -

a) Charles II b) Shadwell

c) Cromwell d) Duke of Buckingham

8. The heroic couplet used by Pope is unique because: -

a) 2 lines act as a stanza

b) Rhyme scheme

c) Every line contains a caesure

d) All of these

9. Who wrote Pindaric Odes?

a) Gray b) Collins

c) Blake d) Keats

10. Which poet wrote poems on the Tiger and the Lamb?

a) Gray b) Collins

c) Blake d) Wordsworth

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M.A. (Eng.) First Semester Examination (Year 2015)

Poetry

Subject Code: MAEH-101

Paper Code: SRS-81

Time : 2 Hrs. 40 Mts.

M.Marks : 60

5x4=20 marks

Q. 2. Explain with reference to the context. (Any four)

a) “Of studies took he mooste cure and mooste heed.

Noghyt o word spak he moore than was neede.

And that was sed in forme and reverence,

And short and quyk and full of hy sentence.”

b) “Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,

The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;

But then begins a journey in my head

To work my mind, when body‟s work‟s expired.”

c) “Here we may reign secure, and in my choice

To reign is worth ambition though in hell;

Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav‟n.”

d) “I wonder, by my troth, what thou, and I

Did till we lov‟d? Were we not weaned till then,

or sucked on country pleasures, childishly?”

e) “Great Hetcher never treads in buskins here.

Nor greater Jonson dores in socks appear,

But gentle simkin just reception finds,

Amidst this monument of vanished minds.”

f) “Then flash‟d the living lightning from her eyes,

And screams of horror rend the affrighted skies,

Not louder shrieks to pitying Heav‟n are cast,

When husbands or when lapdogs breathe their last.”

g) “Behold, where Dryden‟s less presumptuous car,

wide o‟er the field of Glory bear

Two coursers of ethereal race,

with necks in thunder clothed and long resounding pace.”

h) “I was angry with my foe;

I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I water ‟d it in fears,

Night and morning with my tears;

And I sunned it with smiles,

And with soft deceitful wiles.”

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10 marks

Q. 3. „Chaucer‟s forte is irony not satire.‟ Discuss with reference to the Canterbury Tales.

OR

Shakespeare‟s Sonnets are a dramatic presentation of the passions and conflicts raging within

the poet‟s own soul. Discuss the autobiographical element in the Sonnets of Shakespeare.

10 marks

Q. 4. Analyze the speeches of Satan in Paradise Lost to show that Milton does not intend to

sympathize with Satan.

OR

In what sense is Donne a metaphysical poet? Discuss with illustrations.

10 marks

Q. 5. Dryden‟s wit is essentially good humoured. This is both its weakness and strength. Discuss

with reference to Mac Flecknoe.

OR

Give a description of the ingenius use of the supernatural machinery in „The Rape of the Lock.‟

10 marks

Q. 6. Describe Gray as a precursor of the Romantic Movement.

OR

Describe the main characteristics of Collins poetry.

OR

Discuss Blake as a mystic poet.

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MA Eng. Literature First Semester Examination (Year 2015)

Drama

Subject Code: MAEH- 102

Paper Code: SRS-82 Time : 20 Minutes

M.Marks : 10

Section A

(Objective Type Questions)

Attempt all questions. Each question carries 1/2 marks. Use the symbol () in the box for

marking the correct answer.

Q. No. 1. Choose the correct answer-

1. Thebes is struck by a -

a) Plague b) Aids

c) Flu d) Fire

2. Oedipus uses the ………….of Queen Jocasta to stab out his own eyes.

a) Knife b) Blade

c) Pins d) Sharp Rod

3. Jocasta believes that the child was abandoned on a deserted-

a) Mountainside b) Hill

c) Valley d) Horizon

4. Trojan War lasted for -

a) 10 years b) 11 years

c) 20 years d) 15 years

5. Who is often get called as “tricky” or “wily”.

a) Penelope b) Telemachus

c) Odysseus d) Circe and Calypso

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6. In Act I Scene 2 of Shakespeare’s Hamlet all the important characters are

introduced except -

a) Ophelia b) King Claudius

c) Hamlet d) Polonius

7. Who said this: “That one may smile, and smile and be a villain”.

a) Laertes b) Ophelia

c) King Claudius d) Hamlet

8. What are all the last words of Hamlet?

a) The rest is silence b) Well Done

c) Let’s hope the best d) Truth succeeds

9. Desdemona is daughter of -

a) Gratiano b) Brabantio

c) Lodovico d) Cassio

10. Who refers to Othello as “One that loved not wisely, but too well”?

a) Desdemona b) Iago

c) Othello himself d) The Duke

11. ------------ is a shepherdess in As You Like It.

a) Audrey b) Phebe

c) Rosalind d) Celia

12. ------------------ is a clown in As You Like It.

a) Amiens b) Jaques

c) Touchstone d) Oliver

13. “For I am falser than vows made in wine” is said by -----------

a) Audrey b) Phebe

c) Rosalind d) Celia

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14. Henry is the king of -

a) Wales b) Italy

c) Spain d) Danish

15. “I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream” is the words of -------------

a) Henry b) Archibald

c) Falstaff d) Michael

16. The play “Dr. Faustus” opens in-

a) Library b) House

c) Temple d) Hospital

17. Who is the famous Roman physician?

a) Gardiner b) Galen

c) Helen d) Keller

18. Faustus studies magic to become a –

a) God b) Magician

c) Doctor d) Devil

19. Who was Kno’ well?

a) Doctor b) An old gentleman

c) A Kight d) Master of the house

20. The Play Every Man in His Humour has been divided in –

a) Five Acts b) Four Acts

c) Three Acts d) Six Acts

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M.A. Eng. Literature First Semester Examination (Year 2015)

Drama

Subject Code: MAEH-102

Paper Code: SRS-82

Time : 2 Hrs. 40 Mts.

M.Marks : 60

Section B

ANNOTATIONS

Q.1. Attempt any four out of the eight given passages-

4 x 5 = 20 Marks

A. People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the famous riddle

with his brilliance, he rose to power, a man beyond all power. Who could behold

his greatness without envy? Now what a black sea of terror has overwhelmed

him. Now as we keep our watch and wait the final day, count no man happy till he

dies, free of pain at last.

B. Just as I

have come from afar, creating pain for many--

men and women across the good green earth--

so let his name be Odysseus….

The Son of Pain, a name he’ll earn in full.

C. So shall you hear

Of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts,

Of accidental judgements, casual slaughters,

Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause,

And, in this upshot, purposes mistook

Fall’n on the inventors’ head: and this can I

Truly deliver.

D. It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul –

Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars –

It is the cause. Yet I’ll not shed her blood.

Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow,

And smooth as monumental alabaster.

Yet she must die, else she’ll betray more men,

Put out the light, and then put out the light.

E. And then the lover,

Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad

Made to his mistress; eye-brow.

F. Then this remains, that we divide our power.

You, son John, and my cousin Westmoreland,

Towards York shall bend you with your dearest speed,

To meet Northumberland and the prelate Scroop,

Who, as we hear, are busily in arms.

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G. Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.

Her lips suck forth my soul; see where it flies.

Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again.

Here will I dwell, for Heaven is in thy lips,

And all is dross that is not Helena.

H. He that is so respectless in his courses

Oft sells his reputation, at cheap market.

Nor would I, you should melt away yourself

In flashing bravery, lest while you affect

To make a blaze of gentry to the world,

A little puff of scorn extinguish it,

And you be left, like an unsavoury snuff,

Whose property is only to offend.

Section C

ESSAY TYPE QUESTIONS

All questions are compulsory: -

5 x 8 = 40 Marks

1. Examine the messenger’s speech narrating the death of Jocasta and the blinding of

Oedipus in Oedipus the King. What is the messenger’s attitude toward the events

he describes? What is the effect of his announcement on the audience?

OR

What is the role of women in the Odyssey? Focusing especially on Penelope,

Calypso, or Anticleia, discuss how women are portrayed in this epic.

2. Discuss the significance of the play within the play in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

OR

Write an essay on the use of soliloquies in Othello.

3. Write an essay on compare the contrast of Celia and Rosalind.

OR

Write an essay on As You Like It is the comedy of leisure.

4. Consider: Falstaff is a great comic character.

OR

Examine the theme of the play Henry IV.

5. Write an essay on the local colour in Every Man in His Humour.

OR

“Comedy aims at instruction by means of laughter, thought not precisely of

derision”. To what extent is this remark applicable to Every Man in His Humour.

OR

Dr. Faustus as a Morality Play.

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M.A. English First Semester Examination (Year 2015)

Fiction Subject Code: MAEH-103

Paper Code: SRS-83

Time : 20 Minutes

M.Marks : 10

Section A

(Objective Type Questions)

Attempt all questions. Each question carries 1/2 marks. Use the symbol (√) in the box for

marking the correct answer.

Q. No. 1. Choose the correct answer-

1. Who imprisoned Robinson Crusoe?

a) The Moorish pirates b) Governor

c) Police d) None of these

2. Who sells his loving companion?

a) Xury b) Moorish Pirates

c) Robinson Crusoe d) None of these

3. Who is the writer of Robinson Crusoe?

a) Charles Dickens b) Daniel Defoe

c) Tom Jones d) W. Shakespeare

4. Robinson Crusoe is an adventurous story.

a) True b) False

5. “Pamela or Virtue Reward” is the subtitle of Samuel Richardson’s fiction.

a) True b) False

6. Epistolary novels-novels written as series of letters were popular in ___________.

a) 18th

Century b) 12th

Century

c) Shakespearean era d) 20th

Century

7. Where did Pamela Andrew worked as a maid-servant?

a) Mr. William’s House b) Mr. B’s House

c) Mr. Jewkes House d) None of these

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8. Who gave the paper warning against Pamela’s Sham marriage?

a) Maid servant b) Mr. B

c) A gypsy fortune teller d) Henry

9. Henry fielding created immortal hero Tom Jones.

a) True b) False

10. Who can be called the hero of the novel “Pride and Prejudice”?

a) Mr. Bingley b) Mr. Darcy

c) Mr. Bennet d) None of these

11. Which of the following novel is written by Jane Austen?

a) The Tempest b) Sons and Lovers

c) Pride and Prejudice d) Tom Jones

12. Who has called Mr. Bennet as an excellent father?

a) The Police b) The Judge

c) His daughters d) The farmer

13. When was Charles Dickens born?

a) 1815 b) 1816

c) 1812 d) 1940

14. Jane Austen died as a spinster.

a) True b) False

15. Mr. Bennet is a ____________ father.

a) Cruel father b) Selfish father

c) A kind father d) A proud father

16. Sir Walter Scott is a father of ___________ writer.

a) Crime b) Romantic Writer

c) Thriller & Crime Writer d) Historical Writer

17. Sir Walter Scott is impressed by ______________.

a) Y.B. Yeats b) Coleridge

c) William Shakespeare d) Hopkins

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18. How many novels did Sir Walter Scott write?

a) 60 b) 50

c) 30 d) 10

19. Scott’s novels have ___________ beauty.

a) Dullness b) Brightness

c) Natural scenic d) Darkness

20. Who were the house keepers of Wuthering Heights?

a) Jane and Frank

b) Mr. Lockwood and Nelly Dean

c) Dick and Harry

d) Pamela

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M.A. English First Semester Examination (Year 2015)

Fiction Subject Code: MAEH-103

Paper Code: SRS-83

Time : 2 Hrs.40 Mts.

M.Marks : 60

Section B (Long Answer Type Questions)

Attempt all questions. Each question carries 12 marks.

Q.No. 1. Write a critical appreciation of Samuel Richardson’s fiction “Pamela.”

OR

Discuss the plot construction of fielding’s novel Tom Jones.

Q.No. 2. Discuss the nature of sin, punishment and repentance as one of the most important

themes of Robinson Crusoe.

OR

Evaluate “Kenilworth” as a historical novel.

Q.No. 3. Jane Austen’s technique of plot construction of Pride and Prejudice. Discuss.

OR

Evaluate “Vanity Fair” as a novel without a hero.

Q.No. 4. Write an essay on Emily Bronte’s characterization with special reference to

Wuthering Heights.

OR

Discuss the plot construction of “The Mill on the Floss” as a master piece of

George Eliot.

Q.No. 5. Discuss Great Expectation as a social novel of Charles Dickens.

OR

Evaluate Jude the obscure as a tragedy.

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MA Eng. Literature First Semester Examination (Year 2015)

Prose Subject Code: MAEH- 104

Paper Code: SRS-84 Time : 20 Minutes

M.Marks : 10

Section A

(Objective Type Questions)

Attempt all questions. Each question carries 1 mark. Use the symbol () in the box for marking

the correct answer.

Q. No. 1. Choose the correct answer-

1. Stevenson was born in 1850 in which Scottish city?

a) Dundee b) Edinburgh

c) Glassgow d) Perth

2. Whose character was summed up by Pope as „wisest, brightest and meanest of

mankind‟.

a) Bacon b) Goldsmith

c) Johnson d) Dryden

3. _______has been called the forerunner of novel.

a) The spectator b) The Tatler

c) The Rambler d) Coverly papers

4. Who said, „Cities given, the problem was to light them‟.

a) Pater b) Newman

c) R.L. Stevenson d) Carlyle

5. R.L. Stevenson belongs to the tradition of the essay of:

a) Bacon b) Lamb and Hazhtt

c) Sterna d) Addison

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6. Lamps essays are repleted with -

a) Humour b) Pathos

c) Both (a) and (b) d) None of these

7. Who dictated „A History of Moses‟ at the age of six?

a) Bacon b) Emerson

c) Carlyle d) R.L. Stevenson

8. “A humourist in a nation of humourist” is a statement given in which essay.

a) The Man in Black b) Spectator Club

c) of Truth d) Dream Children

9. Which of the following is the work of Stephan Leacock?

a) With a Photographer b) My Lost Dollar

c) Both (a) and (b) d) None of these

10. The „Man in Black‟ appeared in -

a) The Citizen of the World b) Tatler

c) Spectator d) Lives of the Poets

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MA Eng. Literature First Semester Examination (Year 2015)

Prose Subject Code: MAEH- 104

Paper Code: SRS-84

Time : 2 Hrs. 40 Mts.

M.Marks : 60

Section B

ANNOTATIONS

Q.1. Attempt any four of the following passages- 4x5 = 20 Marks

A. Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that sheweth best by day; but it

will not rise to the price of a diamond.

B. It is a strange thing to note the excess of this passion and how it braves the nature

and value of things, by this, that the speaking in a perpetual hyperbole, is comely

in nothing.

C. Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind, than as one of the

species, by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman, soldier,

merchant and artisan without ever medding with any practical part in life.

D. The stage is always beginning a new; the candidates for theatrical reputation of

the faults or excellence of their predecessors.

E. Children love to listen to stories about their elders, when they were children, to

stretch their imagination to the conception of a traditionary great uncle, or

grandame, whom they never saw.

F. Sun and sky and breeze and solitary walks and summer holidays and the

greenness of fields and the delicious juices of meats and fishes and society and

cheerful glass and candle light.

G. Though fond of many acquaintances, I desire an intimacy with only a few. The

man in black whom I have often mentioned is one whose friendship I could wish

to acquire, because he possesses my esteem.

H. Out of the age of gas lamps he glances back slightingly at the murk and glimmer

in which his ancestors wandered; his heart waxes jocund at the contrast; nor do

his lips refrain from a stave.

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Section C

ESSAY TYPE QUESTIONS

(All questions are compulsory)

4x 10 = 40 Marks

10 Marks

Q.2. Write an essay on Bacon‟s style as revealed in his essays.

OR

Compare and contrast Dryden and Pope with reference to Samuel Johnson – Lives of the

English Poets.

10 Marks

Q.3. Evaluate Goldsmith as an essayist with reference to The Man in Black.

OR

Discuss the purpose and importance of the Spectator.

10 Marks

Q.4. How much of Lambs own temperament and outlook is reflected in his essays.

OR

“Hazlitt‟s essays are not merely imbued with feelings but they express his varied

responses. They tell us about his observations of life”. Discuss.

10 Marks

Q.5. Discuss Bertrand Russell's essay on Emotion and Discipline.

OR

Summarize R.L. Stevenson essay on „A Plea for Gas Lamps‟.

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