St. Joseph’s College of Commerce (Autonomous)

End Semester Examination – Oct/Sept 2015

BCOM- III Semester

 C1 12 3 AE: ADDITIONAL ENGLISH

Duration: 3 Hrs                                                                                               Max Marks: 100

SECTION – A

1. Answer the following questions in a word, sentence or a phrase.        (5×2=10)

 

1. Name the film whose artistry is analyzed in the essay ‘Film as Art’.
2. In which Film Festival did, Rashomon win a first prize?
3. What is special about, Charlie Chaplin’s ‘Kick’? Which he uses as a gesture in his films.
4. Which famous musician of Akbar’s court is mentioned by Haresh Bakshi in his essay?
5. Whom did Florence Brooks interview in the essay ‘No More Questions’?

 

1. Write short notes on any four of the following.                                  (4×5=20)

 

6. Film as art versus film as business.

 

7. Multiple versions of truth and reality in Rashomon and its impact on the audience.

 

8. The specialty and significance of Charlie Chaplin’s body language.

 

9. The nature of rapport between the musician and his listeners in a concert of Indian classical music.

 

10. The roles and functions of author interviews.

 

SECTION – B

 

• Answer the following in about two pages each.                            (4×10=40)

 

11. In the movie Rashomon what do the symbols- the ruined gate, the rain, the forest, the rescued infant, the patterns of light and shadow, represent?
12. What specific qualities make possible the appreciations and enjoyment of Indian classical music according to Harish Bakshi? Why do you think classical music is not as popular as film music? Discuss in the light of your own listening experience.
13. How does Chuck Cklosterman, understand and elaborate the notion ‘Nostalgia’? Travel down your memory lane and give an example of your own experience of nostalgia.
14. Pick any historical or contemporary personality of your choice from any field and ask them any three questions, in an imaginary interview that you are conducting. Also provide a brief justification for each question that you ask.

 

SECTION – C

Read the below given interview and answer the questions:

INTERVIEWER: Has the theme of survival always been intrinsic to your work?

MARGARET ATWOOD: I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren’t very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods. Things were immediate in that way and therefore quite simple. It was part of my life from the beginning.

INTERVIEWER: When did you make the leap from considering survival to be a physical battle to considering it to be an intellectual or political struggle?

ATWOOD: When I started thinking about Canada as a country it became quite evident to me that survival was a national obsession. When I came to the States in the sixties, I felt that nobody knew where Canada was. Their brother may have gone there to fish or something. When I was at Harvard, I was invited as a “foreign student” to a woman’s house for an evening for which I was asked to wear “native costume.” Unfortunately I’d left my native costume at home and had no snowshoes. So there I was, without native costume with this poor woman and all this food, sitting around waiting for the really exotic foreign students in their native costumes to turn up—which they never did because, as everybody knew, foreign students didn’t go out at night.

INTERVIEWER: You’ve written about the theme of foreignness a good deal.

ATWOOD: Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

INTERVIEWER: Where have you been treated better as a writer, would you say?

ATWOOD: I suffer more vicious attacks, more personal attacks, in Canada, because that’s where I’m from. Families have their most desperate fights among themselves, as we know. However, if you look at per capita sales figures, people recognizing me in the                               street, of course it’s more in Canada. If I sold as many books per capita in the United States as in Canada, I’d be a billionaire.

1. Answer any two from the following questions.                             (2×10=20)
2. How different is an interview from any other form of literature?
3. In the above interview, what is that the interviewer is trying to unravel beyond Atwood’s writings?
4. Create a personality profile of Margaret Atwood from the above interview?

SECTION – D

18. Give a personal response to any two of the following.                 (2×5=10)
19. “You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the ocean in the drop.”

(a quote from  Jallauddin Rumi)

1. “Hell is other people”

(a quote from  Jean Paul Satre)

1. “All of us have two lives. The second one starts, when we realize that we have only one.”

(a quote from   Tom Hiddlestol)

 

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