St. Joseph’s College of Commerce (AUTONOMOUS)

End Semester Examination – April 2013

B.Com – IV Semester

 GENERAL ENGLISH

Time: 1 ½  Hours                                                                                           Max. Marks: 50

Note: Answer this question paper in a separate answer script.

SECTION -A

1. Answer any TWO of the following in about 200 words each.    (2×10=20)

1. How many of the ten flatteners have affected your life? Do you think Friedman left any flatteners out? Is the importance of any of the flatteners he lists overstated?

 

2. What are the benefits/ detriments of the “world is flat” metaphor? What is Friedman trying to convey with this image? Is the world he describes really flat? Think of another metaphor that would better explain (or explain just as well, if you buy the idea that the world is flat) what Friedman details in these chapters.
3. Do you work for a company that is implementing any of Friedman’s coping strategies? Which of them would be the most controversial in your industry?

 

4. In Chapter Nine’s third section, “I Can Only Get It for You Retail,” Friedman offers a vivid portrait of the “neighborhoods” comprising various parts of the globe today. How will those neighborhoods look one hundred years from now? Will America still be a gated community, and Asia “the other side of the tracks”?

 

SECTION -B

1. Answer any ONE of the following in about 200 words each        (1×10=10)

 

5. Prospero presents himself as the civilized discoverer of a desert island, with Caliban and Ariel as its not-quite-human inhabitants. How does Caliban’s history of the island differ from Prospero’s? Whom do you think Shakespeare agrees with, Prospero or Caliban? Whom do you agree with, Prospero or Caliban? Give textual evidence in working out your answers.
6. What do Antonio and Sebastian want to do to Alonso and Gonzalo? Why? What does Antonio mean when he says, “What’s past is prologue” .
7. What are the goals of the conspiracy staged by Trinculo, Stephano, and Caliban (II.ii, III.ii)? What does each party want to get out of it? Do you ever feel that they are likely to succeed? How (if at all) does the playwright let us know whose side he’s on?

SECTION -C

III) Annotate any TWO of the following                                                               (2×5=10)

8. “ A living drollery. Now I believe
   That there are unicorn; that in Arabia
   There is one tree, the phoenix’ throne; one phoenix
   At this hour reigning there” [ Act 3, Scene 3, 21-24]
9. “ We are such stuff
   As dreams are made on, and our little life
   Is rounded with a sleep [ Act 4, Scene 1, 156-158]
10. Ay, that I will; and I’ ll be wise hereafter,
    And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass
    Was I, to take this drunkard for a god,
    And worship this dull fool!”[ Act 5, Scene 1, 294-297]

SECTION –D

 

1. Answer any FIVE of the following in about 200 words each.           (5×2=10)

 

11. What task does Prospero impose upon Ferdinand?
12. Give as good a description as you can of Caliban.
13. What does Ariel do for Gonzalo?
14. Where is the scene of this drama placed?
15. What does Miranda mean by the phrase, “Brave new world” .
16. Who is Caliban? What is his attitude towards Prospero’s control of the island?

 

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