LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

U.G. DEGREE EXAMINATION – GENERAL ENGLISH

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FIRST SEMESTER – April 2009

EL 1058 – ENGLISH THRO LITERATURE – I

 

 

 

Date & Time: 02/05/2009 / 1:00 – 4:00  Dept. No.                                                    Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

SECTION – A

I  Answer any TEN of the following in about 50 words each:                (10 x 3 = 30)

 

1. Why does Jonson call Shakespeare the ‘Soul of the Age’?
2. Why does Jonson not compare Shakespeare with his peers?
3. Why is the pleasure-dome a strange invention in Kubla Khan?
4. Comment on the opening lines of the poem Dover Beach.
5. Who are the ‘assorted characters’ of ‘death andblight’ in Frost’s Design?
6. What is India’s gift to the world?
7. What impression do you form of the child’s father in Night of the Scorpion?
8. What does the true bore think of himself?
9. What are a bore’s favourite topics?
10. What is, according to Shaw, natural slavery?
11. How do laws of the land protect the citizens?
12. Why are the peasants compared to ‘swarms of flies’?

 

SECTION – B

II  Answer any FIVE of the following in about 100 words each:                (5 x 6 = 30)

 

13. How does Jonson pay rich tribute to Shakespeare in his poem On Shakespeare?
14. Describe the landscape of Kubla Khan’s pleasure-dome.
15. What is, according to the poet, the ‘design of darkness’?
16. How does Sarojini Naidu describe the supreme sacrifices made by Indian soldiers

during the First World War?

17. Describe the various kinds of bores.
18. What are Shaw’s views on working hours and retirement?
19. How is vocational education useful?
20. Which subjects are grouped under humanities? Why?

SECTION – C

III  Answer the following in about 300 words each:                             (3 x 10 = 30)

 

21. a) What solution does Arnold prescribe to mitigate the sufferings of this dark world? Do you agree

with the poet? Justify your answer.

(OR)

1. b) How is the poem Night of the Scorpion a true expression of Indian sensibility? Discuss.

 

22. a) Suggest some remedies to save oneself from bores.

(OR)

1. b) Write a summary of Shaw’s views on Freedom.

 

23. a) How did Sindhu finally succeed in winning the landlord’s daughter in The Three Dancing

Goats? Explain.

(OR)

1. b) Describe the manner in which the Mathematics Master traps Wasserkopf.

 

24. 24. Complete the following passage by filling in the blanks with suitable articles and

prepositions.                                                                                 (10 x 1 = 10)

 

Tom appeared —1— the side walk with —2— bucket of whitewash and —3— long-handled brush. He surveyed —4—fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled —-5—- upon his spirit. Thirty yards of Board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but —-6— burden. Sighing he dipped his brush and passed it —-7—– the topmost plank; repeated the operation; did it again; compared —–8— insignificant whitewashed streak —-9—- the far-reaching continuent of unwhitewashed fence, and sat down —10—- a tree-box discouraged.

 

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