English English Through Contemporary Ideas Question Paper 2007

LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

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DEGREE EXAMINATION –GENERAL ENGLISH

FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

EL 1058 – ENGLISH THRO LITERATURE – I

 

 

Date & Time: 03/05/2007 / 9:00 – 12:00        Dept. No.                                                     Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

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

 

1. Bring out Shakespeare’s contribution to Elizabethan drama?
2. Describe the pleasure dome that Kubla Khan wanted to build?
3. Comment on Arnold’s use of the sea as an image of faith.
4.  ‘If design govern in a thing so small’. Bring out the significance of this extract.
5. Mention any two characteristics of the peasants described in the Poem Night of the Scorpion.
6.  Mention any two superstitious beliefs of the villagers in the poem Night of the Scorpion?
7. Why are bores always sure of an audience?
8. What is a bore’s greatest asset?
9. What, according to Shaw, should be the object of all honest governments?
10. What is unnatural slavery?
11. How does Richard Livingston distinguish between knowledge and education?
12. Which subjects tell us about man at his best?

 

II Answer any FIVE of the following in about 100 words each.            (5×5=25)

 

1. What, according to Richard Livingston, are the essentials of good education?
2. How is man’s slavery to Nature pleasant? Explain.
3. How did the girl get the third goat from Sindhu?
4. How does the Mathematics Master describe Wasserkopf’s character?
5. How does Jonson pay rich tributes to Shakespeare in his poem? Explain.
6. How does Coleridge achieve a fine blend of magic and superstition in Kubla Khan? Give examples.
7. Bring out your understanding of the Indian rural life from your reading of Night of the Scorpion.

 

III Answer the following in about 250 words each.                           (2×15=30)

 

1. Why, according to Shaw, is perfect freedom not possible? Discuss the role of governmental agencies in this context.           (or)

What is the melancholic view of life expressed by Arnold in his poem Dover Beach?

 

1. Do you think there is perfect freedom in India? Justify your answer.

(or)

Do you think there are alternative methods  to examinations to measure a person’s knowledge?  Discuss with examples.

 

 

IV Fill in the blanks with appropriate articles and prepositions.           (5×1=5)

 

If you have to work —(1)– twelve hours a day, you have no freedom at all. If you work eight hours —(2)– day you have four hours a day to do what you like —(3)–, subject to —(4)– laws of the land and your possession of money enough to buy —(5)– interesting book or pay for a seat at the pictures, or on a half a holiday at a football match.

 

V  Dialogue writing                                                                                (10 marks)

 

Construct a dialogue between the representative of your class with the Principal of another college to invite their students for the cultural festival organized in your college.

 

 

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