62/Eng SKBU/UG-III/Eng.

-V(H)/17 his works that he collaborated with other

writers. 10+2=12
2017
2. Write short notes on any two of the following
ENGLISH topics : 5×2=10
[HONOURS]
a) Rudyard Kipling
Paper : V
Full Marks : 100 Time : 4 Hours b) G. B. Shaw
The figures in the right-hand margin indicate marks. c) William Somerset Maugham
Candidates are required to give their answers in
d) Ulysses
their own words as far as practicable.
e) The Power and the Glory.
3. Answer any four of the following questions :
GROUP-A
2×4=8
1. Answer any one of the following questions:
a) Which two of Hardy's novel, by their frank
12×1=12
handling of religion and sex, aroused hostility
a) Write a brief note on the factors responsible among conventional readers?
for the birth of Modern Literature in English.
b) Whose writings are regarded as Scientific
What are the chief literary features of the
Romances? Name any two of such romances.
period? 6+6=12
c) Who wrote Brave New World? Name another
b) What is Celtic Revival? Discuss how the
novel written by the same author.
writings of William Butler Yeats and John
Millington Synge shaped the movement. d) Arrange these plays according to
2+5+5=12 chronological order of their publication.
Pygmalion, Arms and the Man, Back to
c) Discuss the contribution of Joseph Conrad
Methuselah, Man and Superman.
in Modern English Literature. Name two of

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 e) Name one Modern Novelist who was born b) Discuss Auden's "The Unknown Cityzen" as a
in India. Name two of his novels and their satire on standardization at the expense of
publication dates. individualism. 12
f) Who are called "The Georgians"? Name any c) Discuss Modernist techniques that Eliot
two of them. employs in "The Love-Song of J.Alfred
g) Arrange the following books chronologically Prufrock". 12
as per their date of publication. Four 5. Explain any two of the following : 6×2=12
Quartets, Ash Wednesday, Waste Land, a) "When there was peace, he was for peace :
Prufrock and Other Observations. When there was war, he went."
h) Who wrote The White Monkey? Name a play b) "It turned away from the blithe country."
written by him.
c) "And in short, I was afraid."
d) "I went hunting wild
GROUP-B
After the wildest beauty in the world."
4. Answer any one of the following questions: :
6. Answer any four of the following questions :
12×1=12
2×4=8
a) Critics have pointed out that Dylan Thomas'
a) What does the poet mean by "the pity of
writings are marked with "verbal obscurity,
war, the pity war distilled"?
metaphysical pretentiousness and romantic
rhapodizing." b) Bring out the reference: I am no prophet."

– Do you agree? Discuss with reference to c) What does the poet mean by "the eternal
Poem in October. When was the poem postman"?
written and published. 10+2=12 d) Who was lazarus referred to in Eliot's
Prufrock?

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 e) "When a vast image out Spiritus Mundi. b) "The poets only sang of the floods."
Troubles my sight."
c) "My mother twisted through and through
– Describe the vast image. groaning on a mat."
f) What does the poet mean by "twice told fields 9. Answer any four of the following questions :
of infancy"? 2×4=8
a) What is 'Catamaran'? What are referred to as
GROUP-C "sweeter" in "Coromondel Fishers"?

7. Answer any one of the following questions : b) Which two adjectived are used to describe
12×1=12 the father in "Night of the Scorpion"? Do
you consider these expressions as justified?
a) Critics have pointed out that the central
Why?
theme of Naidu's poetry is "the panorama of
India's ageless life." Justify the statement c) Why "Gopi and Brinda" are repeated in "A
with reference to "The Song of the River?"
Coromondel Fishers". 12 d) What is the meaning of the expression "flesh
b) Estimate Kamala Das as a confessional poet was heavy on my back"? Why that was
with special reference to the poem An considered as "hard to believe"?
Introduction. 12 e) "All mine, mine alone"
c) Critically summarize Joyanta Mahapatra's – Contextualize the expression and comment.
poem "Hunger" and comment on its title.
f) "Be Amy , or be Kamala, or, better
6+6=12
still, be Madhabikutti." – Comment.
8. Explain, with reference to the context, any one of
the following passages. 6×1=6 g) "They clicked their tongue" – Who are they?
What they said about the incident?
a) "I too call myself I"

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 h) Briefly comment on the title "Night of the stepped out, pensive, to meet me.
Scorpion." streets that I chanced upon, –
You had just walked down them and vanished
And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors
GROUP-D
were still dizzy with your presence and,
10. Give the substance of the following poem and add startled, gave back my too sudden
critical comments : 8+4=12 image.
You who never arrived
in my arms, Beloved, who were lost from Who knows, perhaps the same
the start, bird echoed through both of us
I don't even know what songs yesterday, separate, in the evening...
would please you. I have given up trying
to recognize you in the surging wave of _________
the next moment. All the immense
image in me – the far off, deeply felt
landscape, cities, towers and bridges
and unsuspected turns in the path,
and those powerful lands that were
once pulsing with the life of the gods –
all rise within me to mean
you, who forever elude me.

You, Beloved, who are all

the gardens I have eve gazed at,
longing. An open window
in a country house –, and you almost

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65/Eng SKBU/UG-III/Eng.-VIII(H)/17 2. Answer any two of the following : 12×2=24
a) Analyse the transvestite acts of Rosalynd and
2017 its significance in As you Like It.
ENGLISH OR
[HONOURS] Discuss the topical elements in Jonson's
Paper : VIII Everyman in His Humour.
OR
Full Marks : 100 Time : 4 Hours
Analyse the character of Puck in A
The figures in the right-hand margin indicate marks. Midsummer Night's Dream.
Candidates are required to give their answers in b) Assess the role of Touchstone in As you like
their own words as far as practicable.
It.
OR
1. Answer any two of the following questions : How does Jonson maintain the unities in
12×2=24 Everyman in His Humour?
a) Why does Macbeth treated as a tragic hero OR
instead of a murderous villain? Discuss the importance of the masque in A
b) Write a brief essay on the use of leit-motifs Midsummer Night's Dream.
in Macbeth. c) Discuss As You Like It as a pastoral comedy.
c) Do you consider the Porter scene as OR
essential to a tragic drama like Macbeth? Write a note on the plot construction in the
Give reasons for your answer. play Everyman in His Humour.
d) Discuss and analyse the atmosphere in OR
Macbeth. Write a note on Shekespeare's art of
characterization in A Midsummer Night's
Dream.

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3. Explain any two of the following passages with d) and in kind
reference to the context : 6×2=12 Like to the eager, but the generous grey
a) Come you spirits hound,

That tend on mortal thoughts, Unsex me here, who ne'er so little from his game withheld,
Turns head, and leaps up at his holder's threat.
b) it is a tale
e) And he himself withal so far fallen off
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
From that first place, as scarce no note
Signifying nothing.
remains,
c) There if I grow,
f) See what a drove of horns fly in the air,
The harvest is your own. Wing'd with my cleansed and my credulous
d) And you all know security breath!
Is mortal's chiefest enemy. g) Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth;

4. Explain any two of the following passages with Turn melancholy forth to funerals;
reference to the context : 6×2=12 The pale companion is not for our pomp.
a) Sweet are the uses of adversity, h) I have had a most rare vision. I have had a
dream, past the wit of man to say what dream
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
it was.
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
i) Not a mouse
b) I can suck
shall disturb this hallow'd house;
melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks I am sent with broom before.
eggs. To sweep the dust behind the door.
c) If it do come to pass 5. Answer any two of the following questions :
That any man turn ass 6×2=12
Leaving his wealth and case
a) What do psychoanalytic critics do? Explain
A stubborn will to please
with example.

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 b) Do modernism and post-modernism relate to g) Why is Hecate angry in her first appearance?
each other in any way? Discuss in brief.
h) Why does Macbeth murder the family of
c) Give a sketch of the origin and development Macduff?
of New Criticism.
i) Who reports the death of Macduff's family
d) Discuss in brief at least two thinkers and to Macduff? What was Malcolm's reaction
their works which contributed into Feminist to this?
Theories.
7. Attempt any three of the following questions :
e) Write a short note on Myth Criticism. 2×3=6
6. Attempt any five of the following questions :
a) Mention the couples that marry in the end
2×5=10
in As You Like It.
a) "Aroint thee, witch! the rump-fed ronyon
OR
cries" – paraphrase the line.
"as I am a gentleman and a soldier"
b) What happened in Saint Colme's inch?
– Who says this and what is the context?
c) "from this moment
The very firstlings of my heart shall be OR

The firstlings of my hand" What is the source of Pyramus and Thisbe

episode?
– When does Macbeth say this?
b) Why does Orlando go to the forest of Arden?
d) "Hell is murky!" – Who says this and when?
e) "Out, out, brief candle! OR

Life's but a walking shadow," What is meant by "Go by, Hieronymo"?

– Who says this and when? OR

f) "Boundless intemperence What was the effect of Puck's immediate
In nature is a tyranny;" mistake?

– Who says this and when? c) "For then he's full of matter"
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 –Who is being referred to here? What does OR
the speaker mean by 'matter'? Who is Francis Flute in A Midsummer
OR Night's Dream?

What is a Toledo? Who claims to have it? _________

OR
What is the 'rite of May'?
d) "I remember when I was in love
I broke my sword upon a stone"
– Who is the speaker? Whom was the
speaker in love with?
OR
What does the phrase "quos aequus amavit
Jupiter" mean?
OR
What was the love potion made of in A
Midsummer Night's Dream? On whom was
it applied?
e) What happens between Duke Senior and
Duke Frederick in the end?
OR
What role does Justice clement play in the
end of Every Man in His Humour?

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66/Eng SKBU/UG-III/Eng.-IV(G)/17 e) Name any two baseball players mentioned in
The Old Man and the Sea.
2017 f) 'The moon affects her as it does a woman,
ENGLISH he thought.'
[GENERAL] Who is 'he'? Whom does he compare to 'a
Paper : IV woman'?
g) 'I wish I had the boy.'
Full Marks : 100 Time : 3 Hours
The figures in the right-hand margin indicate marks. Who made this wish and why?

Candidates are required to give their answers in h) 'I killed him in self-defence.'
their own words as far as practicable.
Who killed whom in self-defence?
i) Why does the old man compare himself to
1. Answer any eight of the following questions : turtles?
2×8=16
j) 'You are already a man.'
a) What was the name of the old man? Where
Who is being referred to here as 'a man' and
did he fish?
why?
b) '...it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.'
k) 'Now we fish together again.'
What does 'it' refer to? Why is it being
Who is the speaker? When does he say it?
described thus?
l) 'Then go in and take your chance like any
c) What happened when the old man first took
man or bird or fish.' Who says this to whom?
the boy out in a boat to fish? How old was
the boy at that time? 2. Answer any one of the following questions :
16×1=16
d) 'These were the relics of his wife.' What
were the relics? a) Discuss the images and symbols employed
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 b) Discuss Santiago's relationship with the sea
as portrayed by Hemingway.
c) 'A man can be destroyed but not defeated.'
Does this statement adequately describe the
character of Santiago?
d) Discuss the literary devices which, according
to you, contribute to the universal appeal of
The Old Man and the Sea.
3. Answer any two of the following questions :
4×2=8
a) "That was the saddest thing I ever saw with
them, the old man thought.'
Narrate the incident that the old man refers
to here.
b) Briefly comment on the role of Manolin in
The Old Man and The Sea.
c) 'Fish', he said, 'I love you and respect you
very much.'
Who said this and why?
d) 'It is enough to live on the sea and kill our
true brothers.'
e) 'They truly beat me.'
Who are referred to here as 'they'? How did
they 'beat' Santiago?
4. a) Rewrite the following sentences as directed
(any five) : 1×5=5
i) He has intelligence.
(Use the adjective form of 'intelligence'.)
ii) One must be patient in times of
hardship. (Use the noun form of 'patient')
iii) He studies with diligence.
(Use the adverb form of 'diligence')
iv) She succeeded in her attempt.
(Use the adjective form of 'succeed')
v) He died in an instant.
(Use the adverb form of 'instant')
vi) I had no intention to hurt you.
(Use the verb form of 'intention')
vii) He played cricket with passion.
(Use the adverb form of 'passion')

Whom does the old man refer to as 'true viii) You should drive with caution at night.
brothers' and why? (Use the adverb form of 'caution)

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 ix) The building could no longer be
recognized.
(Use the adjective form of 'recognize')
b) Change the degree of comparison in the
following sentences without altering the
sense (any five) : 1×5=5
i) Mount Everest is the highest peak in
the world.
(Change into comparative degree)
ii) This is the longest day of the year.
(Change into positive degree)
iii) This is the funniest thing I have ever
heard. (Change into comparative degree)
iv) Akbar was one of the greatest kings of
India. (Change into positive degree)
v) This train runs faster than any other
train. (Change into superlative degree)
vi) It was the easiest thing to do.
(Change into positive degree)
vii) He was the most enthusiastic student in
the class.
(Change into positive degree)
viii) None of his friends is as jovial as
Atanu.
(Change into superlative degree)
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ix) He is the wisest man in our village.
(Change into positive degree)
c) Transform the following sentences as directed
(any five) : 1×5=5
i) Shall I ever forget that day?
(Change into an assertive sentence)
ii) Being tired, he refused to go.
(Change into a complex sentence)
iii) He was too late to catch the train.
(Change into a negative sentence)
iv) Thinking always made him sleepy.
(Change into a complex sentence)
v) I am sure that I shall pass.
(Change into a simple sentence)
vi) He is the last man to do it.
(Change into a complex sentence)
vii) His silence proves his guilt.
(Change into a complex sentence)
viii) It is certain that he will go.
(Change into a simple sentence)
ix) If you speak the truth I Shall pardon
you. (Change into a compound
sentence).
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 d) Change the narration of the following v) Have you sold your car?
sentences (any five) : 1×5=5 vi) She gave me a book on my birthday.
i) 'Where do you live?' he said to Shantanu. vii) Mr. Roy will not attend the meeting.
ii) She said, 'I have read the book.' viii) Somebody has tampered with the
iii) 'Did you invite him to our place', she documents.
said to me. ix) You must write the letter.
iv) She said, 'I cannot go to college today.' f) Correct errors in the following sentences
v) She said to me, 'Please help me carry (any five) : 1×5=5
these books.' i) Each of the students were given answer
vi) He said, 'What a beautiful painting!' scripts.
vii) 'Did you sleep well last night?' he said ii) They have been working since four
to me. months.
viii) The teacher said to us, 'Do not write iii) The king, with all his followers, were
anything on the question paper.' executed.
ix) 'Do not disturb me now', she said to iv) I am fond about my pets.
me. v) I asked everyone of my friend to the
e) Change the voice (any five) : 1×5=5 party.
i) He left the book on the table. vi) She made me doing it.
ii) Where did she meet you? vii) Distribute the sweets between the
iii) Do not litter the pavement. children.

iv) She kept me guessing about her next viii) He asked me where I live.
move. ix) She has gone there yesterday.

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5. Write a letter to the editor of an English daily
expressing your concern over reckless driving.
10
OR
Write a letter to the principal of your college
requesting him/her to initiate digitization of library
catalogues.
OR
Write a letter to the chairman of your municipality
complaining of inadequate supply of drinking water.
6. Write an essay on any one of the following topics:
20×1=20
a) The Future of the Book
b) The Uses and Abuses of the Internet
c) The Importance of Protecting our
Environment
d) Rabindranath Tagore
__________

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