Prose New Atkt

Course: Ma Code: EF-562 Branch: English Year: 2021

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Roll No. ..........................
(i)
When did Kamla Das embrace Islam ?
  1. 1997
  2. 1999
  3. 2001
  4. 2003
Total No. of Questions : 6
[Total No. of Printed Pages : 7
(ii)
What is the name of Kamla Das 'Auto biography' ?
  1. My Love
  2. My Life
  3. My Story
  4. My Ambition
(iii)
The term 'Dispersed Meditations' is used for the essays of.........:
  1. Kamla Das
  2. J. L. Nehru
  3. Plato
  4. Bacon
(iv)
J. L. Nehru's 'The Auto biography' is popularly known as.........:
  1. Toward Freedom
  2. Toward India
EF-562
M.A. 1st Semester (Reg/Pvt/ATKT)
Examination, 2021-22
English
Paper - IV
Prose (New ATKT)
Time : 3 Hours
[Maximum Marks :
Reg.= 85
Pvt.= 100
Note :- Answer all the questions.
SECTION - 'A'
Objective Type Questions         10×1½=15
1.
Choose the correct alternativ:
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  1. Toward Building a Nation
  2. Toward Light
(v)
Francis Bacon belongs to.........:
  1. Elizabethan Age
  2. Neo-Classical Age
  3. Romantic Age
  4. Victorian Age
(vi)
Who among the following is not an interlocutor in 'Republic Book II'?
  1. Socrates
  2. Glaucon
  3. Agathe
  4. Adeimantus
(vii)
What is the full name of J. Krishna murti?
  1. Janardhan Krishnamurti
  2. Jainarayan Krishnamurti
  3. Jai Prakash Krishnamurti
  4. Jiddu Krishnamurti
(viii)
Berthand Russell was born in:
  1. 1868
  2. 1870
  3. 1872
  4. 1876
(ix)
Which of the following essays is not written by Hazlitt?
  1. On Actors and Acting
  2. The Ignorance of the learned
  3. New year's Eve
  4. On Going a Journey
(x)
When did Bertrand Russell receive the nobel prize in literature ?
  1. 1948
  2. 1950
  3. 1952
  4. 1954
SECTION - 'B'
Short Answer Type Questions         5×5=25
2.
Annotates the following passages, giving reference to the context, and adding critical notes:
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(a)
Mahatmaji had talked in Hindi and in English which they could not understand, but his smile hyponized them. All the jewellery was given away. I thought of Gandhiji as a brigand, although I did not speak my mind then."
OR
In the summer of 1912 I was called to the Bar, and in the autumn of that year, I returned to India finally after a stay of over 7 years in England.
(b)
Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl that sheweth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that sheweth best in valied lights.
OR
To become a good guardian, a man must be by nature fast, strong and a spirited philosopher.
(c)
Probably most of us are seeking some kind of happiness, some kind of peace; in a world that is ridden with turmoil, wars, contention, strife, we want a refuge where there can be some peace. I think that is what most of us want.
OR
It is one of the hardest things to criticize the actions of those of whom we are fond, but it is what one expects and longs for from true friendship.
(d)
The most sensible to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
OR
The more ethereal, evanescent, more refined and sublime part of art is the seeing nature through the medium of sentiment and passion, as each object is a symbol of the affections and a link is the chain of our cradles being.
SECTION - 'C'
Long Answer Type Questions         5×9=45
Note :- Answer the following questions in detail.
3.
Evaluate the merits of Nuhru as a writer of prose with refer-ence to 'The Autobiography'.
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OR
How has Kamla Das described the Nalapat House and its occupants?
4.
"Bacon's essays are a blend of perfect prose style and wis-dom." Elucidate.
OR
Discuss the views expressed by plato on justice in 'The Re-public', Book II.
5.
Write a note on the central idea of J. Krishnamurti's 'Individual and Society'.
OR
Make an assessment on the merits of S. Radhakrishnan as a prose writer with special reference to his essays prescribed.
6.
Evaluate Bertrand Russell as a philosophical thinker with spe-cial reference to his 'True Success'.
OR
Critically evaluate William Hazlitt as an essayist with special reference to The essays 'The Ignorance of the Learned' and 'The Indian Jugglers'.
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