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Total No. of Questions : 5
Total No. of Printed Pages : 4

MN-562

M.A. 1st Semester (Reg/Pvt/ATKT)

Examination, 2023-24

English

Paper - IV

Prose (New ATKT)

Time : 3 Hours]
[Maximum Marks : Reg= 85 Pvt.= 100

Note:- Attempt all the questions. Internal choice has been provided with.

SECTION - 'A'
Short Answer Type Questions
5x7=35
1.

Annotate the following passages with reference to context. (Any Five):-

(a) My interests were certainly wider, and I read both books and news papersmore than of my fellow students.
(b) I remember writing to my father how dull most of the English boys were as they could talk about nothing but their games.
(c) Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and Consider.
(d) Those people who are of lascivious nature lose their money as well as wisdom after having fallen in love.
(e) Just as many people become addicted to wine in the same manner they get the habit of making love.
(e) We live in a time of tremendous confusion- political confusion economic confusion, cultural confusion, personal confusion. Many old formerly reliable structures are breaking up or showing their age. The only constant in our world seems to be change.
(f) Man, thou art a wonderful animal, and thy ways past finding out Thou Canst do strange things, but thou turnest them to little account! To conceive of the effort of extra ordinary dexterity distracts the imagination and makes admiration breathless.
(g) His pride takes part with his ignorance, and his self importance rises with number of things of which he does not know the value, and which he therefore despises as unworthy of his notice.
SECTION - 'B'
Long Answer Type Questions
4x12½=50
2.

Summarize the fourth chapter of 'My story written by Kamala Das.

OR

Narrate J.L. Nehru's experience in reference to chapter 4th of his autobiography.

3.

Discuss Bacon's prose style with help of his essays in your Syllabus.

OR

What is Plato's concept of justice, describe in context of The Republic Book II ?

4.

What are J Krishnamurti's view on the relationship between individual and society?

OR

Give brief summary of S Radha Krishnan's 'My search for truth'.

5.

What is true Success according to Bertrand Russell ?

OR

What is the central idea in 'The Ignorance of the Learned'.

OR

Comment on the popularity of Hazlitt's essay 'The Indian Jugglers'.