English Prose

Course: M.A. Code: GH-619 Branch: English Year: 2022

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GH-619

M.A. IInd Semester (REG/PVT./ATKT)

Examination, 2022

English

Paper - IV

Prose

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

Note- Attempt questions of all Sections.

SECTION - 'A'

Objective Type Questions 1×15=15

1.
Choose the correct answer from the following.

(i) Uncle podger in 'Three Men in a Boat' attempted to undertake which task himself with disastrous consequences?

  1. Replaca the tap
  2. Sweep the chemniy
  3. Repair the bicycle
  4. Hang a Picture

(ii) Which disease did Jerome was sure that he definitely didnot have.

  1. Nayfever
  2. Cholera
  3. Bright's disease
  4. Housemaid's knee

(iii) Who does the packing work for the tour.

  1. Harris
  2. George
  3. Jerome
  4. Aunt

(iv) Uncle padger creates

  1. Mess when he works
  2. Miracles
  3. Stories
  4. None of the above

(v) Jeromels Three Men in a boat is

  1. Tragic
  2. Comic
  3. Serious
  4. Initative

(vi) Thomas De Quincey was an opium eater

  1. True
  2. False

(vii) On the knocking at the Gate in Macbeth is a longer Essay by

  1. G. Wilson Knight
  2. A.C. Bradley
  3. Thomas De Quincey
  4. F.R. Leavis

(viii) Who is murdered in the play 'Macbeth'

  1. Duncan
  2. Vladimir
  3. Orsino
  4. Estragon

(ix) Which book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi.

  1. Sesame and Lilies
  2. The Seven Lamps of Archiectoure
  3. Unto this Last
  4. Fors Clavigera

(x) Ruskin is 'Sesame and lilies' is about

  1. Flora and Founa
  2. Books and the Importance of Reading
  3. Education for women
  4. Both b and c

(xi) John Ruskm belongs to............era.

  1. Victorian
  2. Modern
  3. Classical
  4. Romantic

(xii) 'My Experiments with Truth' is an

  1. Autobiography
  2. Biography
  3. Essay
  4. None of the Notion

(xiii) Who gave the title of Father of the Nation to Gandhiji

  1. J.L. Nehru
  2. Subhash Chandra Bose
  3. Lajpat Rai
  4. Bhagat Singh

(xiv) Nehru wrote the birthday letter to his daughter from

  1. Central Prison Patna
  2. England
  3. Central Pridon Naini
  4. Nalanda

(xv) Where did Swami Vivekananda live during the last years of his life

  1. Dakshineshwar
  2. Kanyakumari
  3. Cossipore
  4. Belur Math

SECTION - 'B'

Short Answer Type Questions 5×5=25

Note- Annotate the following.

2.
Rainwater is the chief article of diet at supper the bread is two third rain water, the pie is exceedingly rich in it, and the jarr and the butter and the salt, combined with it to make soup.
OR
It is soaked and heavy, and it flops about, and tumbles down on you, and clings round your head and makes you mad.
3.
New in all cases, unless the person has happened to observe in pictures how it is that artists produce these effects, he will be utterly unable to make the smallest approximation to it.
OR
Murder, in ordinary cases, where the sympathy is wholly directed to the case of the murdered person, is an incident of coarse and vulgar horror.
4.
He was determined to moor the ships at the wharf and dirembark the passengers at any cost.
OR
Thus the days dragged on their weary length. When the quarantine would dermeinate was still uncertain the Quarantine
5.
officer said that the matter had orders from the Government, he would permit us to land.
OR
Today we have little leisure to think of the past. It is the future that fills our minds, the future that we are fashioning, and the present that absorbs all our time and energy.
6.
But what a strange jumble is one is mind, full of disconnected thoughts and ill arranged arrangement of pictures.
OR
For to this land I owe whatever I possess, physical, mental and spiritual and if I have been successful in anything the glory is yours, not mine.
OR
Here in this land, the great problems of life and death of the shrine for life, and the vain mad struggles to preserve it only resulting in the accumulation of woes were first grappled with and solved.

SECTION - 'C'

Long Answer Type Questions 9×5=45

7.
Attempt the character sketch of George in the novel "Three Men in a Boat".
OR
Write down the critical Appreciation of "Three Men in a Boat".
8.
Discuss Thomas De Quincey as a prose Writer.
OR
Attempt John Ruskin as the lover of Nature.
9.
Write down the views of M.K. Gandhi as expressed in 'My Experiments with Truth', Part III.
OR
What is the theme of 'My Experiments with Truth'.
10.
Write down the summary of 'A New Year is Crift' written by J.L. Nehru.
OR
Comment on the views expressed in 'the Lesson of History' Written By J.L. Nehru.
11.
Discuss Swami Vivekananda's role as an awakener for the people of India on the basis of India's Message to the world'.
OR
Elucidate Vivekananda as a philosopher.