139/Eng. SKBU/UG-III/Eng.

-VI(H)/19 b) "If it was a hundred horses, or a thousand

horses you had itself, what is the price of a
2019 thousand horses against a son where there is
one son only." – Explain.
ENGLISH
4. Answer any one of the following: 12×1=12
[HONOURS]
a) Consider 'Lord of the Flies" as a moral fable.
Paper : VI
Full Marks : 100 Time : 4 Hours b) Attempt a note on the ending in Golding's
"Lord of the Flies."
The figures in the right-hand margin indicate marks.
Candidates are required to give their answers in 5. Answer any one of the following: 12×1=12
their own words as far as practicable. a) Estimate 'The Fly' as a psychological story.
b) "It is all about disillusionment" – How far is
1. Answer any one of the following: 12×1=12 this observation applicable regarding the
a) Do you consider Cathleen and Nora as choric theme of 'Araby'?
characters in Riders to the Sea? c) Evaluate Achebe as an essayist as reflected
b) Consider Riders to the Sea as a verse play. in "The Novelist as Teacher".
c) How does Shaw shatter the romantic notions 6. Answer any two of the following : 6×2=12
of love and war in Arms and the Man?
a) What is the symbolic significance of the fly?
d) Discuss Shaw's portrayal of Bluntschli in
'Arms and the Man'. b) When, according to you, does the Boss
2. Answer any one of the following: 6×1=6 appear to be a pitiable figure?
a) "It proves all our ideas were real after all." c) Bring out the final epiphany in Araby.
– Explain.
d) What is the Holy Grail? In what context is
b) "What use are cartridges in battle? I always it mentioned in 'Araby?'
carry chocolate instead." – Explain.
7. Answer any one of the following: 12×1=12
3. Answer any one of the following: 6×1=6
a) What are Russel's arguments in favour of
a) No man at all can be living for ever, and we
must be satisfied." – Explain. laziness?

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 b) How can a novelist become a teacher for c) Mention two major themes discussed in
his/her people? Discuss after Chinua Achebe's Shaw's comedy "Arms and the Man."
"The Novelist as Teacher".
d) Mention the names of the sons of Maurya.
c) Comment on Virginia Woolf's suggestions
e) "It's that number is in it" – Identify the
about how to read a book.
speaker. What does this 'number' signify?
8. Answer any two of the following: 6×2=12
f) Give two examples of the Aran dialect.
a) What as Achebe thinks, is 'an adequate
g) Who was the owner of the pair of
revolution' for him to espouse?
spectacles? How was it usd in the novel
b) What, according to Achebe, is the difference "Lord of the Flies"?
between European writers and African
h) What does the phrase 'Lord of the Flies' refer
writers?
to?
c) Why does Russel say that the real villain is
i) What do you come to know of Mrs. Mercer
the man who saves?
in "Araby"?
d) What is the story of the traveller and twelve
j) Why doesn't the narrator buy anything for
beggars? What does Russel want to suggest
Mangan's sister?
through it in his essay "In Praise of
Idleness"? k) "There was something I wanted to tell you"
– What did the speaker tell the listener?
9. Answer any eight of the following: 2×8=16
l) "But just then the Boss had an idea"
a) What is the English rendering of the phrase
"Arma virumque cano"? What is the source – What idea is referred to here?
of this phrase? m) Name two novels of Achebe as mentioned in
b) "I'm getting hallucinations" – Why does the "The Novelist as Teacher".
speaker say this? n) "Can anything more insane be imagined?"
– What is Russel's argument here?
_________
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140/Eng. SKBU/UG-III/Eng.-VII(H)/19 2. Write a short note on any one of the following:
6×1=6
2019
a) Fakeer of Jungheera.
ENGLISH
[HONOURS] b) The Serpent and the Rope.
Paper : VII
OR

Full Marks : 100 Time : 4 Hours GROUP-B

The figures in the right-hand margin indicate marks.
1. Answer any one of the following questions:
Candidates are required to give their answers in
their own words as far as practicable. 12×1=12

Answer questions from either Group-A or Group-B. a) Give a critical estimate of the poetry of
K. N. Daruwalla with reference to his major

GROUP-A works.

1. Answer any one of the following questions: b) Critically assess the non-fictional prose

12×1=12 written by Arundhuti Roy.

a) Estimate the contribution of Mulk Raj Anand c) Assess the contribution of Nayantara Sahgal

to the Indian English novel with reference to to the Indian English fiction.

his major novels. 2. Write a short note on any one of the following:

b) Assess the contributions of Sri Aurobindo as 6×1=6

an Indian English poet. a) Khuswant Singh

c) Analyse the importance of Rabindranath b) The Man Eater of Malgudi

Tagore in the history of the Indian English
prose writing.
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3. Answer any one of the following: 12×1=12 6. Answer any one of the following: 6×1=6
a) Consider The Guide as a buildungsroman. a) Comment on the role of Rokde in the play
b) Attempt an essay on the comic realism in "Silence! The Court is in Session".
The Guide. b) Comment on the patriarchal attitude of
4. Answer any one of the following: 6×1=6 Ponkshe and Karnik.

a) Comment on the importance of the character c) How can you relate the character of Samant
of Velan in the narrative of the novel The with the toy parrot he carries in his hands?
Guide. 7. Answer any one of the following: 12×1=12
b) What is the significance of the expression a) Comment on the note of irony in "The
"Railway Raju"? Comment on Raju's role as Parrot's Training".
a tourist guide.
b) Discuss how Amitava Ghosh links the
c) Write a short note on the episode of the personal to the political in his essay 'The
hibiscus bush. Ghost of Mrs. Gandhi'.
5. Answer any one of the following: 12×1=12 8. Answer any two of the following: 6×2=12
a) What estimate of Benare do you form from a) What 'impertinence' of the bird does the
the last two monologues? Kotwal notice in "The Parrot's Training" and
b) How is the technique of play within the play how is the bird punished for it?
employed in "Silence! The Court is in b) Comment on the role of the nephews in "The
Session"? Parrot's Training".

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 c) Comment on the significance of the ending c) Who is referred to as "Mr. Prime objective"
of "The Parrot's Training". and why?

9. Answer any one of the following: 6×1=6 d) "Can't shut up at home, can't shut up here"

a) "It is when we think of the world the
aesthetic of indifference might bring into
being that we recognize the urgency of
remembering the stories we have not written."
What is the significance of this line?
b) Comment on the atmosphere in the
University campus on the day of the fateful
event in 'The Ghost of Mrs. Gandhi'.
c) How does Amitav Ghosh narrate his
engagement with the works of V.S.Naipaul and
in which context?
10. Answer any eight of the following: 2×8=16
a) Who were to play the roles of President
Johnson and Rawte in the original mock
– Who says so and about whom?
e) "Then I certainly don't want it"– Who says
so? What is 'it' referred to here?
f) "I have a problem, sir."– Who says so? How
does the person spoken to react?
g) Who is James J.Malone?
h) Why does Raju's mother object to buying
the 'Jutka'?
i) Name the classical dance form that Rosie
practises. What name does she assume as a
professional dancer?
j) 'You look like a Maharaja now"– Who says
so? Who is referred to as 'Maharaja' and

lawcourt that the Sonar Moti Tenement was why?

to perform? k) What punishment did the king order to mete
b) What is the full name of Ponkshe? What role out to the fault-finders?
does he perform in the play 'Silence! The l) How do the nephews convince the Raja that
Court is in Session"? 'the bird's education has been completed'?
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 m) Name the Latin American novelist mentioned
in Amitav Ghosh's 'The Ghoshs of Mrs.
Gandhi' and the imaginary place where his
novels are set.

n) "That was the most chilling thing of all"

What is referred to as 'the most chilling

thing' and why?

__________

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138/Eng SKBU/UG-III/Eng.-V(H)/19 b) Rudyard Kipling

c) Ulysses
2019
ENGLISH d) W.B.Yeats

[HONOURS] e) Women in Love.

Paper : V
3. Answer any four of the following questions:
Full Marks : 100 Time : 4 Hours
2×4=8
The figures in the right-hand margin indicate marks.
Candidates are required to give their answers in a) Mention the names of two literary journals
their own words as far as practicable. of the modern period.

b) Who is the author of the play Justice and

GROUP-A what is its central theme?
1. Answer any one of the following questions: c) Who introduced the term 'stream of
12×1=12 consciousness' and identify the source.
a) How did Modernist Movement develop in d) Who wrote "Down and Out in Paris and
English literature? Comment on the features London"? Name another work by the same
of Modernism. writer.
b) Make a note on D.H.Lawrence as a modern e) Who wrote "Dubliners"? How many entries
psychological novelist. are there in it?
c) Write a brief note on the poets of the 1930s. f) Name two representative Absurd plays in
2. Write short notes on any two of the following: English with the names of the playwrights.
5×2=10 g) Who are the writers of "Nostromo" and "The
a) English war poets Doors of Perception"?.

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 GROUP-B d) And the mystery

4. Answer any one of the following questions: Sang alive

12×1=12 Still in the water and singing birds.
a) Make an assessment of "Poem in October"
6. Answer any four of the following questions:
as a modernist poem.
2×4=8
b) Bring out the polyphonic voices as expressed
a) "I mean the truth untold" – Who is the
in Eliot's The Love Song of J.Alfred
speaker? What 'truth' remains 'untold'?
Prufrock.
b) What does 'Spiritus Mundi' mean? Why does
c) Do you consider Auden's "The Unknown
Yeats refer to it?
Citizen" as a devastating satire on the
totalitarian state mechanism? Justify your c) What do the 'black birds' symbolize in Poem

answer with pertinent references from the in October?

poem. d) "The question is absurd" – Which question is

5. Explain, with reference to the context, any two absurd and why?
of the following: 6×2=12 e) What does Dylan Thomas mean by "the twice
a) Courage was mine, and I had mystery; told fields of infancy"?
Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery. f) Comment on "the eternal Footman" in Eliot's
b) Surely some revelation is at hand. Surely the poem "The Love-Song of J.Alfred Prufrock".
Second Coming is at hand. g) When was 'The Love-Song of J. Alfred
c) "I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each Prufrock' written and where was it planned?
I do not think that they will sing to me."

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 GROUP-C 9. Answer any four of the following questions:
2×4=8
7. Answer any one of the following questions:
12×1=12 a) What does Naidu mean by 'the leaping wealth
of the tide'?
a) The poem "Coromandel Fishers" shows all
the features of Sarojini Naidu as an Indian b) Why are Gopi and Brinda repeated in "A
English poet – Discuss. River'?

b) How does Jayanta Mahapatra portray the
different types of hunger in the poem
'Hunger'?
c) Consider A.K. Ramanujan as a New Poet with
special reference to A River.
c) "They clicked their tongues" – Who were
they? Why did they click their tongues?
d) Who, according to Kamala Das, are 'the
categorizers'? Why is Kamala so critical of
them?

8. Explain, with reference to the context (any one) e) "I am sinner, / I am saint" – Who is the
of the following passages : 6×1=6 speaker? Explain the line.
a) "I watched the holy man perform his rites to f) "Silence gripped my sleeves" – Who is the
tame the person with an incantation". speaker? Comment on the pathetic fallacy.
b) I met a man, loved him. Call g) What did the father do to alleviate the pain
Him not by any name, he is every man of his wife in "The Night of the Scorpion"?

Who wants a woman, just as I am every h) What is the significance of the phrase
Woman who seeks love. 'identical twins'?

c) I heard him say : my daughter, she's just

turned fifteen.

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 GROUP-D

10. Give the substance of the following poem. Add

comments. 8+4=12

Say not, the struggle naught availeth,

The labour and wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been they remain.

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars;

It may be, in you smoke concealed,
Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers,
And, but for you, possess the field.

For while the tired waves, vainly breaking,

Seen here no painful inch to gain,
Far back, through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.

And not by eastern windows only,

When daylight comes, comes in the light,
In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly,
But westward, look, two land is bright.
_________

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141/Eng SKBU/UG-III/Eng.-VIII(H)/19 2. Answer any two of the following: 12×2=24
a) Write a note on the three types of love in
2019 As You Like It..
ENGLISH
OR
[HONOURS]
Paper : VIII How does Every Man in His Humour
incorporate the topical elements of the
Full Marks : 100 Time : 4 Hours period?
The figures in the right-hand margin indicate marks. b) Comment on the appropriateness of the title
Candidates are required to give their answers in As You Like It.
their own words as far as practicable.
OR
How does Jonson maintain the three unities
1. Answer any two of the following questions :
in Every Man in His Humour?
12×2=24
c) What role does Touchstone play in the
a) Bring out the significance of the Porter
scheme of the comic plot in 'As You Like
Scene in Macbeth.
It'?
b) Do you see Banquo as a foil to Macbeth's
OR
character? Give reasons.
What is the significance of the Prologue in
c) Write a brief essay on the study of evil in
Every Man in His Humour?
Macbeth.
3. Explain any two of the following passages with
d) Discuss in brief Shakespeare's use of the
reference to the context: 6×2=12
image of blood as a motif in Macbeth.
a) Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal
thoughts, unsex me here,

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 b) Me thought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no c) What do you understand by Myth Criticism?
more!" d) Write a short essay on the Symbolist
c) From this moment / The very firstlings of Movement in literature.
My heart shall be / The firstlings of my e) Write a short note on postmodernism.
hand.
6. Attempt any five of the following questions:
d) The time is free. 2×5=10
4. Explain any two of the following passages with a) "Each new morn / New widows howl, new
reference to the context: 6×2=12 orphans cry," – Who says this and when?
a) The more pity that fools may not speak wisely b) "It will have blood; they say blood will have
what wise men do foolishly. blood" – Who says this and when?
b) O that I were a fool! / I am ambitious for a c) Who was "Merciless Macdonwald"? What
motley coat. happened to him?
c) Love is merely a madness. d) What does the title "The Prince of
d) O, Sir this has been the day of my Cumberland" suggest?
metamorphosis. e) Why couldn't lady Macbeth murder Duncan?
e) I was twice shot at the taking of Aleppo, f) Why does Macbeth plot to Murder Banquo?
once at the relief of Vienna.
g) Give an instance of the equivocation of the
5. Answer any two of the following questions: witches in Macbeth.
6×2=12
h) "I will not yield" – Who says this to whom?
a) Write briefly on atleast two contributors to when does he say this?
psychoanalysis.
i) Who is Hecate? What role does Hecate play?
b) Write a short note on Impressionism?

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7. Answer any three of the following questions:
2×3=6
a) "Fair princess, you have lost much good
sport." – Who is the speaker? What does the
speaker refer to as 'good sport'?
OR
"and I will be more proud, and melancholy,
and gentlemanlike, than I have been" – Who
says this? What is the underlying suggestion
here?

OR
_________
"Quos aequus amavit Jupiter." – Who says
this? What does the speaker mean?

b) "Sir, you have wrestled well, and overthrown

/ More than your enemies" – Who is the
speaker and what does the speaker mean
here?

OR

"Give me some mithridate" – Who says this?

What is mithridate?

c) How does Jacques describe the first stage

of a man's life?

OR

What role does Justice Clement play at the

end of Every Man in His Humour?

d) What happens to Jacques at the end of As

You Like It?

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142/Eng SKBU/UG-III/Eng.-IV(G)/19 e) Name any two baseball players mentioned in
The Old Man and the Sea.
2019 f) What was the old man called and why?
ENGLISH g) '... You'll not fish without eating while I'm
[GENERAL] alive". Who says this to whom?
Paper : IV
h) 'The month when the great fish come.'
Full Marks : 100 Time : 3 Hours
Who is the speaker? Which month is the
The figures in the right-hand margin indicate marks.
referring to?
Candidates are required to give their answers in
their own words as far as practicable. i) 'I'm being towed by a fish and I'm the towing
bitt." Who says this and why?

1. Answer any eight of the following questions: j) Mention a place that recurs in the old man's
2×8=16 dreams.

a) What was the name of the 'old man'? Where k) Why does the old man compare himself to
did he fish? turtles?

b) Name any two fishing equipment used by the l) 'They beat me, Manolin," he said' Who is the
old man. speaker? Whom is he referring to as 'they'?

c) 'These were the relics of his wife.' What 2. Answer any one of the following questions:
were the relics? 16×1=16

d) '... you nearly were killed when I brought a) Discuss Santiago's relationship with the sea
the fish in too green'. as portrayed by Hemingway.

Who was nearly killed? What does the b) Analyse the symbols employed by
phrase 'too green' mean? Hemingway in The Old Man and the Sea.

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 c) Discuss how Hemingway deals with the iv) She has intelligence.
theme of perseverence in The Old Man and (Use the adjective form of 'intelligence)
the Sea. v) He escaped like a coward.
(Use the adjective form of 'coward')
d) Write an essay on Hemingway's style of
vi) Ayan is enthusiastic.
writing in The Old Man and the Sea.
(Use the noun form of 'enthusiastic')
3. Answer any two of the following questions:
vii) He argued with passion.
4×2=8
(Use the adverb form of 'passion')
a) Briefly describe the physical features of viii) They treated him with disdain.
Santiago. (Use the adverb form of 'disdain')
b) 'A man can be destroyed but not defeated.' ix) We want to be free.
Explain. (use the noun form of 'free')
c) ' "Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you b) Change the degree of comparison in the
very much." ' Who says this and why? following sentences without altering the
sense (any five) : 1×5=5
d) 'He was beautiful, the old man remembered,
i) He is the fastest among our bowlers.
and he had stayed.' Which incident did the
(Change into comparative degree)
old man remember?
ii) No painter is more famous than him.
4. a) Rewrite the following sentences as directed (Change into superlative degree)
(any five): 1×5=5 iii) This is the busiest street in the city.
i) He is proud of his achievements. (Change into positive degree)
(Use the noun form of 'Proud') iv) She was the brightest student in the
ii) She painted it with skill. class.
(Use the adverb form of 'skill') (Change into comparative degree)
iii) He handled the sculptures with care. v) Very few places are as beautiful as this.
(Use the adverb form of 'care') (Change into superlative degree)

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 vi) This is the most exciting discovery of
our time.
(Change into comparative degree)
vii) He is as lazy as you.
(Change into comparative degree) d)
viii) This is the funniest movie I have
watched.
(Change into comparative degree)
ix) She is as intelligent as you.
(Change into comparative degree)
c) Transform the following sentences as directed
(any five) : 1×5=5
viii) He gave me his brother's bicycle.
(Change into a complex sentence)
ix) Few people can do it.
(Change into a negative sentence)
Change the narration of the following
sentences (any five): 1×5=5
i) "Tell me the truth," he said to me.
ii) "Where do you live?" she asked me.
iii) She said to me, "I went there yesterday."
iv) "Did you leave the book on the table?"
she said to me.

i) Being curious, she went into the cave. v) He said to Sugrib, "Please help me open
(Change into a complex sentence) this box."
ii) She was too busy to answer me. vi) "Do not go there," her mother said to
(Change into a complex sentence) her.
iii) It is possible that he will come. vii) He wished me happy new year.
(Change into a simple sentence)
e) Change the voice (any five) : 1×5=5
iv) She drank a steaming cup of tea.
i) He wrote a poem.
(Change into a complex sentence)
v) This is the house where he was born. ii) They kept me in the dark.
(Change into a simple sentence) iii) She left my pen on the chair.
vi) He played in a way that surprised us. iv) He gave me a book.
(Change into a simple sentence)
v) He is playing football.
vii) How annoying he is!
(Change into an assertive sentence) vi) Did he drink his coffee?

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 vii) Do not smoke. OR

viii) He has bought a book. Write a letter to your friend about your experience
of a trip to the Ayodhya hills.
ix) My watch has been stolen.
6. Write an essay on any one of the following topics:
f) Correct errors in the following sentences
20×1=20
(any five): 1×5=5
a) Your Favourite Book.
i) I have been living here since five years.
b) A National Hero
ii) Each of my student did well in the
exam. c) The Internet : Merits and Demerits

iii) He has come here yesterday. d) Environment and Pollution.

iv) He told me he is feeling sick.

v) Either he or his brother are coming. __________

vi) Bibhutibhushan was born here who wrote

Aranyak.
vii) We discussed about the problem.
viii) Where did she met you?
5. Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper
regarding the misuse of social media. 10
OR
Write a letter to the chairman of your municipality
regarding the scarcity of drinking water in your
locality.

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