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NOVEMBER 2021

CANADIAN LITERATURE

Time : Three hours Maximum : 75 marks

PART A — (10 × 1 = 10 marks)

Answer ALL the questions.

Choose the best answer:

1. The poem "peacock and Nightingale" was written

by ––––––––––
(a) A.J.M. Smith (b) Robert Finch
(c) A.K. Klein

2. A.J.M. Smith wrote the poem –––––––––––

(a) Indian Reservation : Caughnawaga
(b) Journey to the Interior
(c) Ode on the Death of William Butler Yeats

3. Helen M.Buss is noted for writing –––––––––––

(a) Street plays (b) Memoirs
(c) Radio plays
4. ––––––––––was written by Stephen Gill.
(a) Glimpses (b) The Diviners
(c) Bear
5. ––––––––––is a priest who works among the
Indigenous people on the reservation.

(a) David Joe (b) Jaimie Paul

(c) Father Andrew

6. Which character acts as a perfect foil to Rita Joe?

(a) The Magistrate (b) The singer
(c) Rita's father

7. Brooke skelton is ––––––––––husband.

(a) Morag Gunn's (b) Christie Logan's
(c) Pique's
8. ––––––––––meets Arthur, a fellow Canadian and
a radical leftist protesting the nuclear bomb and
falls for him.
(a) Lady Belinda (b) Lady Martha
(c) Lady Oracle
9. –––––––––––has been called "the most
controversial novel ever written in Canada".
(a) Half breed (b) The Diviners
(c) Bear
10. Marian Campbell's autobiography "Half breed"
was first published in ––––––––––
(a) 1963 (b) 1973
(c) 1983
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 PART B — (5 × 7 = 35 marks)

Answer the following paragraph questions.

11. (a) Critically evaluate Robert Finch's poem

"Peacock and Nightingale".

Or
(b) Write a critical note on the poem "Ode on the
Death of William Butler Yeats.

12. (a) Briefly discuss Helen Buss, views on

contemporary women's writing.

Or
(b) Justify the title "Glimpses".

13. (a) Sketch the character of Rita Joe.

Or
(b) Explain the significance of the court scene in
George Ryga's play "Ecstasy of Rita Joe".

14. (a) Sketch the character of Morag Gunn.

Or
(b) Bring out the major themes of Margaret
Atwood's novel "Lady Oracle".

15. (a) Sketch the character of Lou.

Or
(b) List out the autobiographical elements in
Marian Campbell's novel "Half breed".

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 PART C — (3 × 10 = 30 marks)

Answer any THREE of the following essay questions.

16. Critically evaluate A.K. Klein's poem "Indian

Reservation : Caughnawaga".

17. Give a detailed critical account of Stephen Gill's

prose work "Glimpses".

18. Discuss the plot construction of George Ryga's

play "Ecstasy of Rita Joe".

19. List out the major themes of Margaret Laurence

novel "The Diviners".
20. Bring out the brutal realities of poverty, pain and
degradation in Marian Campbell's novel
"Half breed" in detail.

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