227/Eng SKBU/UG/2nd Sem/Eng/HT201/19 g) How many hours did it take for the mother to

overcome the pain of the sting?

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h) What is the implication of "lines have furrowed
ENGLISH your face?"
Course Code : BENGCCHT201
i) "I followed him across the sprawling sand." –
Course Title : Indian Writing in English
Who was followed?
Full Marks : 40 Time : 2 Hours j) What was the name of Vijay's car in 'The
The figures in the right-hand margin indicate marks.
Mulberry Tree'?
Candidates are required to give their answers in their
k) Where was the Commonwealth Literature
own words as far as practicable.
conference held in Rushdie's 'Commonwealth
1. Answer any ten of the following questions: Literature does not Exist'?
1×10=10
l) Who speaks first in Chapter I of The Guide?
a) What has the hair of the orphan girl been
m) Who is Velan in The Guide?
compared to?
n) What is the name of Deven's wife in 'In
b) "Such is the guerdon of the brave!" – What is the
Custody'?
guerdon of the brave?
o) Who is Imtiaz Begum?
c) Who was the narrator of the poem 'An
Introduction' and where was the narrator born? 2. Answer any five of the following questions :
2×5=10
d) "It is half English, half Indian, funny perhaps, but
it is honest" – What is beign referred to? a) Describe the condition of the child in 'Lullaby'.

e) What did the mother thank god for in the poem b) What is 'The God of Small Things'?
'Night of the Scorpion?' c) What does Arundhati Roy mean by "the
f) Who is Palem Apokpi? Environmental costs?"

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 d) What is mulberry? What does it stand for in the b) Write a note on the important female characters
text? in 'In custody' by Anita Desai.
e) "And blest be for ever his honoured name" – c) Do you think that R. K. Narayan's 'The Guide'
Whose honoured name should be blest for ever can be described as 'bildungsroman'?
and why?
f) What does Kamala Das mean by "deaf blind _________
speech?"
g) How far did Deven travel to meet the Urdu poet,
Nur?
h) Who was Marco in The Guide? How is he
connected to Raju?
3. Answer any two of the following questions :
5×2=10
a) How does the poet depict Superstitious nature
in the poem 'The Night of the Scorpion?'
b) Do you think that 'Hunger' is a poem that shatters
our perception of morality?
c) Why do you think Rushdie calls commonwealth
Literature 'an exclusive ghetto'?
4. Answer any one of the following questions:
10×1=10
a) Critically appreciate Derozio's 'The Orphan Girl'.

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228/Eng SKBU/UG/2nd Sem/Eng/HT202/19 f) "So I may have some nook or corner left" –
Why does the speak want to have some 'nook
U.G. 2nd Semester Examination - 2019 corner'?
ENGLISH g) When does King Edward say that
Course Code : BENGCCHT202
"...he's a lamb, encompassed by wolves"?
Course Title : British Poetry & Drama–14th to
17th Centuries h) What does an armed head by way of First
Appariton signify in Macbeth?
Full Marks : 40 Time : 2 Hours
The figures in the right-hand margin indicate marks. i) Who was the Thane of life as mentioned in
Candidates are required to give their answers in their Macbeth?
own words as far as practicable.
j) Who reports the death of Lady Macbeth to
Answer all the questions. the King?
k) What is meant by 'a motley fool'?
1. Answer any ten questions: 1×10=10
l) "Twas I. but it's not I" – Who says this and to
a) What is meant by "that doest in vaine assay"? whom?
b) Why does Donne call the sun 'unruly' in his m) '... as all is mortal in nature so is all nature in
poem 'The Sunne Rising'? love mortal in folly." _ When is this said?
c) What is the connection between "the Indian n) Who said in Edward II "all live to die, and rise
Ganges" and 'rubies' as mentioned in 'To His to fall"?
Coy Misress'?
o) When does Celia ask Rosalind to borrow her
d) "Better it is to marry than to burn." Who says Gargantua's month?
this to whom?
e) "I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink"
– How would the speaker eclipse with 'a wink'?

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2. Attempt any five of the following: 2×5=10 3. Attempt any two of the following questions:
a) Explain what is meant by "Thus, though we 5×2=10
cannot make our sun stand still, yet we will a) Write a brief note on the murder seene in
make him run." Edward II.
b) What does the lover mean in 'The Sun Rising' b) Bring out the relative merits and demerits of
when he asks? the court and the country life from the debate
"Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere'? between Corin and Touchstone.

c) What is the opinion of the Wife of Bath about c) Comment on the role of the supernatural in
lying and swearing? Macbeth.

d) With whom, according to Rosalind, Time 4. Answer any one of the following: 10×1=10
gallops and how? a) Bring out the significance of the sleep walking
e) What is the meaning of "Edwardum occidere seene in Macbeth.
nolite timere bonum est"? b) Write a brief essay on As You Like It as a
f) What punishment did Edward III give to Young comedy of love.
Mortimer & his mother at the end of the play? c) How far do you think does the character of
g) "Why should I play the Roman fool, and die Edward II fit in with the concept of a tragic
on mine own sword?" – Explain the line. hero?

h) "We have scorch'd the snake, not kill'd it" – _________

Who says this and in what context?

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230A/Eng SKBU/UG/2nd Sem/Eng/HT3A/19 h) What is meant by the "darling buds of May"?
i) "But thy eternal summer shall not fade" –
U.G. 2nd Semester Examination - 2019
whose 'eternal summer' will not fade?
ENGLISH
j) What, according to Keats, is the cause of the
Course Code : BENGGEHT3A
moon's weariness?
Course Title : Selections from English Prose and Poems
k) What does the "fading brain" mean?
Full Marks : 40 Time : 2 Hours
The figures in the right-hand margin indicate marks. l) "I shall have some peace there" – Who is the
speaker? Why does he/she want peace?
Candidates are required to give their answers in their
own words as far as practicable. m) Name the bird mentioned in the poem "The
Lake Isle of Innisfree".

1. Answer any ten of the following questions: n) What does Tennyson mean by the 'moaning
1×10=10 of the bar'?

a) Who gave orders to remove the engine from o) What does the word' 'crossing' suggest?
the Gymkhana ground? 2. Answer any five of the following questions:
b) How many Coolies were engaged to push the 2×5=10
engine from behind? a) "They say he's a wonder" – Who is a wonder?
c) How much money did Mrs. Thurlow save? Why is the man a wonder?

d) Where did the Thurlows live? b) "It was a fine sight" – Describe the 'fine sight'
as stated in R.K.Narayan's "Engine Trouble".
e) Why could the bicycle never be ridden?
c) What did Mrs. Thurlow see in her dream?
f) Who is Jimmy Walsh?
d) How does H.E.Bates describe Mrs. Thurlow's
g) "I wonder, now, am I as great a fool as I think
brother?
I am?" – Identify the speaker.

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 e) How is the moon compared to a dying lady? c) Give a description of the troubles caused by
f) "So long lives this, and this gives life to thee." the engine in R.K.Narayan's "Engine Trouble".
– Explain the line.
g) "... a small cabin build there" – Who wants to
build a small cabin? Where will he build the
cabin?
h) Who wishes to cross the 'bar' and why?
3. Answer any two of the following questions:
5×2=10
a) "The world into which she moved was very
small." – Describe the 'small' world of Mrs.
Thurlow.
b) How does Shelly describe the moon in his
"To the Moon"?
c) "That's a queer thought now, and a true
thought." – Identify the speaker. Describe the
'thought'.
4. Answer any one of the following questions:
10×1=10
a) Analyse Shelley's "To The Moon" as a
romantic poem.
b) Write a critical note on the poem "The Lake
Isle of Innisfree".

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229/Eng SKBU/UG/2nd Sem/Eng/RT201/19
U.G. 2nd Semester Examination - 2019
ENGLISH
Course Code : BENGCCRT201
Course Title : Selections from English Poems,
Plays & Short Stories
Full Marks : 40 Time : 2 Hours
The figures in the right-hand margin indicate marks.
Candidates are required to give their answers in their
own words as far as practicable.
1. Answer any ten of the following questions:
1×10=10
a) How is the fugitive described in the placard put
up by the police in 'The Rising of the Moon'?
b) Who was the ragged man and what was he doing
at the quay?
c) Who wrote 'The Rising of the Moon'? When
was it first performed?
d) Which ballads did the sergeant sing in his youth?
e) Where was the Thurlow house situated?
f) What was usually loaded on Mrs Thurlow's
bicycle?
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g) What made up the 'four squares' of Mrs.
Thurlow's life?
h) What jobs did Mr. and Mrs. Thurlow have?
i) How much money had Mrs. Thurlow saved?
j) What is the rhymescheme of a Shakespearean
Sonnet?
k) How does the poet-narrator's beloved fare in
comparison with 'a summer's day' in Sonnet 18?
l) Who wrote "Crossing the Bar"? When was it first
published?
m) What is meant by 'one clear call' in the poem
"Crossing the Bar"?
n) To what does Percy Bysshe Shelley attribute the
moon's 'Paleness'?
o) What does Yeats mean by 'bee-loud glade' in his
poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree".?
2. Answer any five of the following questions :
2×5=10
a) Which song is "no song to be singing in theese
times" according to the sergeant? Why?
b) Why did the sergeant agree to the ragged man
staying with him on the quay?
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 c) What, according to the police, had Mr. Thurlow 4. Answer any one of the following question:
done? What was Mrs Thurlow's reaction to the 10×1=10
news? a) "It's those that are down would be up and those
that are up would be down, if it wasn't for us." –
d) Describe Mrs. Thurlow's brother and mother.
Who is the speaker? Why does he say this? Does
Why does she visit them?
he do his duty to his country finally? Agree with
e) Annotate the phrase 'crossing the bar'.
reference to the play 'The Rising of the Moon'.
f) 'And every fair from fair sometimes declines' – 1+2+7
What does 'fair' mean here? Why or how will
b) Who is the 'Ox' in H.E.Bates' short story? How
'fair' decline?
does he characterize the central character as an
g) What kind of poem is Shelley's 'To the Moon'? ox? Answer with examples from the text. 2+8
Why does shelly think that the moon is different c) How does the speaker use nature to compare
from other stars? and contrast the beloved's beauty? Answer with
h) Name the birds, insects, and plants mentioned reference to the imagery in Sonnet 18. 10
in the poem 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree'. ___________
3. Answer any two of the following questions :
5×2=10
a) Describe the two dreams Mrs. Thurlon dreamt
in the short story 'The Ox' and comment on their
significance.
b) "I am a friend of Granuaile." – Who is the
speaker? Who is 'Granuaile'? How does the
speaker convince the sergeant to let him flee?
c) Comment on the image of the sea as an extended
metaphor in Tennyson's 'Crossing the Bar'.

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230/Eng SKBU/UG/2nd Sem/Eng/LT203/19 b) sometimes the sun is 'dimmed'
c) nothing happens to the sun
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d) both a. and b.
ENGLISH
3. Shakespeare promises his love that his beauty will
Course Code : BENGCCLT203
never –
Course Title : Poetry & Grammar
a) affect another
Full Marks : 40 Time : 2 Hours
The figures in the right-hand margin indicate marks. b) fade

Candidates are required to give their answers in their c) be like another man
own words as far as practicable. d) grow
Each question is a multiple choice question with four
answer choices. Read each question and answer choice 4. What does the sand bar in Tennyson's Crossing the
carefully and choose the ONE best answer. Bar symbolize –

Answer the following questions: 2×20=40 a) the vast sea

b) the barrier between life and death.
1. How does the speaker want to immortalize the beauty
of the loved one in Sonnet no.18? c) ridge of sand

a) by comparing him to a 'summer's day' d) none of the above

b) by praising his beauty in his eternal sonnet 5. Who is the 'I' of the following line : "When I have
crossed the bar"? –
c) his beauty would not fade
a) the Pilot
d) none of the above
b) the tide of the sea
2. What are the changes that happen to the summer
c) the poet-speaker
sun according to the speaker in Sonnet no.18? –––
d) the God
a) the sun sometimes shines too hot

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6. What does the poet hope when he has crossed the 10. What does 'dead habit' refer to?
sand bar? a) Old customs and practices
a) he will see his pilot face to face
b) new thoughts
b) there may be no sadness of farewell
c) border between nations
c) the flood may bear him far
d) there will be darkness. d) desert sand

7. In The Send off who stood 'staring hard'? 11. The poet in "where the mind is without fear" wants
a) a casual tramp the words to come from –

b) dull porters a) the depth of spirit

c) both a. and b. b) the depth of psychology
d) women c) the depth of inner heart
8. Why do the veterans of the war in 'The Send Off'
d) the depth of truth
'Creep back'?
12. In the poem "Where the mind is without fear", reason
a) The roads are half known
is compared to a –
b) They are lost
c) They are either injured or have been mentally a) mountain
affected by war b) shower
d) The world has changed in their absence c) lake
9. Who is the poet of the poem "The Send-Off"?
d) clear stream
a) Rupert Brooke
b) Siegfried Sasson
c) Rudyard Kipling
d) Wilfred Owen.

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Do as directed :
Directions (13-14) : In the following questions, a
sentence has been given in Active/Passive voice. Out of
the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best
expresses the same sentence in Active/Passive.
13. Champagne is drunk on new year's eve –
a) People drink champagne on new year's eve.
b) Let us drink champagne on new year's eve.
c) They'll drink champagne on new year's eve.
d) People always drink champagne on new years's
eve.
14. Who gave you permission to enter? –
a) By whom were you given permission to enter
b) By whom given you permission to enter?
c) By whom you were given permission to enter?
d) By whom was you given permission to enter?
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Directions (15-16) : In the following questions, a
sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect. Out of the
four alternatives suggested, select the one which best
expresses the same sentence in Direct/Indirect.
15. Sonia said, "You help my sister".
a) Sonia said that I help her sister.
b) Sonia said to me that I helped her sister.
c) Sonia said that I helped her sister.
d) Sonia says that I helped her sister.
16. Rahul said to me, "We are mortal" –
a) Rahul said to me that we are mortal.
b) Rahul says to me that we are mortal.
c) Rahul said to me that we all are mortal.
d) Rahul said to me that he and I are mortal.
Directions (17–18) : In the following questions, some
parts of the sentences have errors and some have none.
Find out which part of a sentence has an error. If a
sentence is free from error, the answer is (d), i.e. no
error.
17. My schedule often changes, (a) /but I normally work
(b) / since 9a.m to 6p.m (c) / No error (d).
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18. Our office is near to the airport (a)/so it will be
easy (b) / for you to get here (c) / No error (d).
19. How gorgeous is the sunset! (Turn into assertive)
a) How is the sunset so gorgeous.
b) The sunset is gorgeous, isn't it?
c) The sunset is very gorgeous.
d) How gorgeous the sunset is!
20. No other metal is as expensive as gold. (Turn into
superlative)
a) No other metal except gold is expensive.
b) Gold is expensive of all the metals.
c) Is not gold the most expensive of all metals.
d) Gold is the most expensive of all metals.
___________

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