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O.P. Jindal Global University

Jindal Global Law School
End-term Examination – Semester B

Course Name : English II

Course Code : L-CA-0007
Programme : B.A., LL.B. 2018 & B.B.A., LL.B. 2018
Session : 2018 - 2019
Time Allowed : 3 Hours
Maximum Marks : 50 Marks

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Q. 1. Define any five of the following foreign legal terms and construct a suitable sentence for each.
(5 X 1 = 5 Marks)
1) Ad hoc
2) Procès-verbal
3) Ad referendum
4) Modus operandi
5) De facto
6) Pari passu
7) Ex post facto
8) Force majeure
9) In absentia
10) Ultra vires

Q. 2. Identify, define and explain the syllogistic fallacy in any one of the following. Also, provide the mood
and figure. (1 X 5 = 5 Marks)

a) No football players are judges.

Some judges are not physically fit persons.
Therefore, some physically fit persons are not football players.

OR

b) All trees are living beings.

No wooden benches are living beings.
Therefore, some wooden benches are not trees.

Q. 3. Analyse the scenario given below and draft a formal letter. Attempt any one. (1 X 10 = 10 Marks)

a. Your client, Mr. Simon Gilford, purchased a new washing machine from Mythos Electronics & Co. Ltd.
There was no warranty given to your client, either in writing or verbally. The washing machine stopped
working after ten days. Mr. Gilford returned the washing machine a day after it stopped. Mythos
Electronics says that it can neither repair the device nor replace it. It has also refused to reimburse the
money to Mr. Gilford. Write a letter to Mythos Electronics demanding an explanation and asking them to
proceed in the best interest of your client. The letter will be signed by your supervisory attorney, Arjun
Kothari. Use an appropriate letterhead for your own firm. The CEO and owner of Mythos Electronics is
Mr. Donald MacGregor, and the address of the company is 256 Sterling Hope, Inverness, New
Washington, 0092. (Refer to the case law and statutory provision provided below)

Section 50-102-314 of the New Washington statutes provides that “a warranty that the goods shall be
merchantable is implied…if the seller is a merchant with respect to the goods of that kind.” Mr. Donald
MacGregor is a merchant. Mr. Simon Gilford did not misuse the oven or in any other way cause it to stop
working.

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 Case Law: The case on point is Smith v. Appliance City, 56 N. Wash. 162, 868 N.E. 997 (1995). In Smith,
the New Washington Supreme Court ruled that the seller has three options when an implied warranty is
breached: return the purchase price to the buyer, repair the merchandise, or replace the merchandise.

OR

b. You are an independent lawyer representing Mr. Aakash Kumar who was employed as a workman in GT
Industries located at Shakurpur Industrial Area since 2009. On 5th February 2019, Mr. Kumar became the
first worker of his factory to become a member of the Shakurpur Workers’ Union. Thereafter, he also
encouraged other workers to join the union. On 1st March 2019 he was summarily dismissed from work.
Write a demand letter to the HR Manager, GT Industries, asking that Mr. Kumar be reinstated immediately
as per provisions of The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. (Refer to the relevant sections of the IDA Act
below)

“The Second Schedule: Unfair Labour Practices - I.—On the part of employers and trade unions of
employers:
1. To interfere with, restrain from, or coerce, workmen in the exercise of their right to organise,
form, join or assist a trade union or to engage in concerted activities for the purposes of collective
bargaining or other mutual aid or protection, that is to say:—
(a) threatening workmen with discharge or dismissal, if they join a trade union;
(b) threatening a lock-out or closure, if a trade union is organised;
(c) granting wage increase to workmen at crucial periods of trade union organisation, with
a view to undermining the efforts of the trade union organisation.

5. To discharge or dismiss workmen— (a) by way of victimisation;

25U. Penalty for committing unfair labour practices.- Any person who commits any unfair labour practice
shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may
extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.”

Q. 4. Attempt any two of the following questions. (2 X 5 = 10 Marks)

a. Explain the six rules for good writing listed by George Orwell in “Politics and the English language”.
b. Why is language that evokes images better than language that doesn’t? Explain with reference to George
Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language”.
c. Orwell argues that, “In our time it is broadly true that political writing is bad writing.” Analyse this
statement in the context of contemporary politics.
d. Orwell claims that, “thought corrupts language, [but] language can also corrupt thought.” How does he
support this argument in “Politics and the English Language”?

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Q. 5. Answer any one of the following questions. (1 X 10 = 10 Marks)

a. In “Lihaaf” [The Quilt], Ismat Chughtai’s portrayal of intimate relationship is inflected by problematic
assumptions about homosexuality in both men and women. Expand on this statement with close reference
to the text.
b. “Through her characters she creates ‘felt word pictures.’ Yet Ismat almost never ventures into the inner
recesses of her characters’ minds. She prefers to dwell on external, observed reality and leaves the reader
to interpret the psychology.” In view of the comment, critically analyse any two characters from the short
story “Lihaaf” [The Quilt].
c. “The Free Radio” is a story that can be read literally as well as symbolically. In the literal reading, it is
focused mainly on the story of three individuals during India’s Emergency, however, at the symbolic level,
it is a story about Indira Gandhi, deluded youth and the cynical older generation. Analyse with reference
to the text.
d. Critically analyse the narrator of Salman Rushdie’s story “The Free Radio”.
e. What are the implications of the note—Un dessein si funeste, S'il n'est digne d'Atrée, est digne de Thyeste
(If such a sinister design isn't worthy of Atreus, it is worthy of Thyestes)—left by Dupin for D-? Discuss
in the context of “The Purloined Letter”.
f. In Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Purloined Letter,” why does D- steal the letter from the royal lady, where does
he hide it from the police, and why?
g. Discuss a few instances in which the concept of “othering” becomes commonplace in Manto’s “Toba Tek
Singh”.
h. “There, behind barbed wire, on one side, lay India and behind more barbed wire, on the other side, lay
Pakistan. In between, on a bit of earth which had no name, lay Toba Tek Singh”. How does a geographical
sense of space in “Toba Tek Singh” become an important part of the identity of people living in the
asylum?

Q. 6. Answer any one of the following questions. (1 X 10 = 10 Marks)

a. Who all does Sherlock Holmes suspect as perpetrators of the death of Sir Charles Baskerville, and why?
b. How does the setting of The Hound of the Baskervilles in rural England drive its plot, and how well is it
suited to the climax?
c. Critically evaluate the character of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mocking Bird.
d. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee examines how racial identity influences constructions of both
masculinity and femininity in the American South. Illustrate this statement with an examination of any
two characters in the novel.
e. How does Magic Realism manifest itself in Marquez’s The Chronicles of a Death Foretold?
f. Critically comment on the form and style of the novella The Chronicles of a Death Foretold.
g. Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment was hailed as an early psychological novel. Discuss at least two
psychological elements presented in the novel.
h. In Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Sonya and Svidrigailov represent two sides of Raskolnikov. Do
you agree? Elaborate with reference to relevant scenes from the novel.

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