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Explain any one of the following: 6×1=6

a) "Give no ammunition. What use are cartridges
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in battle? I always carry chocolate instead."
ENGLISH
b) "When you set up your shop you will only
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be everybody's servant instead of somebody's
Paper : VI
servant?"
Full Marks : 100 Time : 4 Hours
The figures in the right-hand margin indicate marks. 4. Answer any one of the following: 12×1=12
Candidates are required to give their answers in a) Do you think that 'Lord of the Flies' is an
their own words as far as practicable. allegory? Give reasons for your answer.
b) Write a note on the significance of the
1. Answer any one of the following: 12×1=12 setting in the novel "Lord of the Flies'.

a) Write a note on the role of the sea in Riders 5. Answer any one of the following: 12×1=12
to the Sea. a) Write a note on the conclusion of the short
b) Justify Riders to the Sea as a poetic drama. story "The Bet".

c) Write a note on Shaw's art of b) Examine "The Fly" as a short story.

characterization in Arms and the Man.
d) Can we call Arms and the Man a drama of
ideas? Give reasons for your answer. 6.
2. Explain any one of the following: 6×1=6
a) "What way will I live and the girls with me
and I an old women looking for the grave?"
c) What according to you, is the theme of the
short story, "Araby"? Elucidate your answer.
Answer any two of the following : 6×2=12
a) Do you think that the appearence of the Boss
is important for the theme of the short story,
"The Fly"?

b) "No man at all can be living for ever, and we

must be satisfied."
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 b) What is the Holy Grail? In what context is 9. Answer any eight of the following: 2×8=16
it mentioned in the short story, 'Araby'? a) What is the source of the title 'Arms and
c) Briefly describe the boy's journey to Araby the Man'?
and its outcome. b) What was the chocolate cream Soldier's
d) What idea of the Boss's love for his son do family business?
you gather from the short story 'The Fly'? c) What, according to Bluntschli, is the
7. Answer any one of the following: 12×1=12 difference between Old soldiers and New
a) Examine Chinua Achebe as an essayist with soldiers?
special reference to "The Novelist as a d) What was Maurya doing when the play Riders
Teacher". to the Sea opened?
b) Comment on Russell's style of writing as e) "I seen the fearfulest thing." – What was "the
revealed, in his essay "In Praise of Idleness". fearfulest thing"?
c) Comment on Virginia Woolf 's suggestions f) In the play Riders to the Sea who rides the
about how to read a book. bundle in the turf-loft and why?
8. Answer any two of the following: 6×2=12 g) Who discovered the pig's head in the forest?
a) What, according to Achebe, is the difference h) Who was the owner of the pair of
between European writers and African spectacles? How was it used in the novel
writers? Lord of the Flies?
b) Comment on Achebe's style of writing. i) Why doesn't the narrator buy anything for
c) What, according to Russell, is the use of Mangan's sister?
idleness? j) Define the narrator's feelings for Mangan's
d) Do you think that Russell has been sarcastic sister.
in his treatment of idleness?

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 k) "That's the medicine" – Who is the speaker
and what is the medicine in 'The Fly'?
l) "But just then the Boss had an idea."— What
is the idea referred to here?
m) What is Achebe's idea of a self-respecting
writer as expressed in his essay "The
Novelist as Teacher"?
n) Why does Russell think that savings are the
cause of many evils?
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64/Eng SKBU/UG-III/Eng.-VII(H)/17 2. Write a short note on any one of the following:
6×1=6
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ENGLISH b) The Discovery of India
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Paper : VII
GROUP-B

Full Marks : 100 Time : 4 Hours 1. Answer any one of the following questions:
12×1=12
The figures in the right-hand margin indicate marks.
Candidates are required to give their answers in a) Critically evaluate the importance of the
their own words as far as practicable. poetry of A. K. Ramanujan.

Answer questions from either Group-A or Group-B. b) Give an assessment of the contribution of
Girish Karnad in the development of the
Indian English Drama.
GROUP-A
c) Give a critical estimate of the non-fictional
1. Answer any one of the following questions: prose written by Nirad C.Chaudhuri.
12×1=12 2. Write a short note on any one of the following:
a) Estimate the contribution of R.K.Narayan' in 6×1=6
the development of the Indian English a) Ruskin Bond
Fiction.
b) Nectar in a Sieve
b) Give a critical estimate of Sarojini Naidu as
3. Answer any one of the following : 12×1=12
an Indian English poet.
a) What is 'braided narrative'? Discuss its
c) Critically assess the English Prose writings effectiveness with reference to The Guide.
of Mahatma Gandhi.
b) Analyse Rosie's search for selfhood in the
novel The Guide by R.K.Narayan.

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4. Answer any one of the following: 6×1=6 b) How does Miss Benare introduce Kashikar,

a) "Travellers are an enthusiastic lot". Why did Ponkshe, Sukhatme and Mrs. Kashikar to

Raju think so? How did he handle the Samant? What is significant about her way

travellers as a tour-guide? of looking at these characters?

b) Give a critical estimate of the portrayal of c) 'Na Stri Swatantryamarhati'.

Marco in The Guide. Who says so? What is its source? Why does

c) Comment on the importance of the the speaker say so and in what context?

relationship of Raju and Velan in the novel 7. Answer any one of the following: 12×1=12
The Guide. a) Critically judge the relevance of the title of
5. Answer any one of the following: 12×1=12 Tagore's story "The Parrot's Training".

a) Give a critical analysis of the portrayal of b) Give an account of Amitav Ghosh's

Benare in the play Silence! The Court is in experience in Delhi in the aftermaths of the
Session. assassination of Mrs. Gandhi as elaborated

b) How does the technique of 'a play within a in the essay "The Ghosts of Mrs. Gandhi".

play' contribute to the dramatic effect of the c) Discuss diasporic anxiety as reflected in
play Silence! The Court is in Session? Jhumpa Lahiri's "When Mr Pirzada Came to
Discuss with reference to the text. dine".

6. Answer any one of the following: 6×1=6 8. Answer any two of the following: 6×2=12

a) What is the significance of the song about a) What measures are initiated to give the bird
the parrot and the sparrow in the play Silence! 'a sound schooling' in Tagore's "The Parrot's
The Court is in Session? Training?"

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 b) Comment on the role of the nephews in b) What is a mock lawcourt? What is the case
Tagore's short story "The Parrot's Training". originally proposed to be acted out there in

c) Discuss Tagore's use of humour in the shoyt the play Silence! The Court is in Session?

story "The Parrot's Training". c) Name the novelist Samant mentions in the

9. Answer any one of the following: 6×1=6 Play Silence! The court is in Session. What
role does his 105th novel have in Benare's
a) In which context did Amitav Ghosh relate
mock-trial?
the effect of a passage by V.S.Naipaul that
he had read earlier? Why did he finally d) What is TIK-20? Who mentions it first in

decide in favour of joining the crowd? the play 'Silence' The Court is in session'
and in what context?
b) "It is when we think of the world the
aesthetic of indifference might bring into e) What is Benare accused of in the mock-trial?

being that we recognize the urgency of Why?

remembering the stories we have not written". f) "She is a real snake-woman, I tell you". Who

Explain with reference to the context. says so and why?

c) Why Rushdie considers "homelands" as g) "You are a wizard!". Who says so and in

"imaginary"? which context? Who is referred to as a

'wizard'?
10. Answer any eight of the following: 2×8=16
h) Why was Raju arrested? Why did he commit
a) "If anyone has ruined our society it's Agarkar
that crime?
and Dhondo Keshav Karve". Who are the
persons mentioned here? Why does the i) "The busiest man here was an American..."

speaker say so? What is the name of this American? How

did Raju answer to his query about whether
Raju has always been a Yogi?

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 j) Why did the Raja think that 'Ignorance is
costly in the long run?' in "The Parrot's
Training"?

k) Why did the Raja order his state ear-puller

to give a thorough good pull at both the ears
of the fault finder?
l) What is Hari's household compared to by
Amitav Ghosh? Which famous Latin
American novelist's name is associated with
it?
m) "Although stuttering in terror, the cook held
his own". Who is 'the cook'? How did he
react under severe pressure from the thugs?
n) What, according to Amitav Ghosh, is the
importance of pamphlets like 'Who Are the
Guilty'?

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