Paper V

Literature
a) Which two of Hardy's novel, by their frank handling of religion and sex, aroused hostility among
conventional readers?

 Tess of the d'Urbervilles6

b) Whose writings are regarded as Scientific Romances? Name any two of such romances.

 Jules Verne, His two Scientific Romances books are The mysterious Island, From the Earth to Moon

c) Who wrote Brave New World? Name another novel written by the same author.

 Aldous Huxley, another novel by him is Island

d) Arrange these plays according to chronological order of their publication. Pygmalion, Arms and the Man,
Back to Methuselah, Man and Superman.

Arms and the Man (1894), Man and Superman (1903), Back to Methuselah (1921), Pygmalion (1938)

e) Name one Modern Novelist who was born in India. Name two of his novels and their publication dates.

 Vikram Seth- The Humble Administrator's Garden (1985), All You Who Sleep Tonight (1990) and Three
Chinese Poets (1992).

 Arundhati Roy- Power Politics (2001), The Algebra of Infinite Justice (2002), War Talk (2003), Public Power
in the Age of Empire (2004)

f) Who are called "The Georgians"? Name any two of them.

 Gorgians formed no school of poetry, the first volume of Gorgian poetry came out in 1911-12 (Gorge V
ascended the throne in 1910). The Georgian poets are John Masefield, Walter De La Mare, Rupert Broode,
J.e. Flecker, John Drinkwater, Alfed Noyed, Edmund Bluden, Abercrombie.

g) Arrange the following books chronologically as per their date of publication. Four Quartets, Ash
Wednesday, Waste Land, Prufrock and Other Observations.

 Prufrock and Other Observations(1917), Waste Land (1922), Ash Wednesday (1930), Four Quartets (1941)

h) Who wrote The White Monkey? Name a play written by him.

 John Galsworthy, the play written by him is Escape, The Skin Game, The First and the Last,
Strife
British Poetry

a) What does the poet mean by "the pity of war, the pity war distilled"?

 "Strange Meeting" contains this phrase in the context of a subterranean meeting of a soldier and
the enemy he killed. The enemy soldier ruminates on how the truth of war - the pity of it - is quelled
when the soldiers die. Those back at home, those who started the war, do not know what it is truly
like to wait in the trenches, dodge bullets and poison gas attacks, watch their friends die in front of
them, and lose their reason and will to endure. Owen felt it was his mission to use his poetry to distill
the truth of the war, and his poems stand as beautiful and brilliantly bitter expositions on the horrors
of the battlefield and the complexity of the return to the home front.

b) Bring out the reference: I am no prophet."

 I am no prophet — and here’s no great matter;” alludes to the Bible. John the Baptist is a
prophet whose head was cut off and served as a prize. However, unlike John the Baptist, even
when his head is cut off, he thinks that it cannot be even considered as a prize for he feels
insignificant

c) What does the poet mean by "the eternal postman"?

d) Who was lazarus referred to in Eliot's Prufrock?

 Lazarus. Lazarus is a Biblical character who Jesus brought back to life after he had been laid to rest in a
tomb. Prufrock compares himself to Lazarus in line 94, as part of an imaginary conversation with a woman he cannot
adequately communicate his thoughts to.

e) "When a vast image out Spiritus Mundi. Troubles my sight." – Describe the vast image.

 Spiritus Mundi is a Latin term that literally means, ''world spirit.'' In Spiritus Mundi, there is, according to William Butler Yeats, ''a universal
memory and a 'muse' of sorts that provides inspiration to the poet or writer.'' To Yeats, Spiritus Mundi is the source of all ''images'' and ''symbols,'' a
''collective unconscious.'' Spiritus Mundi is difficult to understand, but we will unpack it as best as we can.

f) What does the poet mean by "twice told fields of infancy"?

 "twice told fields of infancy" indicate the "truth of his joy" as poet recalls the experience of youth and the simple joy of
nature that such an experience involved.

Indian Poetry

a) What is 'Catamaran'? What are referred to as "sweeter" in "Coromondel Fishers"?

 The poet asks the freedom fighters of India to take weapons (nets) to capture the leaping wealth of the
tide, i.e. the freedom of India because they are the kings of the sea! Which refers to India.
 In the final stanza, the poet says that comforts and the joys that the Indians enjoy under the might be
sweet but the fragrance of independence and the feeling of being free is quite sweeter and hence the
freedom fighters should wage a final war on the British.

b) Which two adjectived are used to describe the father in "Night of the Scorpion"? Do you consider these
expressions as justified? Why?

c) Why "Gopi and Brinda" are repeated in "A River?"

d) What is the meaning of the expression "flesh was heavy on my back"? Why that was considered as "hard
to believe"?

e) "All mine, mine alone" – Contextualize the expression and comment.

f) "Be Amy , or be Kamala, or, better still, be Madhabikutti." – Comment.

g) "They clicked their tongue" – Who are they? What they said about the incident?

h) Briefly comment on the title "Night of the Scorpion."

PAPER VI
a) What is the source of the title 'Arms and the Man'?

b) What was the chocolate cream Soldier's family business?

c) What, according to Bluntschli, is the difference between Old soldiers and New soldiers?
d) What was Maurya doing when the play Riders to the Sea opened?

e) "I seen the fearfulest thing." – What was "the fearfulest thing"?

f) In the play Riders to the Sea who rides the bundle in the turf-loft and why?

g) Who discovered the pig's head in the forest?

h) Who was the owner of the pair of spectacles? How was it used in the novel Lord of the Flies?

i) Why doesn't the narrator buy anything for Mangan's sister?

j) Define the narrator's feelings for Mangan's sister.

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?

PAPER VII
a) "If anyone has ruined our society it's Agarkar and Dhondo Keshav Karve". Who are the persons mentioned
here? Why does the speaker say so?
b) What is a mock lawcourt? What is the case originally proposed to be acted out there in the play Silence!
The Court is in Session?

c) Name the novelist Samant mentions in the Play Silence! The court is in Session. What role does his 105th
novel have in Benare's mock-trial?

d) What is TIK-20? Who mentions it first in the play 'Silence' The Court is in session' and in what context?

e) What is Benare accused of in the mock-trial? Why?

f) "She is a real snake-woman, I tell you". Who says so and why?

g) "You are a wizard!". Who says so and in which context? Who is referred to as a 'wizard'?

h) Why was Raju arrested? Why did he commit that crime?

i) "The busiest man here was an American..." What is the name of this American? How did Raju answer to his
query about whether Raju has always been a Yogi?

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'?

PAPER VIII
a) "Aroint thee, witch! the rump-fed ronyon cries" – paraphrase the line.

b) What happened in Saint Colme's inch?

c) "from this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand" – When does Macbeth
say this?

d) "Hell is murky!" – Who says this and when?

e) "Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow," – Who says this and when?

f) "Boundless intemperence In nature is a tyranny;" – Who says this and when?

g) Why is Hecate angry in her first appearance?

h) Why does Macbeth murder the family of Macduff?

i) Who reports the death of Macduff's family to Macduff? What was Malcolm's reaction to this?

a) Mention the couples that marry in the end in As You Like It.

OR

"as I am a gentleman and a soldier" – Who says this and what is the context?

OR

What is the source of Pyramus and Thisbe episode?

b) Why does Orlando go to the forest of Arden?

OR

What is meant by "Go by, Hieronymo"?

OR

What was the effect of Puck's immediate mistake?

c) "For then he's full of matter"–Who is being referred to here? What does the speaker mean by 'matter'?

OR

What is a Toledo? Who claims to have it?

OR

What is the 'rite of May'?

d) "I remember when I was in love I broke my sword upon a stone" – Who is the speaker? Whom was the
speaker in love with?

OR

What does the phrase "quos aequus amavit Jupiter" mean?

OR

What was the love potion made of in A Midsummer Night's Dream? On whom was it applied?

e) What happens between Duke Senior and Duke Frederick in the end?
OR

What role does Justice clement play in the end of Every Man in His Humour?

OR

Who is Francis Flute in A Midsummer Night's Dream?