Second Year B.A. (External) Examination
March / April - 2019
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Foundation Course in English
Time: 3 Hours | Total Marks: 100
Instructions:
1. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
2. Indicate clearly the option you attempt.
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Q.1. Answer briefly any five of the following: 20
- (a) What does the author imply about fidelity in marriages in the story “Why I Want a Wife”?
- (b) What was the primary purpose of Gandhi’s stay in Britain in the Prose - ‘Playing the English Gentleman’?
- (c) How did the narrator justify robbing Arun in the story ‘The Thief’?
- (d) What were the terms under which Pahom could claim land from the Bashkirs?
- (e) What does Kipling mean by the expression ‘common touch’ in the poem -“If”?
- (f) How does the poet describe the banyan tree?
- (g) Why did the narrator say the photograph was a ‘worthless trifle’ to him?
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Q.2.(a) What does Rosemary ask Philip at the end of the story? 20
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Why do you think Rosemary sends the girl away?
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(b) Do you think the protagonist will go back to a life of thieving in the future? Justify your answer with reference to the story - ‘The Thief”.
Q.3.(a) What virtues does Kipling believe to be worthy of praise in the poem- “If”? 20
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(b) Describe the central idea of the poem- “Where The Mind is Without Fear.”
Q.4.(a) Draft a report on your college’s Annual function. 20
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(b) Imagine you are a reporter interviewing your favourite sportsperson. Prepare a list of questions for interview and write them down, along with possible responses.
Q.5.(a) Summarize the following paragraph: 10
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We all know what we mean by a ‘good man’. The ideally good person does not drink or smoke, avoids bad language, converses in the presence of men only exactly as he would if there were ladies present, attends church regularly-and holds the correct opinion on all subjects. He has a wholesome horror of wrong-doing and realizes that it is our painful duty to castigate sin. He has a still greater horror of wrong thinking and considers it the business of the authorities to safeguard the young against those who question the wisdom of the views generally accepted by middle-aged successful citizens. Apart from his professional duties, at which he is assiduous, he spends much time in good works: he may encourage patriotism and military training; he may promote industry, sobriety and virtue among wage earners and their children by seeing to it that failures in these respects receive due punishment; he may be a trustee of a university and prevent an ill-judged respect for learning from allowing the employment of professor with subversive ideas. Above all, of course, his ‘morals’ in the narrow sense must be irreproachable.
Bertrand Russell
(B) Do as Directed: (Any Ten) 10
- (1) Would Philip agree to her plan? (Change the sentence into present tense)
- (2) Nasim leaned — a tree and began reading a book. (beneath/against/ toward)
- (3) How — Money will you need? (Fill the blank with ‘much’ or ‘many’)
- (4) — photographer for — national magazine was assigned to take pictures. (Use appropriate articles)
- (5) Give the antonyms: reveal, raw.
- (6) Give the synonyms: triumph, foe.
- (7) — of these rooms do you like? (Use “When’ or Which’)
- (8) Why, we shall go — any spot you like, and stay there. (to/with)
- (9) The girl stood just inside the door.(Change the sentence into present tense)
- (10) Next Sunday, my wife and I went out for dinner. (Correct the tense)
- (11) The play was to begin — 8 p.m. (Insert suitable preposition)
- (12) Make adjective: truth
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