VNSGU (Veer Narmad South Gujarat University) BA (Bachelor of Arts) 2019 2nd Year 2128 Foundation Course In English Previous Question Paper
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Second Year B.A. (External) Examination
March / April - 2019
Foundation Course in English
Time: 3 Hours ]
[ Total Marks: 100
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Name of the Examination:
Second Year B.A. (External)
Name of the Subject :
Foundation Course in English
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Q.1. Answer briefly any five of the following:
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(a) What does the author imply about fidelity in marriages in the
story `Why I Want 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?
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Why do you think Rosemary sends the girl away?
OR
(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
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the poem- "If''?
OR
(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.
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OR
(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:
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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
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(B) Do as Directed: (Any Ten)
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(i) Would Philip agree to her plan? (Change the sentence into
present tense)
(ii) Nasim leaned -- a tree and began reading a book,
(beneath/against/ toward)
(iii) How -- Money will you need? (Fill the blank with `much'
or `many')
(iv) -- photographer for-- national magazine was assigned to
take pictures. (Use appropriate articles)
(v) Give the antonyms: reveal, raw.
(v) Give the synonyms: triumph, foe.
(vii) -- of these rooms do you like? (Use `When' or Which')
(viii) Why, we shall go -- any spot you like, and stay there.
(to/with)
(ix) The girl stood just inside the door.(Change the sentence
into present tense)
(x) Next Sunday, my wife and I went out for dinner.
(Correct the tense)
(xi) The play was to begin -- 8 p.m. (Insert suitable preposition)
(xii) Make adjective: truth
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