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Jadavpur University 2010 B.A English Honors admission test of - Question Paper

1. Rewrite the following sentences correctly. You need not copy the original sentence in your answer-book; write only the corrected version. (10X1 = 10)
a) The baby cried herself into sleep.
b) The huge python was entwined against the tree-trunk.
c) The old stock should be disposed off before the new stock is ordered. 1 '
d) The panda eats, shoots and leaves.
e) I am really strapped of cash and cannot pay my bills.
f) That kind of behaviour is out of the place at a party.
g) 1 hope you dont bear a grudge at me. 1 ' ' '
h) His actions gave currencies to the rumour that he was about to leave. 1 1
i) She shouted at her brother on top of her voice.
j) Please keep your wits with you at the time of the interview. 1
2. Pair the first word in each line below with the word or phrase closest to it m meaning
within the brackets. Write only the paired set in your answer-book.
(10X1= 10)
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a) infirm (feeble, notify, corporate, disqualified) " 11 i i
b) ogre (amorous glance, orgy, monster,-a gland) ,
c) boulder (courageous, shoulder-blade; ribbon, large wk)I11'5" Btl * v
d) ribald (ribbon, alopecia, old rib, coarse) ft*1* 1 ' ' *** Vflf*
e) masticate (chew, to display masteryJflafisbdog,* aaob '#
f) reverie (revival, rivulet, to revere; daydream) u-
g) wane (want, wiggle, decrease, wander)
h) snarl (sneeze, tangle, snare, snatch) " H ' ;
i) kidnap (sleep, play-school,*bduct, short story)
j) imbibe (embibil, absorb, imbecile, to ofFcra bribe) ' - 1 '
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3. Complete the following sentences using one word for each of'thblank Spades. Write the
completed sentences in your- answertodfc' (10X1=10)
a You will never be popular if you are too clever by _ . by Actors never retire. TTiey die in_.
c) Would you be_kind as to help me open this window?
d) Your resignation has certainly come as a_from the blue.
e) Hejumped into the car and drove off at_-neck speed to fetch the doctor.
f) We were able to catch the last train by the_ of our teeth.
g) 1 did not enjoy the pillion-ride. I was hanging on for_life all the way.
h) I ran from pillar to_to get my ration card.
i) The discussions that went on into the wee __became increasingly unprofitable.
j) He is like a with nine lives and will probably live to see ninety.
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1 Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:
' (10X4=40)
Love after Love the time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving '
At your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the others welcome, and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf
the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
a) What does the word after in the title of the poem signify?
b) Why does the poet describe the self as a stranger?
c) What does the mirTor appear to stand for in the poem? '
d) Comment on the relation between love and feasting in the poem.
2. Write short notes on any four of the following: (4 X 5 - 20)
Aristotle, Alexandre Dumas, Charles Darwin, jibanmukhi gan, Sukumar Ray, The Discovety of India, Putul Nacher Itikatha, Kafka, Neruda, Teni-da, Chitrangada, The Communist Manifesto, John Milton, Mahashveta Devi, Jayanta Mahapatra, J. M. Coetzee, George Ehot, Sadat Hasan Manto, Picasso, The Iliad, Mark Twain, Agatha Christie, James Joyce, Badal Sarkar, Don Quixote, Shakuntala, Thomas Hardy
3. Write an essay on any one of the following subjects: (40)
a) Can literature be taught?
b) Science, fantasy and fiction
c) Should plays be seen or read?
d) The difference between history and literature

Jadavpur University 2011 B.A English Honors admission test of - Question Paper

PARTI

1. Correct the mistakes in the following passage. Candidates are advised that no rewriting of the sentences will be allowed. 10

Dear Sweety,

Hope this find you in good health. I am so morosed at not having received your letters or phone calls, inspite of my having called several times. Try to cope up better with your problems. Please convey my best wishes back to your parents. I am first going to Goa and then onto Mumbai for a holiday in July, as 1 have fewer responsibility in office now. Could I meet you up somewhere before I go? I would like to explain you my plans.

Yours sincerely,

Lovely

2. Pair the first word in each line with the word or phrase nearest in meaning to it from those given within brackets. Write only the paired set in your exercise book. 1x10=10

a. Disabuse: (criticize, praise, undeceive, rant, handy)

b. Moult: (shed feathers, hillock fungus, pudding bowl, shout)

c. Craven: (coloured chalk, cowardly, beg, longing, scavenging bird)

d. Offload: (pack, pile, excessive weight, rubbish, get rid of)

e. Festal: (rot, joyous, ribbon, lot, doorway)

f. Slake: (stick, gravel, loose, satisfy, roundworm)

g. Overblown: (blown away, blown apart, burst, excessively inflated, overpowering)

h. Upshot: (bicycle kick, lob, kind of bullet, outcome, fire upwards)

i. Importunate: (unfortunate, foreign trade, pompous, lucky, pressing) j. Evince: (conquer, persuade, make evident, disembowel, expel)

3. Use the following words to fill up the blanks in the sentences below'. Each word is to be used only once, lx 10 = 10

Institute, constitution, monograph, monologue, exaction, inaction, comprehend, apprehend, metre, meter.

1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions set in your own words. Do not use the phrasing of the passage.

WHOSOEVER has observed that sedate and clerical bird, the rook, may perhaps have noticed that when he wings his way homeward towards nightfall, in a sedate and clerical company, two rooks will suddenly detach themselves from the rest, will retrace their flight for some distance, and will there poise and linger; conveying to mere men the fancy that it is of some occult importance to the body politic, that this artful couple should pretend to have renounced connection with it.

Similarly, service being over in the old Cathedral with the square tower, and the choir scuffling out again, and divers venerable persons of rook-like aspect dispersing, two of these latter retrace their steps, and walk together in the echoing Close.
'
Not only is the day waning, but the year. The low sun is fiery and yet cold behind the monastery ruin, and the Virginia creeper on the Cathedral wall has showered half its deep-red leaves down on the pavement. There has been rain this afternoon, and a wintry shudder goes among the little pools on the cracked, uneven flag-stones, and through the giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears. Their fallen leaves lie strewn thickly about. Some of these leaves, in a timid rush, seek sanctuary within the low arched Cathedral door; but two men coming out resist them, and cast them forth again with their feet; this done, one of the two locks the door with a goodly key, and the other flits away with a folio music-book.

'Mr. Jasper was that, Tope?'

'Yes, Mr. Dean.'

Tie has stayed late.'

'Yes, Mr. Dean. I have stayed for him, your Reverence. He has been took a little poorly.'

'Say "taken, Tope - to the Dean,' the younger rook interposes in a low tone with this touch of correction, as who should say: 'You may ofTerJ>ad grammar to the laity, or the humbler clergy, not to the Dean.' '

Mr. Tope, Chief Verger and Showman, and accustomed to be high with excursion parties, declines with a silent loftiness to perceive that any suggestion has been tendered to him.

And when and how has Mr. Jasper been taken -- for, as Mr.Crisparklc has remarked, it is better to say taken - taken -' repeats the Dean; 'when and how has Mr. Jasper been taken '

Taken, sir,' Tope deferentially murmurs.

' Poorly, Tope?'

'Why, sir, Mr. Jasper was that breathed '

'1 wouldn't say "That breathed," Tope,' Mr.Crisparkle interposes with the same touch as before. "Not English - to the Dean.'

'Breathed to that extent,' the Dean (not unflattered by this indirect homage) condescendingly remarks, 'would be preferable.'

'Mr. Jaspers breathing was so remarkably short' - thus discreetly does Mr. Tope work his way round the sunken rock 'when he came in, that it distressed him mightily to get his notes out: which was perhaps the cause of his having a kind of fit on him after a little. His memory grew DAZED.' Mr.

Tope, with his eyes on the Reverend Mr.Crisparkle, shoots this word out, as defying him to improve upon it: 'and a dimness and giddiness crept over him as strange as ever I saw: though he didn't seem to mind it particularly, himself. However, a little time and a little water brought him out of his DAZE. Mr. Tope repeats the word and it emphasis, with the air of saying: 'As I have made a success, I'll make it again.1

'And Mr. Jasper has gone home quite himself, has he?' asked the Dean.

'Your Reverence, he has gone home quite himself. And I'm glad to see hes having his fire kindled up, for it's chilly after the wet, and the Cathedral had both a damp feel and a damp touch this afternoon, and he was very shivery.

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From the given options, choose the correct form of idiom.
(A) To eat humble pie
(B) To eat a humble pie
(C) To eat an humble pie
(D) To eat one humble pie

. The Synonym of Executioner is
(A) Manager
(B) Executive
(C) Hangman
(D) Judge

The correct antonym of Huge is
(A) Tiny
(B) Brittle
(C) Insignificant
(D) Little
‘extempore’ means:
(A) Without previous preparation
(B) An extreme step
(C ) Bad temper
(D) Speaking with some aid


Read the following passage and give your views, both for and against, the ideas expressed in it in not more than 250 words. Mere reproduction of the ideas would not be given any credit. (20 marks) Past centuries were replete with prophets predicting the end of days some of whom managed to convince thousands of followers. Many gave away all their possessions in preparation. Yet, when the great disappointment, as it has been called, happened, it did not destroy faith in such a future event. People argued that the calculations were wrong, and made new predictions, and that pattern recurs, as was seen recently when the American preacher, Harold Camping, predicted May 21, 2011 as the day for Rapture, the evangelical Christian end of the world event. It might have been assumed that such beliefs in past centuries were due to unscientific ignorance, and modern progress would diminish them. Yet an audience remains for them who, far from being persuaded by science, simply co-opt the parts science that help them reinforce their belief. Computers crunch biblical numbers to make more accurate apocalyptic estimates. New geological knowledge, of plate tectonics and climate change, simply lead to even more detailed descriptions of the end.



Attempt a critical analysis of the poem given below in the terms of its language, tone and arrangement of emotion therein in about 250 words.mere paraphrase of the poem would not be given any credit. (25 marks)

Elephants sway in my mother’s English – Pleased to meeting you she says the multiple suffixes of her mother tongue affix themselves to her meter: Okay-na! In Malayalam, vowels sit like an egg on tongue, ant to aardvark. Her voice vies against drumkit Engilsh, hums with the rhythm of amridangam. In English, the word Malayalam reads the same from left to right as right to left – a mirror of contentment. If only other words were so settled. My mother worries about the pale clusters on her last mammogram. Breast cancer is very popular now. Common, I say, not popular. Yes, she says, very popular.
Our other tongue is this silence.
A hush,
a blank face
pressed against the glass


Attempt any four of the following in about 150 words each: (30 marks) What is Literature?
What is Novel?
What is Dramatic Monologue?
What is Myth? What do you mean by the term ‘Narrative’?
What is Translation?

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Can you provide me the syllabus of BA (Bachelor of Arts) (Honours) program in English offered by Department of English of Jadavpur University?

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The syllabus of BA (Bachelor of Arts) (Honours) program in English offered by Department of English of Jadavpur University is as follows:


Core Courses

1. History of Language, Old and Middle English Literature

A. HISTORY OF LANGUAGE: THE EMERGENCE OF EARLY MODERN PROSE
1. Origins of the English language and its place in the Indo-European
literature
2. Early foreign influences on the vocabulary of English
3. Orthography and pronunciation
4. The triumph of the vernacular: Chaucer to Shakespeare, incl. Bible
Translations

B. OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE
History of Old and Middle English Literature from the beginnings to c.1500,
looking at the key primary texts in translation.

Texts
K. Crossley-Holland, The Anglo-Saxon World
S.A.J. Bradley, Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Michael Swanton, Anglo-Saxon Prose
B. Stone, Medieval English Verse
Recommended reading
Greenfield & Calder, A New Critical History of Old English Literature
Michael Swanton, English Literature before Chaucer
Barron, Medieval English Romance
C.L. Wrenn, The English Language


2. English Literature 1500-1630

A. BACKGROUND
Historical introduction to the Renaissance

B. DRAMA
1. Two plays by Shakespeare
2. One play by Marlowe

C. POETRY
Selections from the poetry of Skelton, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Elizabeth I,
Wroth, Shakespeare, Donne

D. PROSE
Selections from Bacon’s Essays, Sidney’s Arcadia and More’s Utopia

Recommended reading
Douglas Bush, Prefaces to Renaissance Literature
Hardin Craig, The Enchanted Glass
A.L. Rowse, The Elizabethan Renaissance
David Norbrook, Politics and Poetry in Renaissance England
L.C. Knights, Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson
Frances Yates, Astraea
Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning
David Aers, Bob Hodge and Gunther Kress, eds, Literature, Language and
Society in England, 1560-1680
Julia Briggs, This Stage-Play World


Syllabus BA (Honours) English Jadavpur University

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