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18th July 2016, 09:45 AM
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University of madras Question Paper
Hi buddy I am doing Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English from University of madras and here looking for previous year question paper , so can you plz provide me same ??
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18th July 2016, 10:43 AM
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Re: University of madras Question Paper
As you doing Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English from University of madras and here looking for previous year question paper , so on your demand here I am providing same : 12 101. Abraham Lincoln worked hard for the unity of the –––––––––––––––– . (a) Northern States (b) Southern States (c) Northern and Southern states 2. America, according to walt Whitman, is a ––––––––––––––––. (a) Ship (b) Captain (c) image 3. The crystal ice is compared to ––––––––––––––––. (a) immortality (b) eternity (c) inner dome 4. In the poem ‘Birches’, the orchard tress are transformed into –––––––––––––––– . (a) girls (b) boys (c) birds. 5. –––––––––––––––– was Larry’s profession (a) medicine (b) industrialist (c) pilot 6. Dr. Jim Bayliss does not believe in –––––––––––– . (a) over-confident (b) astrology (c) civic princip les 7. The subject of –––––––––––––––– is introduced in the opening chapter in A Farewell To Arms . (a) prelude (b) love and war (c)death 8. Rinaldi symbolises –––––––––––––––– . (a) Self-sacrificing (b) opposite feelings (c) divine love 9. Raven is a poem of –––––––––––––––– lines (a) 108 (b)118 (c) 128 10. –––––––––––––––– is celebrated as the Father o f the detective story. (a) Ezra pound (b) Hemingway (c) E.A. Poe 11. Thoreau speaks of an insect burying itself in t he ––––––––––––––––. (a) Fig tree (b) strawberry tree (c) apple tree 12. Thoreau built –––––––––––––––– near walden. (a) cabin (b) wood house (c) Tent. 13. –––––––––––––––– plays a significant role in the play The Glass Menagerie. (a) Chorus (b) music (c) songs 14. Tom Wingfield’s sister is –––––––––––––––– . (a) Rose (b) Amanda (c) Lama 15. Billy Budd is a –––––––––––––––– . (a) Comedy (b) Tragedy (c) social allegory 16. Edward Fairfax Vere is a –––––––––––––––– . (a) Army man (b) captain (c) Airforce officer 17. –––––––––––––––– believes that death is the pilot. (a)Emily Dickinson (b) Emerson (c)Poe 18. Poe begins the essay “The Philosophy of Composition” with –––––––––––––––– in a composition. (a) method (b) climax (c) circumstances 19. Emerson is called as a –––––––––––––––– . (a) wisdom writer (b) social wrote (c) democratic writer 20. ‘The American Scholar’ was published as a pamphlet under the title. (a) social thinking (b) man thinking (c) creative thinking 21. ‘Calvary’ was written by–––––––––––––––– –. (a) Robinson (b) Poe (c) Robert Frost 22. ‘The Cambridge Ladies’ is a –––––––––––––––– . (a) lyric (b) melancholy (c) satire 23. E.E. Cummings’s –––––––––––––––– worked as a professor in Harvard University (a) mother (b) brother (c) father 24. E.E. Cummings makes a direct attack on the –––––––––––––––– . (a) society (b) ladies (c) philosophers 25. According to Robert Frost, every poem is –––––––––––––––– . (a) metaphor (b) pun (c) simile 26. –––––––––––––––– poems begin in delight and end in Wisdom. (a) H.D. Thoreau (b) Robert Frost (c) E.A. Robinson [ 27. The Emperor Jones is an experiment in –––––––––––––––– play (a) Expressionistic (b) pessimistic (c) obscurity 28. Eugene O’ Neil’s plays are classified as naturalistic , expressionistic and –––––––––––––. (a) soliloques (b) sympathetic (c) symbolic 29. According to Emily Dickinson her universe was that of the –––––––––––––––– . (a) inner world (b) soul (c) transformation. 30. –––––––––––––––– has similarities with Hindu philosophy. (a) E.A. Poe (b) R.W. Emerson (c) Emily Dickinson 31. –––––––––––––––– is the originator of ‘Free Verse’ (a) Walt Whitman (b) E.E. Cummings (c) Ezra pound 32. Ernest Hemingway was born in –––––––––––––––– . (a) Oak Park (b) New York (c) Ireland 33. –––––––––––––––– is the hero of A Farwell To Arms (a) Frederic Henry (b) Rinaldi (c) Dr. Valentini 34. The novel A Farwell To Arms is divided into –––––––––––––––– books. (a) Four (b) Five (c) Six 35. Count Greffi was –––––––––––––––– years old (a) Eight four (b) Seventy four (c) Ninety Four 36. Billy Budd is the –––––––––––––––– hero of the novel in Billy Budd. (a) Titular (b) Warrior (c) Innocent 37. Emerson emphasises on –––––––––––––––– . (a) self-obedient (b) self-trust (c) self-respect 38. Edgar Allan Poe married –––––––––––––––– . (a) Natalic Wood (b) Virgina Clene (c) Audrey Hepburn 39. All My Sons is a –––––––––––––––– . (a) social drama (b) tragic-comedy (c) tragedy 40. –––––––––––––––– is a tragic hero in All My Sons (a) Joe Keller (b) George (c) Jim PART B — (5 ´ 4 = 20 marks) Answer any FIVE of the following questions in about 100 words each. 41. What is Melville telling us about humanity in Billy Budd? 42. How does Whitman reveal his love for Lincoln? 43. What are the techniques used in ‘Brahma’ ? 44. How does Wallace Stevens bring out his ideas in ‘man carrying things’? 45. Why is Whitman considered the bard of American democracy? 46. What is the theme of “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”? 47. Comment on the ideas revealed by Ezra Pound. 48. Write an appreciation of the poem “O Captain, My Captain”. PART C — (2 ´ 20 = 40 marks) Answer any TWO of the following in about 500 words each. 49. Explain the concept of poetry presented by Poe in his ‘Philosophy of Composition’. 50. Discuss the good and evil found in Billy Budd. 51. Critically examine the essential theme of A Farewell To Arms. 52. ‘The Emperor Jones shows the circumstances of the black and the white’ –Explain. |
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