University of madras Question Paper

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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
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(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
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(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
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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.