M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL 2018
First Semester
English
BRITISH LITERATURE I (Chaucer to Milton)
(CBCS 2017 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 x 2 20)
Answer all the questions.
1. Who is a prioress?
2. What talent did the wife of bath possess?
3. What is the in the poem Extasie?
4. Name the forbidden tree in Eden.
5. What is the meaning of dissimulation?
6. Who were the Hebrews?
7. Who is Leander? What is his fete?
8. What is the reason for Gaveston's banishment?
9. What is the other name for silent woman?
10. What is the scheme of Dauphine?
Sub. Code
7MEN1C1
AFS-0472
2
Ws11
Part B x 5 25)
Answer all the questions, choosing either or
11. How does Chaucer portray the wife of bath?
Or
Sketch the character of the prioress.
12. Analyse the metaphor of armies that Donne uses in
his poem Ecstasy.
Or
Satan is the embodiment of hell. Discuss.
13. Explain how Jesus institutes the Christian
sacrament of the Eucharist.
Or
Discuss Bacon's views for the of the
children.
14. Attempt a character sketch of the young Mortimer.
Or
Discuss the treatment of history in Edward II by
Marlowe.
15. Attempt a character sketch of Dauphine.
Or
Write a short note on the ladies Collegiates in
The Silent Women.
AFS-0472
3
Ws11
Part C 10 30)
Answer any three questions.
16. Discuss the spousal verse the Spenser had employed in
prothalamion in honour of the double marriage.
17. Describe god's first human creations Adam and Eve as
depicted in paradise lost book IV.
18. Discuss Bacon's views on marriage and single life.
19. Evaluate Marlowe as a dramatist with reference to
Edward II.
20. Analyse Ben Jonson as a Renaissance dramatist with
reference to the silent woman.
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