B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2017
First Semester
English Literature
PROSE
(CBCS 2011 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Section A (10 x 1 10)
Answer all objective questions.
1. In the essay Truth' Bacon uses a Latin phrase 'Vinum
Daemonum'. which means
The wine of the devils
The nectar of angels
The poison of men
2. The essay is not of Bacon.
Of Truth
Of Friendship
The American Scholar
3. Sir Roger de Coverly is
fifty three years old
fifty six years old
fifty four years old
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1BEN1C1
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4. Sir Roger remained as a
chaplain bachelor
parson
5. Ho-li was Bo-bo's
son brother
father
6. Mary Field was suffering from
epilepsy fever
cancer
7. Ruskin means Treasuries' as
the king's authority
the king's wealth
treasures hidden in the books
8. The entire difference between education and
non-education consists in
clarity accuracy
distinctiveness
9. adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered and
an inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered'.
Whose statement is this?
Ruskin Addison
G.K. Chesterton
10. is a Romantic poet referred by Lynd in
'Forgetting'.
Wordsworth Coleridge
Southey
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Section B x 7 35)
Answer all questions choosing either or in 250
words each.
11. What does Bacon say about truth in his essay?
Or
What are Bacon's views on 'solitude'?
12. Give an account of Sir Roger from the essay
Sir Roger at Church by Joseph Addison.
Or
Write a paragraph on Willy Honey Comb.
13. How does Lamb describe his boyhood in the essay
'Dream Children: A Reverie'?
Or
Write a paragraph on Lamb's description of the
taste of the roast pig.
14. How does Ruskin define literature?
Or
few words well chosen and distinguished, will do
work that a thousand cannot'. Do you agree with
the statement of Ruskin?
15. 'Any situation being an inconvenience is absolutely
setbacks of the mind'. Do you agree with the
statement?
Or
How does Lynd justify the absent-mindedness of
Socrates and Coleridge?
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Section C x 10 30)
Answer any three questions in 400 words each.
16. What has Bacon got to say about friendship?
17. Give a critical account of the members of the spectator
club.
18. Write an essay on the peculiar character of Beau Tibbs.
19. 'Book is written not to multiply the voice merely, not to
carry it merely, but to perpetuate it'. Comment on the
statement.
20. Critically analyze Lynd's reflections on 'Forgetting'.
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