Exam Details
| Subject | literature and gender studies | |
| Paper | ||
| Exam / Course | m.a. english | |
| Department | ||
| Organization | alagappa university | |
| Position | ||
| Exam Date | April, 2016 | |
| City, State | tamil nadu, karaikudi |
Question Paper
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL 2016
Second Semester
English
LITERATURE AND GENDER STUDIES
(2014 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 2 20)
Answer all questions in about a sentence or two each.
1. What does the speaker in "The Old Playhouse" mean by
"monstrous ego"?
2. Why does the mirror meditate on the opposite wall?
3. What does the poem "A Musical Instrument" say about
art?
4. What is the woman in "Woman to Man" anxious about?
5. What do we understand clearly when Travis asks his
father if he's drunk in A Raisin in the Sun?
6. What does Karl Lindner want the youngers to do in
A Raisin in the Sun?
7. What, according to the narrator, should be the effect of
education on the differences between men and women in
A Room of One's Own?
8. What, according to Millet, is an essential part of
patriarchal power?
Sub. Code
701503
RW-10810
2
hp-ap1
9. Why is Peter upset about his friend Trigger's marriage in
The Edible Woman?
10. Who are Karan and Menaka in Where Shall We Go this
Summer?
Part B 5 25)
Answer the following questions in about 200 words each.
11. How does Rich create Aunt Jennifer as an image?
Or
How does the mirror exemplify the tensions
between inner and outer selves?
12. Analyze the emotional experience of pregnancy
presented in "Woman to Man".
Or
Comment on the central irony in Brooks's
"The Negro Hero".
13. Analyze the theme of race in A Raisin in the Sun.
Or
Discuss the role of Mama in A Raisin in the Sun.
14. Why, according to Woolf, did Elizabethan women
fail to write poetry?
Or
What does Millet mean by interiorization of
patriarchal ideology?
15. Comment on the role of Peter in The Edible Woman.
Or
Analyze Sita's life before marriage in Where Shall
We Go this Summer.
RW-10810
3
hp-ap1
Part C 10 30)
Answer the following questions in about 500 words each.
16. Examine the woman persona's conjugal life in "The Old
Playhouse".
17. How does Browning emphasize the destruction that Pan
is causing, and in what way is the Pan be related to man?
18. How are the dreams of various characters deferred in
A Raisin in the Sun?
19. How, according to Millet, do religious and literary myths
attest to the politically expedient character of patriarchal
convictions about women?
20. Examine the character of Marian in The Edible Woman.
Second Semester
English
LITERATURE AND GENDER STUDIES
(2014 onwards)
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
Part A (10 2 20)
Answer all questions in about a sentence or two each.
1. What does the speaker in "The Old Playhouse" mean by
"monstrous ego"?
2. Why does the mirror meditate on the opposite wall?
3. What does the poem "A Musical Instrument" say about
art?
4. What is the woman in "Woman to Man" anxious about?
5. What do we understand clearly when Travis asks his
father if he's drunk in A Raisin in the Sun?
6. What does Karl Lindner want the youngers to do in
A Raisin in the Sun?
7. What, according to the narrator, should be the effect of
education on the differences between men and women in
A Room of One's Own?
8. What, according to Millet, is an essential part of
patriarchal power?
Sub. Code
701503
RW-10810
2
hp-ap1
9. Why is Peter upset about his friend Trigger's marriage in
The Edible Woman?
10. Who are Karan and Menaka in Where Shall We Go this
Summer?
Part B 5 25)
Answer the following questions in about 200 words each.
11. How does Rich create Aunt Jennifer as an image?
Or
How does the mirror exemplify the tensions
between inner and outer selves?
12. Analyze the emotional experience of pregnancy
presented in "Woman to Man".
Or
Comment on the central irony in Brooks's
"The Negro Hero".
13. Analyze the theme of race in A Raisin in the Sun.
Or
Discuss the role of Mama in A Raisin in the Sun.
14. Why, according to Woolf, did Elizabethan women
fail to write poetry?
Or
What does Millet mean by interiorization of
patriarchal ideology?
15. Comment on the role of Peter in The Edible Woman.
Or
Analyze Sita's life before marriage in Where Shall
We Go this Summer.
RW-10810
3
hp-ap1
Part C 10 30)
Answer the following questions in about 500 words each.
16. Examine the woman persona's conjugal life in "The Old
Playhouse".
17. How does Browning emphasize the destruction that Pan
is causing, and in what way is the Pan be related to man?
18. How are the dreams of various characters deferred in
A Raisin in the Sun?
19. How, according to Millet, do religious and literary myths
attest to the politically expedient character of patriarchal
convictions about women?
20. Examine the character of Marian in The Edible Woman.
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