U/ID 31521/URRB. (7 pages) OCTOBER 2011

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1 (7 pages) OCTOBER 2011 Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks PART A (40 1 = 40 marks) Answer the following questions. Choose the correct answer from those given in brackets : 1. In memoriam is a poem. (a) philosophic (b) romantic (c) war 2. is not a poem by Tennyson. (a) Ulysses (b) The Lotos-Eaters (c) Duchess My Last 3. The scholar Gipsy is a bitter attack on the ills of the age. (a) Romantic (b) Victorian (c) Old 4. The Lady of Shalott, The Lotos-Eaters, In Memorian and Enoch Arden were written by (a) Tennyson (b) Browning (c) Arnold 5. Robert browning is popular for (a) lyrics (b) dramatic monologues (c) sonnets

2 6. A famous dramatic monologue of Browning is (a) Men and women (b) Endymion (c) My Last Duchess 7. Arnold s critical work is (a) essays in criticism (c) essays on arts (b) essays on science 8. Browning s poetry is known for his (a) optimism (b) pessimism (c) religious spirit 9. Rossetti was a poet. (a) romantic (b) restoration (c) pre-raphaelite 10. Dickens novels are governed by his (a) humanitarianism (b) religious zest (c) reformist zeal 11. Dickens novels are full of elements. (a) religious (b) historical (c) autobiographical 12. Dickens characters are (a) flat (b) round (c) none of these 13. Becky sharp is a popular heroine of (a) Dickens (b) Thackeray (c) George Eliot 2

3 14. The pen name of Mary Ann Evans was (a) George Eliot (b) Dickens (c) Jane 15. Wuthering Heights is a masterpiece of (a) Jane (b) Emily Bronte (c) Charlotte Bronte 16. Thomas Hardy is known for his (a) pessimism (b) optimism (c) none 17. Hardy s novels have got the setting. (a) Essex (b) Wessex (c) Leicester 18. H.G. wells is well known for his (a) social setting (b) science fiction (c) romances 19. Yeats was influenced by (a) Shelley (b) Keats (c) Byron 20. T.S. Eliot feels that mankind can be redeemed by (a) Christianity (b) Buddhism (c) Hinduism 21. The sacred wood by T.S. Eliot is a collection of (a) stories (b) plays (c) critical essays 3

4 22. Shaw condemns in art. (a) romanticism (b) love (c) none 23. Synge is associated with the (a) Irish theatre (b) Globe (c) London theatre 24. Robert Lynd s essays are (a) objective (b) personal (c) didactic 25. Animal farm was written by (a) George Orwell (b) Osborne (c) Auden 26. Shaw uses the idea of (a) death (b) life (c) life-force 27. W.H. Auden wrote (a) Lotos-Eaters (b) the unknown citizen (c) hero 28. During the reign of queen Victoria, Rowland Hill introduced the (a) airmail (b) penny-post (c) speed post 29. World War I came to an end with the signing of the peace treaty at versailles in (a) 1917 (b) 1918 (c) [P.T.O.]

5 30. The Oxford movement was inaugurated in (a) 1832 (b) 1831 (c) In 1867 reform bill was passed. (a) second (b) third (c) first 32. university gave its degrees to women for the first time. (a) London (b) Oxford (c) Cambridge 33. The board of education was established in (a) 1898 (b) 1897 (c) were England s gift to the world. (a) ships (b) railways (c) bicycle 35. ministry set up the slum clearance scheme. (a) Conservative (b) Macmillan (c) Labour 36. was the founder of modern surgery. (a) Faraday (b) Newman (c) Joseph Lister 37. was a labour leader and Prime Minister from 1945 to (a) Wilson (b) Eden (c) Clement Attlee 5

6 38. The first telephone exchange was opened in London in (a) 1876 (b) 1879 (c) became very popular in the Victorian age. (a) Grammar schools (b) Sunday schools (c) Public schools 40. ministry set up the housing corporation. (a) Labour (b) Macmillan (c) Conservative PART B (5 4 = 20 marks) Write short notes on any FIVE of the following in about 100 words each. 41. The Absurd Drama. 42. What was the impact of the first world war on England? 43. Give an account of British life in the sixties. 44. Write a note on the development of communication during the Victorian age. 45. Write a note on T.S. Eliot s poetry. 46. Write about George Orwell. 6

7 47. Give an account of Bernard Shaw s contribution in Oscar Wilde s plays. 48. Discuss the features of Conan Doyle s crime fiction with reference to any one of his novels. PART C (2 20 = 40 marks) Write essay on any TWO of the following. 49. Consider Tennyson as a representative poet of his age. 50. Write an essay on the Victorian Age. 51. Write a note on Stream of Consciousness Novel. 7

U/ID 31521/URRB. (8 pages) DECEMBER PART A (40 1 = 40 marks) Answer the following questions, choose the best answer from the given alternatives.

U/ID 31521/URRB. (8 pages) DECEMBER PART A (40 1 = 40 marks) Answer the following questions, choose the best answer from the given alternatives. (8 pages) DECEMBER 2015 Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks PART A (40 1 = 40 marks) Answer the following questions, choose the best answer from the given alternatives. 1. was a by-product of Ruskin