DISTANCE EDUCATION
M.A. (English) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2018.
PROSE
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
PART A — × 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE of the following.
1. How to check an ambitious man?
2. What are the causes of superstition? When does reform
becomes a threat to society?
3. What is Sir Roger's attitude to his servants?
4. How does Lamb describe his boyhood in the essay
Dream Children A
5. What are the implications of George Orwell's ''Reflections
on
6. Why is self-reliance so difficult to achieve?
7. How does Ngugi establish the relation between language
and culture?
8. What instances of an efficient human memory are given
by Lynd in
PART B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR of the following.
9. Write a critical appreciation of Bacon's Revenge''.
10. What are the causes of superstition? When does reform
become a threat to society?
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11. What are Steele's views on the ideal master-servant
relationship as expressed in his essay, 'The Coverley
Household'?
12. Praise of Chimney Sweepers'' shows Lamb's
sympathy for the poor Substantiate.
13. Discuss the factors that condition civilization.
14. Discuss Thoreau's style in 'Civil disobedience'.
15. Justify the title Umbrella Morals' in your own words.
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