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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI 600 034
U.G. DEGREE EXAMINATION GENERAL ENGLISH
FIRST SEMESTER NOVEMBER 2017
17UEL1GE01 ADVANCED ENGLISH
Date: 01-11-2017 Dept. No. Max. 100 Marks
Time: 01:00-04:00
SECTION A
I Answer any FIVE of the following questions in 75 words each: 5 × 4 20 marks)
1. How does Malala describe her hometown?
2. Why was Fred, the penguin, "an odd bird"? Explain.
3. What kind of friendship does Polonius advocate to Laertes?
4. What was common about the three men, who visited the inn, BED AND BREAKFAST?
5. Why was Velan upset on seeing the trees being cut?
6. What was the reason for the emperor's visit to the hermit's hut?
7. Name any six of the "favourite things" mentioned in the song, My Favourite Things?
8. What is the significance of the shepherd's act?
SECTION B
II Answer any FOUR of the following questions in 150 words each: × 10 40 marks)
9. Explain in detail, the struggles faced by Malala and her father in educating the girls of Swat
Valley.
10. Narrate the story of Yuvraj Singh's fight with cancer as given in the lesson, The Test of My
Life.
11. What did Fred observe and how did he make Alice believe that Our Iceberg Is Melting?
12. Explain Rudyard Kipling's use of the word, If, as an advice for success in life.
13. Explain how The Landlady is a horror story, with a difference. Give examples from the text.
14. How are the answers of the hermit different from the ones given by the people? Describe,
elaborate and differentiate.
15. What is Dr.Kalam's grand vision for India by the year 2020? Can we achieve it? Or will it be
a pipe dream? Debate.
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SECTION C
III Answer the following in 300 words: 1 × 20 20 marks)
16. Draw parallels between the short story, The Axe and the French novella, The Man Who
Planted Trees. What are your suggestions for arresting the ecological disasters happening all
over the world?

Comment on the patriot's perception of nationalism in Nissim Ezekiel's poem, Patriot.
Comment on the Indianisms in the poem.
SECTION D
IV Answer the following: 1 × 20 20 marks)
17. Love and love for Music and Nature are the ways to make (wo)men angelic. Discuss,
culling out examples from any text prescribed for you.

Write a short story of your own, laced with a magical touch of suspense and humour.
Give a suitable title as well.