M.A. (Semester (CBCS) Examination, 2017
ENGLISH (PAPER II)
INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE
Day Date: Wednesday, 19-04-2017 Max. Marks: 70
Time: 10.30 AM to 01.00 PM
N.B. All questions are compulsory.
Figures to the right indicate full marks.
Q.1 Rewrite the following sentences by choosing the correct
alternatives from those given below:
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In 'The Country Without a Post Office' the city was robbed of every
call due to the death of
the soilders the priest the Muezzin the captain
'The Country Without a Post Office' was first published in the year
1997 1998 1979 1989
In 'The Floating Post Office' the poet requests to to drawn the
world.
river lake ocean rain
The line, "There's no way back to your country", occurs in the
poem
A Pastoral In Arabic
The Correspondent In Real Time
Mahmoud Darwish was a
Palestine poet Pakistani poet
Spanish poet Indian poet
What is the meaning of Shahid in Persian language
"The Beloved" "Witness"
"Honest" "Faithful"
Aga Shahid Ali was born in
Shrinagar New Delhi Mumbai Ayodhya
We shall meet again, in the gates of the villa of peace.
Shrinagar Sadanandnagar Mumbai Madras
Which of the following is not a gazal of Agha Shahid Ali
In Arabic In Real Time
By Exiles A Pastoral
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10) Egypt is referred in the poem
By Exiles The Correspondent
In Arabic In Real Time
11) When Lorca died, they left the balconies open and saw: on the
sea his qasidas stitched seamless in
Persian Arabic Urdu English
12) The comes to hold in real time.
Funeral love Constant love
Spiritual love Real love
13) "We're inside the fire, looking for the dark", This line occurs in the
poem
A Pastoral The country without a post
office
The Floating Post Office The Correspondent
14) And then we saw the boat being rowed through the fog of
birth death life life and death
Q.2 Answer any seven of the following questions in 2-3 sentences
each:
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How does Osho prove superiority of friendship over love?
What does Jasbir Jain say about M. K. Gandhi?
How is character built?
What is the connection between calendars and cultures?
Which are the Indian calendars mentioned in Whitakers Almance?
What should be the real motive of Karma?
How does Rushdie refute the charge that the 'Midnight's Children'
is Pessimistic?
What is Karma?
What is the goal of mankind according to Swami Vivekananda?
Q. 3 Answer any two of the following questions in brief 08
What is imagery? How it is used in Indian English Poetry?
What are the features of literary essay?
What is Myth? How it is used in Indian English Drama?
Answer briefly any two of the following questions in 06
Use of Myth's in the plays of Girish Karnad?
Descriptive Essay.
Use of spiritualism in Indian English Poetry?
Q.4 Compare and contrast the character of Prince Udayan with Chunda
Mahasegn.
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OR
Comment on the theme of Vasavadutta.
Q.5 Evaluate 'Inside the Haveli' as a Feministic Novel. 14