DISTANCE EDUCATION
B.A. (English)/B.A. (English) (Addl. Degree) DEGREE
EXAMINATION, DECEMBER 2017.
RESTORATION LITERATURE
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
SECTION A — x 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE questions.
1. Write a note on the state of sports and games during the
Restoration period in England.
2. What was called the Glorious Revolution?
3. How does Dryden describe the process of the creation of
the universe in "A song for St. Cecilia's day?"
4. How does Blake Construct the image of the "tiger" in his
poem?
5. What do Addison and Steele say about popular
superstitions?
6. How do Joseph Andrews and Fanny Goodwill find each
other?
7. Write briefly on Sir Peter and Lady Teazle's married life.
8. Justify the title of the play, She Stoops to Conquer.
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SECTION B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR questions.
9. Write an essay on the origin and growth of political
parties in England
10. How does Milton picturise life in a small town and in a
city in L'Allegro?
11. What portrait of Atticus does Pope present to us in his
poem?
12. Bring out the emotion and pathos in Gray's "Elegy
Written in a Country Churchyard."
13. Attempt an appreciation of Collins's "Ode to Evening."
14. What are Sir Roger's reactions to the play, he and his
friends watch at the theatre?
15. How does Sir Oliver find out the real character of Charles
Surface and Joseph Surface?