I.A/I.Sc./I.Com, Part-I
Language Literature (English), Paper-I
Time: 3.00 Hrs. Full Marks: 80
Candidates are required to give their answer in their own words as far as practicable.
Answer any five questions. Question no.1 is compulsory. All questions carry equal marks.
1. Choose the correct answer of each of the following questions from the options given below.
The second glass of Vodka turned the peasant and his friends into:
Wolves Fox Pigs Snails
Nehru states that if he dies in a foreign country his body should be:
Cremated there brought to India
preserved there buried there itself
The proprietor of the Indigo factory was an:
Indian English man Industrialist Irish man
Rabindra Nath Tagore's The Postmaster is a story.
humorous comic tragic detective
The astrologer left his village:
looking for a job for earning money
because of his criminal act for setting in town
An Astrologer's Day is written by
R.N. Tagor R.K. Narayan M.K. Gandhi E.M. Forster
The cobbler and the machine deals with the story of:
a poor man an orphan a business man an old cobbler
The young man had brought the advertisement of the singer machine from:
the shop village the railway station the exhibition
The one indispensable condition for building a sound education is:
qualified teachers infrastructure
committed students purity of personal life
The countries where culture is almost as extensive as civilization itself are:
America and England France and Pakistan
China and Japan India only
As You Like It is Shakespeare's great play which is a
historical play comedy Roman play romance play
The Gift of God is written by:
William Wordsworth George Hebert
William Shakespeare H.L.V. Derozio
Which of the following is Ode On Solitude?
Elegiac Pastoral religious philosophical
The daffodils is:
a narrative poem a sonnet a lyric a ballad
To what object does Wordsworth compare the daffodils?
the rose the stars the hills rivers
Martha would tell her stories in
the hazel glen in a small room in a big hall in a park
2. What do you know about Buddha or Shah Jehan
3. Give a character sketch of Shylock or Portia.
4. What do you know about the early man
5. How was life started on the earth
6. Give summary of the play
7. Show your acquaintance with the poem The Daffodils or Martha.
8. Tell in brief the story of As You Like