M.A. (Semester IV) (CBCS) Examination Mar/Apr-2018
English (Paper
AMERICAN LITERATURE
Time: 2½ Hours
Max. Marks: 70
Instructions: All questions are compulsory. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
Q.1
Rewrite the following statements by choosing the correct options given below:
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The „Theatrical Movement‟ that inspired Strindberg, O‟Neill and Tennessee Williams is known as
Realism
Impressionism
Expressionism
Naturalism
The name of Brick and Skipper‟s football team is
The Dixie Stars
The United Club
The young American
Real Madrid
The Period of Depression, revolt, economic, political and social problems of the is known as
Pragmatism
Expressionism
Naturalism
The lost generation
Addie‟s coffin in As I Lay Dying was built by
Jewel
Darl
Cash
Anse
is regarded as Cat in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Maggie
Mae
Big Mama
None
Kind of American Society is portrayed in the Death of Salesman.
Diplomatic
Political
Commercial and materialistic
Rural
is the setting region provided in the poem „After Apple Picking‟.
New England
North of Boston
Boston
Jefferson
is the locale of the action in As I Lay Dying.
New York
Texas
Concord
Yoknapatawpha Country
poem is written by Wallace Stevens.
Sunday Morning
After the apple picking
Mending Walls
Home Burial
10) Big Daddy expects from Brick in the play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Money
Property
Son
Wife
11) The movement "Expressionism" is originated from
USA
France
England
Germany
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12) is the protagonist in the novel A Farewell to Arms.
Count Greffi
Rinaldi
Fredrick Henry
None
13) According to Robert Frost Nature is
imagination
existential reality
fantasy
death
14) In "Of Modern Poetry" Wallace Stevens compares the poet to
Genius
God
Musician
Actor and Metaphysician
Q.2
Write a short answer. (Any seven)
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Write a note on the religious elements in Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning".
What is the condition of the apple picker is the poem „After the Apple
How does the poet describes „Woods‟ in the poem „Stopping by woods on a snowy evening"?
What is the message of the poet to the woman is the poem „Sunday
What are the characteristics, a modern poet should have according to Wallace Stevens is the poem „Of Modern
What is the attitude towards nature in Robert Frost‟s poems that you have studied?
Critically appreciate the last lines of the poem „Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening‟ "The Woods are lonely, dark and deep and miles to go before I sleep".
What is the theme of the poem „Passage to
Q.3

Write short notes on any two of the following.
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Concept of pragmatism
Concept of expressionism
Concept of Lost Generation

Write answers any two of the following.
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What is Southern Renaissance‟?
What is the concept of truth in „Pragmatism‟?
What are the main characteristics of „Naturalism‟?
Q.4
Discuss „A Farewell to Arms as a novel of Tragedy‟.
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OR
Discuss As I Lay Dying as a psychological novel.
Q.5
Discuss Death of Salesman as Family Drama.
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