MAEG-06
June Examination 2017
M.A. (Final) English Examination
Victorian Age
Paper MAEG-06
Time 3 Hours Max. Marks 80
Note: The question paper is divided into three sections B and C.
Section A 8 × 2 16
Note: Section A contains 8 Very Short Answer Questions (one word, one sentence and definitional type). Answer all questions in not more than 30 words each.
'Dante deep fierce as the central fire of the world; Shakespeare wide as the sun, as the upper light of the world'. Who said this about the two great poets.
Who was Jim Hawkins in 'Treasure Island'?
Which character in 'The Return of the Native' drowns herself into the Shadewell Weir and ends her life?
Name the Academy where the story of 'Vanity Fair' opens.
Which character in 'Wuthering Heights' is presented as a deliberated contrast against Heathcliff?
What do you understand by Homeric Similie?
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MAEG-06 2000 3 (Contd.)
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How is the use of the word 'faultless' for a talented painter
ironical?
(viii) What is the poem 'The Cry of The Children' about?
Section B 4 × 8 32
Note: Section B contains 8 Short Answer Type Questions.
Answer any 4 in not more than 200 words each.
Comment on the two conflicting tendencies of the Victorian
times in 'Ulysses' and 'Lotus Eaters'.
Write a summary of 'The Deserted Garden' by E. B. Browning.
Write a note on the dead grammarian as a brave scholar.
Discuss Sohrab as the hero of the great poem by Mathew
Arnold.
Critically appreciate Hopkin's Sonnet 'Carrion Comfort'.
Draw a character sketch of Pip in 'Great Expectations'.
'Silas Marner' shows how mechanization imposes itself on the
worker. Elaborate.
Discuss the role of Nelly Dean as the narrator of 'Wuthering
Heights'.
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Section C 2 × 16 32
Note: Section C contains 4 Long Answer Type Questions.
Answer any 2 Questions in not more than 500 words each.
10) Discuss 'Vanity Fair' as a satire of society as a whole.
11) Discuss the love and marriage relationship in Hardy's novel
'The Return of the Native'.
12) Describe the voyage of the Hispaniola to and from the Treasure
Island.
13) Discuss 'The Subjection of Women' as a revolutionary text.