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P.T.O.
MAR IVANIOS COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS)
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
Reg. No. :.………………… Name :.………………….
First Semester B.A. B.Sc. Degree Examination, November 2016
First Degree Programme under CBCSS
Foundation Course English
AUEN121.1 /AUEN121.2: Writing on Contemporary Issues
Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 80
SECTION A
Answer ALL questions each in a word or in a sentence.
1. Name the article by Jeremy Seabrook about the effects of the global market on children.
2. What is the biggest killer disease among children
3. What does Tagore mean by 'old love'
4. What do the seals from the Indus civilisation depict
5. 'All is seared with trade'. Explain.
6. Who was Proteus
7. Who were the two women accompanying the Mahatma
8. Who was John Locke
9. What was Juliet Mitchell's argument
10. Who said Oppol was Appu's mother
(10 x 1 10 Marks)
SECTION B
Answer any EIGHT questions, each in a short paragraph not exceeding 50 words.
11. Why did the Black liberation movements reject the arrangement of homelands.
12. How has the role of government changed after globalization.
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13. What is G 20
14. What is the gift that the lover receives from the spellbound heart in the poem 'Unending love'
15. Explain the terms Prakriti and Sanskriti.
16. What similes does Hopkins use to describe the prevalence of God's grandeur
17. What is the theme of the poem 'The World is Too Much With
18. Distinguish between rights and morals.
19. Whom does the 'youthful Harlot' curse and why
20. How was Bakha affected by the memory of Gandhi praising the Brahmin who did scavenging work
21. How has patriarchy denied women their subjectivity
22. Why did Shankaran Nair lower his voice when he saw Appu
x 2 16 Marks)
SECTION C
Answer any SIX questions, each in a paragraph not exceeding 100 words.
23. How does Sylvia Walby conclude her discussion of gender
24. What alternative to Globalization does Amit Bhaduri suggest in the essay 'Globalisation and Education
25. Comment on the experience of love in the poem 'Unending love'
26. What changes came about in the attitude towards forests and forest dwellers as a result of colonialism
27. Discuss the Romantic traits in the poem 'The World is too Much with Us'.
28. Give examples for the violation of human rights mentioned in 'Thinking About Human Rights'.
29. How, according to the poet Iqbal Nath Sarshar, did the West misinterpret the Upanishads
30. What role does 'Symbolic hegemony' play in the caste issue in India
31. Why did Appu quarrel with Kuttisankaran
x 4 24 Marks)
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SECTION D
Answer any TWO questions, each in about 300 words.
32. Summarise the main arguments put forward by Avinash Jha in 'The Globalised World'.
33. Discuss Grandeur' as a religious poem.
34. Analyse Blake's 'London' as a critique of British industrial society of the time
35. Where had Oppol gone without telling Appu
x 15 30 Marks)