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MAR IVANIOS COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS)
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
Reg. No. :.………………… Name :.………………….
Second Semester B.A. Degree Examination, June 2016
First Degree Programme under CBCSS
Complementary Course: English II
AUEN231.1b: History of English Literature II
Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 80
SECTION A
Answer ALL questions each in a word or in a sentence.
1. The Royal Society was founded in the year
2. James I reign is known as
3. The Corn Law was passed in
4. Puritans fled to the New World in a ship called
5. The Bank of England was founded during the reign of
6. In which battle was Napoleon defeated
7. The task of planting a colony in America was carried out by
8. The East India Company was formed in
9. Who was referred as the Young Pretender
10. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary was published in
(10 x 1 10 Marks)
SECTION B
Answer any EIGHT questions, each in a short paragraph not exceeding 50 words.
11. Union Act of 1707.
12. Millenary Petition.
13. Clarendon Code.
14. The Lyrical Ballads.
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15. Cavalier Poets.
16. The Great Plague of 1665.
17. Comedy of Manners.
18. Pride's Purge.
19. Lord Protector.
20. Laurence Sterne.
21. The Evangelical Movement.
22. Robert Burns.
x 2 16 Marks)
SECTION C
Answer any SIX questions, each in a paragraph not exceeding 100 words.
23. The novelists of the Romantic Age.
24. Restoration Theatre.
25. The Age of Johnson.
26. Coffee Houses.
27. The Metaphysical Poets.
28. Methodism.
29. Daniel Defoe.
30. What are the effects of French Revolution on British life
31. How is the classification of Romantic poets made
x 4 24 Marks)
SECTION D
Answer any TWO questions, each in about 300 words.
32. Romantic Age as an "Age of Revolution".
33. Puritanism was "the religion of all those who wished to purify the rituals of the established church from the taint of Roman Catholicism" Discuss
34. "The eighteenth century reflects the waning of the neoclassical school and the rise of the romantic school" Substantiate.
35. Write an essay on American War of Independence.
x 15 30 Marks)