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MAR IVANIOS COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS)
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
Reg. No. :.………………… Name :.………………….
Sixth Semester B.A. Degree Examination, April 2018
First Degree Programme under CBCSS
Core Course: English XIV
AUEN644: Women‟s Writing
Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 80
SECTION A
Answer ALL questions each in a word or in a sentence.
1. What is the theme of the song within the play The Swing of Desire?
2. Who is the author of „Writing Women Across
3. The word that Alice Walker coined to incorporate the greater dimensions of African feminism.
4. Mythical counterpart of Molly Bloom.
5. Why does the poet compare herself to Lazarus?
6. The year in which A Room of One`s Own was published as a book
7. "It`s a theatrical comeback". What does the speaker mean?
8. What does the Panchaloha ring symbolize in the context of the story?
9. What is the meaning of the name Meimei?
10. English translation of Mayye Bhara Manava Bhara.
(10 1 10 Marks)
SECTION B
Answer any EIGHT questions, each in a short paragraph not exceeding 50 words.
11. How does Mariam fall into the river?
12. "…literalists of the imagination…" Who used the phrase to describe whom?
13. What according to Woolf are the two essential conditions for a woman to be a writer?
14. What does Nikki Giovanni mean by the phrase "she spun herself into a web"?
15. What was the significance of Chinatown in Rules of the Game?
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16. How is Sahgal`s work different from her early contemporaries?
17. How is Molly different from the stereotypical female characters created by men?
18. What do the walls do to the woman?
19. Why did Mr. Woodfield`s daughters visit Belgium?
20. How did the plat „dandelion‟ get its name?
21. The privileges enjoyed by young Shakespeare, according to Virginia Woolf.
22. What is the parallelism in the story of the pan and the Nymph?
2 16 Marks)
SECTION C
Answer any SIX questions, each in a paragraph not exceeding 100 words.
23. Sylvia Plath as a Confessional poet.
24. Comment on the significant 'absent presence' of Molly Bloom's husband.
25. Deshpande`s attitude to the word „feminist‟.
26. Attempt an ecofeminist reading of The Grass Blade.
27. How does the poet express her indignation against the objectification of the female body in "I am not that Woman"?
28. What is the idea that Atwood is trying to communicate through her poem Spelling?
29. What are the forces at work in the production of good poetry?
30. Write a short note on how class, race and gender as social constructs influence women`s lives.
31. Depiction of caste system in The Slayer Slain.
4 24 Marks)
SECTION D
Answer any TWO questions, each in about 300 words.
32. "Education liberates and ennobles." Explain the statement with special reference to the character of Mariam in The Slayer Slain.
33. Explain briefly Alice Walker`s arguments in "In Search of our Mother`s Gardens".
34. How does Deshpande`s short story reveal society`s restriction over woman`s freedom by defining her role?
35. Attempt a critical appreciation of "Aunt Jennifer`s Tigers".
15 30 Marks)