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END TERM EXAMINATION, APRIL 2017
B.A.LL.B. (HONS.)
SEMESTER-II
English Literature
Max. Marks: 60 Time Allowed: 3:00 Hrs.
Note: Answer five questions including Question No. 1 which is compulsory. The marks carried by each
question are indicated at the end of the question.
1. Answer the following (each answer should be in approximately 100 words): (Marks 2×10=20)
a. What do you think about the nightingale's sacrifice and compassion?
b. How does Martin's outlook towards life change?
c. What advice does Polonius give to Leartes?
d. Share E. V. Lucas' views on bores.
e. Write down the autobiographical element in Dream Children: A reverie.
f. What message does the story 'after twenty years' give?
g. What according to A.G. Gardiner keep the machine of life oiled and make it run sweetly?
h. What makes Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam so great?
i. How practical are the ways of life shown by Julian Mantle?
j. What message does Jawahar Lal Nehru want to convey in Tryst with destiny?
2. Explain the following with reference to context: (Marks
The sanguine Sunrise, with his meteor eyes,
And his burning plumes outspread,
Leaps on the back of my sailing rack,
When the morning star shines dead,
As on the jag of the mountain crag,
Which an earthquake rocks and swings,
An eagle alit one moment may sit
As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends say
The breath goes now, and some say, No:
So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear floods, nor sigh tempests move,
'Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.
3. Write down the experiences of Edward Foreman. (Marks 10)
4. What were the turning points of Ashionov's life? (Marks 10)
5. What does Phelp think about books and reading? (Marks 10)
6. What is the poets outlook towards life in the poem A Psalm of Life? (Marks 10)
7. What message does Portia's speech on mercy give? (Marks 10)