END TERM EXAMINATION, MAY 2016
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 is 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 was Ivan Dmitritch Chervyakov's matter of concern which led him to death?
b. What changed Gabriel grub's outlook towards life?
c. Share Phelp's views on books and reading.
d. What advice does Polonius give to his son?
e. How does Portia Praise Mercy?
f. What conclusion could be drawn from the story The bet?
g. Share M. Hidayatullah's view on Lawyers Born or made.
h. What is the gist of the poem On Valediction: Forbidding Mourning?
Explain the following with reference to context:
i. For Death had illumined the land of sleep,
And his life less body lay
A worn out fetter, that this soul
Had broken and thrown away!
j. If there's no hatred in a mind
Assault and battery of the wind
Can never tear the linnet from the leaf.
2. Write Nunez's experience in the strange country. (Marks 10)
3. Describe the nightingale's sacrifice for love. (Marks 10)
4. How does the poem psalm of life' inspire you? (Marks 10)
5. How does A. G. Gardiner show that bad manners probably do more to poison the stream of
the general life than all the crimes in the calendar? (Marks 10)
6. What does the essay Dream Children: A reverie say about the author? (Marks 10)
7. What message does Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam give in Indomitable Spirit? (Marks 05)
What precious knowledge does Julian Mantle share with John? (Marks 05)