DISTANCE EDUCATION
B.A. (English)/ B.A.(English) (Addl) DEGREE EXAMINATION,
MAY 2016.
RESTORATION LITERATURE
Time Three hours Maximum 100 marks
SECTION A — 8 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE questions.
1. Write briefly on the spread of experimental science in
England during the Restoration Period.
2. What does Dryden say about the power of music in
Song for St. Cecilia's Day?
3. How does Collins present death and life after death in his
poem. to
4. How does Blake pictures the making of the fearsome tiger
in his poem, titled
5. What do Addison Steele say about Sir Roger's visit to
Westminster
6. Sketch the character of Abraham Adams in Fielding's
Joseph Andrews.
7. What role do Lady Sneerwell and Snake play in the
action of the play, The School for Scandal
8. Sketch the character of Tony Lumpkin in Goldsmith's
She Stoops to conquer.
Sub. Code
15/103
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SECTION B — × 15 60 marks)
Answer any FOUR questions.
9. Write in detail about the practice of 'religions' in
Restoration England.
10. How does Milton present his vision of poetic melancholy
in Penseroso?
11. How does William Cowper immortalize the memory of the
castaway crewman and his pain in his poem?
12. How does Gray ruminate on death in his written
in a Country Churchyard
13. Critically examine Fielding's Joseph Andrews.
14. Discuss the story and plot construction in Sheridan's
The School for Scandal.
15. Justify the title of the play, She Stoops to conquer.