SIXTH SEMESTER B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MARCH 2012

     SIXTH SEMESTER B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MARCH 2012

(CCSS)

Core Course – English

ENG5 B1 Indian Writing in English

Time: Three Hours                                                                     Maximum: 30 Weightage

I. Answer the following bunches of questions:-

A. 1. Breezy April, ………. April.

    (a) Vagrant.                                                     (b) Naughty.

    (c) Soothing.                                                   (d) Blessed.

2. Tryst means:

    (a) Appointment meeting.                              (b) Conflict.

    (c) Fight.                                                         (d) Face-to-face fight.

3. What prepared the narrator’s mind to fall in love with all and sundry in the story by R.K. Narayan?

     (a) Fiction.                                                    (b) Friends.

     (c) Loneliness                                               (d) Mars.

4. Who among the following would you relate to Shashi Deshpande?

     (a) Indu.                                                       (b) Mini.

     (c) Shankarappa.                                         (d) All these.

                        

B. Name of the following:

5. Who was the husband of Angoori?

6. An example for a poem of childhood and nostalgia.

7. Who was called the queen of the whole wide world and queen of the long tresses?

8. Whose waters are so clean and so ultramarine?

C. Match the following:

9. Mars                                         (a) Nehru

10. Radha                                     (b) In Love

11. Sleek crows                            (c) Kanhaya

12. Day appointed by destiny      (d) Angoori.

                                                     (e) Nehru

                                                     (f) R.K. Narayan

II. Answer each of the following questions in two or three sentences:

13. Whom did Radha ask about her lover at dawn?

14. What does the burning mouth of the sun remind the speaker of Kamala’s poem?

15. What does Kashmir shrink to?

16. What is the context of Nehru’s speech?

17. Who wrote the story The Weed?

18. Why did R.K. Narayan long for some engineering business?

19. Who is smiling and smiling?

20. How was Rani’s hair described?

21. Who is Kappanna?

III. Answer any five of the following in a paragraph of 100 words:

22. Kurudavva.

23. The Publication of Narayan’s first book.

24. Humour in Ezekiel’s poem.

25. Nostalgia in Ramanujan’s poem.

26. The theme the story The Weed.

27. Tagor’s poem as a nature poem.

28. The title Tryst with Destiny.

IV. Answer any two of the following questions in 300 words.

29. Write an essay on the range of themes as well as structural aspects of the Indian poems.

30. Write a critical appreciation of Nagamandala.

31. Roots and shadows projects some basic issues from a woman’s point of view: substantiate.