SIXTH SEMESTER B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MARCH 2014

     SIXTH SEMESTER B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MARCH 2014

                                                                  (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. From which collection is the poem Songs of Radha: The Quest is taken?

(a) The Broken Wing.                    (b) The Golden Threshold.

(c) The Bird of Time                      (d) The Feather of the Dawn.

2. How is the touch of the breeze described?

(a) Loving.                                      (b) Sweet surprises.

(c) Warm.                                       (d) Soothing.

3. Who speaks about skin-communicated thing?

(a) Kamala Das.                             (b) Shashi Deshpande.

(c) Tagore.                                     (d) Nissim Ezekiel.

4. Which of the following is not a short story written by R.K. Narayan?

(a)The Grandmother’s Tale.           (b) The Bachelor of Arts.

(c) The Martyr’s Corner.                (d) All these.

B. Name of following:-

5. What shakes the heart of Radha?

6. What does the speaker of Postcard from Kashmir hold in hand?

7. Who calls Puspa the dear departing sister?

8. Who is called the architect of freedom by Nehru?

C. Match the following:-

9. Marie Corelli                      (a) Nehru.

10. The Weed                         (b) Come let us dance.

11. Flames                              (c) Rani.

12. Chastity                            (d) Angoori.

                                               (e) Kappanna.

                                              (f) A Romance of Two Worlds.

II. Answer each of following in two or three sentences.

13. Where did the speaker seek Krishna?

14. What is the theme of Tagor’s poem?

15. What does the poet think of the English language used in the poem about Miss Puspha T.S.?

16. Who looks for the cousin on a swing?

17. Why was the narrator bothered with Mars in the seventh house?

18. What does Nehru mean by the phrase tryst with destiny?

19. What was the effect of Kurudavv’s potion?

20. What was Ranis’s condition in the yearly days of her marriage?

21. Comment on the role of Kappanna.

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

22. The flames.

23. Narayan’s infatuation with a pen friend in England.

24. Relationship between Indu and Naran.

25. Kamala Das as a confessional poet.

26. Angoori’s marriage.

27. The literary device used by Tagore.

28. The historical and political context of Nehru’s speech.

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

29. Write an essay on the theme, form and politics of Nissim Eskiel’s poem?

30. What contributes to the potentiality of Nagamandala as a play?

31. How does Roots and Shadows reflect problems and conflicts in the life of an educated woman in India?