MEG07 Twentieth Century Literature M.A Question Bank : uou.ac.in

Name of the University : Uttarakhand Open University
Degree : M.A
Department : English
Year : I
Subject Code/Name : MEG07 Twentieth Century Literature
Document Type : Old Question Papers
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Twentieth Century Literature :

M.A. (Previous) English Examination 2012
Time : 03 Hours
Max. Marks: 60

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The question paper is divided into three sections, A, B and C. Follow instructions
SECTION A : (Long-Answer Questions)
Note : Answer any two questions. Each question carries 15 marks.
Q1. Discuss T.S. Eliot as a classist.
Q2.“Joan is a highly complex character, and in her personality the dramatist has achieved a synthesis of a number of opposite qualities.” Elucidate.
Q3. Bring out the autobiographical element in Sons and Lovers.
Q4. Would you regard A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as a stream of consciousness novel? Elaborate your answer with reference to the novel.

Section B : (Short-Answer Questions)
Note : Answer any four questions. Each question carries 5 marks. 4×5=20
Q1. Write a short note on the use of symbols in the poems of W. B. Yeats.
Q2. What were the circumstances under which Christy had killed his father in The Playboy of the Western World?

Q3. Discuss Jimmy Porter as an angry young man.
Q4. Write a short note on the Theatre of the Absurd.
Q5. Virginia Woolf represents the feminization of the English novel. Comment.

Q6. Do you think that Huxley pokes fun at the emerging scientific utopia in Brave New World? Discuss briefly.
Q7. Why is the elephant shot at the end in the essay ‘Shooting an Elephant’?
Q8. What is the central idea of the poem ‘September 1, 1939 about?

Section C : Objective Questions (Compulsory)
Answer all questions. Each question carries 01 mark. 10×01=10
Q1. Who among the following poets has written the poem ‘Fern Hill’?
(a) Dylan Thomas
(b)W.H. Auden
(c )T.S. Eliot
(d) W.B. Yeats

Q2. Who said, “The Wasteland is music of ideas, the ideas like the musician’s phrases are arranged not that they may combine into a coherent whole of feeling and attitude.”
(a) F. R. Leavis
(b)Yvor Winters
(c )I.A. Richard
(d) None of the above

Q3. In which year was George Bernard Shaw awarded the Nobel Prize for literature?
Q4. Name the widow who proposes marriage to Christy in The Playboy of the Western World?
Q5. With which group of dramatists do we associate John Osborne?

Q6. In which play do we find the characters Vladimir and Estragon?
Q7. How is Eric Arthur Blair better known as?
Q8. Virginia Woolf is associated with the ___________ Group.
Q9. ____________ represents Joyce in the novel The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Q10.The novel _____________ is an example of Freudian Oedipus complex.

Second Year Examination-2015 :
MEG-07 Twentieth Century Literature :
Time : 3 Hours
Maximum Marks : 60
Note : This paper is of sixty (60) marks divided into three (03) sections A, B, and C. Attempt the questions contained in these sections according to the detailed instructions given therein.

Section – A : (Long Answer Type Questions)
Note : Section ‘A’ contains four (04) long-answer-type questions of fifteen (15) marks each. Learners are required to answer any two (02) questions only. (2×15=30)
1. Explain Orwell’s main motive in “Shooting an Elephant”.
2. Comment on the art of characterization in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway.

3. T.S. Eliot mixes myth with reality to explain the spiritual barrenness of Europe in The Wasteland explain with textual quotations.
4. Critically describe Saint Joan as a tragedy?

Section – B : (Short Answer Type Questions)
Note : Section ‘B’ contains eight (08) short-answer-type questions of five (05) marks each. Learners are required to answer any four (04) questions only. (4×5=20)
1. Briefly explain the significance of ‘Epilogue’ in Saint Joan.
2. Comment briefly on Waiting for Godot as belonging to the theatre of the absurd.

3. Give a short critical appreciation of ‘Easter 1916’ written by Yeats.
4. Explain Oedipus complex in Sons and Lovers.
5. What is the central idea in The Playboy of the Western World?

6. Write a short note on Look Back in Anger as the product of Angry Young Generation.
7. Comment briefly on the elements of Indian philosophy in The Wasteland.
8. Write, in short, the autobiographical clements in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.