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Name of the University : Periyar University
Degree : B.A
Department : English
Year : I
Name Of The Subject : Choice Based Credit System
Document type : Model Question Paper
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Periyar University Choice Based Credit System Questions

Periyar University
Degree Of Bachelor Of Arts
Choice Based Credit System
Model Question Paper For B.A.English

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ACADEMIC YEAR 2012 – 2013 ONWARDS
First Semester

Core Paper – I Fiction

Time : Three hours Maximum: 75 marks
SECTION ‘A’- (20 Marks)
I. Answer the following questions in about 30 words each : (10 x 2 = 20)
1. How does Jane radiate love and affection-
2. Why does Ingram Blanche leave Rochester-
3. Write a note on Bertha’s bestial love-
4. Role of Lloyd
5. How do Elizabeth and Newson turn against Henchard-
6. Write a note on ‘The Skimmity-ride’
7. Sketch the character of Newson briefly
8. Henchard’s oath
9. Describe the last days of Bernard Marx
10. What is done in The Bottling Room-

SECTION ‘B’-(25 Marks)
II. Answer the following in about 100 words each : (5 x 5 = 25)
11. (a) Bring out the character of ‘Rochester’
(OR)
(b) Mrs. Reed’s ill-treatment of Jane
12. (a) How are Jane and Rochester united at the end-
(OR)
(b) Contrast Jane Eyre and Ingram Blanche
13. (a) Sketch the Character of ‘Lucetta’.
(OR)
(b) Narrate the circumstances leading to the sale of Susan.
14. (a) Sketch the characters of Farfrae .
(OR)
(b) Susan is a pretty woman with a hard experience Discuss.
15. (a) Sketch the character of Mustapha Mond.
(OR)
(b) Illustrate Bernard Marx as one of the organizers of the World State.

SECTION ‘C’-(30 Marks)
III. Answer any THREE of the following questions in about 200 words each : (3 x 10 = 30)
16. Describe the different kinds of love in’ Jane Eyre’.
17. “The Lowood School of Charlotte Bronte is a hideous Educational institution” Elucidate.
18. Hardy’s tragic outlook of life as revealed in ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’.
19. Justify the title of the novel ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’.
20. Discuss Huxley’s’ Brave Newworld’ as an anti-utopian satire on current trends

Allied -I – Social History Of England

Time : Three hours
Maximum : 75 marks
Section ‘A’ – (20 Marks)
I. Answer the following questions in about 30 words each :
1. What is Reformation? (10 x 2 = 20)
2. Write a note on Puritanism
3. Coffee Houses
4. Wesley Brothers
5. The Great Exhibition of 1851
6. The Third Reform Bill
7. Boer war
8. Cold war
9. Margaret Thatcher’s Acts
10. Recent Booker Prize Winners of India

Section’B’ – (25 Marks)
II. Answer the following questions in about 100 words each : (5 x 5 = 25)
11. (a) What are the causes of Colonial Expansion
(OR)
(b) Civil war and its consequences.

12. (a) Agrarian Revolution.
(OR)
(b) The Methodist Movement.

13. (a) The Oxford Movement
(OR)
(b) Public schools

14. (a) Political disturbances in the Victorian Age
(OR)
(b) Write a note on common wealth Britain

15. (a) Trade Unionism.
(b) The Whigs and The Tories.

SECTION ‘C’ : (30 Marks)
III. Answer any THREE of the following questions in about 200 words each : (3 x 10 = 30)
16. The Counter Reformation
17. The Industrial Revolution
18. The effects of French Revolution
19. The Two World Wars
20. Contemporary England

Core Paper – II – Grammar & Usage

Time : Three hours
Maximum : 75 marks
Section ‘A’ : (20 Marks)
I. Answer the following questions: (10 x 2 = 20)
1. Classify countable and uncountable nouns from the following list :
heap, gold, man, health, air, liberty, mob, fire.

2. Fill in the blanks with suitable pronouns :
(a) The boys are playing with friends.
(b) The bird is in nest.

3. Classify quality, quantity, number, demonstrative, distributive , possessive and interrogative adjectives from the following list. our, little, each, beautiful, thirteen, white, whose, these.

4. Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions
(a) My birthday is October 21.
(b) Don’t cry spilt milk.

5. Complete the sentences with suitable adverbs.
(a) He goes to the cinema.
(b) Don’t run .

6. Combine the following sentences with suitable con junctions.
(a) Take it. Leave it.
(b) He came to school in time . He got up late.

7. Identify the following sentences as Declarative/Interrogative/Imperative/Exclamatory :
(a) What a fine picture it is
(b) Which game do you like

8. Match the following :
(a) The worst sin (i) is this cottage
(b) My only asset (ii) is pride
(iii) to meet her

9. Underline the idioms and phrases in the following sentences.
(a) He agreed to carry out my orders.
(b) He visits this place once in a blue moon.

10. Define :
1. Simile
2. Paradox.