B.A. Part II Examinations
English Honours
Paper III
Model Question Paper
Full Marks: 100
Time: 4 Hrs
(Candidates are advised to write answers in their own language as far as practicable.
Precise answers will be given credit. Spelling and grammatical errors will be penalised.)
Group A
Q1. Answer any four of the following questions, each in about 200 words:
4x5=20
a) Give a brief account of how the beginning of English drama lay in the Church
liturgy.
b) In what ways are the morality plays different from the mystery plays? Answer
with reference to one morality play.
c) What is a Revenge drama? Enumerate its features.
d) Assess the contribution of William Wycherley or William Congreve to
Restoration Comedy.
e) Consider the importance of the pre-Shakespearean dramatists in the development
of Elizabethan tragedy.
f) What are the characteristics of ‘lyrical’ drama?
Group B
Q2. Answer the following questions, each in about 450 words:
3x15=45
a) How does Marlowe portray the character of Tamburlaine in his play Tamburlaine
part I?
Or
Write a short note on Marlowe’s treatment of history in Tamburlaine part I.
Or
Write a note on the witches in Macbeth and discuss the part played by them in the
development of the dramatic action.
Or
What is Lady Macbeth’s view of her husband’s character? How far is it a true
estimate?
b) Love lives in many forms in Twelfth Night. Discuss the different forms of love in
Twelfth Night.
Or
Write an appreciation of the character of Feste and of the songs he sings.
Or
‘The deflation of the comic intrigue is the beginning of the ending.’Discuss with
reference to The Alchemist.
Or
Write a note on the treatment of alchemy as a religion in The Alchemist.
c) Discuss The Man of Mode as a comedy of manners.
Or
Comment on Etherge’s treatment of women in his play The Man of Mode.
Or
Analyze She stoops to Conquer as an anti-sentimental comedy.
Or
Comment on Goldsmith’s treatment of social class in the play She Stoops to Conquer.
Q3. Explain with reference to the context (any three), each in about 200 words: 3x5=15
a) What relish is in this? How runs the stream?
Or I am mad, or else this is a dream;
Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep;
If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!
b) But wherefore could not I pronounce ‘Amen’ ?
I had most need of blessing, and ‘Amen’
Stuck in my throat.
c) Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.
d) If music be the food of love, play on
e) Love gilds us over and makes us show fine things to one another for a time, but
soon the gold wears off, and then again the native brass appears.
f) And all the ocean by the British shore
And by this means I’ll win the world at last
g) When all your alchemy and your algebra,
Your minerals, vegetables and animals,
Your conjuring, coz’ning and your dozen of trades,
Could not relive your corpse ....
h)
Let them brag of their heathenish gods,
Their Lethes, their Styxes, and Stygians,
Their Quis, and their Quaes, and their Quods,
They’re all but a parcel of Pigeons.
Group C
Q4. Write notes on any four, each in about 100 words:
4x3=12
Denouement, comic relief, catastrophe, unities, irony, farce, dues ex machine