CLASS: B.A. ENGLISH LIT.
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St. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS) TIRUCHIRAPPALLI – 620 002
SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS – APRIL 2014
TIME: 3 Hrs.
MAXIMUM MARKS: 100
SEM
SET
PAPER CODE
TITLE OF THE PAPER
IV
2012
11UEN430208
BRITISH NOVEL – II (MODERN AGE)
SECTION – A
Answer all the questions:
20 x 1 = 20
Choose the correct answer:
1. In the Brave New World, Huxley states that science and technology
has replaced ______.
a) Culture
b) Humans
c) God
d) Birth
2. Henry James’s Daisy Miller portrays the life of the ______.
a) Americans
b) Afro Americans
c) Africans
d) Australians
3. ______is a promising poet and intellectual, but he had an
unfortunate marriage.
a) Charles Tansley
b) Carmichael
c) Mr. Ramsay
d) William Bankes
4. George Orwell is the pen name of ______.
a) Walter Allen
b) Eric Blair
c) John Updike
d) David Steel
5. The title of the novel The Power and the Glory is taken
from ______.
a) The Lord’s Prayer
b) Shakespeare’s plays
c) Dryden’s Epigraph
d) The Priest’s message
Fill in the blanks:
6.
The term ______ is applied to the character of John by the brave
new world inhabitants to equate it with primitivism.
7.
______is a guide to the Miller’s family.
8.
The animals renamed their property as ______to dedicate
themselves to the Old Major’s dream.
9.
______the oldest son of the Ramsay’s family was killed in the
battle.
10. ______is the illegitimate child of the drunken priest.
State True or False:
11. The world state’s motto emphasizes the importance of the group
and the subsequent unimportance of the individual.
12. Henry James’s Daisy Miller exposes the life of an African girl
attempting to inhabit the customs of European society.
13. Mrs. Ramsay’s death was caused by malaria.
14. The name of the Animal Farm was renamed back to Manor Farm.
15. Padre Jose was a priest who renounced the catholic faith for fear
of execution by the new government.
Match the following:
16. Hypnopaedic
- a) gothic castle
17. Lieutenant
- b) sleep teaching
18. Chateau de Chillon
- c) seven hundred pesos
19. Lily Briscoe
- d) Beasts of England
20. Old Major
- e) painter
SECTION – B
Answer all the questions:
5 x 4= 20
21. a. How important is the World Controller to the development of
the novel and the expressions of Huxley’s ideas?
OR
b. Describe the significance of the World State’s motto.
22. a. How does Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Costello represent the
snobbish high society?
OR
b. Compare the character of Winterbourne with Giovanelli.
23. a. Describe the Oedipal struggle between James and Mr. Ramsay.
OR
b. Compare the character of Mr. Ramsay with Mrs. Ramsay.
24. a. How does Snowball act as a morally legitimate political
alternative to the corrupt leadership of Napolean?
OR
b. Why does George Orwell choose a fable in his condemnation
of Soviet Communism and totalitarianism?
25. a. The ‘Whisky Priest’ is both a sinner and a saint. How far do
you agree with this view?
OR
b. The characters of the priest and the lieutenant are the symbols
of the struggle between the church and the state. Discuss.
SECTION – C
Answer any FOUR questions:
4 x 15 = 60
26. Describe Huxley’s attitude towards science and technology in the
novel Brave New World.
27. How does Henry James depict the life of the expatriate Americans
through the character of Daisy Miller?
28. Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse is a novel about the search for
meaning in life. Discuss.
29. How do the animals rewrite history in George Orwell’s Animal
Farm?
30. Discuss the theme of damnation or salvation in Graham Greene’s
The Power and the Glory.
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