CLASS: B.A. ENGLISH LIT.
11N/ 203
St. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS) TIRUCHIRAPPALLI – 620 002
SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS – NOVEMBER 2011
TIME: 3 Hrs.
MAXIMUM MARKS: 100
SEM
SET
PAPER CODE
TITLE OF THE PAPER
V
2009
08UEN530207
BRITISH NOVEL – I (NEO – CLASSICAL TO
VICTORIAN AGE)
SECTION – A
Answer all the questions:
20 x 1 = 20
Choose the correct answer:
1.
2.
________ rescues Sophia from drowning
a) Squire Thornhill
c) Burchell
b)
d)
________ poisons Elizabeth’s mind against Darcy
a) Wickham
b)
c) Lucas
d)
Dr. Primrose
George
Collins
Bingley
3.
After the name Jacques was repeated ________ times, the men paid for their drinks and left the
shop
a) Four
b) Three
c) Five
d) Two
4.
Maggie called her brother ________ when he put a stop to her meetings with Philip
a) ‘A Samaritan ’
b) ‘A dingy man’
c) ‘A brainy Chap’
d) ‘A Pharisee’
5.
________ does not figure in the novel ‘The Return of the Native’
a) Susan Nursuch
b) Swe Bridehead
c) Eustacia Vye
d) Thomasin
Fill in the blanks:
6.
An analog is often drawn between Mr. Primrose’s suffering and ________in The Bible.
7.
Jane is in love with________.
8.
Charles Darnay was charged as being a ________against England.
9.
________regarded all the people who came to the sale of the Tullivers household effects “as
her personal enemies”.
10.
Clym at the end, finds his true vocation as a ________.
State True or False:
11.
George’s wedding to wealthy Arabella Wilmot is called off as the Vicar loses all his money
through the bankruptcy.
12.
Mr. Wickham desired to study Medicine.
13.
Each of the fifteen prisoners who were tried before Charles Darnay was sentenced to death.
14.
The inscription on the tombstone of Maggie and Tom Tulliver is “In their death they were
divided”.
15.
Chance and coincidence play a vital role in the novels of Hardy.
Answer in one or two sentences:
16.
Who was Mr.Burchell actually?
17.
Why did Elizabeth turn down Mr.Darchy’s proposal?
18.
Why was the fourteenth day of July 1789 important?
19.
What was the nationality of the vessel which picked up Maggie and Stephen and to which port
was it sailing?
For whom does Mrs. Yeobright originally intends Thomasin as a bride?
20.
SECTION – B
Answer all the questions:
21.
a.
5 x 4 = 20
Character of Dr.Primrose.
OR
22.
b.
Compare and contrast the characters of Olivia and Sophia Primrose.
a.
Write a brief character sketch of Mr. Bingley.
OR
23.
b.
The significance of the ball at Netherfield park.
a.
Character of Sydney Carton.
OR
24.
b.
“Tell the court what you did that day
Within the Bastille, Citizen”
1) Who is that ‘you’?
2) What did the citizen do that day?
a.
Character of Tom Tulliver.
OR
25.
b.
“You have been reproaching other people all your life – you have been always sure you
yourself are right; it is because you have not a mind large enough to see that there is
anything better than your own conduct and your own petty aims.”
1) Who accuses? Who is accused?
2) Write the context.
a.
Character of Eustacia.
OR
b.
Mrs. Yeobright’s Quarrel with Her Son.
SECTION – C
Answer any FOUR questions:
4 x 15 = 60
26.
The novel The Vicar of Wakefield displays the belief in the innate goodness of human being –
Justify.
27.
Describe the love between Darcy and Elizabeth.
28.
Describe the events leading to the storming of the Bastille.
29.
Attempt an essay on the style of femininity presented in the characters of Maggie and Lucy.
30.
Write
an
essay
on
The Return of the Native.
Hardy’s
philosophy
**************
of
life
as
revealed
in