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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH(UG)
QUESTION BANK
CC1:
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Chaucer: The Wife of Bath’s Prologue:
1. What is the real name of the wife of Bath?Why is she called wife of Bath?
5.How does the wife of Bath control her old three husbands?
8.How does the wife of Bath uses scriptures to justify her many marriages?
Group: B (Philology)
• Influences: Greek, Latin, Scandinavian, French
CC2:
Poetry:
• Edmund Spenser: Sonnet LXXV “One day I wrote her name”:
1. " Vayne man sayd she" ---Who is the man referred to and why is he so called?
2.Where did Spencer write his beloveds name? What was the b eloveds name?
3.How does the poet - lover try to immortalize the name of his beloved?
4." Not so ,quod l" ---Give the meaning of the word quod.what is the speaker contradicting?
5." And eek my name wyped out likewise"---- what is the meaning of the word eek? Explain the line.
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6."And in the hevens wryte your glorious name"--Who is the speaker? Why will he write her name in the
heavens?
7."A mortal thing to immortalize"--- what is meant by A mortal thing? Who wants to immortalize it?
8.To whom is Spensers Sonnet no 75 ( from Amoretti)addressed?What is the rhyme scheme of this sonnet?
• William Shakespeare: Sonnet 130 “My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun” :
1. How does the poet describe his mistress's beauty in the first quatrain of sonnet 130?
2. ".....her breasts are dun."
What is the meaning of the word 'dun'?
3."But no such roses see I in her cheeks".
What type of roses does the speaker refer to?
4. What is the meaning of 'damasked' in Sonnet 130?
5. "My mistress when she walks treads on the ground".
What does the poet mean by 'treads on the ground '?
6. "....breath that from mistress reeks".
What is the meaning of the word "reeks"?
7. What are the colours of roses mentioned in Shakespeare's Sonnet 130?
1:Define epic?
9:What is the difference between the Satan of book-I and that of book-IX?
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12:Who is the heavenly muse in Paradise Lost?
Play:
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5. Where does the abdication scene in Edward the Second take place?
6. Who was Lightborn?
7. Who was Gaveston and what happened to him?
8. How did Gaveston affect Edward's power?
9. Who was Isabella?Why was she called She Wolf?
10. What is the main theme of Edward the Second?
11. What city does Gaveston declare that he loves as he would Elysium?
12. What is the meaning of the word 'Elysium '?
13. Who is Leander?In what context is Leander referred to here?
14. Who is Diana?
15. Who is Actaeon?
16. "Not Hylas was more mourned of Hercules/Than thou has been of me since my exile ".What is
the significance of this allusion?
17. "fly/As fast as Iris orJove's Mercury ".
Comment on this line.
18. What is the significance of the motto: undique mors est?
19. What is the significance of the motto:
AEque tandem?
20. 'What need the arctic people love starlight'.What is the meaning of the line?
21. "Ignoble vassal, that like Phaeton
Aspir'st unto the guidance of the sun!"
Who is the speaker here?Elaborate the allusion.
• William Shakespeare:Macbeth :
SEMESTER - II
CC3:
Play:
1.Explain, ‘the coldness of alosing Gamester lessens the peasure of the Winner’.
8.What is ‘insupprtable’?
Prose:
• Jonathan Swift:Gulliver’s Travels (Books III and IV) :
1. Who is Gulliver?
2. Why does Gulliver set out to sea?
3. What is Laputa?
4. What is Lagado?
5. How does Laputa differ from a normal country?
6. What is unusual about Laputan food and clothing?
7. Where does the floating island move to and how does the island move?
8. Who is Lord Munodi?
9. What are flappers?Who uses them?
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10. What do the servants do with the flappers?
11. What is the allegorical significance of Laputa?
12. What are the Yahoos?
13. What are the Houyhnhms?
14. The Yahoos stand for the evil in man.Explain.
15. What does Gulliver do about food in the land of the Houyhnhms?
16. What is the attitude of the Yahoos to Gulliver?
17. What is the message of "Gulliver's Travels "?
18. Is "Gulliver's Travels" a tragic work?
19. What is the real title of "Gulliver's Travels "?
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CC4:
Poetry:
• William Blake: ‘The Lamb’, ‘The Tyger’ :
2.What difference does the poet feel after the five years have passed?
4.What are referred to here as “beauteous forms”? Explain the phrase “a landscape to a blind man’s eye”?
6.What does Wordsworth mean by “sad perplexity” in the poem Tintern Abbey?
9.What does Wordsworth mean by “We see into the life of things”?
1:How does the Nightingale's song plunge the poet into a state of ecstasy?
2:How does the poet bring out the immortality of the bird?
7:Why does the poet want to escape from this mortal earth?
Novel:
• Mary Shelley:Frankenstein :
1.What is the full title of the novel Frankenstein and when was it published?
2.What is the main theme of Frankenstein?
3.How does Robert Walton come to meet Victor Frankenstein?
4.Why does the doctor decide to tell Walton his horrifying story?
5.After the monster tells his tale to Victor Frankenstein, What does he ask Victor to do for
him?
6.How does the Monster learn to speak?
7.Who does the Monster compare himself to and why?
8.How does the doctor (Victor) treat his creature when it first comes to life?
9.What threat does the creature issue to Dr. Frankenstein?
10. What similarities do you find between Walton and Victor Frankenstein?
11. Whose murder is Justine Moritz accused of and what is the evidence against her?
12. Why could not Victor tell the truth to save innocent Justine Moritz?
13. By which names the Monster is variously referred to in the novel Frankenstein?
14. What are the three books that the Monster reads in the novel Frankenstein?
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• Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice :
1.Where do the Bennet live? What is the name of the Bennet estate?
5.How does Lady Catherine warn Elizabeth and how is she replied by the latter?
SEMESTER- III
Poetry:
• Alfred Tennyson: ‘Ulysses’ :
4.Who is Ulysses?
8.Who is Telemachus?
9.Who is Achilles?
1.What does the speaker try to mean by “life or death in the balance”?
2.”Thus leant she and lingered—joy and fear!” Why does the speaker use the words ‘joy’ and
‘fear’?
3. “Since now at length ….needs must be—“. Who is the speaker here? What makes him lament
thus?
Your name in pride and thankfulness!” Who is the speaker here? Why does he use the words
‘pride’ and ‘thankfulness’?
5.What does the speaker in Browning’s The Last Ride Together claim from his lady after being
rejected by her? Why does he do so?
7.What are the rewards of a statesman and a soldier? How does the lover compare them with his
ride?
8. Why does the lover think that his achievement is better than those of the poet, sculptor and
musician?
9.What does the lover think of heaven? Is he so sure that they will ride forever in heaven?
1.In the poem, 'Dover Beach' does the poet seem disappointed or happy to you? What is the mood
of the poem?
2. Analyse the poem 'Dover Beach' and discuss how the loss of faith (during his times) affects the
poet and his thought?
3.How does Arnold feel when he sees the Dover Beach?
4.Why is the poem title Dover Beach?
5.What does the sea represent in Dover Beach?
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6.What is the message of Dover Beach
7.What is the conflict in Dover Beach
8.What is the hope for humanity in Dover Beach?
Novel:
1. What is the full title of the novel Hard Times? Mention the names given to the
three parts of this novel.
2. What is the main principle of Mr. Gradgrind?
3. What kind of education do the children at Mr. Gradgrind’s school receive?
4. What is Sissy’s real name? Who offers the correct definition of a horse?
5. Why does Sissy stay with the Gradgrind’s family despite her hardships and
unhappiness?
6. Why does Sissy come to live with Gradgrind’s?
7. Who is Mrs. Pegler in Hard Times?
8. Who robs the bank and on whom the accusation falls?
9. What is the common name of poor Coketown factory workers?
10. How does Stephen die?
11. Why did Stephen say he was opposed to unions? What became of him because of
his stance?
12. What advice does Stephen Blackwell seek from Mr. Bounderby?
13. Where is the story of the novel Hard Times set? What name Gradgrinds’s family
home is known by?
14. Who calls himself the “Great Pyramid of Failure”?
Poetry:
• W.B. Yeats: ‘The Second Coming’:
4:What message does the poet want to give to the readers through this poem?
7:"Things fall apart;the centre can not hold mere anarchy"- explain
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8:what religious reference did we get from this poem?
3:Describe the difference between the first visit and last visit of the poet at coole park?
Why? Explain.
5:Why does the poet call the swans as the mysterious creature?
6:How does the poet make a contrast between himself and the swans?
Fiction:
• Joseph Conrad: The Secret Sharer :
Poetry:
• Robert Frost: ‘The Road not Taken’ :
1. Is there any difference between the two roads as the poet describes them?
2. What was the poet’s dilemma?
3. What was the poet’s opinion about both the roads?
4. What do the roads represent?
5. Why did the poet take the ‘other’ road? Why did the ‘other’ road have a better claim than
the first road?
6. Describe the conditions of both the roads that lay open before the poet on that morning.
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7. Did the poet make the right choice?
1.In the poem, “Harlem,” what does the poet mean by “does it dry up like a raisin in the
sun”?
2. After reading "Harlem" by Langston Hughes, what do you think happens to a dream
deferred?
3.Identify two examples of simile in “Harlem” and describe their connection to a “dream
deferred.”
4.What is the central question of Harlem by Langston Hughes?
5.What is the main theme of the poem Harlem?
6.What type of poem is Harlem by Langston Hughes?
1.”Here captain dear father this arm beneath your head” – Who is the captain ? Why does
the poet call him dear father ?
2.Why does the poet place his arm beneath the captain’s head?
3.What is meant by ship ? How is the ship anchored “safe and sound”?
4.Who is the persona addressing here?
5.Why does the captain not answer?
6.Contrast the mood on the shore to the mood on the ship.
7.What is the relationship between the captain and the persona?
Stories:
• Edgar Allan Poe: ‘The Purloined Letter’ :
2.What does August dupin intentionally leave at the Ministers apartment and why?
4. Why did August Dupin wear green spectacle while visiting the minister D--?
6.Who is the antagonist inThe Purloined Letter ? For what did Dupin receive fifty thousands francs?
7.Why had the Perfect police been unable to locate the stolen letter?
8.What is the significance of the senecan quote " Nil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio" in The Purloined
Letter?
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Novel:
• Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer :
1. Who is Sid?
2. How does Aunt Polly find out that Tom did go swimming?
3. Why does Tom fight at the end of chapter-I?
4. What does "spare the rod and spoil the child" mean?
5. What task did Aunt Polly give Tom to do?
6. Aunt Polly rewards Tom for a job well done. How does Tom also reward himself?
7. Explain his reaction to this new discovery.
8. When Tom presents himself to Aunt Polly after the whitewashing is complete, she expects he is
lying. What does this say about Tom’s character?
9. If Tom was not especially bright or hard working, how did he get enough tickets to win a
Bible?
10. How did Tom use his tardiness to win Becky Thatcher’s attention? What might have been a
better punishment?
11. What conflict does Aunt Polly experience in trying to discipline Tom? How do we learn about
the conflict—directly from Aunt Polly or through her actions?
12. Why did Becky think Tom was someone special?
Play:
• Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire :
SEMESTER - IV
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2.Who are the parents of Achilles?
3.What does Chryses want Agamemnon to do?
4.How does Apollo react to Chryses’ prayers for help?
5.Why is Zeus reluctant to punish the Achaeans?
6.What does Agamemnon demand in exchange for returning Chryseis?
7.What is the theme of The Iliad Book 1?
8.Why did Apollo send “deadly arrows” against the Achaians?
9.Who is the priest that Achilles calls upon to see what must be done to appease Apollo?
10. Who are the two beautiful women that are captured as war prizes?
• Sophocles: Oedipus the King, tr. Robert Fagles in Sophocles: The Three Theban Plays
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984). :
1. What do Mrs. Helene Alving's comments about the books she is reading in Act 1 of Ghosts suggest
about the society she lives in?
2. How is Pastor Manders's comment, "It's such a pity, Mrs. Alving, the way you misjudge
Engstrand," an example of dramatic irony in Act 1 of Ghosts?
3. What is the significance of Mrs. Helene Alving's observation in Act 2 of Ghosts that law and order
are "the root of all our miseries on earth"?
4. In what ways does Mrs. Helene Alving consider herself a coward in Act 2 of Ghosts?
5. In Act 2 of Ghosts, what is the significance of Osvald Alving's observation, "Not a glimmer of
sunlight the whole day long"?
6. In Act 2 of Ghosts, why is Osvald Alving devastated when he exclaims, "It's my mind that's broken
down!"?
7. In Act 2 of Ghosts, why does Pastor Manders discourage Mrs. Helene Alving from telling Osvald
Alving and Regina Engstrand the truth about their relationship?
8. In Act 3 of Ghosts, how does the idea of the "joy of life" provide Mrs. Helene Alving with a turning
point in her life?
9. What is the fear that grips Osvald Alving in Act 3 of Ghosts?
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10. What is "the joy of life"?
11. Explain the significance of the symbol of "ghosts" in the play.
6:Why does Brech't aleniate the audience in the epilogue of the play?
1. Describe Dr. Sheppard’s relationship with Caroline. How does he feel about her interest in what is
happening in King’s Abbot generally, and in the Ackroyd household in particular?
2. What is Roger Ackroyd’s position in the community? Why is it generally assumed that he and
Mrs. Ferrars will marry?
3. What is Dr. Sheppard’s first impression of HerculePoirot? How does Poirot describe hiswork?
Why does Poirot befriend Dr. Sheppard so quickly?
4. How do you feel about the final disposition of the murderer? Does he get off too lightly? Is
“justice” served?
5. Is Dr. Sheppard impressed by Poirot’s investigation? Why, or why not?
6. Who is HerculePoirot and what role does he play in the novel?
7. What is the first reading of HerculePoirot by Dr. Sheppard?
8. Comment on the nature of the relationship between MrsFerrars and Roger Ackroyd?
9. What is the opinion of Flora Ackroyd on the character of Ralph Paton in relation to the murder of
Roger Ackroyd?
10. Write a short note on the character of Major Blunt.
11. ‘Ralph may be weak ... but he wouldn't murder anyone’—Why did Flora Ackroyd comment so?
12. ‘Caroline can do any amount of finding out by sitting placidly at home.’-- Who said this and why?
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• Shyam Selvadurai: Funny Boy :
1." I did it for you...I couldnt bear to see you suffer any more" ---Who says this and when?
3.How do Arjie and his family manage to survive through the worst of the riots?
4.Why does Amma jeorpadize her safety, and that of her family to find Daryl?
5.Why does Radhas family warn her against her idealistic conception of relations?
8.What are the first acts of violence committed against Tamil in Colombo?
SEMESTER - V
Poetry:
• Pablo Neruda: ‘Tonight I can Write’:
1.What does Pablo Neruda convey through his poem “Tonight I Can Write”?
2.How is the poem “Tonight I Can Write Saddest Lines” an expression of sincere love?
3. How is the ‘night’ in the poem “Tonight I can write the saddest lines”?
5.How Neruda oscillates between love and despair in his poem “Tonight I can Write”?
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3. What is the plight of ordinary people as described by Publo Neruda in his poem “The Way Spain
Was”?
4. What is prevalent in spite of the fertility of Spain in the poem “The Way Spain Was”?
5. Which war is mentioned in the poem “The Way Spain Was”?
‘Names’ :
1.What is the race Walcott is referring to in the first stanza of “Names”?
2.In “Names,” why do the Europeans call a pigsty “little Versailles”?
3.In the third stanza of the second section of “Names,” who does the phrase “Being men, they could not
live” refer to?
4.What is the attitude of the Europeans towards the Caribbean in “Names”?
5.In “Names,” what happens to the names the Europeans imposed on the Caribbean landscape?
6.What is Walcott really talking about in “Names” when he refers to “that moment / when the mind was
halved by the horizon” ?
7.Whatdoes the phrase “no man unmade them/except the worm” mean in “Names”?
8."As a fishline sinks, the horizon sinks in the memory” is an example of what literary device? Clarify the
meaning of the line.
9.”Sir, fireflies caught in molasses”.—explain the line.
10.Write the names of some European glories that the British people used to name some inferior places on
the colonised land.
• Mamang Dai:
‘Small Towns and the River’ :
Novel:
• Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart :
Stories:
• Bessie Head: ‘The Collector of Treasures’ :
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CC-12: Women’s Writing Credits 06
C12T: Women’s Writing
Poetry:
• Emily Dickinson: ‘I cannot live with you’:
1. When was the poem "I cannot live with you " published?
2. Why cannot the speaker live with her beloved in the poem "I cannot live with you "?
3. Where is life according to Dickinson in "I cannot live with you"?
4. Why do you think Emily Dickinson is unable to see the paradise in the poem "I cannot live with you "?
5. How does Emily Dickinson conclude the poem "I cannot live with you "?
6. Is Emily Dickinson a confessional writer?
7. Why does Emily Dickinson live in isolation?
8. How does Emily Dickinson convey the inner workings of the mind in "I cannot live with you "?
1. What are the literary devices used in Emily Dickinson's poem 'I'm wife-I've finished that'?
2. What does Emily Dickinson compare a married woman to?
3. What is the approach of Emily Dickinson in the poem 'I'm wife -I've finished that '?
4. How does Emily Dickinson show the difference between becoming a woman and a wife in 'I'm wife- I've
finished that '?
5. What do Emily Dickinson's dashes mean?
6. What is the difference between "this" and "that"?
7. What does the word "Eclipse" signify?
• Sylvia Plath:
Daddy :
1."Any more, black shoe/In which I have lived like a foot"---Explain.
4."Ghastly statue with one gray toe/Big as a Frisco seal"---what does Frisco seal referred to? Bring out the
comparison .
5.Why does the speaker in Sylvia Plaths " Daddy" cast herself as a Jew?
7.Mention any two imagery , as you find in Sylvia Plaths " Daddy".
8." And a love of the rack and the screw"--- What does a love of the rack and screw mean in the poem
"Daddy" by Sylvia Plath?
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4. What does “the otherness of lovers” mean?
5. What do the “great green eyes” symbolize
6. Explain the metaphor of cat.
Fiction:
• Mahashweta Devi ‘Draupadi’, tr. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Calcutta: Seagull, 2002) :
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Non-Fiction:
• Baby Kamble: Our Wretched Life :
1.Comment on the lives of women in Dalit society as presented in the story our wretched lives
2. How does Kamble present the conflict between man and women in the story
3. Comment on the title of the story.
• Rassundari Debi Excerpts from Amar Jiban in Susie Tharu and K. Lalita, eds., Women’s
Writing in India, vol. 1 (New Delhi: OUP, 1989) pp. 191–2. :
1.In Which year Amar Jiban got published?How many compositions are there in this book?
5.Where was Rassundari Devi born? Comment on how her faith in God was a source of strength in her
struggle in life?
6." I am a caged bird"--Why does the speaker refer herself as a caged bird?
7.which book did Rassundari Devi read after learning to read and write?
8." The news made me very happy indeed"--Which news is referred to here?Why was the speaker happy?
SEMESTER - VI
• Kalidasa. Abhijnana Shakuntalam, tr. Chandra Rajan, in Kalidasa: The Loom of Time (New
Delhi: Penguin, 1989). :
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13. Who found the finger ring and where?
14. Who is arrested in Sakravatara tirth and why?
15. What is Kanva’s advice to Shakuntala when she moves towards Dushanta’s court?
16. Whom does the king ask to welcome hermits from Kanva?
17. Where does the king Dushanta visit to cool down his upset mind and who is sent there by
Menka?
18. Whom does Shakuntala accuse for her rejection by the King?
• Vyasa. ‘The Dicing’ and ‘The Sequel to Dicing, ‘The Book of the Assembly Hall’, ‘The
Temptation of Karna’, Book V ‘The Book of Effort’, in The Mahabharata: tr. and ed. J.A.B. van
Buitenen (Chicago: Brill, 1975) pp. 106–69. :
1.What do you think is the significance of the Palace of Illusion/ “Maya” Palace in the Mahabharata?
3. Doyou think it wrong ofYudhisthira to have staked Draupadiin the game of dice? Give a reasoned
answer.
4. Attempt a sketch of the position ofwomen in theMahabharata from your reading of The Dicing.
6. What is the significance of the Pandavas’ gestures as they left for exile in to the forest?
7. Why did Krsna tempt Karna to join the Pandavas? Was it for the wellbeing of Karna or the Pandavas or
the entire social system of the time? Explain.
Sudraka. Mrcchakatika, tr. M.M. Ramachandra Kale (New Delhi: Motilal Banarasidass,
1962).:
1.who is Charudutta’s son? Why was he crying?
10. Briefly comment on the significance of the role of Aryaka in the play.
Poetry:
• R.K. Narayan: Swami and Friends :
2. Which four persons did Swaminathan like and admire most in theclass ?
6. How did Rajam succeed in ending the animosity between his friends?
7. What did the Headmaster ask the students to do during the vacation?
10. Why did Swaminathan, Mani and Rajam go to a secluded spot in the school ? What course of action did
they decide to do for the next day ?
12. Who was the chord of communication between Mani and Rajam ?
13. What prank did Mani and Swaminathan want to play on Rajam ?
14. How did Rajam succeed in ending the animosity between his friends ?
15. Which two morals did Swaminathan draw from the story in the question paper ?
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• Kamala Das: ‘Introduction’ :
• Nissim Ezekiel:
‘The Night of the Scorpion’ :
1.How was the mother bitten by the scorpion in Ezekiel’s poem “Night of the Scorpion”?
2.How did the villagers come to the aid of the woman in Ezekiel’s poem “Night of the Scorpion”?
3.How did the peasants view the stinging in a positive manner in Ezekiel’s poem “Night of the Scorpion”?
4.What type of man was the father?How did he treat his wife in Ezekiel’s poem “Night of the Scorpion”?
5.How did the mother respond after the recovery from pain in Ezekiel’s poem “Night of the Scorpion”?
Fiction:
• Mulk Raj Anand: ‘Two Lady Rams’ :
Drama:
• Girish Karnad: Tughlaq :
1.In which language Girish Kanrads "Tughlaq " was originally written? How many scenes are there in
"Tughlaq"?
3.Whose land was confiscated by Sultan Tughlaqs state officers? Who acts as the Judge in the case of
Vishnu Prasad?
6.What was given to Aziz , when he act as Brahmin and win the case against Tughlaq?
8.Who is Aazam? what role does he play in Girish Kanrads " Tughlaq"?
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2. Where does Raskolnokov go at the end of the first chapter?
3. Why does Raskolnikov faint in the police station in Part 2, Chapter 1, of Crime and Punishment?
4. What does Raskolnikov do with the stolen items in Part 2, Chapter 2, of Crime and Punishment?
5. Compare the characters Luzhin and Svidrigaïlov in Crime and Punishment.
6. How does the murder of Lizaveta affect Raskolnikov?
7. What ideas of Luzhin irritate Raskolnikov and why?
8. What is the significance of the suicide attempt that Raskolnikov witnesses?
9. What sort of woman is Pulcheria Alexandrovna?
10. How does Luzhin react to Dunya after she rejects him and why?
11. Why does Raskolnikov want to hear the story of Lazarus?
12. What sort of man does Svidrigailov reveal himself to be during his conversation with Raskolnikov?
13. Why does Porfiry Petrovich urge Raskolnikov to confess?
14. What is Sonia's solution to Raskolnikov's problem?
15. Why does Raskolnikov faint when he sees his mother and sister?
• Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary, tr. Geoffrey Wall (London: Penguin, 2002).
1. Emma has been called a "hopeless romantic." How and why does she become this kind
of person? If Emma is corrupted by reading novels, how does Flaubert deal with the fact that he
is himself a novelist?
2. Would Emma's life be the same if she hadn't been sent to a convent school?
3. How does Emma define love? Charles? What passages illustrate their view?
4. Discuss how Emma's fascination with romantic (and Romantic) ideals affects her life.
5. Characterize Emma's attitudes towards Charles, Leon, Rodolphe.
6. Is Emma's fate tragic? is the novel tragic? why or why not?
7. Emma's love for Rodolphe is adulterous; she is a married woman. How does the fact that she’s
married affect her experience of love?
8. Is Emma ever happy? What does or would it take to satisfy her? Is anyone to blame for her
discontent?
9. What happens to Charles' first wife?
10. Where do Charles and Emma meet?
11. The novel begins with a description of this character's experience in school. Who is this
character?
12. What career does Charles Bovary eventually settle on to please his mother?
13. How long does it take Monsieur Rouault to begin walking after he has broken his leg?
14. Why did Charles' father, Charles Denis Bartholomé Bovary, get removed from his post as an
Army surgeon?
15. In Madame Bovary what role does Charles Bovary's mother play in the novel?
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DSE2T: World Literatures
Course Contents:
• V.S. Naipaul: Bend in the River (London: Picador, 1979).
• Julio Cortazar: ‘Blow-Up’, in Blow-Up and other Stories (New York: Pantheon, 1985).
1. Who is Michel?
2. Explain the symbolism of Typewriter in the story.
3. Explain the symbolism of Camera in the story.
4. "Michel is guilty of making literature, of indulging in fabricated unrealities" __ Explain the irony.
5. What is the major conflict of the story “Blow Up”?
6. Name the two modern movements which influenced the story.
• Judith Wright: ‘Bora Ring’, in Collected Poems (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 2002) p. 8.
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DSE3T: Science Fiction and Detective Literature
Course Contents:
1. Who told our hero, Walter Hartright, about the position for a drawing master in Cumberland?
2. Who did Walter Hartright fall in love with in Cumberland?
3. Why could Walter not marry the love of his life?
4. What two things did Walter Hartright say were needed to make a woman's beauty complete?
5. What motive did our heroine's husband have to marry her?
6. Who was the mother of the woman in white?
7. What kind of man is Count Fosco?
8. Ok, the ending is satisfactory, but what happened to Marian Holcombe?
9. Do we know why Walter decides to tell this story? What clues can you find about his motives?
10. What, if anything, is significant about Laura never getting to tell her own story in her own words?
11. Time for a death match: who is the true villain in this book, Sir Percival or Count Fosco? How is
the law used as a theme throughout the novel?
12. Most of the mini-narratives we get emphasize the importance of facts. How does the novel reflect
this concern with facts, particularly in style and tone?
13. Can this novel be considered a morality tale? Does it have a strong moral message?
• Dibyendu Palit: ‘Alam's Own House’, tr. Sarika Chaudhuri, Bengal Partition Stories: An
Unclosed Chapter, ed. Bashabi Fraser (London: Anthem Press, 2008) pp. 453– 72.
1. Who was Dibyendu Palit?
2. What was the main theme of his writing "Alam's Own House "
3. What was Dibyendu Palit's first short story and when was it published?
4. What was the source of his writing?
5. Why did Alam's family migrate from Kolkata to Dhaka?
6. Why did Alam return to Kolkata after three years?
7. What was the subject of the seminar?
8. Who was the central character of the story?
9. Who was Raka in the short story "Alam's Own House "?
10. Who was Ananta Meshomashai?
11. Who was Snehamashima?
12. What was the meaning of the line
"certain lands and certain roots "
• Manik Bandhopadhya, ‘The Final Solution’, tr. Rani Ray, Mapmaking: Partition Stories from
Two Bengals, ed. Debjani Sengupta (New Delhi: Srishti, 2003) pp. 23–39.
• Sa’adat Hasan Manto, ‘Toba Tek Singh’, in Black Margins: Manto, tr. M. Asaduddin (New
Delhi: Katha, 2003) pp. 212–20.
• Jibananda Das, ‘I Shall Return to This Bengal’, tr. Sukanta Chaudhuri, in Modern Indian
Literature (New Delhi: OUP, 2004) pp. 8–13.
1. When was the poem 'I shall return to this Bengal' written?
2. What does the poet want to express throughout the poem 'I shall return to this Bengal?
3. What is the original source of this poem 'I shall return to this Bengal'?
4. Why does not Jibanananda Das wish to return to this Bengal as a man?
5. Where does the poet wish to return after his death and why?
6. Why does Jibanananda Das use "bird" imagery?
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7. "....a young girl's bells on my red feet "
What is the significance of the word "bells"?
8. Which rivers are suggested in this poem 'I shall return to this Bengal'?
9. Why does the poet want to rebirth as a duck?
10. "You will find me among their"
What is the meaning of the line?
Course Contents:
What is soft skill? Teamwork, Adaptability, Leadership, Problem solving
Development of Sooft skills: Precis; Comprehension; Essays.
Adaptability
Teamwork
Leadership
Problem Solving
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SEC2T: Business Communication:
1. What is communication?
2. What are the essentials of business communication?
3. What are the 3 categories of business communication ?
4. What are the process of business communication?
5. What is meant by downward communication?
E-correspondence:
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GE1T: Academic Writing and Composition
1.what is an argument?
1. What is citation?
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4.what is bibliography? Create a bibliography with suitable example.
10.what is media?
1. What is Language?
2. Mention some of the Characteristics of Language.
3. What is Pidgin?
4. What is Register?
5. What is code switching and code mixing?
6. Define Standard Language.
7. What is Diglossia?
8. What are the elements involved in ommunication process.
9. Mention some of the barriers of Communication.
1. What is Phonetics?
2. What is Phonology?
3. What is Morpheme?
4. Define Morphology.
5. Mention Some of the Process of Word Formation.
6. What is Clipping?
7. What is acronym?
8. What is Blending?
9. What is ompounding?
1. What is Syntax?
2. What are restrictors?
3. What are demonstrative Determiners?
4. What is Prepositional phrase?
5. What is Deep Structure?
6. What is Surface Structure?
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GE4T: Environment & Literature
1. What is the issue that Ruskin Bond wants to highlight in this story?
2. Where did Bishnu go to find a job and what was his first job?
3. Who are the main characters in the story, “The dust on the Mountain”?
4. Write a note on the setting of the story?
5. Why the truck met an accident?
6. Why the villagers do began to face problems in “The dust on the Mountain”?
1.Why does Shakespeare not want to compare his friend to a summer’s day?
2.How does Shakespeare proves that his friend is more temperate than Summer’s day?
3.”And every fair from fair msometimes decline”—What are two different meanings of ‘ fair’ here?
6.What is the prayer of John Donne to God in his poem “Batter My Heart”?
10.What does the poet mean by ‘light’ in the poem “On His Blindness”?
12. “They also serve who only stand and wait”-Bring out the meaning of the line.
14. “Etheral minstrel Pilgrim of the Sky” Who is called pilgrim and why in Wordsworth’s poem “To
The Skylark”
15.Who is called wise and why in the poem “To The Skylark”?
30. What does the speaker compare his heart to in the poem Batter my heart?
31. Why does Donne invoke the three Personed God to batter his heart?
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40.Why does Shelley refer to the skylark as a blithe spirit?
Simile,Metaphor,Transferred Epithet,Personification,Synecdoche,Metonymy,
Hyperbaton,Pun,Zeugma,Asyndeton,Poli-syndeton,Antithesis,Oxymoron,Epigram Alliteration
1. What is the significance of the title of the poem, “Break, Break, Break”?
2. Why does the poet envy the freedom of the fisherman’s boy and the sailor lad?
3. Who is referred to in the expressions ‘vanished hand’ and ‘voice that is still’?
4. In whose memory is this poem written?
5. Give the central idea of the poem.
6. What does the fact that the sailor’s lad is singing signify?
7. What is the poet thinking of as he watches the waves breaking on the shore?
8. What is the thing that will never return in Tennyson’s “Break, Break, Break”?
9. Quote two lines form the poem “Break, Break, Break” that are paradoxical.
10. What is breaking in “Break, Break, Break”? What is the mood of the speaker in the poem?
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3. T.S.Eliot: Preludes
1: What is the overall tone of the poem? Is it hopeful? Resigned? Neither? How can you tell?
2: How does Eliot use form to enhance the sound of the poem? What effect does the ever-changing
rhyme scheme have on your reading experience?
3: What role do newspapers play in the poem? Are they a symbol, or just a repeated image (both)?
4: Whose soul are we watching? Does he ever tell us? What does that soul represent?
5: Are the four parts meant to fit together, or exist separately? What makes them differ from each
other? What makes them fit together?
6: What does the street represents in Preludes?
7: Comment on Eliot's use of urban imagery?
8: How does Eliot presents the evening scenery in Preludes?
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