Question Bank Ug Hons

SABANG SAJANIKANTA MAHAVIDYALAYA
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH(UG)
QUESTION BANK
CC1:
Group: A (History of Literature)
• Old English poetry and prose:

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• Beowulf :
1. Who were the first important inhabitants of Britain prior to the Romans? Who ruled
Britain after Romans had left?
2. Who is thought to bring ‘Christianity’ in England and in which year?
3. What are the tribes that came to England in 449 A.D?
4. What are the four major surviving manuscripts of Anglo-Saxon poetry?
5. What are the four poems that bear a signature of Cynewulf’s name?
6. Who is known as the father of English history? In which book does he tell the story of
Caedmon?
7. Which king inspired the writing of Anglo-Saxon Chronicle? Who is King Alfred’s
biographer?
8. What were the four main dialects of Old English and which one gained supremacy?
9. Who are the two most important religious poets of Anglo-Saxon period?
10. What is ‘heptarchy’ in Anglo-Saxon England? Which Anglo-Saxon kingdom began to
dominate in 800s?
11. What event brought the end of the Anglo-Saxon rule of England? When did it occur?
12. What did Anglo-Saxon value equal to fighting, hunting and farming? What was the
religion of Anglo-Saxon?
13. What are five important translations by King Alfred?
14. Mention the name of two Old English religious poems?
15. Mention the name of two old English elegiac poems?
16. What is ‘kenning’?
17. Mention two features of old English poetry.
18. Why does Grendel attack Heorot?
19. For how many years did Grendel attack Hrothgar’s kingdom?
20. What does King Hrothgar decide to build and what is its name?
21. What was Beowulf’s personal reason for coming to Denmark?
22. How is honour shown in Beowulf?
23. How many warriors did Beowulf took along with him?
24. How long does Beowulf reign as king of the Geats?
25. Why did the dragon attack the land of the Geats?
26. Who helped Beowulf attack the dragon?
27. Why did Beowulf die?
-Edited by faculty members, Dept. of English, Sabang Sjanikanta Mahavidyalaya, Lutunia, Sabang, WB
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?
2.Where is Cana situated?Why did Jesus Christ go there?
3.Who is Jankyn? What did he do?
4.What is Lent? How did Alisoun use it?
5.How does the wife of Bath control her old three husbands?
6.why does the wife of Bath consider herself an expert on marriage?
7.why were three of Alisouns husbands "good husbands"?
8.How does the wife of Bath uses scriptures to justify her many marriages?
Group: B (Philology)
• Influences: Greek, Latin, Scandinavian, French
1. Give to examples of Scandinavian loan words related to law.

2. Give two examples of French loan words.
3. Give the Latin form of following native objectives:
fatherly, heavenly, daily, brotherly
4. Give examples of two Latin loan words adapted to English during England’s conversion to
Christianity.
5. What is a hybrid word? Give examples of two hybrid words.
6. Give examples of two French loan words related to military affairs.
7. Discuss how English language was influenced by the Greek language during the renaissance.
8. Discuss briefly French influence on English Language in the field of art & literature.
9. Write a note on Scandinavian place names & proper names.
10. Write a note on pre-Christian Latin loan words.
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.
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?
• John Donne:‘Good Morrow’ :
1. What does the title of the poem Good Morrow mean?

2. Mention any two conceits of the poem.
3. Comment on the phrase “seven sleepers den.”
4. What are the figures of speech Donne used in this poem.?
5. Comment on the phrase “country pleasures”.
6. Describe the dualism of love in this poem.
• Milton: Paradise Lost Book-I :
1:Define epic?
2:What is pandemonium referred in paradise Lost?
3:What does the title of “Paradise Lost” refer to?
4:What is the setting of “Paradise Lost”?
5:Who are the main characters of “Paradise Lost”?
6:Why Adam and Eve were expelled from Paradise?
7:Why does Eve eat the forbidden fruit?
8:Is Eve to blame for the fall?
9:What is the difference between the Satan of book-I and that of book-IX?
10:Explain ” to reign in Hell is better than serve in Heaven“?
11:what is the roll of Belzebub in Paradise Lost book 1?
12:Who is the heavenly muse in Paradise Lost?
13:why did Satan tempt Eve but not Adam?
14:How long did it take Satan to fall from heaven?
15:How Satan describes about hell?
Pope: Rape of the Lock (3 cantos):
1. Describe Belinda as she is described at the beginning of Canto-2.

2. Why could not Ariel protect Belinda?
3. To which genre of verse does "The Rape of the Lock" belong? Define the genre.
4. Comment on the setting of "The Rape of the Lock".
5. How does Ariel threaten the sylphs in case they are negligent of their duties toBelinda?
6. Name two specific duties assigned by Ariel to his band of sylphs to protect Belinda.
7. How to coffee prepared and served in Canto-3 of "The Rape of the Lock".
8. Give one example of anticlimax in "The Rape of the Lock".
9. What is Diana's Law?
10. "Make Dorimant betray and Loviet rage''- Who are Dorimant and Loveit?
11. To whom Pope dedicated "The Rape of the Lock"? Who was the person?
12. In what manner was the dedication written?
13. Does the title bear any literary reminiscence?
14. " This verse to Caryll, Muse is due'' - Who is Caryll? What is meant by Muse?
15. '' If she inspires, and he approve my lays''- Does the line seem to be an adaptation oran echo?
16. "It was he had summoned to her silent bed/ The morning dream that hovered overher head'- Who is
he here? What is the dream?
17. "The light militia of the lower sky"- Explain.
18. '' With varying vanities, from every part,they shift the moving toyshop of their heart."- Explain.
19. Explain the importance of the morning dream of Belinda.
20. "A heavenly image in the glass appears/..... The inferior priestess ..."- Explain the line.Discuss the
appearance of Belinda on the surface of the river Thames.
Play:
• Christopher Marlowe:Edward II:
1.What is the historical significance of

Marlowe's Edward the Second?
2. What is the major source of Marlowe's Edward the Second?
3. How does Edward || explore two aspects of Machiavelli's theory:the misuse of power and the
neglect of power?
4. How does the play Edward the Second open?
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 :
1. “Fair is foul and foul is fair”-Explain.

2. Who is Macbeth? What is Macbeth?
3. Explain the image ‘borrowed robes’.
4. Explain ‘Bellona’s bridegroom leaped in proof’
5. Why could not Macbeth say ‘Amen’?
6. “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand” Explain
7. “Had he not resembled my father as he slept I had done it”-Explain
8. What is Golgotha?
9. Why does Macbeth say that Duncan is on double trust?
10. Explain ‘valour’s minion’.
11. ‘What bloody man is that’? What does he mean by the word ‘bloody’? What does it signify?
12. What prophecies do the witches made to Macbeth?
13. What prophecies do the witches made to Banquo?
14. Why did Duncan visit Macbeth’s castle?
15. What sort of lady was Lady Macbeth?
16. What was the effect of Prophecy of witches on Lady Macbeth?
17. How does Lady Macbeth influence Macbeth to murder the king?
18. Why could not Lady Macbeth murder the king?
19. Describe the feelings of Macbeth as he went to murder Duncan?
20. Why did Macbeth and Lady Macbeth determines to kill Banquo and his sons?
21. When and Where did Macbeth see Banquo’s ghost?
22. How did Banquo’s ghost affect Macbeth?
23. How did Lady Macbeth Manage the situation in the banquet scene?
24. Why did Macbeth want to meet the witches for the second time?
25. What did Macbeth learn from the apparitions?
26. What is comic relief? Do you find any comic relief from the play “Macbeth”?
27. “Life is but a walking Shadow” Explain the metaphor?
28. Explain the following line “There is to find the mind’s construction in the face”.
29. “He died as one that has been studied in his death” about whom is it said and why?
30. How does banquo explain the ‘rapt’ condition of Macbeth?
31. “Why do I yield to that suggestion?” What suggestion is referred to?
32. “Happy prologue to the swelling act of imperial theme” What are the prologues?
33. Who is peerless kinsman and why is he called?
34. “The raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan? Who says this when?
35. “In future a man should never believe the lying equivocations of witches” Why does Macbeth say
that?
SEMESTER - II
CC3:
Play:
• William Congreve: The Way of the World :
1.Explain, ‘the coldness of alosing Gamester lessens the peasure of the Winner’.
2.What is Cabal-night? Who is Fainal speaking to? Where are they?
3.who is coroner?What does the phrase ‘Coroner’s inquest’ mean?
4.What does Fainal actually mean by ‘murdered reputation’?
5.Why did Mirabell pay courtship to Lady Wishfort?
6.What does Mrs Marwood mean by ‘a cap of maintenance’?
7.explain,”Given up her gain”.
8.What is ‘insupprtable’?
9.What injuries does Mirabell mean?Is he sincerely repentant?
10.What sensation is Mirabell able to create in lady Wishfort?
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?
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 "?
Addison and Steele: ‘Sir Roger at Church’ :

1. When and where sir Roger at church published?
2. What is done by sir Roger to beautify the church?
3. Who was sir Roger and what he did for the life of the people in his area.
4. What type of essay is Sir Roger at Church?
5. Comment on the character of sir Roger.
• Laurence Sterne:The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman :
1. Important points of volume 4 in TristramShandy.

2. What is the effect of Tristram’s frequent addresses to his audience?
3. According to Uncle Toby when do Tristram’s problems begin?
4. TristramShandy begins with a reference to sex and ends with another such reference. What’s your
opinion on this?
5. What does Mrs. Shandy question when she and her husband conceiving Tristram?
6. Who is the narrator of TristramShandy?
7. Explain the fictional inventiveness & playfulness in Stern’s Novel TristramShandy.
8. Who pays for the midwife to get her license?
9. On what occasions does Toby "whistle Lillabullero"?
10. Which medical professional attends Tristram's birth?
11. Whom does Dr. Slop "excommunicate"?
12. Why does Obadiah tie a knot in Dr. Slop's bag?
13. What name did Walter Shandy select for his son?
14. Who is the victim of the hot chestnut incident, and who is blamed for it?
15. How does Tristram's brother Bobby die?
16. Who makes the amusing observation that "nothing in the Shandy household is well hung?
17. Who stays behind at Shandy Hall during Tristram's Grand Tour?
18. How does the story of "The King of Bohemia and His Seven Castles" end?
19. Which part of Widow Wadman's physique first attracts Uncle Toby?
20. What does Walter's letter to Toby contain?
CC4:
Poetry:
• William Blake: ‘The Lamb’, ‘The Tyger’ :
1. When was Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience published?

2. What is the message of the poem The Lamb?
3. What does the Lamb stand for?
4. Why was the title of the Tyger spelled as Tyger?
5. Comment on the phrase “fearful symmetry “.
6. Comment on the symbolism Blake used in this poem.
7. What does the tiger stand for.
8. What does the phrase forest of the night mean?
9. What is the message of the poem.
William Wordsworth: ‘Tintern Abbey’ :
1.What is the complete title of the Poem Tintern Abbey?
2.What difference does the poet feel after the five years have passed?
3.Where is the Tintern Abbey?
4.What are referred to here as “beauteous forms”? Explain the phrase “a landscape to a blind man’s eye”?
5.What does Wordsworth mean by “that serene and blessed mood”?
6.What does Wordsworth mean by “sad perplexity” in the poem Tintern Abbey?
7.What does the poet mean by “sensations sweet”?
8.What does Wordsworth mean by “the burthen of the mystery”?
9.What does Wordsworth mean by “We see into the life of things”?
10.Why does he address the Wye as ‘sylvan'?
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge: ‘Christabel’ Part-1 :
1. Describe the beginning of the poem Christabel.

2. What is Willing Suspension of disbelief?
3. Where is the damsel bright seen in the christabel?
4. Who was Geraldine? Is she an evil spirit? Give reason for your answer.
5. Who was Sir Leoline??
6. Why did Christabel leave her castle at midnight?
7. Comment on the ending of the poem.
8. Describe the medieval atmosphere in this poem.
• Percy Bysshe Shelley: ‘Ozymandias’ :
1:Whom did the traveller met and where?
2:How does the traveller describe the statue?

3:What does the traveller say about the sculptor?
4:What do we learn about ozymendias' character from his statue?
5:Who was Ozymendias?
6:What is the important message that conveyed through this poem?
7:what is the meaning of the title 'Ozymendias'?
John Keats: ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ :
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?
3:What is Lethe?How is it significant here?
4: Significance of the reference "blashfull Hippocrene".
5:Why is the bird called "light winged chariot"?
6:Who is ruthe? Why is she referred here?
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?
• Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice :
1.Where do the Bennet live? What is the name of the Bennet estate?
2.Why does Elizabeth reject Darcys initial proposal?
3.Why do Elizabeth and Jane stay at Netherfield Park?
4.What informations were provided by Colonel Fitzwilliam to Elizabeth?
5.How does Lady Catherine warn Elizabeth and how is she replied by the latter?
6.What is the effect of Darcys letter on Elizabeth?
7.Who is Mr.Collins? Why does he come to Longbourn?
8.Why does Charlotte marry Mr.Collins?
SEMESTER- III
CC-5: British Literature: 19th Century (1832-1900)
CC5T: British Literature: 19th Century (1832-1900)
Poetry:
• Alfred Tennyson: ‘Ulysses’ :
1. Who were the three major Victorian poets?
2. Name Tennyson’s major literary works?
3. What do you mean by 3C’s of Victorian Age?
4.Who is Ulysses?
5.Explain the metaphor ‘still hearth’?
6.What is ‘rainy Hydes’?
7.How can you say in “Ulysses”,Tennyson kills Homer?
8.Who is Telemachus?
9.Who is Achilles?
10.Describe the philosophy of Ulysses about Old Age.
11.How does Ulysses compare human knowledge?
12. “ I am a part of all that I have met” –Explain.
13. “What does Ulysses “follow knowledge like a sinking star”?
14. “ To Strive …………. not to yield”- Explain.

• Robert Browning:
‘My Last Duchess’:
1.what is dramatic monologue?

2. mention the real identities of Duke, Duchess, and the mediator.
3. Why was the Duchess murdered?
4 whom was the Duke going to marry?
5.was the Duchess unfaithful to her husband?
6.what is the main theme of the poem??
7. comment on the irony used in this poem.
‘The Last Ride Together’ :
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?
4.“My whole heart rises up to bless
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?
6.Who is the listener in the poem The Last Ride Together?
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?
• Mathew Arnold: ‘Dover Beach’ :
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?
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:
• Charles Dickens:Hard Times:
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”?
CC-6: British Literature: The Early 20th Century

C6T: British Literature: The Early 20th Century
Poetry:
• W.B. Yeats: ‘The Second Coming’:
1:"The falcon can not hear the falconer" -explain
2:Who's second coming is referred to here and why?
3:What vision of future is presented in the second half of the poem?
4:What message does the poet want to give to the readers through this poem?
5:What imagery is presented in the poem?
6:What is spiritus mundi?
7:"Things fall apart;the centre can not hold mere anarchy"- explain
8:what religious reference did we get from this poem?
‘The Wild Swans at Coole’ :
1:What do the swans symbolise?
2:'and now my heart is sore....'
Why was the poet's heart sore?explain
3:Describe the difference between the first visit and last visit of the poet at coole park?
4:"their hearts have not grown old?
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?
7:Where and when was this poem composed?
• T.S. Eliot ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’:

1. “Let us to them you and I”-Who are ‘you’ and ‘I’ referred to here?
2. What is the overwhelming question made in the ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”?
3. Explain the line "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" in "The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock."
4. Why does Eliot describe the fog as a cat in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
5. Comment on the epigraph of the Lovesong?
6. Why is Prufrock afraid to eat a peach?
7. “There will be time to murder and creat” __ What does it mean?
8. Explain the allusion of Lazarus used by T.S.Eliot?
9. Why the mermaids will not sing for Prufrock?
10. Describe the physical appearance of Prufrock ?
11. Why the women are talking about Michael Angelo?
12. Why Prufrock wants to squeeze the universe into a ball?
13. “I am no prophet — and here’s no great matter” __ Explain.
14. “And how should I begin?” __ explain.
Fiction:
• Joseph Conrad: The Secret Sharer :
1. Where is the story "The Secret Sharer" set?

2. Which river is mentioned in "The Secret Sharer"?
3. What is the name of the ship that the captain is on?
4. Where is the ship docked in "The Secret Sharer"?
5. What does the captain's hat symbolize in "The Secret Sharer"?
6. What causes the captain to make the
decision to hide a refugee in his cabin in
"The Secret Sharer "?
7. Who is a Conway boy?
8. Who is Leggatt in "The Secret Sharer"?
9. Why does Leggatt kill the sailor in "The Secret Sharer"?
10. What does the title"The Secret Sharer" refer to?
11. What is the name of the ship from where Leggatt escapes?
12. Who is the secret self?
13. What is "sleeping suits"?
• Katherine Mansfield: ‘The Fly’:
1...and he peered out of the great...

Who did peer out and in what manner?
2. How does Katherine Mansfield compare human nature to the tree?
3. How did the boss look?
4. Of what was the boss proud?What did
he like?
5. Who was the grave-looking boy in uniform in the short story "The Fly"?
6. For what purpose did old Woodifield come to the boss?
7. What is the meaning of Q.T.?
8. What is meant by the cellars at Windsor Castle?
9. "Ten francs! Robbery"
What do you know of the robbery referred to here?
10. Who was Gertrude?How did she teach'em a lesson?
11. "The horrible danger was over".
What was the horrible danger?How was it over?
12. How many times did the fly strike to survive?
13. Who is the little beggar of the short story "The Fly "and why?
14. "A painful moment of suspense followed. "
What was the painful moment of suspense?
15. How many times did the boss drop ink on the fly?
16. "He started forward and pressed the ball for Macey."
Who was Macey?What did he order him?
17. What is the central theme of the story "The Fly"?
CC-7: American Literature

C7T: American Literature
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.
7. Did the poet make the right choice?
• Langston Hughes: ‘Harlem to be Answered’ :
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?
• Walt Whitman: ‘O Captain, My Captain’ :
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’ :
1. Who is August Dupin?Why did Monsieur G come to him?
2.What does August dupin intentionally leave at the Ministers apartment and why?
3.Why did the Minister D-- steal the letter ?
4. Why did August Dupin wear green spectacle while visiting the minister D--?
5.How did Dupin restore the purloined letter ?
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?
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 :
1.What is Blanche's desire?

2.What does “ A Streetcar Named Desire” say about desire?
3.What is the main theme of “A Streetcar Named Desire”?
4.What is the last line of “A Streetcar Named Desire”?
5.Why did Blanche's husband kill himself?
6.What mental illness does Blanche Dubois have?
7.What is wrong with Blanche Dubois?
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CC-8: European Classical Literature Credits 06

C8T: European Classical Literature
• Homer: The Iliad, tr. E.V. Rieu (Harmondsworth: Penguin,1985):
1.Why did Achilles refuse to fight against the Trojans?
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 is oedipus complex?

2. How did Oedipus become the king of Thebes
3. What does Oedipus use to blind himself?
4. What is the tragic flaw of oedipus?
5. Who was Tiresias? What did he predict?
6. Comment on the dramatic irony used in this play.
7. What makes Oedipus a tragic hero?
8. What was the riddle asked by Sphinx?
9. Why did Creon go to the Oracle?
10. What message did Creon bring from Delphi Oracle?
11. To which three gods does the Chorus pray for help?
12. Why did Oedipus and Laius confront?
13. Why did Oedipus kill Laius where the three roads meet?
14. What was the prophecy about Oedipus?
15. Who is Choragos?
• Plautus:Pot of Gold, tr. E.F. Watling (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965). :
1. Who is ‘Lar Familiaris’ in “The Pot of Gold”?

2. Who has stolen ‘the pot of gold’? Who returns it to Euclio?
3. Which is the didactic lesson in the play “The Pot of Gold”?Who delivers it?
4. Who is the protagonist of the play?
5. What is ‘stock character’ in the play?Do you find any stock character in the play“The Pot of Gold”?
• Ovid Selections from Metamorphoses ‘Bacchus’, (Book III):

1. How is Bacchus presented in the story?
2. What another name is Bacchus known by in the story?
3. Whose son is Bacchus? How was he born?
4. What was Tiresius’s prophesy about Pentheus?
5. Who participated in the common celebration of Bacchus?
6. What was the conflict between Bacchus and Pentheus?
7. “Heirs of the serpent’s teeth/ Descendants of old Mars, what brand/ Of madness
has unwound your brain?”- who says this and why?
8. “Get the traitor; put him in / Irons and bring him here before me?”-who is
spoken about here? Why would he be brought thus?
9. What was Pentheus reaction when he was being warned by his grandfather and
counselled by elders not to disobey Bacchus?
10. What is the name of the priest-cum-follower of Bacchus? What was his
occupation?
11. What is the name of the native land of Bacchus? What is it famous for?
12. What physical transformation took place to the crew members of the ship who
were trying to abduct young Bacchus?
13. How many men were there on the ship? How was it that Bacchus got into their
ship?
14. How does Pentheus die?
‘Pyramus and Thisbe’ (Book IV):
1. Why could no Pyramus nad Thisbe be together?

2. What do Pyramus and Thisbe do through the crack in the wall?
3. Where do Pyramus and Thisbe plan to meet and why?
4. Why do Pyramus and Thisbe decide to run away?
5. What happened to Thisbe when she was waiting?
6. Why does Pyramus kill himself?
7. “When covered, fire acquires still more forse.” Explain the line from Pyramus
and Thisbe.
8. What does Thisbe do when she recognizes the dying Pyramus?
9. What were Thisbe’s dying wishes?
10. What supernatural event occurs in the myth Pyramus and Thisbe?
11. What other story do the story of Pyramus and Thisbe resemble?
CC-9: Modern European Drama

C9T: Modern European Drama
• Henrik Ibsen: Ghosts:
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?
10. What is "the joy of life"?
11. Explain the significance of the symbol of "ghosts" in the play.
• Bertolt Brecht:The Good Woman of Szechuan :
1:What are the purposes of God to visit the earth?
2:Why Wang is not considered as a good person by the Gods?
3:What role does gender play in determining Shen Ta's fate?
4:How is the theme of patriarchal capitalism addressed in the play?
5:How Sui tha helped Shen Ta to survive in this capitalistic society?
6:Why does Brech't aleniate the audience in the epilogue of the play?
7:what is the settings of the play?
• Samuel Beckett:Waiting for Godot :
1. What is an absurd drama?

2.'A country road, a tree.'-
What do the country road and 'a tree' represent?
3. What are the nicknames of Estragon
And Vladimir?
4. Significance of the four names in the play.
5. Why is "Waiting for Godot" divided into two acts?
6. What are the major themes of "Waiting for Godot "?
7. What is the basic difference between Act l and Act ll of "Waiting for Godot "?
8. What is 'waiting' symbolize in the play "Waiting for Godot "?
9. Estragon:'Nothing to be done '-Explain.
10. Estragon:'Repented what?Our being born?'-Comment.
11. 'We are waiting for Godot '-Comment.
12. 'To Godot?Tied to Godot'?Comment.
13.'The essential does not change'. - Comment.
14. Vladimir:It's the heart.-Comment.
15.'The tree has four or five leaves '-Comment.
16. 'A terrible cry'.
What is the significe of the word 'cry'
17. What is the significance of 'Rope '?
18. 'The tears of the world are a constant quality'.
What is the meaning of this sentence?
19. What are the reasons why does Estragon take the name 'Adam'?
20. Significance of Lucky'sdance.
21. Significance of 'Quaqiaquaqua'.
22. Significance of Lucky's speech.
23.What is the Significance of the song in Act-ll
24. What is the symbol of Godot?
25. What is the symbol of two tramps(Vladimir and Estragon)?
26. What is the symbolic significance of Pozzo and Lucky?
27. Comment on Pozzo's blindness.
28. Recognize !What is there to recognize. -Comment
29. Write significance of Vladimir's soliloquy.
30. 'They do not move'.
Write down the meaning of this sentence.
CC-10: Popular Literature Credits 06

C10T: Popular Literature
• Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking Glass :
1. What is nonsense in Through the Looking Glass.?

2. Why is poetry used in this fiction?
3. What does chess represent in this fiction?
4. What is the theme of this fiction.
5. Which characters are helpful and harmful on her journey?
6. Name examples in the book that indicate Alice is playing a game of chess. How do these examples
correspond with important steps in her metaphorical journey to adulthood?
7. Do you get the sense that Alice is in control of her own destiny in the book, or are there stronger forces
at play moving her towards a predetermined fate?
8. Respond to Carroll's question at the conclusion of the book.
• Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd :
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?
• Shyam Selvadurai: Funny Boy :
1." I did it for you...I couldnt bear to see you suffer any more" ---Who says this and when?
2.Why does Arjies father send Arjie to Victoria Academy?
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?
6.Why did Ammas parents forbid her marriage to Daryl?
7.What does Arjie believe about public attitudes towards homosexuality?
8.What are the first acts of violence committed against Tamil in Colombo?
• Sukumar Ray: AbolTabol (Translated by Sukanta Chowdhuri)/Autobiographical Notes on

Ambedkar (For the Visually Challenged students):
1.What is “Abol Tabol”?

2.To which can “Abol Tabol” compared with?
3.What are the different characters in the book?
4.What is the symbolism of the “Khuror Kal”?
5.What happens in the kingdom of BombagR?
SEMESTER - V
CC-11: Postcolonial Literatures Credits 06

C11T: Postcolonial Literatures
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”?
4. “Love is so short,forgetting is so long”- What does it mean?
5.How Neruda oscillates between love and despair in his poem “Tonight I can Write”?
‘The Way Spain Was’ :

1. How is “The Way Spain Was” intertwined with the culture and politics of Spain?
2. Briefly describe the image of “Surrounded by the abstract stones of silence” in the poem “The Way
Spain Was”.
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”?
• Derek Walcott: ‘A Far Cry from Africa:

1. What challenge does Walcott face in “a far cry from Africa?”
2. How does Walcott compare man to the nature in “a far cry from Africa?”
3. What is the main theme of “a far cry from Africa?”
4. How does Derek Walcott use imagery in “A far cry from Africa?”
5. “How Choose Between this Africa and the English tongue I love?”—clarify the line.
6. What metaphors are used in “A Far Cry from Africa” by Derek Walcott?
7. What does Walcott state about savages in “a far cry from Africa?”
8. What challenge does Walcott face in “a far cry from Africa?”
9. What does the idiom “a far cry” mean?
10. Who does the poet refer to as Gorilla in “A far cry from Africa”?
‘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’ :
1. How does the speaker charaterise winter?

2. How does the speaker compare her hometown with small towns?
3. ‘The river has a soul’. Elaborate the concept in your words as the poet has explained it in the
poem.
4. Explain the metaphorical expressions ‘torrent of grief’.
5. The poet has used some unconventional expressions . Illustrate them in your own words: a)
Shrine of happy pictures. b) The land of fish and stars.
‘The Voice of the Mountain’:
1. What is the voice of the mountain all about?

2. What message is Mamang Dai conveying through her poem “The Voice of the Mountain”?
3. Why do the territories Poetic persona live is ‘forever ancient and new’?
4. “… as we speak in changing languages” __ Critically comment.
5. “The peace is falsity”__ Explain.
6. “I am the woman lost in translation” __ Why does the poet think so?
7. How does the mountain become the desert and the rain?
8. Comment on the use of Myth in the poem “The Voice of the Mountain?
Novel:
• Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart :
1. How many villages does Umuofia comprise?

2. How does eighteen-year old Okonkwo bring honour to his village?
3. Why does not Okonkwo have any patience with his father?
4. What does Okonkwo fear the most?
5. How does Ikemefuna become Okonkwo’s adopted son?
6. How does Okonkwo treat his wives and children?
7. Why is Ezinma so special to Okonkwo?
8. What warning does Ezeudu give Okonkwo in chapter-7?
9. What is the name of Earth Goddess in Igbo culture? How is she honoured?
10. What causes Okonkwo’s exile from Umuofia?
11. What is Okonkwo’s punishment?
12. How does Okonkwo break the peace during the Week of Peace?
13. What are the ‘egwugwu’ spirits?
14. How does Okonkwo die?
Stories:
• Bessie Head: ‘The Collector of Treasures’ :
1.What is the main theme of Bessie Head collector of treasures?

2.Who is the Collector of Treasure why is she called so?
3. Why did Dikeledi kill her husband?
4. Why was Dikeledi imprisoned?
5. Significance of the title of the story.
6. What is the significance of the castration episode in Bessie Head's "The Collector of Treasures"?
7. Comment on the feminism presented in the story by Bessi Head.
8. Discuss the roles of five characters in the text.
• Ama Ata Aidoo: ‘The Girl who can’ :
1. What is the main theme of The Girl Who Can?

2. Why does Nana criticize the narrator's legs?
3. What is the conflict in The Girl Who Can?
4. Why does the grandmother criticize adjoa's legs in the girl who can?
5. Which point of view does the author use in the girl who can?
6. What does Nana start to do after she hears the news of adjoa running?
7. What did adjoa act out?
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 "?
‘I’m wife; I’ve finished that’ :
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.
2.Why does the speaker compare her father with a Nazi?
3."And drank my blood for a year"--Who is referred to as Vampire and why?
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?
6. Why is the Speaker upset with her father?
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?
• Eunice De Souza: ‘Advice to Women’ :
1. Eunice de Souza as a feminist poet.

2. What does the last four lines of the poem mean?
3. What is Eunice de Souza’s advice to women?
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) :
1.Who is Draupadi in Mahasweta Devi’s “Draupadi”?

2.What is the name of Dopdi’s husband in the story “Draupadi”? Where do they work?
3.Who is Mr. Senanayak in the story “Draupadi”?
4.Which tribe is mostly focused in “Draupadi”?
5.Briefly describe about Surja Sahoo?
6.Who murdered Dulna Maji and how?
7.Who are accused of the murder of Surja Sahoo?
8.Why do the search for Dopdi continues?
9.What does Dopdi tell Munsi’s wife about getting caught?
10.How is the climax of the story ironically expressed?
• Toni Morrison: Beloved :

1. Why does Beloved haunt the house at 124?
2. Why did Sethe kill Beloved?
3. What happened to Halle?
4. How did Paul D get his freedom?
5. Why does the Black community of Cincinnati keep their distance from 124?
6. Why had Buglar and Howard run away from home?
7. How had Sethe bartered for the lettering on Beloved’s headstone?
8. How had Sethe’s children escaped from slavery?
9. Who had been the inhabitants of Sweet Home?
10. Why had Sethe chosen Halle from all the Sweet Home male slaves?
11. Why is Denver so shy?
12. Why do Sethe and Denver argue?
13. What does Sethe tell Paul D about the spirit in the house and the tree on her back?
14. How does Paul D fight the spirit?
15. Why does Denver resent Paul D for having rid the house of the spirit?
16. Who was Thirty-Mile Woman?
17. Why didn’t Baby Suggs have her children with her?
18. How had Amy helped Sethe?
19. How would you describe the dress Denver sees kneeling next to her mother with its sleeve around
her mother’s waist?
20. What does Sethe remember of her childhood?
21. According to Sethe, what is “rememory”?
22. Why had Baby Suggs been so starved for color?
23. What is Denver’s secret place?
24. What is Paul D’s secret fear?
25. What originally caused him to tremble?
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?
2.Why did Rassundari Devi learned to read?
3.How did Rassundari Devi learn to read and write?
4."But I am helpless"---When did the speaker feel helpless?
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
CC-13: Indian Classical Literature Credits 06

C13T: Indian Classical Literature
• Kalidasa. Abhijnana Shakuntalam, tr. Chandra Rajan, in Kalidasa: The Loom of Time (New
Delhi: Penguin, 1989). :
1. Where is the hermitage of Guru Kanva situated?

2. Why is it that King Dushanta come to the area of Hermitage? What is his answer to the
ladies for his coming?
3. Who are Shakuntala’s original parents and how is Patriarch Kanva her father?
4. “Hold fast, o heart, to your fondest wish:/ the troubling doubts are now dispelled.” What
are the troubling doubts referred here?
5. “O, you honey-foraging thief!”- who says this and to whom?
6. How does Priyamvada describe the relation between mango tree and Vanajyotsni?
7. Why did Durvasa curse Shakuntala?
8. What is the curse to Shakuntala?
9. What may end the effect of Durvasa’s curse?
10. Who was Gautami?
11. How does Kanva take the secret marriage of Shakuntala?
12. What is engraved on the King’s ring given to Shakuntala?
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?
2. Is Duryodhana’s manipulation of his father Dhrtarastra effective?
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.
5. Why does Duryodhana plan to vanquish the next. Pandava brothers ?
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.
8. What is Karna’s view of Krsna? Comment.
Sudraka. Mrcchakatika, tr. M.M. Ramachandra Kale (New Delhi: Motilal Banarasidass,
1962).:
1.who is Charudutta’s son? Why was he crying?
2.How does Vasantasena arrange her chances to re-visit to Charudutta’s house?
3.What type of play is Mrichcchakatika?
4.What message does Sansthanaka give to Charudutta through Maitreya?
5.What are the two things that make Maitreya laugh?
6.Why did Sarvalika steal the golden casket?
7. What was the profession of Vasantasen?
8. How does Maitreya define Vasantasena in Act V of Mrichchchakatika?
9. What is the major source of Sudraka’s play Mrichchchakatika?
10. Briefly comment on the significance of the role of Aryaka in the play.
11. What type of a hero is Charudatta?
12. Comment on Vasantasena’s attitude to the son of Charudatta.

13. What happens to Charudatta at the end of the play?
14. Why did Vasantasena fall in love with a penniless man?
15. . Who is Vidushaka in the play?
CC-14: Indian Writing in English Credits 06

C14T: Indian Writing in English
Poetry:
• R.K. Narayan: Swami and Friends :
1. Who were Swaminathan’s friends ?
2. Which four persons did Swaminathan like and admire most in theclass ?
3. Who was Rajam ?
4. What did grandmother tell Swaminathan about his grandfather ?
5. Who was the chord of communication between Mani and Rajam ?
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?
8. What provoked Swaminathan to slap Pea ?
9. What did Mani decide to do with Rajam ?
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 ?
11. Where did Swaminathan’s grandmother live ?
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 ?
• H.L.V. Derozio: ‘The Harp of India’ :
1. Where does the Harp hang and why?

2. What is the condition of the harp?
3. What does the poet mourn in “The Harp of India”?
4. What does the ‘Harp’ symbolize in the poem “The Harp of India”?
5. What difference do you notice in the beginning and ending of the poem “The Harp
of India”?
6. With what the ‘harp’ is compared in the poem “The Harp of India”?
7. Who made the music of the harp sweet and harmonious?
• Kamala Das: ‘Introduction’ :
1. What kind of poem is an introduction? Discuss.

2. How does Kamala Das introduces herself and her poetry in an introduction?
3. What is the meaning of schizophrenia in Kamala Das poem?
4. How does Kamala Das generalize her husband and herself
5. How does Kamala Das generalize her husband and herself?
6. How does Kamala Das treat the issue of language Her poem?
7. Why is ‘An Introduction’ a confessional poem?
8. How does Kamala Das speak for women in ‘An Introduction?
9. Comment on the feminism presented in this poem.
• 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’ :
1. What is the story "Two Lady Rams" about?

2. Who is Lalla Jhinda Ram?
3. Why was Lalla Jhinda Ram forced to call his wives Lady Rams?
4. Who was the elder wife of Lalla Jhinda Ram?
5. What was the demerit of Sukhi?
6. Why did Lalla Jhinda Ram marry Shakuntala?
7. How did Jhinda Ram's social rank elevate?
8. What was the problem that Lalla Jhinda Ram was facing?
9. Why did the first wife become furious?
10. What became the matter of discussion at the Garden Party?
11. Why and where was the Garden Party organized?
12. What becomes the primary concern of the story?
13. What was Lalla Jhinda Ram's reaction on receiving the congratulatory message?
14. Where did the story originally appear?
15. Why does the title suggest hilarious ?
16. Describe the wives of Jhinda Ram?
17. What technique is used in the story "Two Lady Rams "?
18. What does the author dislike?
19. Who had conferred the title of knighthood to Jhinda Ram?
20. When did the crisis emerge?
21. What was the crisis in the story "Two Lady Rams "?
22. Who finally offered to placate the crisis?
23. What did the chauffer do to placate the matter?
24. What was the solution to the crisis?
25. How did the story conclude?
26. What happened at the end of the story "Two Lady Rams "?
• Salman Rushdie: ‘The Free Radio’ :
1. Who is Ramani in the story "The Free Radio"?

2. Who is the narrator of the story?
3. How is the thief's widow blamed for everything?
4. What is the opinion of the narrator?
5. How is the widow described by the narrator?
6. How did the narrator meet the widow?
7. Where is the widow seen and with whom?
8. What does Ramani and his friends wear?
9. What does the armband reflect about Ramani?
10. Why does the narrator want to get involved into the affair of the widow?
11. What does the narrator start dreaming of?
12. What does Ramani add about the free Radio?
13. What are Ramani's hope with the arrival of the white caravan in the town?
14. What does Ramani do one day and what does he tell the narrator?
15. What does the narrator receive from Ramani?
Drama:
• Girish Karnad: Tughlaq :
1.In which language Girish Kanrads "Tughlaq " was originally written? How many scenes are there in
"Tughlaq"?
2.Comment on the character of Aziz.
3.Whose land was confiscated by Sultan Tughlaqs state officers? Who acts as the Judge in the case of
Vishnu Prasad?
4.Why does the Step- mother of Sultan murders Najib?
5.Who disguised as the Brahmin, Bishnu Prasad and why?
6.What was given to Aziz , when he act as Brahmin and win the case against Tughlaq?
7.Who is Sheik Imam Uddin? Who is Najib?
8.Who is Aazam? what role does he play in Girish Kanrads " Tughlaq"?
DSE1T: Nineteenth Century European Realism

Course Contents:
• Fyodor Dostoyvesky: Crime and Punishment, tr. Jessie Coulson London: Norton, 1989).
1.Why does Raskolnikov object to his sister’s impending marriage?
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?
DSE2T: World Literatures
Course Contents:
• V.S. Naipaul: Bend in the River (London: Picador, 1979).
1. Where does the novel "Bend in the River "take place?

2. In which year "Bend in the River" published?
3. Who is the narrator of the novel "Bend in the River "?
4. From where Salim has come when the story opens?
5. Who is Raymond in the novel "Bend in the River"?
6. Who is Zabeth and what is her occupation?
7. Who is Father Huismans and what type of ceremonial object does he collect?
8. Who is Metty?What does his name mean?
9. Who is Ferdinand and what is his occupation?
10. Who is Shoba in the novel "Bend in the River "?
11. Who is Nazruddin in the novel "Bend in the River "?
12. What does Salim mean by the phrase 'the world is what it is'?
13. What is Salim's relationship to the idea of Europe in "Bend in the River"?
14. How is post colonialism represented in the novel "Bend in the River "?
15. What is the significance of Ferdinand's question about religion?
16. What is wrong with Mahesh's engraving machine that makes sign?
18. What is happened to the European status in the Capital city?
19. What does Metty inform on Salim's black market activities?
20. What is Indar's moment of insight?
21. What does Shoba do when she returns?
22. Which novel by V.S.Naipaul is set in Africa and carries echoes of Joseph Conrad?
23. What significance does the concept of homelessness have in V.S.Naipaul's
"Bend in the River "?
• 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.
1. What is Bora Ring?

2. What is referred by ‘an alien tale’?
3. “The hunter is gone” __ Explain the hidden pain underlined in the line.
4. Why the ‘nomad feet’ has become still?
5. Explain the biblical allusion of Cain.
6. Why the painted body has become a dream?
DSE3T: Science Fiction and Detective Literature
Course Contents:
• Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White
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?
• Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles
1.What was ‘the great Grimpen,Mire’ in “The Hound of Baskerville”?

2.Draw a pen picture of the alley on the night of the death of Sir Charles.
3.Why was Baskerville cursed?
4.Briefly describe the will of Charles Baskerville?
5.Is Stapleton a Baskerville?
6. What were Holmes and his group waiting for? ...
7. Why was Watson sent to see what was happening? ...
8. Why did Holmes consider the fog dangerous?
9. How did Sherlock Holmes know that Sir Henry was coming out of Merripit House?
10.What does Sir Charles die of?
11.What is odd about Barrymore´s behaviour?
12.Watson has a theory about the dead body and Sir Henry´s shoe. Explain the theory
DSE4T: Partition Literature

Course Contents:
• Amitav Ghosh: The Shadow Lines.
1. Who was Mrinmoyee ?

2. Explain the hilarious incident of Tridib’s gastric.
3. In which subject Tridib was pursuing P.hd and what was his topic?
4. What is Thala-goya?
5. “ She was fascinated, long before the incident …..” ___ Who was Fascinated and about what?
6. Who was Magda?
7. Why Thamma can’t tolerate ila ?
8. “She doesn’t belong there” __ Explain.
9. Describe Thamma’s farewell Ceremony in short.
10. “The border isn’t in the Frontier” __ Comment Critically.
11. Describe the Dog episode in your own words.
12. “Everyone lives in a story” __ Explain.
13. “ I can’t see Dhaka” __ Explain Thamma’s reaction and the impression of Partition.
14. Describe the episode of Tridib’s murder.
15. Who was Khalil?
16. How did the unnamed behave on the day of Ila’s marriage?
• 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.
1.What is the final solution in Manik Bandopadhyay?

2.Who is Pramatha in final solution?
3.Who is Mallika in “The Final Solution”?
4.What is partition literature?
5.Is Mallika is successful to struggle against poverty?
• Sa’adat Hasan Manto, ‘Toba Tek Singh’, in Black Margins: Manto, tr. M. Asaduddin (New
Delhi: Katha, 2003) pp. 212–20.
1. Discuss the story Toba Tek Singh as a satire on partition.

2. Discuss the use of madness as metaphor in manto’s short story Toba TekSingh.
3. What is the theme of Toba Tek Singh?
4. How is the story Toba Tek Singh a critique of civilization?
5. Describe the life death and character of Toba Tek Singh.
6. What was Bishan Singh question to the man who believed that he was God?
• 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?
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?
SEC1T: Soft Skills
Course Contents:
What is soft skill? Teamwork, Adaptability, Leadership, Problem solving
Development of Sooft skills: Precis; Comprehension; Essays.
Adaptability
1. Why is adaptability an important skill?

2. How do you show adaptability?
3. How do you show adaptability?
4. How do you develop adaptability skills?
Teamwork
1. What are teamwork skills?

2. What are the six teamwork skills?
3. What are the qualities of good teamwork?
4. What is effective teamwork?
Leadership
1. What are the basic leadership skills?

2. How to develop leadership skills?
3. How do you show your leadership skills in critical condition?
4. What quality is mostly required to be a good leader?
Problem Solving
1. Is Problem solving a soft skill or technical skill

2. How to overcome difficult situations
3. How do you develop problem solving skill?
4. How do you show problem Solving skill in an interview?
SEC2T: Business Communication:
The essentials of 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?
Writing a project report:
1. How do you write a short report for a project?

2. What is the format of a project report?
3. What are the 4 types of report?
4. How report is written?
5. How do you design a report?
Writing reports on field work, visit to industries ,business negotiations:
1. What are some examples of negotiations?

2. How do you write a business negotiation?
3. How do you write a short field report?
4. What is the purpose of field report?
5. How do you organize an industrial visit?
Summarizing annual report of companies:
1. What are 3 things a company's annual report provides?

2. What is included in a company's annual report?
3. How do you analyze a company's annual report?
4. How do you write a short annual report?
5. What are the major components of an annual report?
E-correspondence:
1. What is the other name for e-correspondence?

2. What do you understand by e- correspondence?
3. What do you mean by e-mail?
4. What is proper e-mail format?
5. What are different types of e-mail?
Spoken English for business communication:
1. What are spoken English for business communication?

2. What is the role of spoken English in business communication?
GE1T: Academic Writing and Composition
Introduction to the Writing Process :
1. What are the 5 processes of writing?

2. How do you teach writing questions?
3. What are important things in writing?
4. What are good questions to ask students in the writing process?
Introduction to the conventions of Academic Writing:
1. What are some of the conventions of academic writing?

2. How do you list questions in academic writing?
3. What are the 4 types of academic writing?
4. What are the four main purposes of academic writing?
Writing in one's own words: - summerizing and paraphrasing:
1. What do you mean by summerizing and paraphrasing?

2. What is the difference between paraphrasing and summarizing?
3. Where is paraphrasing used?
4. What are the steps in the paraphrasing process?
Critical thinking: synthesis, analysis and evaluation:
1.What is critical thinking synthesis?
2.what is the evaluation of critical thinking?
3.what is synthesis analysis in evaluation?
4.What are 7 critical thinking skills?
5. How does critical thinking benefit an academic writer?
Structuring an argument: introduction, interjection and conclusion:
1.what is an argument?
2.what are the constituents of an argumentative essay?
3.why argumentative writing is called persuasive writing?
4.How can an academic writing be made more effective?
5.What is the function of argumentative thesis statement?
6.what are the steps to excel in becoming an academic writer?
Citing Resources: editing book and media review:
1. What is citation?
2.what is the difference between citation and reference?
3.what is the difference between in-text citation and reference citation?
4.what is bibliography? Create a bibliography with suitable example.
5.How do you reference an edited book?
6.what are the guidelines of citing a book?
7.what is the book review format?
8.what are the features of a book review?
9.Explain the importance of citation in academic writing.
10.what is media?
11.what do you mean by the term plagiarism?
12.what is intentional plagiarism?
13.what is accidental plagiarism?
GE3T: Language and Linguistics

Course Contents:
1. Language: language and communication; language varieties: standard and non- standard
language; language change.
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.
2. Phonology and Morphology: Akmajian, A., R. A. Demers and R, M. Harnish,
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?
3. Syntax: categories and constituents phrase structure; maxims of conversation.
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?
GE4T: Environment & Literature
G M Hopkins. ‘Binsey Poplars’
1. What does Hopkins lament in the poem “Binsey Poplars”?

2. “All felled, felled, are felled”- what is being referred here?
3. How do the trees create beauty in “Binsey Poplars”?
4. Whom does the speaker blame for the loss of the trees in “Binsey Poplars”?
5. “After-comers can’t guess the beauty been”- why can’t after-comers guess the beauty ?
6. What do you think is the major message in the poem “Binsey Poplars”?
7. What kind of poem is “Binsey Poplars”? Can you tell the context of its composition?
8. How does the poet address the trees in the beginning of the poem “Binsey Poplars”? What does his
addressing tell about him?
Mahasweta Devi. ‘Pterodactyl’ :
Ruskin Bond. ‘Dust on the Mountains’.
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”?
AECC CORE English- I
CL-I (English): British Poetry- 1
1. Shakespeare: Shall I compare Thee to a Summer’s Day:
John Donne: Batter my Heart
Milton: On His Blindness
Pope: Ode on Solitude
2. William Blake: A Poison Tree

William Wordsworth: To The Skylark
Shelly: To a Skylark
Keats: Ode to Autumn
3. Rhetoric and Prosody:
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?
4.What does Shakespeare mean by “Chance” and “Nature’s changing course”?

5.”So long lives this,and this gives life to thee”-What is referred to as “this”? How does this this give
“life to thee”?
6.What is the prayer of John Donne to God in his poem “Batter My Heart”?
7.What did donne want to express through “three personed God”?
8.What does the poet mean by ‘usurped town’?
9.Where does Donne want to be imprisoned?
10.What does the poet mean by ‘light’ in the poem “On His Blindness”?
11. “Which is death to hide”-What is death to hide?
12. “They also serve who only stand and wait”-Bring out the meaning of the line.
13.How does Milton compare himself through the word talent?
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”?
16. “A privacy of glorious light is thine” What is the inner meaning

17. What are the shortcomings of a summer's day?
18. What is the message of the poem Shall I compare thee?
19. Why does the poet compare thee to a summer's day?
20. Who is Sonnet 18 addressed to?
21. What is the problem of Sonnet 18?
22. What is the youth compared to in Sonnet 18?
23. How is Death personified in Sonnet 18?
24. What gives life to the poet's friend in Sonnet 18?
25. What is the speaker in Donne's poem Batter my heart really asking for from God?
26. What is John Donne's plea in Batter my heart?
28. Why did John Donne write Batter my heart?
29.What is the main conflict in Batter my heart?
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?
32.Who is the close friend of autumn in Keats poem To Autumn answer?
33.Why is autumn called the close bosom friend of the sun?
34.What aspect of autumn is described in the first stanza?
35.What is the message of ode to autumn?
36.What is the summary of ode to autumn?
37.How did autumn season personify as?
38.What is the mood of the poem Ode to Autumn?
39.What is the main theme of To a Skylark?
40.Why does Shelley refer to the skylark as a blithe spirit?
41.What does a skylark symbolize?
42.What is the appeal to the Skylark?
43. Define with an example of the following rhetorics:
Simile,Metaphor,Transferred Epithet,Personification,Synecdoche,Metonymy,
Hyperbaton,Pun,Zeugma,Asyndeton,Poli-syndeton,Antithesis,Oxymoron,Epigram Alliteration
CL-2 (English) : Poetry- 2
1. Tennyson: Break Break Break
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?
2. Browning: Porphyria’s Lover

1. 1.What is the speaker's mood at the opening of the poem? ...
2. 2.How does his mood change when Porphyria comes to him? ...
3. 3.What reason does he give for strangling her? ...
4. 4.What leads the speaker to assert that Porphyria "felt no pain"?
5. 5.What is the message in Porphyria's Lover?
6. 6.What are the key themes in Porphyria's Lover?
7. 7.Why is it called Porphyria's Lover?
8. 8.Why has Porphyria's Lover killed her?
9. 9.How is Porphyria killed in Porphyria's Lover?
10. 10.Is Porphyria's Lover a man?
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?
4. W.B.Yeats: The Lake Isles of Innisfree:

1: Is the poet’s going to Innisfree merely an attempt to escape from the harsh realities of city life?
2: What does the isle of Innisfree stand for the poet?
3: Where is the poet standing? How is it different from Innisfree?
4: When and where will the poet experience ‘peace’?
5:How does the poet describe the lake’s waves?
6: Why does the poet want to go to Innisfree?
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SABANG SAJANIKANTA MAHAVIDYALAYA

Group: A (History of Literature)

• Old English poetry and prose:

2.Where is Cana situated?Why did Jesus Christ go there?

3.Who is Jankyn? What did he do?

4.What is Lent? How did Alisoun use it?

6.why does the wife of Bath consider herself an expert on marriage?

7.why were three of Alisouns husbands "good husbands"?

1. Give to examples of Scandinavian loan words related to law.

• John Donne:‘Good Morrow’ :

1. What does the title of the poem Good Morrow mean?

• Milton: Paradise Lost Book-I :

2:What is pandemonium referred in paradise Lost?

3:What does the title of “Paradise Lost” refer to?

4:What is the setting of “Paradise Lost”?

5:Who are the main characters of “Paradise Lost”?

6:Why Adam and Eve were expelled from Paradise?

7:Why does Eve eat the forbidden fruit?

8:Is Eve to blame for the fall?

10:Explain ” to reign in Hell is better than serve in Heaven“?

11:what is the roll of Belzebub in Paradise Lost book 1?

13:why did Satan tempt Eve but not Adam?

14:How long did it take Satan to fall from heaven?

15:How Satan describes about hell?

Pope: Rape of the Lock (3 cantos):

1. Describe Belinda as she is described at the beginning of Canto-2.

• Christopher Marlowe:Edward II:

1.What is the historical significance of

1. “Fair is foul and foul is fair”-Explain.

• William Congreve: The Way of the World :

2.What is Cabal-night? Who is Fainal speaking to? Where are they?

3.who is coroner?What does the phrase ‘Coroner’s inquest’ mean?

4.What does Fainal actually mean by ‘murdered reputation’?

5.Why did Mirabell pay courtship to Lady Wishfort?

6.What does Mrs Marwood mean by ‘a cap of maintenance’?

7.explain,”Given up her gain”.

9.What injuries does Mirabell mean?Is he sincerely repentant?

10.What sensation is Mirabell able to create in lady Wishfort?

Addison and Steele: ‘Sir Roger at Church’ :

• Laurence Sterne:The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman :

1. Important points of volume 4 in TristramShandy.

1. When was Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience published?

William Wordsworth: ‘Tintern Abbey’ :

1.What is the complete title of the Poem Tintern Abbey?

3.Where is the Tintern Abbey?

5.What does Wordsworth mean by “that serene and blessed mood”?

7.What does the poet mean by “sensations sweet”?

8.What does Wordsworth mean by “the burthen of the mystery”?

10.Why does he address the Wye as ‘sylvan'?

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge: ‘Christabel’ Part-1 :

1. Describe the beginning of the poem Christabel.

• Percy Bysshe Shelley: ‘Ozymandias’ :

1:Whom did the traveller met and where?

2:How does the traveller describe the statue?

4:What do we learn about ozymendias' character from his statue?

5:Who was Ozymendias?

6:What is the important message that conveyed through this poem?

7:what is the meaning of the title 'Ozymendias'?

John Keats: ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ :

3:What is Lethe?How is it significant here?

4: Significance of the reference "blashfull Hippocrene".

5:Why is the bird called "light winged chariot"?

6:Who is ruthe? Why is she referred here?

2.Why does Elizabeth reject Darcys initial proposal?