END TERM EXAMINATION, APRIL -2018

B.A.LL.B. (HONS.)
SEMESTER-II
English Literature
Max. Marks: 60 Time Allowed: 3:00 Hrs.
Note: Answer five questions including Question No. 1 which is compulsory. The number of marks carried by each question
is indicated at the end of the question.

1. Answer the following (each answer should be in approximately 100 words) (Marks 2*10=20)
a) Why does the author call the Dillingham couple Magi?
b) Who was the true romantic in the story ‘The Nightingale and the Rose’? Why?
c) Describe the concluding part of the story ‘The Country of the Blind’.
d) What happens to the slave at the end in the poem “A Slave’s Dream”?
e) ‘They also serve who only stand and wait.’ How?
f) What are the two functions of education according to Palkhiwala?
g) According to Justice M. Hidayatullah, what are the two aspects of study of Law?
h) In the story “The Bet”, why does the lawyer (prisoner) run away from the solitary confinement of the banker?
i) Why was the verger dismissed from his job and how did he respond to it?

j) “‘Please’ and ‘Thank you’ are the small change with which we pay our way as social beings. They are the little courtesies
by which we keep the machine of life oiled and running sweetly.” Explain.

2. Explain the following with reference to context:- (Marks 5+5=10)

a) Helen being chosen found life flat and dull

And later had much trouble from a fool,
While that great Queen, that rose out of the spray,
Being fatherless could have her way
Yet chose a bandy-leggèd smith for man.
It’s certain that fine women eat
A crazy salad with their meat
Whereby the Horn of Plenty is undone.

b) If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them:
‘Hold on!’
PTO
3. Justify the title of the story “God sees the truth, but waits”. (Marks 10)
4. Write a critical appreciation of the poem “Death, be not proud” (Marks 10)
5. How does Joseph Addison characterize Sir Roger in his essay ‘Sir Roger at Home’? (Marks 10)

6. Describe the stages a man goes through in his life as stated in his drama ‘As You Like It’. (Marks 10)
7. Critically comment on the speech ‘The Pleasure of Books’ by William Lyon Phelps. (Marks 10)

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END TERM EXAMINATION, APRIL - 2017
B.A.LL.B. (HONS.)
SEMESTER-II
English Literature
Max. Marks: 60 Time Allowed: 3:00 Hrs.
Note: Answer five questions including Question No. 1 which is compulsory. The marks carried by each
question are indicated at the end of the question.
1. Answer the following (each answer should be in approximately 100 words): (Marks 2×10=20)
a. What do you think about the nightingale’s sacrifice and compassion?
b. How does Martin’s outlook towards life change?
c. What advice does Polonius give to Leartes?
d. Share E. V. Lucas’ views on bores.
e. Write down the autobiographical element in Dream Children: A reverie.
f. What message does the story ‘after twenty years’ give?
g. What according to A.G. Gardiner keep the machine of life oiled and make it run sweetly?
h. What makes Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam so great?
i. How practical are the ways of life shown by Julian Mantle?
j. What message does Jawahar Lal Nehru want to convey in Tryst with destiny?
2. Explain the following with reference to context: (Marks 5+5=10)
(a) The sanguine Sunrise, with his meteor eyes,
And his burning plumes outspread,
Leaps on the back of my sailing rack,
When the morning star shines dead,
As on the jag of the mountain crag,
Which an earthquake rocks and swings,
An eagle alit one moment may sit
(b) As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends say
The breath goes now, and some say, No:
So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear floods, nor sigh tempests move,
‘Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.
3. Write down the experiences of Edward Foreman. (Marks 10)
4. What were the turning points of Ashionov’s life? (Marks 10)
5. What does Phelp think about books and reading? (Marks 10)
6. What is the poets outlook towards life in the poem A Psalm of Life? (Marks 10)
7. What message does Portia’s speech on mercy give? (Marks 10)
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END TERM EXAMINATION, MAY - 2016
B.A.LL.B. (HONS.)
SEMESTER-II
English Literature
Max. Marks: 60 Time Allowed: 3:00 Hrs.
Note: Answer five questions including Question No. 1 which is compulsory. The marks carried by each question is indicated
at the end of the question.
1. Answer the following (each answer should be in approximately 100 words): (Marks 2×10=20)

a. What was Ivan Dmitritch Chervyakov’s matter of concern which led him to death?
b. What changed Gabriel grub’s outlook towards life?
c. Share Phelp’s views on books and reading.
d. What advice does Polonius give to his son?
e. How does Portia Praise Mercy?
f. What conclusion could be drawn from the story The bet?
g. Share M. Hidayatullah’s view on Lawyers Born or made.
h. What is the gist of the poem On Valediction: Forbidding Mourning?
Explain the following with reference to context:
i. For Death had illumined the land of sleep,
And his life less body lay
A worn out fetter, that this soul
Had broken and thrown away!
j. If there’s no hatred in a mind
Assault and battery of the wind
Can never tear the linnet from the leaf.
2. Write Nunez’s experience in the strange country. (Marks 10)

3. Describe the nightingale’s sacrifice for love. (Marks 10)

4. How does the poem ‘A psalm of life’ inspire you? (Marks 10)
5. How does A. G. Gardiner show that bad manners probably do more to poison the stream of the general life than all the
crimes in the calendar? (Marks 10)
6. What does the essay Dream Children: A reverie say about the author? (Marks 10)

7. (a) What message does Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam give in Indomitable Spirit? (Marks 05)
(b) What precious knowledge does Julian Mantle share with John? (Marks 05)

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END TERM EXAMINATION, APRIL - 2015
B.A.LL.B. (HONS.)
SEMESTER-II
English Literature
Max. Marks: 60 Time Allowed: 3:00 Hrs.
Note: Answer five questions including Question No. 1 which is compulsory. The number of marks carried by each question
is indicated at the end of the question.

1. Answer the following (each answer should be in approximately 100 words): (Marks 2×10=20)
a. How does the poem ‘A Psalm of life’ inspire you?
b. Write Nunez’s strange experiences.
c. What does J. L. Nehru want to convey in his ‘Tryst with Destiny’?
d. What message does Shakespeare want to give in ‘All the world’s a stage’?
e. Write the gist of ‘The Monk who sold his Ferrari’.
f. Write a short note on sonnet. Give example (of the sonnets you have read).
g. What does Phelp think about books and reading?
h. Write the summary of the peom ‘If’.
i. Write Hidayatullah’s views on Lawyer’s born or made.
j. Analyse the poem ‘Death, be not proud’.

2. Explain with reference to context:- (Marks 5×2=10)

(a) For death had illumined the land of sleep;

And his lifeless body lay
A worn out fetter, that the soul
Had broken and thrown away!

(b) As on the jag of a mountain crag,

Which an earthquake rocks and swings,
An eagle alit one moment may sit
In the light of its golden wings.

3. Explain with reference to context:- (Marks 5×2=10)

(a) Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had
need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit and if he read little, he had need have much
cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.

(b) I suggest to him, that he would have had a more subtle and effective revenge if he had treated the gentleman who would
not say ‘Please’ with elaborate politeness. He would have had the victory, not only over the boor, but over himself, and that is
the victory that counts. The polite man may lose the material advantage, but he always has the spiritual victory.
I commend to the lift-man a story of Chesterfield. In his time the London streets were without the pavements of today and the
man who ‘took the wall’ had the driest footing. ‘I never give the wall to a scoundrel,’ said a man who met Chesterfield one
day in the street. ‘I always do’, said Chesterfield, stepping with a bow into the road. I hope the lift man will agree that his
revenge was much more sweet than if he had flung the fellow into the mud.

4. Draw the character sketch of Amir. (Marks 10)

5. How does Portia praise mercy in her Speech on Mercy? (Marks 10)
6. Write the lawyer’s experience during his chosen imprisonment in the story ‘The bet’. (Marks 10)
7. What does yeats pray in his poem ‘A prayer for my daughter’? (Marks 10)
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Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur
End Term Examination, April -2014
B.A.LL.B. (HONS.)
SEMESTER-II
English Literature
Max. Marks: 60 Time Allowed: 3:00 Hrs.
Note: Answer five questions including Question No. 1 which is compulsory. The number of marks carried by each question
is indicated at the end of the question.

1. Answer the following (each answer should be in approximately 100 words): (Marks 2×10=20)

a. Elaborate the idea “Freedom and power bring responsibility” and also tell who said this in his speech.
b. How do Della & Jim prove that love is above all?
c. What does Rudyard Kipling advice in the poem ‘If’?
d. How does Charles Lamb mingle humour and pathos in his essay “Dream Children: A reverie”?
e. What do you think about Nightingale’s sacrifice and compassion?
f. How does Portia praise mercy in her ‘Speech on Mercy’?
g. Why does Lucas say that everybody at sometime is a bore? And who according to him is a true bore?
h. Draw the character sketch of Sir Roger.
i. Explain with reference to context
As on the jag of a mountain crag
Which an earthquake rocks and swings.
An eagle alit one moment may sit
In the light of its golden wings.
j. What advice does Bacon give in ‘Of Studies’?

2. Write down the gist of the essay ‘On Saying Please’ and also tell if manners and behaviour matter. (Marks 10)

3. In the poem ‘A Prayer for my daughter’ what does the poet wish for his daughter? (Marks 10)

4. Write down the experiences of Edward Foreman. (Marks 10)

5. Critically analyze the poem ‘On Valediction Forbidding Mourning’. (Marks 10)

6. What does Nani A. Palkiwala Share in his convocation speeches? (Marks 10)

7. How does the poem ‘The Psalm of Life’ fill you with inspiration and noble action? (Marks 10)
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