Mid-Semester Exam, 2019

English I

1.
Answer ONE of the following.
a) “Oppressed by a guilty conscience, the Indian poets writing in English
experienced a sense of identity-crisis and as a result their integrity was flawed by
lack of confidence, uncertainty and indecision.” Do these words of the critic Sanjukta
Dasgupta apply to the poem “An Introduction”? Discuss.

(10 marks)
OR
b) Discuss the poem “An Introduction” with reference to its title.

(10 marks)
2.
The details of four books or articles are given below. Using the information given,
create a Works Cited page using the MLA format.

(5 marks)

i. A book by the historian Sadiah Qureshi, titled Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions,

Empire and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain. It was published in 2001
by the Chicago-based University of Chicago Press.
ii. An article titled “Sources and Successors” by Maria Sachiko Cecire. This was
included on pages 32-47 of a 2013 collection titled J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by
Peter Hunt, and published by Palgrave Macmillan, a publisher based in
Basingstoke, UK.
iii. The book The Girl with the Golden Parasol by Uday Prakash, translated from
Hindi by Jason Grunebaum in 2013. This translation was published by Yale
University Press, which is based in New Haven and London.
iv. An article by Hywel M. Griffiths, titled “Water Under the bridge?: Nature,
Memory and Hydropolitics.” It was published in the journal Cultural
Geographies, in the 3rd issue of volume 21, in 2014, and could be found on
pages 449-474.