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EG-06
June - Examination 2016
BA Pt. III Examination
Prose and Fiction - III
Paper - EG-06
Time : 3 Hours ] [ Max. Marks :- 100
Note: The question paper is divided into three sections A, B and
C. Write answers as per given instructions.

Section - A 10 × 2 = 20
(Very Short Answer Questions)
Note: This section will contain ten (10) very short answer type
questions (one word, one sentence, and definitional type
item) having weightage of 20 (twenty) marks. Examinees
will have to attempt all questions. Each question will be
of 2 (two) marks and maximum word limit will be thirty
words.
1) (i) Name the characters of ‘Of Mice and Men’.
(ii) Who is the narrator of the story ‘The Cask of Amontillado’?
(iii) Who is Hukam Chand in ‘Train to Pakistan’?
(iv) Why is it difficult to have a sense of reality, according to
Henry James?
(v) What was the name of Winston Churchill’s wife?

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(vi) Which literary age does Virginia Woolf belong to?
(vii) Why does Bigger kills Mary Dalton in ‘Native Son’?
(viii) What was the tryst with Destiny, in J. L, Nehru’s ‘A Tryst
with Destiny’?
(ix) Who is Portia in ‘Split at the Root’?
(x) Write the definition of ‘Autobiography’.

Section - B 4 × 10 = 40
(Short Answer Questions)
Note: This section will contain eight (8) short answer type
questions. Examinees will have to answer any four (04)
questions. Each question will be of 10 (ten) marks. The
weightage of this section will be of forty (40) marks.
Examinees have to delimit each answer in maximum 200
words.

2) What is the rule for women for visiting the library according to
Virginia Woolf?

3) Chinua Achebe quote - “Language is a weapon, and we use

it”, Elaborate it.

4) What are the chief attributes of Indian culture, according to

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam?

5) Explain the statement by Henry James ‘As picture is reality,

so novel is history’.

6) Draw a character - sketch of Fortunato in the story - ‘The

Cask of Amontillado’

7) Describe the social life of Mano Majra village in ‘Train To

Pakistan’.

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8) Where was Winston Churchill imprisoned and how did he
escape?

9) Why is it ironic that Mr. Dalton gives money to charity, in

‘Native Son’?

Section - C 2 × 20 = 40
(Long Answer Questions)
Note: This section will contain four (4) long answer type
questions. Each question will be of twenty (20) marks.
Examinees will have to answer any two (2) questions.
The weightage of this section will be of forty (40) marks.
Examinees have to delimit each answer in maximum 500
words.

10) Discuss ‘Split at the Root’ as an autobiographical essay.

11) Discuss the significance of the title ‘The Ghosts of the Vasu
Master’.

12) Write an essay on the use of motifs and symbols in the novel
‘Native Son’.

13) Discuss how George and Lennie fall victim to the ‘American
Dream’ in ‘Of Mice and Men’.

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