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III B.A ENGLISH - MODEL EXAMINATION – NOVEMBER 2022

AMERICAN LITERATURE II
Time: 3hours Max. Marks: 75
SECTION A — (5 × 2 = 10 marks)
I. Annotate any FIVE of the following:
1. Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse
and strong and cunning.
Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set
vivid against the little soft cities
2. I too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle.
   Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers that there is in
   it after all, a place for the genuine.

3. I stand on top
of our back steps and breathe the rich air—
a mother skunk with her column of kittens swills the garbage pail

4. Some go weeping and some rejoicing

some in coffins and some in carriages
some in silks and some in shackles

5. I am not cruel, only truthful‚

The eye of a little god, four-cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is part of my heart. But it flickers.

6. It takes the moon for this. The sun's a wizard

By all I tell; but so's the moon a witch.
From the high west she makes a gentle cast
And suddenly, without a jerk or twitch,
She has her spell on every single lizard.

7. The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on the table. So it has been since
creation, and it will go on.
We chase chickens or dogs away from it. Babies teethe at the corners. They scrape
their knees under it.

8. Maybe it just sags

      like a heavy load.
      Or does it explode?
 SECTION B – (3 x 5 = 15)
II. Analyse any THREE of the following passages and answer the questions given
below.
9. “Who were these Saints? These cracy, loony, pitiful women?
Some of them, without a doubt, were are mothers and grandmothers”.
10. But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.
We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great
Vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so we’ve come to cash this check,
a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and security of justice.
11. “What happens in one mind may happen as influence or coincidence in another;
When the same idea spreads to two or more minds of consideration power, it
May eventually explode, through chain reaction, in a whole society; it may dominate
a period or an entire epoch.”
12. No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise
for the reader. For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I
didn’t know I knew.
13. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

III. Answer any FOUR of the following questions – (4 x5 = 20)

14. What happens to the husband who travelled to New York? Explain briefly?
15. Write the critical analysis of the story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
16. What are the lessons of humanity in To Kill a Mockingbird ?
17. State one of the main themes of To Kill a Mockingbird. What are some literary
devices that Harper Lee uses?
18. Sketch the character of Amanda.
19. Discuss the story of The World’s Greatest Fisherman.

SECTION C - (3x 10 = 30)

IV. Write essays on any THREE of the following in 300 words
20. Why does the speaker love everything about Chicago, even the ugly parts?
21. Analyse the theme of the play “The Glass Menagerie”
22. Explain in detail the main elements of a Poem?
23. “A man of Letters must keep up his standards” Discuss
24. What are the most central conflicts in “To Kill a Mockingbird”?

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