NAYAGARH AUTONOMOUS COLLEGE, NAYAGARH

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
SUBJECT: ENGLISH HONS.
PAPER – CC14

Q. Answer the following questions (Short Type) 6 marks

1. Write a short note on –

a) Popular Literature
b) Pop Culture
c) High Brow vs Low Brow
d) Genre Fiction vs Literary Fiction
e) Campus Fiction
2. What is the riddle in Lewis Caroll’s Alice in the Wonderland?
3. What is the message in Lewis Caroll’s Alice in the Wonderland?
4. How did Alice reach the Wonderland? Explain.
5. Why was Watson sent to see what was happening in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of
Baskervilles?
6. Why did Holmes consider the fog dangerous?
7. Discuss the theme of friendship in Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone?
8. Discuss the role of the narrator Hari in Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone?
9. The story the ups and downs of the lives of three IITians in the campus. Comment.
10. What is the message conveyed in Chetan Bhagat’s novel Five Point Someone?

Q. Answer the following questions (Long Type) 14 marks

1. What is popular literature? Differentiate between popular culture and high culture?
2. What are the main characteristics of popular literature? Discuss with suitable examples.
3. What is Genre fiction? Discuss taking suitable examples.
4. Discuss Lewis Caroll’s Alice in the Wonderland as an adventurous novel?
5. Sketch the character of White Rabbit in Lewis Caroll’s Alice in the Wonderland?
6. Discuss Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of Baskervilles as a Detective Novel?
7. Discuss Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of Baskervilles as a Gothic Novel?
8. Sketch the character of Detective Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of
Baskervilles?
9. Discuss Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone as a Campus Fiction?
10. Sketch the character of Ryan Oberoi in Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone.
11. What is the central theme in Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone?
12. Discuss how the novel Five Point Someone portrays the life of three IITians?