6 pages) Reg. No. ..l. 3.

3. In "The Battle of the Books" the Won

the battle.
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b) Ancients
(a) Moderns

(c) Ultra Moderns (d) New Moderns

B.A. (CBCS) DEGREE EXAMINATION,
NOVEMBER 2022. 4. Who is called as "the prince of an essayist"?
Third Semester (a) Bacon Lamb
b)
English - Core
(c) Arnold (d) Hazlitt
BRITISH PROSE
5. Sir Roger De Coverley is a fictional character
(For those who joined in July 2021 onwards) created by
Time: Three hours Maximum : 75 marks
(a) Addison (b) Hazlitt
PARTA-(10 x 1= 10 marks)
(c) Dryden (d) Bacon
Answer ALL questions.
6. Ramo Samee was a juggler and in the
Choose the correct answer: 19th century.

(a) musician (b) magician

1. According to Bacon. will make
opportunities than he finds. C)politician (d) waiter
(a) wise man (b) dull man
Virgina Woolf described Margaret Cavendish as
(c) stupid man (d) foolish man

2. Beau Tibbs always tries to others. (a) Mad Meg b) Maddy

(a) impress (b) force
(c) Malody (d) Maggie
(c) help (d) 1gnore

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8. According to Orwell, knowledge of -

is 12. (a) How does Ruskin testify the superiority of

essential for a book seller. women over men in "Of Queen's Gardens"?
(a) books (b) place
Or
(c) event (d) time
(b) Examine the last episode in "The Battle of
"An idle mind is a devils Workshop", so to protect the Books'.
9.
from the devil one should resort t
13. (a) Briefly summarize Hazlite's "The Indian
(a) write (b) listen Jugglers".
(c) read (d) speak '10.
Or

10. "On the Equality of Sexes" is written by b) Bring out the relationship between Sir Roger
and his Chapman in Sir Roger De

(a) Bacon b) Orwell Coverley's Sunday".

(c) Woolf (d) J.S. Mill 14. (a) Comment on Orwell's views about his
customers.
PART B-(5 x 5 25 marks)
Or
Answer ALL questions, choosing either (a) or (6). b) "E.M. Foster's "What I Believe" is a note on
confession" - Explain it.
Each answer should not exceed 250 words.
15. (a) Assess the reason to preserve wild life as
11. (a) Describe a Touch Stone Method in
mentioned in "Vanishing Animals".
analyzing a piece of work.
Or
Or
(b) "Pere David's Deer becomes extinct in
(b) Comment on the character of Beau Tibbs.
China Discuss.
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 PART C-5 x 8 =
40 marks) 19. (a) Bring out the humor and sarcasm in Orwells
"Bookshop Memories".
Answer ALL questions, choosing either (a) or (b).
Or
Each answer should not exceed 600 words. "What I Believe" is
(b) a defense of democracy
Justify it.
16. (a) Examine Bacon's concept of behavior and
Summarize Viscount Grey's " The Pleasure
good manners. 20. (a)
of Reading".
Or
Or
b) Write a critical essay on "Beau Tibbs. His
(b) Elaborate on the views of Gerald Durrell in
Character and Fanmily"'. "Vanishing Animals".

17. (a) Analyse Ruskin's vie on Women's

education'.

Or

(b) Examine the importance of the Bee and the

Spider episode in "The battle of the Books".

18. (a) Examine Addison is one of the Prose stylists

in English Literary History.

Or

(b) Develop the main idea of the essay "The

Indian Jugglers".

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