MADRAS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS)

B.A. DEGREE END OF SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS – NOV 2020

ENGLISH III (081EG3F01)
B.A. / B.SC. all group
SEMESTER III
Time : 1½ Hours Max. Marks :50
17/12 FN

SECTION A

I Answer any FIVE of the following in 40 words each 5x2=10

1. How does Stephen Leacock perceive the idea of specialization in his essay Further
Progress in Specialization?
2. Why do you think the poet considers losing as an art in the poem One Art?
3. How does Shashi Tharoor justify that India’s identity is an ‘idea of difference’?
4. What are the themes found in the poem My Grandmother’s House?
5. Who is the ‘Unknown citizen’ and why is he called so by W.H.Auden?
6. Comment on the title ‘She’ by Lakshmi Kannan.
7. What is the idea of sports that Orwell encourages in his essay The Sporting Spirit?
8. What does the lamp symbolize in the short story The Doll’s House?

SECTION B
II Write an essay on any FOUR in 300 words. 4x10=40
9. Explain the significance of silence in The Eloquent Sounds of Silence.
10. Do you think that the emergence of Multi-national companies in India is the reason for
decline in agriculture? Explain.
11. “A Patriarchal society defines how a woman should be” Justify this with the poem She.
12. Write a letter to the railway authorities about the inconvenience (damaged seats,
unhygienic restrooms etc.)you faced in the train and request them to rectify it.
13. How does the lawyer turn his imprisonment into solitude in the short story The Bet?
14. ‘Appearances are deceptive’ Justify this through the short story The Dream.
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