UAEN-101

Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning

(Deemed to be University)
Vidyagiri, Prasanthi Nilayam

B.A./B.A.(Hons)/B.Sc./B.Sc.(Hons)/B.Com.(Hons)/B.B.A./B.C.A./B.P.A(Music)
First Semester Examinations, Sep-Oct 2018
PART-I(B) : ANOTHER LANGUAGE : : ADDITIONAL ENGLISH

Additional English: Literature and Life-I

Duration : 3 Hours 12/10/2018 Max. Marks : 100
Note: 1. Answer Sections A, B & C in the answer book provided.
2. Time allotted for Section-A is 20 minutes; hand over Section-A of the Question Paper back to the
Invigilator, after answering it in the first twenty minutes.
3. Comply with the instructions given in the Main Answer Book carefully.

SECTION – A
(20 Marks)
I. A) Read the following passage and answer, in a line or two, the questions that follow:
(5x2=10 Marks)
Sympathy
Sympathy I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;
When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,
And the river flows like a stream of glass;
When the first bird sings and the first bud opes,
And the faint perfume from its chalice steals—
I know what the caged bird feels!
I know why the caged bird beats his wing
Till its blood is red on the cruel bars;
For he must fly back to his perch and cling
When he fain would be on the bough a-swing;
And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars
And they pulse again with a keener sting—
I know why he beats his wing!
I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,
When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,—
When he beats his bars and he would be free;
It is not a carol of joy or glee,
But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core,
But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings—
I know why the caged bird sings!
- Paul Laurence Dunbar

1. Bring out the contrast between Nature and the bird.

2. How does the bird physically try to escape from captivity?
3. Why does the caged bird sing?
4. Identify any two figures of speech from the poem.
5. Make a sentence each of your own using the words (i) bough and (ii) throb.
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B) Match the following: (5x1=5 Marks)

‘A’ ‘B’
6. Jawaharlal Nehru A) Aristotelian and Thomistic philosophical researcher

7. William Hazlitt B) Recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature

8. Robert Lynd C) Opponent of transcendental philosophies

9. Louisa May Alcott D) Irish literary and political essayist

10. Mortimer J. Adler E) Architect of Modern India

F) Worshipper of Napoleon

C) Fill in the blanks with the right word from the prescribed texts: (5x1=5 Marks)

11. Absent-mindedness of this kind seems to me all but a _________.

12. A book is more like the score of a piece of music than it is like a _________.

13. Internationally, the major question today is that of world _________.

14. Thou’lt leave Thy wrath, and say, / 'I will be sorry for their _________.'

15. Foolish Bubble broke; / But Rock never _________.

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Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning

(Deemed to be University)
Vidyagiri, Prasanthi Nilayam

B.A./B.A.(Hons)/B.Sc./B.Sc.(Hons)/B.Com.(Hons)/B.B.A./B.C.A./B.P.A(Music)
First Semester Examinations, Sep-Oct 2018
PART-I(B) : ANOTHER LANGUAGE : : ADDITIONAL ENGLISH

Additional English: Literature and Life-I

Duration : 3 Hours 12/10/2018 Max. Marks : 100

SECTION – B

(40 Marks)
II. Annotate ANY THREE of the following in about 150 words each: (3x5=15 Marks)

1. “Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit”

2. “My mother only said

Thank God the scorpion picked on me
And spared my children."

3. “The philosophy and the world outlook of the old Hindus was amazingly tolerant; and yet they had
divided themselves up into numerous separate caste groups and hierarchies.”

4. “Never despise anyone for anything that he cannot help.”

III. Answer ONE of the following questions in about 150 words: (1x5=5 Marks)

5. According to J. Adler, what are the advantages of owning a book?

6. Explain the ways suggested by C. V. Raman through which the gap between the young researchers and
the experienced scientists could be bridged.

IV. Answer ONE of the following questions in about 150 words: (1x5=5 Marks)

7. Compare and contrast the characters of the rock and the bubble.

8. Explain why the poet desires to live incognito and die unknown in “Ode on Solitude”.

V. Answer ONE of the following questions in about 350 words: (1x15=15 Marks)

9. Critically analyse the poem “The Toys” by Coventry Patmore.

10. Elaborate on Lynd's statement – ‘Memory, indeed, is half the substance of their art’.

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SECTION – C
(40 Marks)
VI. Answer ANY TWO of the following questions in about 250 words each: (2x10=20 Marks)

11. Bring out the element of pathos in the story “The Refugees”.

12. Discuss the events that led to the change in Matryona’s heart.

13. Attempt a character-sketch of Ustad Rahim Khan.

14. Highlight the element of humour in the essay “Rats and Cats in the House of Culture”.

VII. Do as directed. (10x1=10 Marks)

Use the following words each in a sentence of your own:

15. Tumult

16. Receptacle

17. Bigotry

18. Galvanise

19. Impertinence

Provide antonyms for the following words:

20. Wrought

21. Sedentary

Provide synonyms for the following words:

22. Obscurity

23. Restraint

24. Mediocrity

Provide the meanings of the following idioms and use them in a sentence each: (5x (1+1) =10 Marks)

25. Hear someone out

26. Cast an aspersion

27. Lion’s share

28. Yeoman service

29. Neck and crop

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