Section A
(Answer any one
question)
Tempest-Shakespeare
Question 1
Choose two
of the passages (a) to (c) and answer briefly the question that follows:
a) Miranda : How came we ashore?
Prospero: By providence divine
Some
food we had and some fresh water that
A
noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo,
Out of his charity,
who being then appointed
Master of this design,
did give us, with
Rich garments, linens,
stuffs, and necessaries,
Which since have
steaded much. So, of his gentleness,
Knowing I loved my
books, he furnished me
From mine own library
with volumes that
I prize above my
dukedom.
i)
Who are Prospero and Miranda? Where are they at
this moment?
ii)
Give a brief character sketch of the person who
helped Prospero and Miranda.
iii)
Why have they come to the place they are at
present?
iv)
Why was Prospero expelled?
v)
What idea can you form of Miranda?
vi)
What idea can you form of Prospero?
(1+2+2+2+2+1)
b) Prospero: This blue-eyed hag was hither brought with child
And here was left by th' sailors. Thou, my slave,
As thou report’st thyself, wast then her servant.
And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate
To act her earthy and abhorred commands,
Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee,
By help of her more potent ministers
And in her most unmitigable rage,
Into a cloven pine, within which rift
Imprisoned thou didst painfully remain
A dozen years; within which space she died
And left thee there, where thou didst vent thy groans
As fast as mill wheels strike. Then was this island—
Save for the son that she did litter here,
A freckled whelp hag-born—not honored with
A human shape.
i)
Who is Prospero talking to?
ii)
Give the context of the conversation.
iii) Explain
“thou wast a spirit too
delicate”.
iv) Who is the “blue-eyed
hag”?
v)
What idea do you form of the relationship
between Prospero and the “spirit”?
vi)
vi) Who
is the “son” referred to here? (1+2+2+2+2+1)
c) Caliban: “'Ban,
'Ban, Ca-caliban
Has a new master. Get a new man.
Freedom, high-day, high-day, freedom,
freedom, high-day, freedom!”
i) From where the extract has
been taken?
ii) Who is the “new master” ?
iii) Give an account of Caliban’s
use of words like “master” and “freedom” .
iv) Who is Caliban?
v) How does Caliban look like?
vi) Whom is Caliban talking to?
(1+2+2+2+2+1)
Candida- George
Bernard Shaw
Question 2
Choose two
of the passages (a) to (c) and answer briefly the question that follows:
a) Morell: “And
remember; we are friends, and need not fear that either of us will be anything
but patient and kind to the other, whatever we may have to say.”
Marchbanks: (twisting himself round on him): “Oh, I am
not forgetting myself: I am only (covering his face desperately with his hands)
full of horror. (Then, dropping his hands, and thrusting his face forward
fiercely at Morell, he goes on threateningly.) You shall see whether this is a
time for patience and kindness. (Morell, firm as a rock, looks indulgently at
him.) Don't look at me in that self-complacent way. You think yourself stronger
than I am; but I shall stagger you if you have a heart in your breast.”
i) Where are
Morell and Marchbanks? What is their relationship?
ii) What is the
“horror” of Marchbanks?
iii) Give a brief
context of this conversation.
iv) Who is
Marchbanks?
v) What is
Marchbanks proposing to say?
vi) Define “I
shall stagger you”.
(1+2+2+2+2+1)
b) Candida: “…Wouldn’t you like to present me with a nice
new brush, with an ivory back, decorated with pearls? “
Marchbanks: (softly and musically, but sadly and longingly)
“No, not a scrubbing brush, but a boat: a tiny boat to sail away in, far from
the world, where the marble floors are washed by the rain and dried by the
sun…”
i) Who is Candida?
ii) What is the relationship that Candida shares with
Marchbanks?
iii) What is the significance of the “boat”?
iv) How is Marchbanks’s narrative different from that of
Morell?
v) Define the romantic elements in Marchbanks’s speech and
how it complies with his identity of a poet?
vi) Where are the two characters?
(1+2+2+2+2+1)
c) Morell: “(with proud humility)I have nothing to offer you
except my strength for your defence, my honesty for your security , my ability
and hard-work for your livelihood, and my authority and position for your
respect in society. “
i) Who is Morell?
ii) Where does the scene take place?
iii) Whom is Morell talking to and what is the context?
iv) Explain “nothing to offer”.
v) What does Marchbanks say in this very context?
vi) Explain Candida’s reaction to this statement of
Morell.
(1+2+2+2+2+1)
Section B
(Answer four questions on at least three textbooks which may
include either The Tempest or Candida)
The Tempest-
Shakespeare
Question 3
(a) Describe the opening scene of Tempest. (8)
(b) Give a vivid description of Miranda’s first meeting with
Ferdinand. (6)
(c) Sketch the character of Ariel. (6)
Question 4
Explain the critical master-slave relationship that exists
in The Tempest. (20)
Candida- George
Bernard Shaw
Question 5
(a) Explain the
appropriateness of the title ‘Candida’.
(8)
(b) How does Marchbanks’s character highlight the character
of Candida? (6)
(c) Define the ending of Candida. (8)
Question 6
How does Shaw bring forth his iconoclastic ideas in Candida? (20)
Things Fall Apart-
Achebe
Question 7
(a) How is the society presented in Things Fall Apart? (8)
(b) How is the character of Unoka different from that of
Okonkwo? (6)
(c) Depict the arrival of the white man.
(6)
Question 8
How is the theme of colonization depicted in the novel Things Fall Apart? (20)
Question 9
Describe the treatment of women and children in Things Fall Apart. (20)
Contemplations
Question 10
(a) Explain Tagore’s idea of education in The Voice of
Humanity.
(8)
(b) Describe the boon and bane of Europe according to
Tagore.
(6)
(c) Does Tagore applaud the rise of science?
Substantiate. (6)
Question 11
Analyse Bacon’s art of writing with reference to the text in
the syllabus. (20)
Question 12
Bring out the appropriateness of the title On the Decay of the Art of Lying by
Mark Twain. (20)
Echoes
Question 13
(a) Briefly describe Dahl’s art of narration in the short
story ‘The Sound Machine’.
(8)
(b) Give a brief note on Klausner’s obsession with his
machine.
(6)
(c) Comment on the ending of the story.
(6)
Question 14
Explain how Ray’s narrative manages to amaze and puzzle the
reader at the same time. Substantiate your idea of Fritz’s identity.
(20)
Question 15
How do a number of themes inter-cross in Jeffrey Archer’s
‘The Chinese Statue’? (20)
Reverie
Question 16
(a) How does the narrator seem to have acquired knowledge
through nature in ‘Birches’?
(8)
(b) Analyse Frost’s usage of imageries in ‘Birches’.
(6)
(c) How does the poem oscillate
between truth and imagination? (6)
Question 17
Analyse Sarojini Naidu’s ‘The Gift
of India’ to be both a war poem as well as an Indian poem. (20)
Question 18
Comment on the loss of faith as
reflected in the poem ‘Dover Beach’ by Mathhew Arnold. (20)
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