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    This document contains an exam for a literature course divided into three parts: Part A contains 10 short answer questions asking about details from various poems and novels. Part B contains 5 essay questions asking for 250-word responses analyzing aspects of poems, characters, and conflicts. Part C contains 5 essay questions asking for 500-word responses analyzing themes, characters, and philosophies in various works. The document provides the structure and content of the exam but no answers.

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    OCTOBER 2013 P/ID 36508/PENH

    Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

    PART A (10 2 = 20 marks)

    Answer the following in about 50 words each.

    1. How does the poem "Daddy" begin?

    2. What are the words that describe the jar in


    "Anecdote of the Jar"?

    3. What is the conflict in the mind the speaker in


    "The Road Not Taken"?

    4. What sound does Blanche always hear before the


    Varsouviana music in her head stops in
    A Streetcar Named Desire?

    5. How does Mary's father die in


    A Long Day's Journey into Night?

    6. What does Jessie ask Thelma in the opening scene


    of Night Mother?

    7. How does the pequod sink in Moby Dick?

    8. Why does Jim run away from Miss.Watson in


    Huckleberry finn?
    9. What painful process does Tashi undergo while
    still in Africa in The Colar Purple?

    10. According to Emerson in "Self Reliance", What is


    the society's main purpose?

    PART B (5 6 = 30 marks)

    Answer the following in about 250 words each :

    11. (a) How does Dickinson describe the flight of the


    bird in "A Bird Came Down the Walk"?
    Or

    (b) Comment on the ambivalence in Frost's


    "The Road Not Taken".

    12. (a) Bring out Cummings' satire in "Anyone Who


    Lived in a Pretty How Town".
    Or

    (b) Analyse the tone of Baraka's poem "An Agony


    as Now".

    13. (a) Discuss Thelma's response to Jessie's deed in


    Night Mother.
    Or

    (b) Explain the major conflict in


    A street car named Desire.

    2 P/ID 36508/PENH
    14. (a) What are Emerson's remarks on
    nonconformity in "Self Reliance"?
    Or

    (b) How does Thoreau view economy?


    15. (a) Comment on the role of Madame Merle in
    The Portrait of a Lady.
    Or

    (b) How does Hawthorne treat the theme of sin


    and salvation in The Scarlet Letter?
    PART C ( 5 10 = 50 marks)
    Answer the following in about 500 words each :
    16. (a) How far is Whitman's "Passage to India"
    philosophical and spiritual?
    Or

    (b) Bring out the autobiographical mode in Sylvia


    Plath's poem "Daddy".
    17. (a) How does Stevens contrast reality and fantacy
    in "Anecdote of the Jar"?
    Or

    (b) Discuss Brooks analysis of the condition of


    women in "Kitchenette Building".
    3 P/ID 36508/PENH
    18. (a) Discuss ONeill's use of stage directions in
    A Long Day's Journey into Night.
    Or

    (b) Compare and contrast Blanche and Stella in


    A Streetcar Named Desire.

    19. (a) Consider The Old Man and the Sea an


    allegory.
    Or

    (b) Is Moby Dick an impersonal force? Analyse.

    20. (a) Examine Emerson's philosophy of life as


    exemplified in "Self-Reliance".
    Or

    (b) How far is "Mother Tongue" the writer's own


    rumination and judgment on "broken
    english"?

    4 P/ID 36508/PENH

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