M.O.P. Vaishnav College For Women (Autonomous) Chennai

M.O.P.
VAISHNAV COLLEGE FOR WOMEN (AUTONOMOUS)

CHENNAI
I INTERNAL TEST (OCT 2020)
Class – I Year (I B.A. Jour.)

Marks – 50
Subject – General English - I Time – 1½
hrs.
SECTION – A
Answer all the questions. (4 x 3 = 12 marks)
1. What does the poet Charles Bukowski try to convey through the following lines in the
poem ‘Roll the Dice”?
“You will ride life straight to
perfect laughter, its
the only good fight
there is.”
ANS: The poet conveys that if you really want to accomplish something in life,
you’ll have to go all the way for it or else don’t even start at the first place. One
doesn’t have to compromise his/her life for accomplishing things. you either put
your whole interest into what you want to accomplish or just forget it and move
on.
2. Why do you think Mrinal Pandey has not given a name to the narrator, the girl, in the
short story Girls?
ANS: Mrinal Pande, the author of Girls, has not given a name to the narrator because
females in our society don't have any recognition of their own. The narrator is a female
and is given no importance from that of the male born in the society. the males are
privileged with recognition, pampering and better education.
3. What is the motive that Mrs. Vane attributes to the murder of Foster in the play, Five at
“The George”?
ANS: The motive that Mrs. Vane attributes to the murder of foster was once engaged to
Colonel but the idea of marriage was dropped for some reason.
4. List some of the jobs that Sophia Amoruso did before she opened her online
business.
ANS: checking IDs in the lobby of an art school.
sells vintage clothes on eBay.
open up an eBay shop called Nasty Gal Vintage.
starts working at the subway, gets OCD for BLT.
SECTION – B
Answer any 3 questions. (3 x 8 = 24 marks)
5. What is Charles Bukowski’s advice on accomplishing goals and enduring till the end in
the poem Roll the Dice?
ANS: Throughout the poem, the poem is only more focused on ‘if you are going to try,
go all the way.’
He is motivating us to meet our goals no matter what life throws at us. Be it your
relationship with your close ones, losing your mind, not eating for days, ending up at
wrong places and its okay to still continue even if you fail multiple times but just dont
stop. If you are going to stop, dt even start at the first place.
6. How does Sophia Amoruso build the image of a #Girlboss in her autobiography?
ANS:
7. Justify the one-act play Five at “The George” as a mystery play.
8. Attempt a Paragraph Writing on any one topic (200 words):

a. Advertisements
b. Obesity
B.OBESITY
Obesity means being excessively fat. It occurs when we consume much more food than
our body really needs on a daily basis. we eat or consume more calories than we burn.
One should follow a stric diet, workout everyday, if obese. This will help him/her to get
stable in the long run. however, a person who is fat will definitely suffer from illness. it
can also lead to death of a person.
9. Write a short Descriptive Essay on any one topic (200 words):

a. A walk by the beach
b. A day in the life of a nurse
SECTION – C
Answer any 1 question. (1 x 14 = 14 marks)
10. Examine the short story Girls by Mrinal Pandey and elaborate some of its strong
underlying themes.
ANS: The short story “Girls” highlights the secondary position given to women in Indian
households and how they are forced to accept the domination. In spite of so much
progress and changing trends, many women still feel and are sometimes forced to feel
that giving birth to a son is compulsory to rise or at least to maintain their position in the
family. They continue to conceive until they get a son finally, no matter how many girls
are born in the process, as if it is something automatic which cannot be and to be in
particular, should not be stopped until there is a son. The story is presented through the
point of view of an eight year old girl, the second child of the family. The protagonist’s
mother is pregnant for the fourth time after giving birth to three girls. Though it is
troublesome for her, she bears it as if there is no alternative. Her dialogues “I hope it’s a
boy this time. It will relieve me of the nuisance of going through another pregnancy...”
and “If I have a boy this time, then I will be relieved of this burden forever...” show her
helplessness in this matter.
In the whole process of conceiving again and again, at times even mother loses the
essence of motherhood forgetting that even daughter is her own child, a part of her own
body. Responsibilities and a sort of hatred takes over even the most loving bond of
mother-child, “..Ma did not allow us to lie in her lap for too long and complained, ‘Ugh!
Oh! My bones are aching, my sari is all crushed. Get up now. I have such a lot of work to
do, and to top it all there is this huge nuisance. Come on, get up.”
Experience makes the girl realize that the grown-ups always leave the sentences
unfinished when they speak about something unpleasant, “... Like, ‘Ah, a woman's fate...’
or ‘Oh, three girls...” ironically suggesting that her very existence is regarded as
unpleasant. Girls are taught to adjust and bend to each and every demand of society,
acceptable or unacceptable, just because it is believed that being a girl corresponds to
being a puppet dancing to the tune of whims and fancies of every other individual.
A female deserves respect as even God has blessed her with the power to give birth but
when the society condemns her based on what she gives birth to, then how can the same
society worship her for being a girl. Through the question to her aunt, the girl questions
the double-faced society, “When you people don’t love girls, why do you pretend to
worship them?”
she tries to express, it is taken as a violation of her enclosed existence as a girl. “What a
temper for a girl to show!” as if even temper can be regarded correct if expressed by a
boy. Absence of a girl's name gives a universal appeal to the character as she stands as a
specimen of a female in the male dominated society.
In the comment of the girl, “I don’t want to be Goddess”, there is a hidden concern to be
treated at least as a human. In most cases, even humanity dies, when the matter is
concerned with women and then the same society worships women in various forms.
11. How does Shashi Tharoor build his arguments to justify his proposition that “Britain
Does
Owe Reparations”?
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VAISHNAV COLLEGE FOR WOMEN (AUTONOMOUS)

I INTERNAL TEST (OCT 2020)

Class – I Year (I B.A. Jour.)

Answer all the questions. (4 x 3 = 12 marks)

Answer any 3 questions. (3 x 8 = 24 marks)

7. Justify the one-act play Five at “The George” as a mystery play.

8. Attempt a Paragraph Writing on any one topic (200 words):

9. Write a short Descriptive Essay on any one topic (200 words):

Answer any 1 question. (1 x 14 = 14 marks)

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