Sunday 14 April 2013

UP-TO-DATE PAPER (A) 2005 - B.A. ENGLISH (PU)

PAPER NO. 3
(YEAR 2005 - GROUP I)
1. Explain any THREE of the following extracts with reference to the context. 
(i) In the company of dog lovers,
The Rebel expresses a preference for cats.
(ii) We passed before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground--
The roof was scarcely visible--
The Cornice--in the Ground--
(iii) A touch of cold in the autumn night
I walked abroad
And saw the ruddy moon lean over hedge.
(iv) It is always a losing game to be a mother. You were a baby and I lost my baby. Then you were a helpless child and I lost her too, and gained a school girl, half of you as dependent as ever you were, the other half a strange new creature with interests that I could not watch or share. 
(v) James: At the point of the revolver? You settle your arguments by force? Good heaven, sir! This is just the very thing that we were fighting to put down. 
2. Attempt any FOUR of the following questions. 
(i) What is the role of Sam, the niggard, in "The Killers"?
(ii) Why Mangu, the Tangawala, in "The New Constitution", is always quarrelling with the goras, the white men? What is on his mind?
(iii) "Whore, bastard, bitch", he shouted at her. "Go away from here. Go home to your children". How was Rosen in "Take Pity" provoked to make such remarks about Eva?
(iv) "Gazing up into the darkness, I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity". This is the last remark of the main character in "Araby". Discuss. 
(v) There is always suspicious hope of Matilda Loisel in "The Necklace" Discuss. 
(vi) "A Conversation with My Father" is a story demanding a sense of character in a human being. Explain. 
(vii) The modes, manners, and speech of "Smoke Screens" are bright but harsh to some people. Discuss. 
3. Answer any THREE of the following questions.
(i) Explain the rationale of Pakistan as it is explained in Liaquat Ali Khan's "Pakistan and the Modern World".
(ii) Give an account of the disaster occurred on August 9, 1945 at Nagasaki. 
(iii) What kind of character Stephen Leacock draws of the tailor in his essay "My Tailor"?
(iv) Write down the different nourishing qualities of different vitamins as mentioned in Dr. Kenneth Walker's essay, "The Vitamins".
(v) Write a note on Tolerance. 
4. Attempt any TWO of the following questions. 
(i) William Davies in his poem "Leisure" emphatically points our that in this rush of life we do not have time to appreciate the beauty of life and nature. Discuss. 
(ii) What kind of disgusting picture of woman's life Maya Angelou has drawn in her poem, "Woman Work"? Explain. 
(iii) "Thus I entered and thus I go
In triumphs, people have dropped down dead".
Explain these lines from Browning's poem "Patriot into Traitor". 
5. "The Old Man and the Sea" by Hemingway
Answer any THREE of the following questions. 
(i) What are Santiago's pillars of success? Discuss those qualities of the old man which help hem succeed in his mission.
(ii) Hemingway's knowledge of the ocean is sound. Discuss. 
(iii) Discuss Hemingway's knowledge of fishing. 
(iv) The fish is a living character with intention and contention. Discuss. 
(v) The fish is a symbol of an ideal life for the old man. Discuss.

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