Suggestion for B.A. 5th SEMESTER (HONOURS) EXAMINATION, DSE-1,2023

Suggestion for 

B.A. 5th SEMESTER (HONOURS) EXAMINATION,2023

ENGLISH

Course ID: 50316 Course Code: AH/ENG/503/DSE-1

Course Title: British Literature: Post World War II

Time: 2 Hours, Full Marks: 40

Q.Answer any one of the following questions:

a) How does Meena Kumar attempt to define her personal identity in the novel Anita and Me.

b) Discuss the pain and trauma of partition as depicted in Meera Syal’s novel Anita and Me.

(c) Dicuss Meera Syal’s Anita and Me as a diasporic novel.

(d) How does Meera Syal handle the theme of racism and violence in the novel, Anita and Me?

2. Answer any one of the following questions:

a) Critically discuss the character of Mr. Pirzada in Juhmpa Lahiri’s story in the syllabus.

b) Comment on the treatment of the immigrants in diaspora in Shauna Singh Baldwin’s

“We are not in Pakistan”.

c) Discuss critically how Jhumpa Lahiri depicts the character of Lilia in the story,

“When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine”.

(d) Discuss the significance of the title “One out of Many” by V.S. Naipaul.

3. Answer any one of the following questions: 

a) Uma Parameswaran’s poem “This Land Where I Stand” deals with the concepts of‘home’ and ‘homelessness’.— Discuss.

b) How does A. K. Ramanujan portray a picture of Chicago city life in the poem “Take Care”?

(a) How does Ramanujan depict the diasporic community through his poem “Take Care”?

 (b) “But I never left home. / I carried it away / with me”— Discuss how Sujata Bhatt creates the conct of ‘home’ in her poem, “The One Who Goes Away”.

4. Answer any five of the following questions: 5x2= 10

a) Who is Anita Rutter in Meera Syal’s novel Anita and Me?

b) In which place and in which year did the events narrated in the novel Anita and Me take place?

c) When does Meena decide to distance herself from Anita?

d) Why is Tollington’s village school demolished?

e) What does Mr. Pirzada place on the table during dinner and why?

f) Why does Lilia throw away the candy given to her by Mr. Pirzada?

g) Who is Megan?

h) Why does Megan hate her Pakistani grandmother, as discussed in “We Are Not in

Pakistan”?

i) What is the main issue of V. S. Naipaul’s story “In a Free State”?

j) Whom did Santosh ultimately decide to marry? Who suggested so to him?

(a) Which American novel is frequently referred to in Anita and Me by Meera Syal? Who is the writer of that novel?

 (b) How did Meena lose her mother’s diamond necklace?

 (c) How does Meena break her leg?

(d) Name any two friends of Anita. Which quality of Anita fascinates Meena?

 (e) Which two events prove traumatic for Meena?

 (f) “Mr. Pirzada is no longer Considered Indian?” Who said this and why?

 (g) Why does Mr. Pirzada give Lilia candy?

 (h) Briefly point out the significance of Kathleen’s refrain “We are not in Pakistan”.

 (i) “I understood I was a prisoner. I accepted this and adjusted…”— In what sense was the

speaker a prisoner in Naipaul’s story?

 (j) Why did Santosh leave Bombay?

B.A. 5th SEMESTER (HONOURS) EXAMINATION, 2021-22

ENGLISH

Course ID: 50316 Course Code: AH/ENG/503/DSE-1

Course Title: British Literature: Post World War II

Time: 2 Hours Full Marks: 40

The figures in the margin indicate full marks.

Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.

Answer the following questions.

1. Answer any one of the following questions: 1x10= 10

a) Sarah Woodruff is the most interesting character in The French Lieutenant’s Woman. Do you think so? Discuss.

b) What role do “fate” and “free will” play in Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman?

2. Answer any one of the following questions: 1x10= 10

a) “Seamus Heaney’s ‘Digging’ is a poem of family heritage.” How far is this statement

justified?

b) How does Duffy’s language perform the speaker’s character in her poem ‘Stealing’?

3. Answer any one of the following questions: 1x10= 10

a) How do you think Kureishi explores the issues of race and class in the British society of his

time in My Beautiful Laundrette? Discuss.

b) Sketch the character of Hussein as represented in Hanif Kureishi’s My Beautiful

Launderette.

4. Answer any five of the following questions: 5x2 = 10

a) What is Ernestina’s view of marriage?

b) What is referred to as “a happy funeral” by Larkin and why?

c) What does the narrator mean when he calls Charles a "born amateur"?

d) What does Hughes evoke by the “sun” in ‘Crow’s Fall’?

e) What were “the two very simple reasons” for Sarah to accept the job under Mrs Poulteney?

f) “. . . donate an Irish sixpence.” – What is the significance?

g) Name any two long poems and their poets quoted by Fowles in his novel.

h) What does the hawk "rehearse"? What is the significance of the word "rehearse"?

i) What was the “most unusual thing” stolen by the speaker in ‘Stealing’?

j) Briefly comment on the water imagery applied in the poem ‘Casualty’.