MJC 5 Question Paper Suggestion 2026 Set-2,Bankura University B.A. 4th Semester (Major) Examination, 2026: British Literature: 18th Century (MJC-5) Question Paper

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B.A. 4th Semester (Major) Mock Examination, 2026

    

ENGLISH (MJC-5) — Set 2

    

British Literature: 18th Century (NEP System)

  
     
    
Course Code: A/ENG-401/MJC-5
    
Course ID: 40311
    
Time Allowed: 2 Hours
    
Full Marks: 40
    
Instructions: The figures in the right-hand margin indicate full marks. Candidates are required to give answers in their own words as far as practicable.
  
     
    

Pattern Blueprint Note: This assessment paper strictly implements the official blueprint guidelines (04 long questions from Unit I, 02 long questions from Unit II, 04 short notes from Unit III, and 10 short-concept questions across Units I & II) mapped from IMG_20260606_200243_2.jpg.

  
  
     
              
      
        

1. Answer any one of the following questions from Unit I:

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  1. Elaborate on how Lemuel Gulliver serves as an unreliable narrator in Gulliver's Travels, particularly evaluating his changing psychological state by the end of Book II.
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  2. Examine Gulliver's Travels (Books I & II) as a profound critique of European political structures, military pride, and scientific pretensions.
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  3. How does Olaudah Equiano deploy Enlightenment values of "reason" and "human progress" to challenge the moral validity of the transatlantic slave trade?
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  4. Discuss The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano as a text that documents psychological and cultural hybridization during the 18th century.
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2. Answer any one of the following questions from Unit II:

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  1. How does Samuel Johnson utilize the figure of the French immigrant in 'London' to reflect contemporary anxieties over domestic English cultural identity?
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  2. Analyze the elegiac architecture of Thomas Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'. How does the speaker project his own eventual mortality at the end of the poem?
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3. Write short notes on any two of the following topics from Unit III:

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  1. The artistic treatment of standard stock types (such as the fop, the coquette, and the wit) in 18th-century English theater.
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  2. The evolution of Mock-Heroic conventions in Augustan verse.
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  3. The rise of the 18th-century middle-class reading public and its relation to periodic printing media.
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  4. Melancholy, nature imagery, and reflective themes in Graveyard Poetry.
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4. Answer any five of the following short questions from Units I & II:

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  1. Identify the two rival political factions in Lilliput and mention how they are distinguished from each other.
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  2. What specific emergency service does Gulliver render to the Lilliputian Empress, and how does she react to it?
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  3. How is Gulliver treated by the Brobdingnagian Queen's dwarf, and what does this friction signify?
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  4. Mention the specific West African region or culture where Olaudah Equiano asserts he was born and raised.
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  5. Identify two distinct professional jobs Equiano performs while serving under his various naval masters.
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  6. Why does the speaker in Samuel Johnson's 'London' claim that "Poverty" is uniquely painful in an urban environment?
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  7. Identify who "Malice" and "Rapine" target and oppress within the streets of London according to Dr. Johnson's poem.
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  8. What historical functions or achievements are associated with "the rod of empire" mentioned in Gray's Elegy?
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  9. Explain what Gray implies by the metaphor of the "gem of purest ray serene" hidden in ocean caves.
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  10. Briefly clarify the function and placement of the "Epitaph" positioned at the very conclusion of Thomas Gray's poem.
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