IMPORTAMT QUESTIONS – 2019
SEMESTER II
II UG PART-II ENGLISH-II
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SECTION A
- Why did mother get migraine?
- Why didn’t Mother want those trees cut off?
- What makes the lady think that the man is in love with her?
- Is the woman guilty of the accusation in the poem ‘Gift’
- Where does the speaker run in ‘The First Meeting’?
- What does the snake want to do?
- How does the seed grow according to the poet in “Fueled”?
- Why has the poet used the word ‘launched’ for the seed and not for the rocket as it is customarily done?
- What are the different developments of man shown in the poem “Asleep”?
- Why did the man not wake up?
- What are the gifts of earth and how should be exchanged?
- When shall the master spirit of the earth be satisfied?
- What are all the things that are sacred to Chief Seattle’s people?
- What must the white man teach his children?
- Why are men of weight not able to reach heaven?
- What forms the ‘trinity in the human mind?
- What is our opinion of God?
- How does the human race survive and sustain itself?
- What was the ‘pattern of living’ in the Punjab before the partition?
- What snapped the last thread of Maanji’s faith?
- How did Maanji describe the murder of the tonga-wallah?
- What path does King want his people follow in attaining freedom?
- When will the Negro be satisfied according to King?
- When do we think ill of our neighbours ?
- What is the point of the St. John’s Wood Case reported by the author?
- Why was Nnaemeka afraid to write to his father about his engagement?
- What made Nnaemeka’s father finally relent?
- Why did MacLeary begin to suspect Mrs. Myers?
- How did Mrs. Myers’s prophecy turn out to be true in regards to Mrs. MacLeary?
- What bought Lomov to Choobukpv’s house?
- Was Natalyia really interested in marrying Lomov?
SECTION – B
- Discuss how Ramanujan explains about ‘Ecology’ with Champak trees.
- How does the poet bring out the pathos of lost-love being not so painful as the accusation charged against her?
- What are the two different experiences that the poet feels outside and inside the house?
- Describe the rocket launching from Fueled by Marcie Hans.
- Apart from the development of civilization towards total destruction, what other interpretations can you give to the poem ‘Asleep’.
- Who are those who come to the market to buy and sell? Do they do it properly? Illustrate it with example form the poem ‘Buying And Selling’.
- Comment on the salient features of Chief Seattle’s reply to the great white chief’s offer.
- Write an essay on how Forster examines the psychological effects of owing property upon character.
- How, according to Tagore, can the meeting of races take place?
- Comment on Maanji’s character, especially her hospitality and her love of old memories of Rawalpindi.
- What was King’s dream and how was it to be realized?
- How does Gradiner show that urban life requires greater sympathy and understanding on the part of all people?
ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS
SECTION A
- Why did mother get migraine?
A- The poem Ecology is taken from Ramanujan’s third volume of poems, second sight, published in 1986. The poet mother get severe migraine because of the fragrance of the three Red Champak Trees’ flowers which releases yellow pollen grains in the air and spreads like clouds throughout the street. The fragrance was heavy that his mother gets severe blinding migraine with unbearable fever.
- Why didn’t Mother want those trees cut off?
A. The poem Ecology is taken from Ramanujan’s third volume of poems, second sight, published in 1986. When poet’s mother get migraine because of the Red Champak Trees. The loving son therefore decides to cut down the tree, but he is prevented from doing so by his mother who sees the positive side of the tree in her garden. She says that the tree is as old as her and had been fertilized by the droppings of a passing bird by chance which is considered to be a very good omen. The positive side of it is that the tree provides many basketful of flowers to be offered to her God and will be done by new generations although the tree would give a terrible migraine.
- What makes the lady think that the man is in love with her?
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