West Bengal State University
B. A. ENGLISH HONOURS
Paper VII
MODEL QUESTION
F.M. 100
TIME: 4 HOURS
Candidates are advised to write answers in their own language as far as practicable.
Precise answers will be given special credit. Spelling and grammatical errors will be
penalised.
Group- A
I. Answer any four of the following questions in about 200 words each:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
5x4=20
Write a short note on H.E.Bates as a short story writer.
Give a brief account on Virginia Woolf as a novelist.
What are the characteristics of a short story?
Examine the importance of John Galsworthy as a novelist.
Write a short note on “stream of consciousness” novel in English literature.
Assess the importance of any one of the following writers in the development of the
modern short story:
a. Guy de Maupassant
b. Catherine Mansfield.
Group- B
II. Answer any two of the following questions in about 500 words each:
15x2=30
1. In a letter to his publisher, Lawrence wrote: “You mustn't look in my novel for the old
stable ego of the character”. Assess this claim with reference to your reading of The
Rainbow.
Or,
Bring out the significance of the title in The Rainbow.
2. Analyze the character of Marlow in the novel Heart of Darkness.
Or,
Critically comment on Conrad’s use of the darkness symbol in Heart of Darkness.
3. Assess A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as a Kunstlerroman.
Or,
Assess Joyce’s view of religion and politics as it comes out in A Portrait of the Artist
as a Young Man
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Group – C
Answer any two of the following questions in about 400 words each:
1.
2.
3.
4.
10x2=20
Critically comment on the structure of Virginia Woolf’s short story, Kew Gardens.
Discuss the importance of the character of Bertha Young in Bliss.
Write a note on the theme of The Eternal Moment.
Assess Across the Bridge as a short story.
Group – D.
Write an essay on any one of the following in about 1000 words:
1.
2.
3.
4.
30
Nature in English Poetry.
Literature and its influence on Indian films.
The ‘Woman Question’
Impact of social network among students.
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