Spring Semester Examination 2016
Paro College of Education
Royal University of Bhutan
Paro
Module: ENG408 (Teaching of Prose Fiction) Programme: B.Ed. (S) Level: IV
Writing Time: Three hours
Full mark: 100
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Instruction: Do not write during the first 15 minutes. Use this time for reading the questions. You
will get full three hours for answering the questions. Write the answers to all the questions in the
answer sheets provided by the college. Read the directions to each section and to each question
carefully before answering the questions. Once the writing time begins, you are not allowed to
ask questions, speak with others, or move around. Do not leave the examination hall before you
are certain that all the questions, as directed in the paper, have been answered.
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SECTION A
ONE Question- 40 marks
Question 1
Direction: Choose the most appropriate answer out of the four options given below and write them in
the answer booklet provided.
a. A phrase /word/number inscribed above the entrance of Wuthering Heights is
A. 1623.
B. Hindley Earnshaw, 1729.
C. Hareton Earnshaw, 1500.
D. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
b. The destination young Catherine has in mind when she leaves Thrushcross Grange
for the first time is
A. Wuthering Heights.
B. the nearby village.
C. the fairy caves at Penistone Crags.
D. London, where her cousin Linton lives.
c. “I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!” This sentence
is spoken by
A. Edgar about Linton.
B. Heathcliff about Edgar.
C. Heathcliff about Linton.
D. Catherine about Heathcliff.
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d. The person/s who plan/s to live at Thrushcross Grange at the end of the novel is/are
A. Heathcliff.
B. Lockwood.
C. Young Catherine and Hareton.
D. Young Catherine and Linton Heathcliff.
e. Over the course of the novel, some characters claim to see Catherine’s ghost. They
are
A. Joseph and Nelly Dean.
B. Lockwood and Heathcliff.
C. Edgar Linton and Heathcliff.
D. Heathcliff, Hareton, young Catherine and Joseph.
f. The day young Catherine and Hareton plan to get married is
A. New Year’s Day.
B. Valentine’s Day.
C. The Ides of March.
D. The Anniversary of Heathcliff’s death.
g. The reason young Catherine climbs over the garden wall is to
A. meet with Linton.
B. escape from the Grange.
C. escape her mother’s ghost.
D. retrieve her hat, which fell off as she stretched for the fruit of a tree.
h.
Lockwood believes Catherine would have been given a fairytale life if only she had
fallen in love with
A. Linton.
B. Hareton.
C. Heathcliff.
D. Lockwood.
i. According to Heathcliff, Catherine’s body will decompose
A. when a hundred centuries have passed.
B. when Heathcliff can join her in the earth.
C. when the moors echo of Heathcliff’s name.
D. when Edgar Linton is finally cursed to hell.
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j.
Lockwood records Nelly’s story in
A. a novel.
B. his diary.
C. in Catherine’s diary.
D. the margins of his Bible.
k. The character who speaks the words, “I am Heathcliff!” is
A. Hareton.
B. Catherine.
C. Heathcliff.
D. Linton Heathcliff.
l. Three names Lockwood finds inscribed on the window ledge near his bed at
Wuthering Heights are
A. Nelly, Joseph, and Zillah.
B. Isabella Linton, Isabella Heathcliff, and Isabella Earnshaw.
C. Catherine Earnshaw, Hindley Earnshaw, and Hareton Earnshaw.
D. Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Linton, and Catherine Heathcliff.
m. Catherine is buried
A. in the chapel.
B. near the Thames.
C. under a stone wall.
D. in a churchyard overlooking the moors.
n. The reason why Heathcliff takes Linton from Thrushcross Grange is because he
A. loves his son.
B. wants an heir.
C. misses Isabella Linton.
D. wants to revenge Edgar Linton.
o. Catherine chooses Edger Linton over Heathcliff because
A. of Edgar’s wealth.
B. Heathcliff is gypsy-like.
C. she loves to live in Thrushcross Grange.
D. her brother Hindley despises Heathcliff.
p. Lockwood is at Wuthering Heights because
A. there is a storm.
B. he is a tenant there.
C. he has a lot in common with Heathcliff.
D. wants to listen to the story from Nelly.
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q. Catherine and Heathcliff first become close
A. on the moors.
B. at Isabella Linton’s birthday party.
C. in the nursery at Wuthering Heights.
D. during Catherine’s visit to Liverpool.
r.
Edgar Linton sometimes forbids his daughter to visit
A. Joseph.
B. Isabella Linton.
C. Linton Heathcliff.
D. Hareton Earnshaw.
s. “He is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the
same”. This sentence is spoken by Catherine about
A. Linton.
B. Hindley.
C. Heathcliff
D. Edgar Linton.
t. “It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing
the thorn.” The figure of speech used here is
A. Simile.
B. Metaphor.
C. hyperbole.
D. Personification.
SECTION B
FIVE Questions - 30 marks
Direction: Answer the questions as briefly as possible. Choose any five. Each question carries
SIX marks.
Question 2
(6)
Some critics say Mimi Helay Helay is a typical contemporary man who is not happy with what
he has but always desiring for something which belongs to others. While there is another
perspective that describes him as a GNH-man not aware of monetary value. What is your view?
Justify.
Question 3
(6)
Discuss how cross cultural differences bring out humour in R.K.Narayan’s A Horse and Two
Goats.
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Question 4
(6)
“Had Alymer reached a profounder wisdom, he need not thus have flung away the happiness
which would have woven his mortal life of the selfsame texture with the celestial. The
momentary circumstance was too strong for him; he failed to look beyond the shadowy scope of
time, and, living once for all in eternity, to find the perfect future in the present. The paragraph is
taken from Birth Mark by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Explain it in connection to the story.
Question 5
(3+3)
Mention three strategies you can use to teach short stories for class XII students. Explain those
strategies.
Question 6
(6)
"Oh, my poor Mathilde! But mine was imitation. It was worth at the very most five hundred
francs!” Discuss how Mathilde Loisel might have felt at that moment.
Question 7
(6)
“The wrist watch on her hand has long stopped working. Time is meaningless for her.” Justify
how time has become meaningless to Tshomo in Circle of Karma.
Question 8
(6)
It is believed that folktales reveal cultural aspects of a particular country. Elaborate on this
statement with examples from folktales of Bhutan deliberated in the class.
Question 9
(6)
Pick any character from Circle of Karma listed below and discuss his/her role in the novel.
Tshomo
Wangchen
Rinpoche
Lham Yeshi
Chimme
Aunt Dechen
Kesang
SECTION C
TWO Questions-30 Marks
Direction: Attempt two questions. One from Circle of Karma and one from Wuthering Heights.
Question 10
(15)
Discuss critically how Kunzang Choden brings out the main theme ‘Karma’ in her novel “ Circle
of Karma.
Question 11
What cultural beliefs and practices are exposed in Circle of Karma?
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Question 12
(7+8)
How do the violent (or passionate) scenes in Wuthering Heights contribute to the novel's overall
meaning? Choose four examples and explain why each is important.
Question 13
(3+3+3+3+3)
Wuthering Heights is one novel which discusses a lot of symbolisms. Discuss how each of the
following is symbolic.
a. Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights
b. Moors
c. Ghosts
d. Dogs
e. Storm
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