B.A.

Part II Examinations
English Honours
Paper IV
Model Question Paper
Full Marks: 100

Time: 4 Hrs

(Candidates are required to answer questions in their own words

as far as practicable. Spelling and grammatical errors will be
penalized.)
Group A
Q 1.Answer any four questions from the following within 200 words:
4x5=20
(a)What role did the institutions like literary reviews and libraries play in the
novels early reception?
(b)Account for the popularity of Robinson Crusoe.
(c)Mention three characteristics of the Waverley novels by Scott.
(d)What do you understand by the term `Gothic fiction? Give some examples.
(e)Give three features that make Middlemarch a representative novel of the
Victorian period.
(f)What are periodical essays? Give some features of this kind of essay.

Group B
Q2.Answer the following questions from the two sections, each within 500
words:
2x15=30
Section -1
(a)Pride and Prejudice is not a story of love at first sight but of love arrived
at. Discuss.
Or
(b)Is Darcy the hero of Pride and Prejudice? Give reasons for your answer.

Or
(c)In what ways is Jane Eyre influenced by the tradition of Gothic novel? How
do the Gothic elements contribute to the novel?
Or
(d)Would you consider Jane Eyre to be a feminist text? How does the novel
portray the position of women in Victorian society?
SECTION2
(a)Comment on the mode of narration in David Copperfield. Also mention its
advantages and disadvantages.
Or
(b)Sketch the character of Uriah Heep. Is Heep an unreal human being and a
mere caricature?
Or
(c)Explain Hardys philosophy of life with reference to Far from the Madding
Crowd.
Or
(d)Bring out the tragic elements in Hardys Far from the Madding Crowd.
Group C
(Q3)Answer any three questions from the following, each within 400 words:
3x10=30
(a)Would you regard Dream Children: A Reverie by Charles Lamb as a
Romantic essay? Justify with close textual reference.
(b)How does Arnolds understanding of the modern relate to the past and
the present? Answer with reference to his essay Modern Elements in
Literature.
(c)Knowledge is capable of being its own endDiscuss the significance
of this statement with reference to Cardinal Newmans essay.

(d)Critically comment on Addison as an essayist with reference to The

Scope of Satire.
Group D
(Q4)Write short notes on five literary terms, each within 100 words :
5x4=20
(a)Irony
(b)Theme
(c)Bildungsroman
(d)Epistolary Novel
(e)First person narrator
(f)Flat and round character
(g)Setting