University Of Pune Question Paper
S.Y.B.A. Examination, 2010
ENGLISH GENERAL (Optional)
Paper – II (Understanding Fiction)
(Old Course) (2004 Pattern)
Texts Prescribed :
(i) Things Fall Apart : Chinua Achebe
(ii) Animal Farm : George Orwell
(iii) Temporary Answers : Jai Nimbkar
Time : 3 Hours Max. Marks : 80
N.B.: i) All questions are compulsory.
ii) Figures to the right indicate full marks.
1. Answer any ten of the following in not more than 40 words each : 20
i) Explain the term ‘characterization’.
ii) Comment on the novel as an art form.
iii) Differentiate between drama and novel as genre of literature.
iv) What is first person narrative ?
v) Explain the term ‘protagonist’.
vi) How sub-plot contributes to the main plot in fiction ?
vii) What is political satire ?
viii) Comment on the role of minor characters in fiction.
ix) What is meant by flat characters ?
x) What is the role of irony in fiction ?
xi) Explain what is satire.
xii) Write a brief note on structure of novel.
xiii) What do you know about Regional novel ?
2. Attempt any two of the following in not more than 100 words each : 10
i) Describe the customs traditions and superstitions of the tribal people in ‘Things
Fall Apart’.
ii) Consider ‘Things Fall Apart’ as tragic Novel.
iii) How would you analyse the plot and structure of ‘Things Fall Apart’ ?
iv) Draw a character sketch of Nwoye.
3. Attempt any two of the following in not more than 200 words each : 20
i) Discuss the structure of ‘Animal Farm’.
ii) Draw a character sketch of Old Major.
iii) Discuss ‘Temporary Answers’ as the novel based on human relationship.
iv) Draw a character sketch of Nagendra.
4. a) Identify and attempt any two of the following passages and write a paragraph
each on their relevance/significance in the light of the points given below : 10
i) In the morning, I awoke thinking of the swami. I asked myself why I
shouldn’t go and see him. Because I didn’t believe in that sort of thing.
What sort of thing ? After I came to Pune, an aunt, my Father’s sister,
asked me why I didn’t go to a temple, or attend a religious lecture now and
then. She said that just because I was educated I need not think myself
beyond help from religion. She said she knew a doctor and two college
professors who went to the weekly kirtan which she always attended at the
Rama temple. I had never done it and thought I would feel like a hypocrite
if I started now. If there is god, I said, I would not like to use him for my
purposes. But this was also a kind of chicanery, really.
* Vineeta’s belief in God.
* Routine activities of Vineeta’s mother.
ii) MADHURI amazed me. She settled into married life with absolute
contentment, as though that was the end she had been striving for all along.
I had thought that she might become restless and miss the freedom of
college life, but she seemed to enjoy her new role thoroughly. She liked
being the mistress of the house-supervising the kitchen, making shopping
lists, finding fault with the servants and always being there looking pleased
and pretty, to receive Vilas home. They spent a quiet life, not entertaining
or going out much except to the movies, which Madhuri loved.
Madhuri’s married life.
Madhuri’s hopes before marriage.
iii) The pigs had set aside the harness-room as a headquarters for themselves.
Here, in the evening, they studied blacksmithing, carpentering, and other
necessary arts from books which they had brought out of the farmhouse.
Snowball also busied himself with organizing the other animals into what
he called Animal Committees. He was indefatigable at this.
The dominance of the pigs.
Snowball’s organization.
iv) Three days later Mollie disappeared. For some weeks nothing was known
of her whereabouts, then the pigeons reported that they had seen her on
the other side of Willingdon. She was between the shafts of a smart dogcart
painted red and black, which was standing outside a public house. A fat
red-faced man in check breeches and gaiters, who looked like a publican,
was stroking her nose and feeding her with sugar. Her coat was newly
clipped and she wore a scarlet ribbon round here forelock. She appeared
to be enjoying herself, so the pigeons said. None of the animals ever
mentioned Mollie again.
* Mollie’s life after disappearance
* Mollie’s personality.
b) Attempt any two of the following : 20
i) What does Major appeal the animal to do and not to do ?
ii) How do Boxer, clover, the sheep, Benjam in, Moses help us in
understanding Orwell’s criticism of Soviet Myth.
iii) Discuss the theme of the novel ‘Temporary Answers’.
iv) Draw a character sketch of Kishori.
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S.Y.B.A. Examination, 2010
ENGLISH GENERAL (Optional)
Paper – II (Understanding Fiction)
(Old Course) (2004 Pattern)
Texts Prescribed :
(i) Things Fall Apart : Chinua Achebe
(ii) Animal Farm : George Orwell
(iii) Temporary Answers : Jai Nimbkar
Time : 3 Hours Max. Marks : 80
N.B.: i) All questions are compulsory.
ii) Figures to the right indicate full marks.
1. Answer any ten of the following in not more than 40 words each : 20
i) Explain the term ‘characterization’.
ii) Comment on the novel as an art form.
iii) Differentiate between drama and novel as genre of literature.
iv) What is first person narrative ?
v) Explain the term ‘protagonist’.
vi) How sub-plot contributes to the main plot in fiction ?
vii) What is political satire ?
viii) Comment on the role of minor characters in fiction.
ix) What is meant by flat characters ?
x) What is the role of irony in fiction ?
xi) Explain what is satire.
xii) Write a brief note on structure of novel.
xiii) What do you know about Regional novel ?
2. Attempt any two of the following in not more than 100 words each : 10
i) Describe the customs traditions and superstitions of the tribal people in ‘Things
Fall Apart’.
ii) Consider ‘Things Fall Apart’ as tragic Novel.
iii) How would you analyse the plot and structure of ‘Things Fall Apart’ ?
iv) Draw a character sketch of Nwoye.
3. Attempt any two of the following in not more than 200 words each : 20
i) Discuss the structure of ‘Animal Farm’.
ii) Draw a character sketch of Old Major.
iii) Discuss ‘Temporary Answers’ as the novel based on human relationship.
iv) Draw a character sketch of Nagendra.
4. a) Identify and attempt any two of the following passages and write a paragraph
each on their relevance/significance in the light of the points given below : 10
i) In the morning, I awoke thinking of the swami. I asked myself why I
shouldn’t go and see him. Because I didn’t believe in that sort of thing.
What sort of thing ? After I came to Pune, an aunt, my Father’s sister,
asked me why I didn’t go to a temple, or attend a religious lecture now and
then. She said that just because I was educated I need not think myself
beyond help from religion. She said she knew a doctor and two college
professors who went to the weekly kirtan which she always attended at the
Rama temple. I had never done it and thought I would feel like a hypocrite
if I started now. If there is god, I said, I would not like to use him for my
purposes. But this was also a kind of chicanery, really.
* Vineeta’s belief in God.
* Routine activities of Vineeta’s mother.
ii) MADHURI amazed me. She settled into married life with absolute
contentment, as though that was the end she had been striving for all along.
I had thought that she might become restless and miss the freedom of
college life, but she seemed to enjoy her new role thoroughly. She liked
being the mistress of the house-supervising the kitchen, making shopping
lists, finding fault with the servants and always being there looking pleased
and pretty, to receive Vilas home. They spent a quiet life, not entertaining
or going out much except to the movies, which Madhuri loved.
Madhuri’s married life.
Madhuri’s hopes before marriage.
iii) The pigs had set aside the harness-room as a headquarters for themselves.
Here, in the evening, they studied blacksmithing, carpentering, and other
necessary arts from books which they had brought out of the farmhouse.
Snowball also busied himself with organizing the other animals into what
he called Animal Committees. He was indefatigable at this.
The dominance of the pigs.
Snowball’s organization.
iv) Three days later Mollie disappeared. For some weeks nothing was known
of her whereabouts, then the pigeons reported that they had seen her on
the other side of Willingdon. She was between the shafts of a smart dogcart
painted red and black, which was standing outside a public house. A fat
red-faced man in check breeches and gaiters, who looked like a publican,
was stroking her nose and feeding her with sugar. Her coat was newly
clipped and she wore a scarlet ribbon round here forelock. She appeared
to be enjoying herself, so the pigeons said. None of the animals ever
mentioned Mollie again.
* Mollie’s life after disappearance
* Mollie’s personality.
b) Attempt any two of the following : 20
i) What does Major appeal the animal to do and not to do ?
ii) How do Boxer, clover, the sheep, Benjam in, Moses help us in
understanding Orwell’s criticism of Soviet Myth.
iii) Discuss the theme of the novel ‘Temporary Answers’.
iv) Draw a character sketch of Kishori.
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