SPECTRUM model question paper, Fourth Semester Common Course in English (Calicut University)

 

 FOURTH SEMESTER BA DEGREE EXAMINATION 2021

SPECTRUM:Literature and Contemporary Issues- ENG4 A06

2019 admission on wards

I. Answer the following question in two or three sentences.(2 marks each) - Ceiling 25

1. What was Don Quixote's explanation for wandering around in armour during peacetime?

2. How did Viswanathan repay seven thousand rupees to the bank?

3. Why did Mariam think that the visitor was an angel?

4. How does the poet describe the current status of turmeric?

5. How about the ending of 'What work is' ?

6. When is prison a safer place?

7. Why was Fathima thrilled to marry Najab?

8. Explain: "their hands are ours"?

9. Comment on the symbolism of the 'black milk of daybreak'?

10. What similarities did the narrator notice about the two boys?

11. In what condition does the poet see the dogs and the horses in the street ?

12. What was the reason for Bet's early marriage?

13. Why does Emmanulle call herself a 'perceptive seagull'?

14. who did Malala learn compassion from?

15. Identify the figure of speech 'Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes'?

II. Answer the following questions in a paragraph (5 marks) - Ceiling -35

16. How do you explain the metaphor 'The Big Fish'?

17. Alex Punnoose's account of suicide in kerala?

18. How does the new visitor tempt Alassan to accept his proposal?

19. Turmeric as a text about resistance, substantiate?

20. The drought of Ran of Kutch and its climax?

21. Comment about the universal humanism in the poem 'No Men are Foreign'?

22. Elements of surrealism in the Death Fugue?

23. Representation of mental illness in 'Average Waves in Unprotected Waters' ?

III. Answer any two of the following (2 * 10 = 20)

24. Santhosh Echikkanam portrays an unsympathetic society in "Comala". Explain?

25. Examine the poem "Home" as a powerful critique of the refugee crisis?

26. Do you consider "The Cry of the Gull" as a disability narrative? Why?

27. How does Malala vindicate the rights of children for education?