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Suggestion-2019
Introduction to Prose
PART-A: BRIEF QUESTIONS
FICTION
The Gift of
the Magi
1. Who are the Magi?
2. What is the original name of O’ Henry?
3. Who was Madame Sofronie?
4. How was Madame Sofronie?
5. What is the main theme of the story?
6. Who are the Magi in the story, The Gift of the Magi?
7. How was Della’s hair?
8. What is the nationality of O’ Henry?
9. Name two other short stories of O’ Henry.
10. How much did Della get from selling her hair?
11. How much did Della pay for the chain?
12. How old was Jim?
13. How did Della try to console Jim?
14. What was Jim’s gift for Della?
15. How did Jim bought the expensive set of combs for Della?
The Luncheon
1. Name the food items the Lady Guest took.
2. On what excuse did the lady guest drink champagne?
3. Where did the author meet the lady for the second time?
4. Who is the writer of the story, The Luncheon?
5. When did the author first meet the lady?
6. What is Foyot’s?
7. What is the meaning of ‘Luncheon’?
8. How was asparagus?
9. Who was the guest of the author at lunch?
10. Where did the author live twenty years ago?
11. How much money did the writer
have to run the rest of the month?
12. What did the lady assure the
writer at the beginning of the luncheon?
13. “They had the blush of an
innocent girl”–What does it mean?
14. How did the writer get his revenge at last?
Araby
1. What does the narrator buy at the bajaar in Araby?
2. What does ‘Araby’ stand for?MOST
3. Who are the main characters of the story, Araby?
4. When did the boy meet his beloved
for the first time in the story, Araby?
5. What was
the feeling of the narrator when he left Araby?
6. What is stream of consciousness?
7. Who is James Joyce?
8. What is the full name of James Joyce?
9. What is Ulysses?
10. What is Araby?
11. What is North Richmond Street?
12. What is Café Chantant?
13. Who are the characters of the story, Araby?
14. Who is the narrator of the story, Araby?
15. Who is the main character or
the protagonist of the story, Araby?
16. What is the setting of the story, Araby?
17. What is the main theme of the story, Araby?
The Garden
Party
1. Which country did Catherine Mansfield belong to?
2. Who is Mrs. Sheridan?
3. Why does Laura want to stop the party?
4. Who is Mr. Scott?
5. Who is Laurie?
6. In what way is Laura different
from others in the family?
7. Why did Laura want to stop the party?
8. Who are the brothers and sisters of Laura?
9. What is the real name of Catherine Mansfield?
10. What is criticized in the
short story, The Garden Party?
11. Who brought the news of Scott’s death?
12. In which literary period does
Katherine Mansfield belong to?
13. What type of the story is The
Garden Party?
14. Who is Laura?
15. Who is the central character
of the story, The Garden Party?
16. Who sings a song in the story, The Garden Party?
17. How does Mr. Scott die?
18. How does Laura react after
hearing the news of Scott’s death?
19. Who is Em?
20. Who are the characters of the story, The Garden Party?
21. What is the setting of the story, The Garden Party?
22. Why does Katherine Mansfield
write the story, The Garden Party?
A Cat in the Rain
1. What is “Gatto” in A Cat in the Rain?
2. Who is George in the story, A
Cat in the Rain?
3. What does the cat stand for in
the story, A Cat in the Rain?
4. Why has the American couple come to Italy?
5. What does the “war monument” indicate?
6. What do the two cats–the cat
desired and the cat found– symbolize?
7. What is A Farewell to Arms?
8. What is The Old Man and the Sea?
9. When did Ernest
Hemingway achieve Pulitzer Prize?
10. When did Ernest
Hemingway win Nobel Prize?
11. For what book did Ernest
Hemingway achieve Nobel Prize?
12. Who has written the story, A
Cat in the Rain?
13. What is A Cat in the
Rain?
14. What does the word, ‘signora’ mean?
15. What does the word, ‘padrone’ mean?
16. What does the phrase, “empty
square” suggest in A Cat in the Rain?
17. What does the ‘spring’ signify
in the story, A Cat in the Rain?
18. Who are the characters of the story, A Cat in the Rain?
19. What is the main theme of the story, A Cat in the Rain?
20. What is the setting of the story, A Cat in the Rain?
21. How is the relation between
the husband and the wife in A Cat in the
Rain?
Games at Twilight
1. Name a famous Indian novelist
and short story writer included in your syllabus.
2. Locate the
following sentence, “Having disappeared from the scene, he had disappeared from
their minds.”
3. Who is Raghu?
4. Which game do the children play in Games at Twilight?
5. What tickled the back of Ravi’s neck?
6. Where did Ravi hide?
7. Why do the children feel suffocated in the house?
8. Who had the garage key and where did he keep it?
9. Who is Anita Desai?
10. What is Games at
Twilight?
11. What type of the story is Games
at Twilight?
12. What does the term, ‘twilight’
signify in the story, Games at Twilight?
13. Who is the protagonist in the story, Games at Twilight?
14. Who is the central character
in the story, Games at Twilight?
15. Who are the characters of the story, Games at Twilight?
16. Who seems the football
champion in the story, Games at Twilight?
17. Who are the children in the story, Games at Twilight?
18. Who is the youngest character
among the children in the story, Games at
Twilight?
19. What type of the game do the children play at twilight?
Silas Marner
1. Why did Silas leave his own village?
2. Why didn’t Godfrey marry Molly?
3. What is the real name of George Eliot?
4. Who was George Eliot?
5. What is the full title of the novel Silas Marner?
6. Who is the protagonist of the novel Silas Marner?
7. What is epigraph?
8. What is the epigraph of Silas
Marner?
9. What are the moral themes in Silas Marner?
10. Who are the major characters in Silas Marner?
11. Who is Silas Marner?
12. Who is Eppie?
13. Who is Godfrey Cass?
14. Who is Nancy Lammeter?
15. Who is Squire Cass?
16. Who is Molly Farren?
17. Who is William Dane?
18. Who is the most important man in Raveloe?
19. What is the name of the house of the Cass family?
20. What is the name of the Godfrey’s horse?
21. How much money has Silas lost?
22. Whom did Silas accuse of theft?
23. Where did Eppie’s wedding take place?
NON-FICTION
Of Studies
1. What do studies serve for?
2. What style did Bacon use in
writing his essay, Of Studies?
3. What is aphorism?
4. What is
the meaning of the Latin phrase “Abeunt studia in mores”?
5. In how many classes in man divided in Of Studies?
6. What does the phrase, ‘natural abilities’ mean?
7. What does Bacon suggest for a man whose mind wanders?
8. What is utilitarianism?
9. What is didacticism?
10. What is epigram?
11. What is epigrammatic style?
12. What does the phrase, “cymini sectores” mean?
13. What figures of speech do you find in Of Studies?
14. Who is the wise man according to Francis Bacon?
15. Whom does Francis Bacon consider lazy?
16. Who, according to Francis Bacon, is a ready man?
17. Who, according to Francis Bacon, is an exact man?
Gettysburg Address
1. Why is Gettysburg Address
famous for?
2. When did the Battle of Gettysburg take place?
3. What type of the writing is Gettysburg
Address?
4. How does Abraham Lincoln define democracy?
5. What does the word, ‘fathers’
signify in Gettysburg Address?
6. When did Abraham Lincoln deliver his famous speech?
7. What is an epiphora?
8. What does the phrase, “four
score and seven years” mean?
9. What does Abraham Lincoln
allude through the phrase, “four score and seven years”?
10. What is civil war?
11. What does the phrase,
“unfinished work” mean in Gettysburg
Address?
12. What does the phrase, “honored
dead” signify in Gettysburg Address?
13. What is the main theme of the
speech, Gettysburg Address?
14. When did America achieve independence?
15. What kind of government shall not perish?
16. Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Letter to Lord Chelmsford Rejecting Knighthood
1. Why did Rabindranath Tagore renounce his award?
2. What is ‘Knighthood’?
3. What does the word, ‘subjects’
mean in the letter of Rabindranath Tagore?
4. When and why was Tagore awarded the title?
5. What was the incident that made Tagore write the letter?
6. For whom did Rabindranath
Tagore receive the Knighthood?
7. When did the Jalianwallahbag massacre take place?
8. Who is Rabindranath Tagore?
9. What is Gitanjali?
10. Who helped Rabindranath Tagore
in translating Gitanjali?
11. When did Rabindranath Tagore achieve Nobel Prize?
12. For which
book did Rabindranath Tagore get Nobel Prize?
13. Who is the only Bengali poet
achieving Nobel Prize for Bengali poetry?
14. Who was Lord Chelmsford?
15. What does the word, ‘Excellency’ mean?
16. What is “Your Excellency”?
17. What is the main theme of the Letter to Lord Chelmsford Rejecting
Knighthood?
18. When did Rabindranath Tagore reject his knighthood?
19. What was
the condition of the common Indians after the Jalianwallahbag massacre?
Shooting an Elephant
1. What do you understand by the word, ‘imperialism’?
2. What, according to George
Orwell, does a whiteman destroy when he turns tyrant?
3. What is
Orwell’s original name?
4. Whom did the narrator say the worst of all the natives?
5. Why did the narrator kill the elephant at last?
6. What is the name of the town
where George Orwell was a sub-divisional police officer?
7. What is ‘must’?
8. Whom did the elephant kill?
9. What is autobiography?
10. How did
the Burmese express their hatred towards the Europeans?
11. How long did the elephant take to die after being shot?
12. What does the word, ‘mahout’ mean?
13. What does the term, ‘elephant’
signify in the essay, Shooting an
Elephant?
14. What does the term, ‘elephant’
symbolise in the essay, Shooting an
Elephant?
15. What does the dead coolie symbolize?
16. What type of the essay is Shooting
an Elephant?
17. What is the theme of the essay, Shooting an Elephant?
18. What is Animal Farm?
19. What does the phrase, “in saccula sacculorum” mean?
Long Walk to Freedom
1. What did Mandela promise in his inauguration?
2. Who is called “Madiva”?
3. What, according to Mandela, is
the greatest wealth of South Africa?
4. Who were his parents?
5. Why is he also called ‘Mandela’?
6. Who gave him the name ‘Nelson’?
7. Why was he expelled from the university?
8. When did he join the ANC?
9. How and why he leave Africa?
10. When did he become the president of Africa?
11. Where was he jailed?
12. What happen to him after he was released?
13. When did Mandela die?
14. What was the devotion of Mandela?
15. For whom did Mandela struggle throughout his life?
16. Where did the inauguration ceremony take place?
17. How 10 May is an ‘autumn day’ in South Africa?
18. What type of writing is Long
Walk to Freedom?
19. What is the greatest transformation?
20. According to Mandela, who is a brave man?
21. What type of freedom did he want to have?
I Have a Dream
1. What is the main cause behind the American Civil War?
3. Who was Martin Luther King Junior?
5. What did Martin Luther King
demand in his famous speech, I Have a
Dream?
6. What is anaphora?
7. What ideals were the basis for American independence?
8. When did the Civil Rights Movements take place?
9. What is a ‘ghetto’?
9. What is suggested by Martin Luther to his followers?
10. What was Martin Luther King’s dream?
11. What is analogy?
12. Who has delivered the speech, I Have a Dream?
13. When did Martin Luther King Jr. achieve Nobel Prize?
14. For what did Martin Luther
King Jr. achieve Nobel Prize?
16. What does the phrase, “a
promissory note” signify in I Have a
Dream?
PART-B: SHORT
QUESTIONS
FICTION
The Gift of the Magi
1. Who are the Magi?
2. Explain the character of Jim.
3. Sketch the character of Della.
4. Write a short note on:
(a) Jim’s Watch
5. Explain the following with reference to the context:-
(a) “Of all who give and receive gifts such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are the wisest. They are the Magi.”
The Luncheon
1. Sketch the character of the lady guest.
2. What is the writer’s first impression about the Lady Guest?
3. What were the items of food that the lady ate at Foyot’s?
4. How was the writer exploited by the lady guest?
5. How could he get his revenge at last?
6. What irony do you find in the story, The Luncheon?
Araby
1. How did the narrator’s quest
for beauty and romance change in Araby?
2. What does the protagonist in Araby strive to achieve and why?
3. What did the narrator in Araby see in the market?
4. How does James Joyce paint the
picture of Dublin city in his story, Araby?
5. Explain the following with
reference to the context:
(a) Her image accompanied me even
in places the most hostile to romance.
(b) Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as
a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and
anger.
The Garden Party
1. How did Laura react to the death of her poor
neighbor?
2. Write a short note on:
(a) Mrs. Sheridan
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(b) The Sheridan family
(c) Laura
3. Comment on the arrangement of the garden party.
5. What psychology of child do you
find in the story, The Garden Party?
6. Explain the following with
reference to the context:
Oh, so remote, so peaceful. He was dreaming.
7. What is a garden party?
A Cat in the
Rain
1. Discuss the use of foreign
language in the story, A Cat in the Rain.
2. How is the American couple portrayed in A Cat in the Rain?
3. What is the significance of “Padrone” in A Cat in the Rain?
4. How is war theme connected to the story, A Cat in the Rain?
5. Explain with reference to the context:-
The husband went on reading, lying propped up with the two pillows
at the foot of the bed.
6. What is the significance of war
monument in the story, A Cat in the Rain.
Games at Twilight
1. Write short note on:
(a) Anita Desai
(b) Ravi
2. Point out some elements of irony in Games at Twilight.
3. Describe the hiding place of Ravi.
4. How did Ravi pass his time in the garage?
5. Describe the setting of the story, Games at Twilight.
6. What Indian elements do you find in Games at Twilight?
7. Why is Ravi unwilling to join the funeral game?
8. Explain the following with reference to the context:
“He had wanted victory
and triumph not a funeral. But he had been forgotten. Left out. And he would not
join them now.”
Silas Marner
1. What are Godfrey’s arguments for adopting Eppie?
2. Why did Silas Marner depart from his native town?
3. Describe Silas’s obsession with money.
4. How does Dunstan steal the money of Silas Marner?
5. How does Silas raise Eppie?
6. Trace the process of regeneration/ character of Silas Marner.
7. Write a short note on: Eppi
NON-FICTION
Of Studies
1. What is pragmatism? Write with reference to Of Studies.
2. How according to Bacon,
does reading make a full man?
3. Why is Bacon called a utilitarian writer?
4. Explain with reference to the
context:
(a) Read not to contradict and
confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse,
but to weigh and consider.
(b) Reading maketh a full man;
conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
(c) Studies serve for delight, for ornament and for ability.
5. Consider Of Studies as an essay.
6. What, according to Bacon, should be the aim of reading?
Gettysburg Address
1. Write a short note on: Abraham Lincoln.
2. What, according to Lincoln, are
the responsibilities of the living Americans?
3. What, according to Lincoln, are the unfinished tasks?
4. What is the background of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address?
5. Reproduce in your own words the
speech Abraham Lincoln delivered at Gettysburg.
6. Explain with reference to the
context: “…..this nation under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and
that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish
from the earth.”
7. What was the purpose of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address?
8. Write a short note on “American Civil War”.
9. What does Lincoln mean by “new birth of freedom”?
Letter to
Lord Chelmsford Rejecting Knighthood
1. Write short note on:
(a) Lord Chelmsford
(b) Tagore’s Patriotism
2. What do you know about Jalianwallabag Massacre?
3. Why did Tagore reject Knighthood?
4. How does Rabindranath Tagore
protest against the rule of the British Government in India?
Shooting an Elephant
1. What does Orwell hesitate to shoot the elephant?
2. What made Orwell shoot the elephant?MOST [N.U/2016]
3. What real perspective did the writer get about imperialism from
the incident of shooting the elephant.
4. What happened after the elephant had been killed?
5. How did the local people treat the Europeans?
6. Explain with reference to the context:-
(a) A sahib has got to act like a sahib.
(b) I was struck between my hatred
of the empire I served and my rage against the evil-spirited little beast.
7. Write a short note on ‘Autobiography’.
8. Bring out the autobiographical
elements in George Orwell’s essay, Shooting an Elephant.
Long Walk to Freedom
1. Write a short note on the
inauguration ceremony of President Mandela.
2. Who was Nelson Mandela? What is
his contribution to establishing democracy in South Africa?
3. How did Mandela’s ‘hunger for freedom’ change his life?
4. Write a note on Mandela’s
life-long-struggle for the welfare of South Africa’s common people.
I Have a Dream
1. What descriminations between the white and the black does
Luther King find?
2. What was the dream of Martin Luther King Jr.?
3. Write a short note on: The American Dream.
4. Write a short note on: Non-violent Movement
5. Consider Martin Luther King Jr. as an orator.
6. Explain with reference to the context:-
(a) We cannot walk alone.
7. What is the theme of freedom
and equality in the speech, I Have a
Dream?
PART-C: BROAD QUESTIONS
FICTION
1. Comment on
Anita Desai’s treatment of
child psychology.
2. Sketch the character of Ravi.
3. Describe the social picture you get in
Mansfield’s The Garden Party.
4. How was the writer exploited by the Lady
Guest at Foyot’s in The Luncheon?
5. Comment on
the irony of situation
depicted in the story The Luncheon.
6. Sketch the character of Della.
7. Assess The Gift of the Magi as a love story.
8. Sketch the character/psychology of the
narrator of the story Araby.
NOVEL: SILAS MARNER
1. Narrate the process of realization and
reservation of Silas Marner.
2. Examine the chance and coincidence in
the novel, Silas Marner.
NON-FICTION
1. Discuss Bacon’s prose style.
2. How does Bacon use practical wisdom
in Of Studies?
3. What marks of
Tagore’s patriotism
do you find in his Letter to Lord
Chelmsford Rejecting Knighthood?
4. What attitude
does Orwell express
towards imperialism in Shooting an
Elephant?
5. Discuss the role and contribution of Nelson
Mandela for the people of South Africa
6. Write the historiucal background
that led Abraham Lincoln to deliver his famous speech at Gettysburg.
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