UAEN-101

Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning

(Deemed to be University)
Vidyagiri, Prasanthi Nilayam

B.A./B.A.(Hons)/B.Sc./B.Sc.(Hons)/B.Com.(Hons)/B.B.A./B.C.A./B.P.A.(Music)
First Semester Examinations, Sep-Oct 2019
PART-I(B) : ANOTHER LANGUAGE : : ADDITIONAL ENGLISH

Additional English: Literature and Life-I

Duration : 3 Hours 19/10/2019 Max. Marks : 100
Note: 1. Answer Sections A, B & C in the answer book provided.
2. Time allotted for Section-A is 20 minutes; hand over Section-A of the Question Paper back to the
Invigilator, after answering it in the first twenty minutes.
3. Comply with the instructions given in the Main Answer Book carefully.

SECTION – A
(20 Marks)

I. A) Read the following passage and answer, in a sentence or two, the questions that follow:
(5x2=10 Marks)

Unquestionably a literary life is for the most part an unhappy life; because, if you have genius, you must
suffer the penalty of genius; and, if you have only talent, there are so many cares and worries incidental to
the circumstances of men of letters, as to make life exceedingly miserable. Besides the pangs of
composition, and the continuous disappointment which a true artist feels at his inability to reveal himself,
there is the ever recurring difficulty of gaining the public ear. Young writers are buoyed up by the hope
and the belief that they have only to throw that poem at the world’s feet to get back in return the laurel-
crown; that they have only to push that novel into print to be acknowledged at once as a new light in
literature. You can never convince a young author that the editors of magazines and the publishers of
books are a practical body of men, who are by no means frantically anxious about placing the best
literature before the public. Nay, that for the most part they are mere brokers, who conduct their business
on the hardest lines of a Profit and Loss account. But supposing your book fairly launches, its perils are
only beginning. You have to run the gauntlet of the critics. To a young author, again, this seems to be as
terrible an ordeal as passing down the files of Sioux or Comanche Indians, each one of whom is thirsting
for your scalp. When you are a little older, you will find that criticism is not much more serious than the
bye-play of clowns in a circus, when they beat around the ring the victim with bladders slung at the end of
long poses. A time comes in the life of every author when he regards critics as comical rather than
formidable, and goes his way unheeding. But there are sensitive souls that yield under the chastisement
and, perhaps after suffering much silent torture, abandon the profession of the pen for ever.
- P. A. Sheehan

1. Why is the literary life mostly an unhappy one?

2. What are the ambitions of a young author?

3. Are editors and publishers sympathetic to young authors?

4. What are the ordeals awaiting the young author from the critics?

5. Make a sentence each with words: ‘frantically’ and ‘formidable’.

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B) Match the following: (5x1=5 Marks)

‘A’ ‘B’

6. Coventry Patmore A) Encyclopaedia Britannica

7. Nissim Ezekiel B) Fruit-Gathering

8. William Hazlitt C) Further Essays

9. Rabindranath Tagore D) The Damn Plays

10. Mortimer J. Adler E) “The Conduct of Life”

F) The Unknown Eros

C) Fill in the blanks with the right word from the prescribed texts: (5x1=5 Marks)

11. Where the clear stream of _________ has not lost its way…

12. But be like the rock, _________, true and strong…

13. A man, they say, who is a perfect _________ machine is seldom a man of first intelligence…

14. Science, in other words, is a fusion of man’s _________ and intellectual functions devoted to the
representation of nature.

15. True _________ is the only true morality or true wisdom.

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Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning

(Deemed to be University)
Vidyagiri, Prasanthi Nilayam

B.A./B.A.(Hons)/B.Sc./B.Sc.(Hons)/B.Com.(Hons)/B.B.A./B.C.A./B.P.A.(Music)
First Semester Examinations, Sep-Oct 2019
PART-I(B) : ANOTHER LANGUAGE : : ADDITIONAL ENGLISH

Additional English: Literature and Life-I

Duration : 3 Hours 19/10/2019 Max. Marks : 100

SECTION – B
(40 Marks)

II. Annotate ANY THREE of the following in about 150 words each: (3x5=15 Marks)

1. “Be not like Bubble,

Headstrong, rude, and vain,
Seeking by violence
Your object to gain.”

2. “Thus unlamented let me dye;

Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lye.."

3. “The absent-minded man is often a man who is making the best of life and therefore has no time to
remember the prosaic things.”

4. “…the most important part of a scientific discovery is the recognition of its true nature by the
observer, and this is scarcely possible if he does not possess the requisite capacity or knowledge of
the subject.”

III. Answer ONE of the following questions in about 150 words: (1x5=5 Marks)

5. Discuss the differences between light reading and serious reading, according to Adler.

6. Recount Hazlitt’s advice to his son about anticipating evils.

IV. Answer ONE of the following questions in about 150 words: (1x5=5 Marks)

7. Discuss the theme of superstition in the poem ‘Night of the Scorpion’ by Nissim Ezekiel.

8. Expatiate on the title, ‘Where the Mind is Without Fear’ by Rabindranath Tagore.

V. Answer ONE of the following questions in about 350 words: (1x15=15 Marks)

9. Critically analyse the conflict of the father in the poem ‘The Toys’.

10. Discuss how Nehru highlights unity in diversity in ‘Synthesis is our Tradition’.

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SECTION – C
(40 Marks)
VI. Answer ANY TWO of the following questions in about 250 words each: (2x10=20 Marks)

11. Recall the incidents that bring out the Chinese peasants’ attachment to their soil, in “The Refugees”.

12. Sketch the character of Simon in the story, “What Men Live by”.

13. Justify the title of the story, “The Stolen Bacillus” by H. G. Wells.

14. Discuss the conflicting thoughts going on in the mind of the Tanpura player in “The Accompanist”.

VII. Do as directed. (10x1=10 Marks)

Use each of the following words in a sentence of your own:

15. abstinence

16. captious

17. confounding

18. fastidious

19. thwart

Provide antonyms for the following words:

20. communion

21. impertinence

Provide synonyms for the following words:

22. bigotry

23. invidious

24. prudence

Provide the meanings of the following idioms and use them in a sentence each: (5x (1+1) =10 Marks)

25. To be well off

26. A bolt from the blue

27. To put the cart before the horse

28. Spick and span

29. To hold one’s tongue

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