Restoration and Eighteenth Century Poetry and Drama (MCUC Test Question)

English

Subject Code: 231109

(Restoration and Eighteenth Century Poetry and Drama)

Time-4 Hours

Full Marks-80

Part A

(Answer any ten questions)

Marks-1x10=10

1.     (a)    What is Belinda's lock of hair turned into?

        (b)    What does the owl symbolise in the Dryden's poem Mac Flecknoe?

        (c)    What does the black box contain in the play The Way of The World?

        (d)    What is comedy of manner?

        (e)    How is Absalom and Achitophel ended?

        (f)    What does Proviso-scene mean?

        (g)    Who is Selima?

        (h)    Who is Foible?

        (i)    Who is Umbriel?

        (j)    Who is Sylph?

        (k)   What is The Way of the World?

        (l)    What is Allegory?

Part B

(Answer any five questions)

Marks-4x5=20

2.    Describe Belinda's wake up from sleep.

3.    What are the features of Restoration comedy?

4.    Give an account of the casket episode in She Stoops to Conquer.

5.    How does Dryden satirise the English people in Absalom and Achitophel?

6.    Comment on the plot construction of She Stoops to Conquer.

7.    How did Belinda win the game of Ombre at Hampton court?

8.    How does Congreve satirise the contemporary society?

9.    What is Comedy of intrigue?

Part C

(Answer any five questions)

Marks-10x5=50

10.    Discuss the appropriateness of the title of the play She Stoops to Conquer.

11.    Discuss The Rape of the Lock as a mock-epic.

12.    Comment on the supernatural machinaries in The Rape of the Lock.

13.    Show how Dryden presents contemporary political events in the grab of Biblical analogues in Absalom and Achitophel.

14.    Discuss She Stoops to Conquer as an anti-sentimental comedy.

15.    What different attitude of love and marriage do you find in Congreve's The Way of the World?

16.    Sketch the character of Lady Wishfort.