English
Subject Code: 231105
(Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Non Fictional Prose)
Time-4 Hours
Part A
(Answer any ten questions)
Marks-1x10=10
1. (a) Why can't unmarried men be best citizens?
(b) Why do people have a tendency to avoid truth?
(c) Who was Epicurus?
(d) Why was Sir Roger given priority?
(e) What is the Inner Temple?
(f) What is the religious value of Sunday?
(g) Whom did Cowley follow in writing odes?
(h) What type of men were the metaphysical poets?
(i) How does Cowley compare a lover to Manna?
(j) With what does Burke compare the East India Bill?
(k) What was the condition of the people of this huge terrain during the rule of East India Company?
(l) What is pragmatism?
Part B
(Answer any five questions)
Marks-4x5=20
2. How can a man having a family lead a peaceful and disciplined life?
3. What are the things that should be taken into consideration while doing plantation in a far-off region?
4. How does love degrade a human being?
5. Write a note on Sir Roger de Coverley?
6. How does Steele portray the character of the Clergyman?
7. Why can't Cowley's Davideis be judged as an epic?
8. What practical advice does Bacon give to the men in high post?
9. What was the intention of the East India Bill?
Part C
(Answer any five questions)
Marks-10x5=50
10. Give an account on Bacon's prose style.
11. Discuss Francis Bacon as a moral and utilitarian philosopher based on your reading of his essays.
12. Discuss The Coverly Papers as the precursor of english novel.
13. Evaluate Addison as a social satirist.
14. Comment on Dr. Johnson's views of metaphysical poetry in his The Life of Cowley.
15. Critically analyse Johnson's art of writing a biography.
16. How does Burke criticise Warren Hastings and his associates in his Speech on the East India Bill?
17. Write a critical note on the British East India Company.
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