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    OL Lit Model Paper 4

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    This document contains model exam questions for analyzing English literary texts from 2021. It includes multiple choice and short answer questions about excerpts from various works. The questions test understanding of themes, devices, characters and contexts. It also contains a passage about a character Jagan feeling trapped during an encounter with Grace, a Hindu woman. Grace performs Hindu wife duties like decorating the threshold to convince Jagan she was Hindu in a past life. The questions analyze Jagan's attitude, why he wanted to speak spitefully to Grace, and the significance of Grace's actions.

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    This document contains model exam questions for analyzing English literary texts from 2021. It includes multiple choice and short answer questions about excerpts from various works. The questions test understanding of themes, devices, characters and contexts. It also contains a passage about a character Jagan feeling trapped during an encounter with Grace, a Hindu woman. Grace performs Hindu wife duties like decorating the threshold to convince Jagan she was Hindu in a past life. The questions analyze Jagan's attitude, why he wanted to speak spitefully to Grace, and the significance of Grace's actions.

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    OL Lit Model Paper 4

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    This document contains model exam questions for analyzing English literary texts from 2021. It includes multiple choice and short answer questions about excerpts from various works. The questions test understanding of themes, devices, characters and contexts. It also contains a passage about a character Jagan feeling trapped during an encounter with Grace, a Hindu woman. Grace performs Hindu wife duties like decorating the threshold to convince Jagan she was Hindu in a past life. The questions analyze Jagan's attitude, why he wanted to speak spitefully to Grace, and the significance of Grace's actions.

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    Appreciation of English Literary Texts

    Model Paper for 2021 (4)

    Part I - Section A - Answer all questions. (Attempt to answer all questions in this section within 50
    minutes)
    (i) Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown
    Put on, and smile upon our evening bed!
    (a) From which work are these lines taken? Who has written them?
    ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………......
    (b) To whom are these words addressed by the poet? What is the significance of the addressee?
    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
    (c) Why does the poet address the address this way? Name a rhetorical device available here.
    ............................................................................................................................................................
    (ii) “She had two sons at rising day
    To-night she’ll be alone.”
    (a) From which work are these lines taken? Who has written them?
    ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………......
    (b) Who is referred to as ‘she’ here? Why will she be alone tonight?
    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
    (c) Name the two sons. Name an auditory imagery.
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………….

    (iii) There was no insane panic. There was absolute clarity and awareness of what was happening
    at that moment.

    (a) From which work are these lines taken? Who is the author of them?
    ..............................................................................................................................................................
    (b) What was happening at this moment?
    ..................................................................................................................................................
    ..........
    (c) What qualities can we see from the ‘absolute clarity’ and ‘awareness of’ the narrator and the others?
    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………

    (iv) The aunt maintained the frozen muteness of one who has suffered undignified and unmerited
    detention in a rain-water tank for thirty-five minutes.
    (a) From which work is this extract taken? Who wrote them?
    ............................................................................................................................................................
    (d) Why did the aunt have to suffer this way? Name an auditory imagery available here.
    ……………………………………………………………………………………………………..
    (e) What theme does the write want to convey through this to the reader?
    ............................................................................................................................................................

    (i) And I’d like to have a little talk with you...... Well, now - I’m afraid I shouldn’t ask you thing
    like this – but if you don’t mind, would you tell me if it is a real “Senba Ori?”
    (a) From where are these lines taken? Who wrote them?
    ............................................................................................................................................................
    (b) Who is the speaker? Who does the speaker talk to?
    ...........................................................................................................................................................
    (c) What is a ‘Senba Ori’? Why is the speaker interested in knowing if it’s a real one?
    ...........................................................................................................................................................
    (ii) “You’re young and beautiful, with roses in your cheek--if you only took a little pleasure.
    Beauty won’t last long, you know.”
    (a) From where are these lines taken? Who wrote them?
    ……………………………………………………………………………………………………...
    (b) Who is the speaker? Who is referred to as ‘you’ by the speaker?
    ..........................................................................................................................................................
    (c) Why does the speaker speak this way? Why has the address decided to behave this way?

    ..........................................................................................................................................................

    Section B

    He had dodged this encounter for two weeks by sheer maneuvering of arrival and departure. Now he
    felt trapped. He wanted to say, “Leave these questions for menfolk to settle; keep away, you charmer from
    Outer Mongolia or somewhere.” She had stuck a flower with a pin in her bobbed hair and he longed to tell
    her, “Take off that flower, it’s ridiculous.” He merely remarked, “I see that you have jasmine in your hair
    this morning.”
    “As it’s a Friday, I have remembered my duties as a Hindu wife. I have also washed the door steps
    and decorated the threshold with white flour. I went to a shop yesterday to get it. See what I have done!” She
    was so importunate that he had to look cheerful and follow her out. She pointed at a floral design on the
    ground and cried, “Don’t you believe now that I could have been a Hindu in my last life? I am able to bend
    down and draw the design on the floor as I see a lot of others do.”

    1) Why does Jagan feel trapped? (1 Mark)


    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………
    2) What is the attitude of Jagan shown to Grace here? Why has he changed his attitude? (2 Marks)
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………
    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………...
    3) Why did Jagan long to talk to her spitefully? (2 Marks)
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………
    4) Write what is meant by the expressions in bold print. (2 Marks)
    a) ………………………………………………………………………………………………………
    b) ……………………………………………………………………………………………………
    5) What are the duties of a typical Hindu wife that are being performed by Grace at the moment?
    Why does she attempt to perform them with commitment and enthusiasm? (3 Marks)
    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………....
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………

    Prepared by Prasad Rathnasekara B.A.(Eng), M.A.(Linguistics), Music Visharad


    Contact on:-0773433440 email: prasad.freelancewriter@gmail.com

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