Last Year Papers
Kashmir University
BG 3 SEMESTER
General English
Max. Marks :90 Min. Marks: 36
Time Allowed: 2.30 Hours
NOTE: ATTEMPT ALL QUESTIONS FROM SECTION & AND ONLY TWO QUESTIONS FROM SECTION C SECTION-A: Short Type Questions
1.. What is a sonnet?
1. What is an extended metaphor? ii. Add suitable question tags to the following
I went to the garden of love
b. So I turned to the garden of love v. Make sentences of the following phrases
a. Stretches of boredom What is the significance of Pahom's dream?
b. Stretch my patience
Who decides that an exchange of lunatics would take place?
vi. Insert a/an/the in the following sentences a. The hospital received X-ray machine
SA small boy was going to schoolboy met with accident.
vill. Complete the following sentences using past continuous forms
of the verb.
a. Rashid cut his finger while he was vegetables (Cut)
b. The television was on but nobody was it (Watch)
Section-B
Explain the significance of the metaphor, 'mind forged manacies in the
poem London.
3. Explain the significance of the title Toba Tek Singh. What does the author mean by "busy-idle diversions' in Dream Children
A reverie? 4. What role does the devil play in the story How much Land Does a Man
Need?
What is the structure of the sonnet O, that you were yourself! But, Love
you are.
5. Insert appropriate articles wherever necessary. a This morning I bought Newspaper and
magazine.
Newspaper is in my bag but I can't remember where I put
magazine. b. There are two cars parked outside: blue one and
orange one. I blue one belongs to my friend. c. My friends live in old house in small village. A
There is beautiful garden behind house.
Use the correct form of the verb/s is given in the brackets.
a) I Hamid at the airport a few weeks ago. He was
.Jaipur to attend a literary festival (see/ fly) b) Ram nervous in the interview. Since he
interv before. (feel/fa L when I sprained my ankle yesterday. (jog)
an
5. Insert appropriate articles wherever necessary. a This morning I bought Newspaper and
magazine.
Newspaper is in my bag but I can't remember where I put
magazine. b. There are two cars parked outside: blue one and
orange one. I blue one belongs to my friend. c. My friends live in old house in small village. A
There is beautiful garden behind house.
Use the correct form of the verb/s is given in the brackets.
a) I Hamid at the airport a few weeks ago. He was
.Jaipur to attend a literary festival (see/ fly) b) Ram nervous in the interview. Since he
interv before. (feel/fa L when I sprained my ankle yesterday. (jog)
the building. (take/look)
Section-C
6. What is a Shakespearean sonnet? Explain the theme of the sonnet 'Shall
I compare thee to a summer's Day. 7. In the light of the story Tobe Tek Singh, discuss the psychological effects of displacement.
B. How does Lamb mix humour and pathos in the essay Dream Children- A
reverie.
9. Explain Tense and its different forms. Support your answer with an
example of each Tense form
BG 4 SEMESTER Novar 2018
Question Booklet Series: A
BG-4th SEMESTER
GENERAL ENGLISH
MAX. MARKS: 90
MIN. MARKS: 36
Time Allowed: 2 Hours
Note: Your Question Paper consists of 40 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ's) and 7 descriptive questions. MCQ's carrying 48 marks (@ of 1.2 marks per question) have to be answered on CMR sheet stitched over the front page of answer book within 50 minutes including 10 minutes for distribution of answer book and collection of OMR sheet. You have to submit only the original copy of OMR and retain the candidate's copy. Descriptive questions carrying 42 marks have to be attempted in the designated space earmarked for each questions in the Answer Book.Part: 1-Multiple Choice Questions (Choose the correct one)
(40x1.2-48)
When was Wordsworth bom:A) 20 March 1773
B) 10 September 1772
C) 7th April 1770
D) 7th July 1767
5 In which year was the famous work lyrical
Ballads published::
A) 1798
B) 1778
C) 1769
D) 1767
2. Wordsworth was born in
A) Sheffield
B) London
C) Wales D) Cade mouth
6 One of the sisters of Wordsworth was a
poet, her name was:
A) Agnes Wordsworth
8) Dorothy Wordsworth
C) Anna Wordsworth
D) Shirley Wordsworth
The poem "The World is too much with
us written by Wordsworth is an/a:
A) Ode
B) Elegy D) Lyrical Poem.
C) Sonnet
Which College did Wordsworth attend
A) Kings College
B) St. John's College C) Trinity College
D) Christ College
When was Wordsworth appointed the poet laureate:
A) 1843
B) 1847
C) 1867
D) 1831
& Lucy Gray is a:
A) Sonnet B) Elegy
C) Dramatic Monologue
D) Ballad
9 The world is too much with us is a:
A) Elizabethan Sonnet 8) Shakespearean Sonnet
C) Petrarchan Sonnet D) None of the above
BG 4 SEMESTER Nender 2018
35. What is the name of the sea that the Greek playwright is standing next to in the
second stanza of Dover Beach?
A) The Baltic sea
8) The Aegean sea
C) The North sea
D) The Red sea.
10. Which work of Wordsworth is generally considered to be his magnum opus?
A) Laodamia
8) Guide to Lakes
C) The Prelude D) Preface to Lycal Ballads
16. Mathew Amold's poetry exploved which
of the following A) Loneliness & isolation
8) Classical i as
C) The flaws in modern life:
C) The flaws in modern
D) None of the above
in Dover Beach which country does the speaker see on the other side of the
English Channel:
A) Italy
B) France D) Belgium
C) Hoboken
12. What's the famous land formation at Dover Beach that's mentioned in the
47. "Growing Old" gives a:
A) Bleak picture of aging
B) Graceful picture of old age
C) Beauty of old age
D) None of the above
18 The poem "Growing old gives a:
A) Negative view of aging
8) Stark image of old age
C) Physical & mental deterioratio
of old age
D) All the above
poem?
A) The pit of Despair
B) The great water fall of Dover
C) The sea of Faith
D) The white Cliffs of Dover
13 Which Greek the poem?
Playwright makes a cameo in TS Eliot is a poet:
A) Modernist
A) Euripides
8) Sophocles
8) Romantic
C) Aeschylus D) Kermit
C) Evil robot
14. What place does the speaker compare the D) Transcendental
world to in the last three lines of the
Dover Beach'. A) A treacherous charm
The poem "Prelude' is set in: A) London
B) A fragrant meadow C) A whispering wood
B) A Hamster Wheel
C) A anonymous city
D) A darkling plain.
D) New York city.
21. At the end of the poem, who is gathering
28.Lincoln married B) 1862
Mary Todd in
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fuel?
A) 1842
A) Women
B) The poor
C) 1852
C) Our souls
D) 1840
D) A Hobbit House
22. In the poem prelude a women uses, what
2incoln's Emancipation proclamation was
made orc to curl her hair?
A) May 1" 1852
A) A curling iron
B) Jan 1" 1863
B) Bobby pins
C) Jan 1" 1870 D) June 1" 1863
C) Cheetos
D) Stripes of paper.
30,Lincoln was assassinated on: A) April 14" 1870
23-What is a Sonnet?
A) A poem of six lines
B) April 4 1863
B) A poem of eight lines C) A poem of fourteen lines
C) April 14 1865 D) April 14 1805
D) A poem of twelve lines.
24. Abrahm Lincoln was born in:
32 Sir Muhammad Iqbal was born on:
A) New York city
A) November 9th 1877 B) November 9th 1847
B) California
C) November 9th 1888 D) November 9th 1864
C) Kentucky D) London
32. Iqbal's ancestors came from
A) Punjab B) Jammu & Kashmir
C) Sialkot D) Lahore
25. Abraham Lincoln was the son of:
A) John Lincoln
B) Thomas Lincoln C) Richard Abraham
D) Walter Lincoln
26. Sarah Bush Johnston was Abraham
Lincoln's
A) Mother
B) Sister
Step mother D)None of these
33 Sir Syed Muhammad Iqbal was Knighted
on:
A) January 1" 1923 B) January 1" 1920
C) January 1" 1944 D) January 1" 1922
D) Walter Lincoln
on:
26. Sarah Bush Johnston was Abraham
Lincoln's
A)
Mother B) Sister
C) Step mother D)None of these
A) January 1" 1923 B) January 1" 1920
C) January 1" 1944
D) January 1" 1922
Abraham Lincoln was elected the captain 34. Iqbal died in Lahore in:
during the Black Hawk was in: A) 1871
A) 1940
B) 1926 D) 1935
B) 1805
C) 1938
C) 1832
D) 1865
35. Mother Teresa was born in
38. Mother Teresa received her inspiration
A) 1920
B) 1910 D) 1909
her call within a call on
C) 1922
A) September 12, 1964
B) September 10, 1946
36. Mother Teresa was baptized:
C) September 22, 1964 D) September 10, 1947.
A) Gonxha Agnes B) Many Agnes
C) Catherine
39.The Missionaries of charity, is based in:
D) Nikola Agnes
A) Delhi
B) Mumbai C) Calcutta D) Kerla
37. Mother Teresa at the age of..decided to
become a nun:
40. Mother Teresa received noble peace pr
A) 17
B) 16
in:
C) 14
D) 18
B) 1979
A) 1978
C) 1980
D) 1981
