IGNITION
1) My Greatest Olympic Prize – Jesse Owens.
I) Answer the following questions (Short answers):
1) What is Aryan superiority theory of Hitler?
2) What might happen if Owens had failed to control his emotions?
3) Explain the phrase- ‘really looked the part’.
4) Who put hand on the shoulder of Jesse Owens and what did it signify?
5) In what event did Owens participate here?
6) Why did Owens feel that but for Luz Long he ‘wouldn’t be jumping in the finals the
following day?
II) Answer the following questions (Long answers):
1) What did Jesse Owens get as prizes in his Olympic Games of 1936?
2) Explain the tension around the Olympic Games that disturbed the players? What was the
impact of the racism on the Olympic Games as observed by Owens?
2) The Kadegolu Kamba bears witness – Kuvempu.
I) Answer the following questions (Short answers):
1) How is the kitchen described?
2) Where is the churning rod placed? How does it look like?
3) What Vasu doing in the kitchen? What is his felling?
4) How does Subbamma appear in the kitchen?
5) What is the cause of friction between Nagamma and Subbamma?
6) What are Vasu’s plans?
7) How does the author describe the puppies in the backyard?
II) Answer the following questions (Long answers):
1) What is the churning rod witnessing from the centuries? Substantiate.
2) Explain the quarrel between Subbamma and Nagamma. Describe how the passage tells us
the lives of women attached to kitchen and domesticity.
3) By Other Name – Shantha Ram Rao.
I) Answer the following questions (Short answers):
1) What are the names given to the sisters in the school?
2) What is the attitude of the head about the Indian students?
3) What is awkward in the school?
4) Describe the atmosphere of the school?
II) Answer the following questions (Long answers):
1) What are the experiences of the little girls in a new school?
2) How were the Indian students treated by the school management?
3) Comment on the relevance of the title By Other Name.
4) Rain – Sara Joseph.
I) Answer the following questions (Short answers):
1) Is Padma excited to see rains? Explain.
2) How is Padma’s husband?
3) Bring out the atmospheric beauty of rain.
II) Answer the following questions (Long answers):
1) What is the main theme of the story? Discuss.
2) Comment on the title which is metaphorical in the story Rain.
5) From ‘Hiroshima Diary’ – Michihiko Hachiya.
I) Answer the following questions (Short answers):
1) What did happen in the morning to the city?
2) How did the explosion look like in the beginning?
3) Give any two details of the city when the bomb lashed.
4) How did the author record the hullaballoo of the city?
II) Answer the following questions (Long answers):
1) Comment of the effects of bomb as narrated by the author.
2) What toils did the doctor undergo in order to survive?
POETRY
1) Like as the waves (sonnet 60) – William Shakespeare.
I) Annotations:
1) Nativity, once in the main of light
Crawls to maturity, where with being crown’d.
2) Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
And delves the parallels in beauty’s brow.
3) Crawls to maturity, where with being crown’d.
Crooked eclipse’ gainst his glory fight.
II) Long Answer questions:
1) Analyze the destructive power of Time.
2) Animals – Walt Whitman.
I) Annotations:
1) I Think I could turn and live with animals,
They are also so placid and self-contain’d.
2) Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania
of owning things,
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived
thousands of years ago.
3) Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
II) Long Answer questions:
1) Is Animals world better than Human world? Discuss.
2) What are the lessons that we human beings could learn from Animals?
3) Cooking – Pratibha Nandakumar.
I) Annotations: -
1) Cooking is my passion
an outlet to all my frustrations.
2) One can always win over the bottled death.
3) Everyone wants Kareena Kapoor waist.
4) For all to smack licking fingers
exclaiming aha! its so good!
II) Long Answer questions:
1) Write a critical appreciation of the poem Cooking.
2) How does the poet describes the ultra-modern society in this poem?
3) Comment on the style of the poem.
4) End of Another Home Holiday- D H Lawrence.
I) Annotations: -
1) The little grain draws down the earth, to hide.
2) The moon walks her lonely way without anguish, Because
no-one grieves over her departure.
3) Ah home, suddenly I love you As I hear the sharp clean
trot of a pony down the road.
II) Long Answer questions:
1) Explain the theme of nostalgia in the poem ‘End of Another Home Holiday’.
2) Describe the sad tone of the poem associated with past memories.
5) I Am! – John Clare
I) Annotations: -
1) I am- yet what I am none cares or knows;
My friends forsake me like an memory lost:
2) I long for scenes where man hath never trod
A place where woman never smiled or wept.
II) Long Answer questions:
1) Explore the poet’s insight about the individuality in the poem.
QUESTION PAPER PATTERN
First Semester B.Sc. / BCA / BHSc
(Examination 80 Marks + 20 Marks Internal Assessment)
Section-A (Prose)
I. Answer any SIX in two or three sentences each: 6X2=12
II. Answer any THREE questions (Long Answers Questions): 3X6=18
Section-B (Poetry)
III. Answer any TWO Annotations: 2X4=08
IV. Answer any TWO questions (Long Answers Questions): 2X6=12
Section-C (Language Practice)
V. Read the following passage and answers the questions set on it: 10X1=10
VI. A. Three questions on Nouns / Adjectives / Adverbs: 3X1=3
B. Four questions on Verbs: 4X1=4
VII. Three questions on Subject-Verb Agreement: 3X1=3
VIII. Rewrite as directed: (Questions on Tenses) 6X1=6
Section-D (Speaking Skills)
IX. Conversation (Context Specific): 4X1=4
