Jadavpur University 2009 B.A English Honors admission test of - Question Paper
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BA ENGLISH ADMISSION TEST 2009 Time: 2 hours and 30 minutes (for both parts together) Full Marks: 130
Answer Part I first, in the first few pages of your answer-book.
Part II will only be assessed if you qualify in Part I.
PARTI
1. Rewrite the following sentences correctly. You need not copy the original sentence in your answer-book; write only the corrected version. (10 x 1 = 10)
a) Blind by 1654, Fortune did not favour Milton.
b) I was late because the train did not run timely.
c) Here is the person who 1 met yesterday.
d) Our cricket team batted poorly in the first inning.
e) This is a masterpiece poem by Rabindranath Tagore.
f) I have studied the texts in details for the examination.
g) My father adviced me to study the sciences.
h) I knocked up on the door but there was no reply.
i) By the time he left, he received the sad news, j) The buses are not playing in the city today.
2. Pair the first word in each line below with the word or phrase closest to it in meaning within the brackets. Write only the paired set in your answer-book
(10x1 = 10)
a) sinuous ( bloody, powerful, winding, uneven)
b) augment (huge, piece, elderly, increase)
c) strew (hotpot, scatter, involve, summon)
d) feign (simulate, lose consciousness, young deer, pawn)
e) inveigle (tickle, tell lies, persuade falsely, make up)
f) kindling (baby human, dry wood, baby pig, old woman)
g) audacious (attractive, rude, bold, happy)
h) barrack (criticize loudly, run for President, sideline, greet)
i) swine (faint, influenza, pigs, contagious)
j) cogent (convincing, fraud, agent, male accomplice)
3. Make idiomatic/oft-quoted sentences by putting one word in each of the blank spaces. Write the completed sentences in your answer book.(20 x 1/2 = 10)
a) A lot... items are on sale, so you should lose... time
b) Its always ... before dawn, as the saying ....
c) ... yourself in hand, and the ... the better.
d) Yuvraj is ... of a batsman ... a bowler.
e) Better the ... you know than the ... you dont.
f) Its not whether you win or lose, its how you ... the____
g) 1 have swom to speak the truth, the ... truth, and ... but the truth.
h) Ask me no ... and youll be told no ....
i) Workers of the world ...! You have nothing to lose bul your .... j) Our sweetest ...are those that tell of saddest....
Paddington Canal A mocking mirror, the black water turns Tall houses upside down, makes learned men Walk on their heads in squares of burning light;
Lovers like folded bats hang in a kiss,
Swaying as if a breeze would sever them.
The barges, giant sea-birds fast asleep,
Lie on the surface, moored and motionless;
Then, drowning gently, are drawn down to join The sunken lovers and the acrobats.
Out of the grim dimensions of a street Slowly I see another landscape grow Downwards into a lost reality;
A magic mirror, the black water tells Of a reversed Atlantis wisely buih To catch and to transform The wasted substance of our daily acts,
Accommodate our mad and lovely doubles In a more graceful city timelessly.
a) Comment on the images the poet has used.
b) How does the mocking mirror become a magic mirror?
c) What vision of the city does the poem offer?
d) Is the poem also like a mirror? If so, of what kind?
i xu . u c - (10x4 = 40 marks)
2. Write brief notes on any four of the following:
Lewis Carroll, Kamalakanter Daptar, Niccolo Machiavelli, Life is Beautiful Harold Pinter, Calvm and Hobbes, Amrita Sher-Gill, Bharatendu Harishchandra, The Story of
S'* ott* BrntS' Eham ***>*' T. S. Eliot, Frankenstein, Jules W Mohiner Ghoraguli, Sophocles, Chandalika, Leonard Cohen, Omkara, Anita Desai, King Lear
(5 x 4 = 20 marks)
3. Write an essay on any one of the following subjects, drawing as closely as possible on your own reading and understanding of the arts:
.) 11,-Mh.ofnni (40mks)
b) Can reading be a creative act?
c) Poetry makes nothing happen
d) Performance as Text
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