Mahatma Gandhi University (MGU) 2005 Post Graduate Diploma Journalism (Oriya) ,-Part III –Subsidiary - Question Paper

B.A DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL 2005

Part III –Subsidiary

A HISTORY OF BRITISH COLONIALISM: CULTURAL AND LITERARY ASPECTS
(Regular/Failed)


Time: 3 Hours Maximum: 80 Marks
ans should be written either in English or in Malayalam

I. Answer the subsequent in about 200 words:

1(a) Comment on the ambiguity in the words “colonialism” and “imperialism”.
Or
(b) What were the long lasting implications of the Roman Conquest on Britain?

2(a) Explain Trevelyan’s views on the Renaissance in England.
Or
(b) Assess the achievements of William Shakespeare?

3(a) What was the impact of the French Revolution?
Or
(b) Discuss the significance of the Industrial Revolution.

4(a) Discuss the concept of the Welfare State.
Or
(b) Attempt an appreciation of English Literature in the 2nd half of the Twentieth century.

5(a) Discuss the Nationalist movement
Or
(b) Comment on English education in India.

(5*8=40 marks)
II. Answer any 4 from every group in about 50 words each:

Group A
1 The Wars of the Roses.
2 Chaucer
3 Feudalism in the Middle Ages
4 The Lollard Movement
5 The Crusades.
6 The Mystery and the Morality plays.
(4*2=8 marks)

Group B

1.Lycidas.
2.The Spanish Armada
3.Humanism
4.Ben Johnson
5.Milton as a pampleteer
6.Christopher Marlowe

(4*2=8 marks)

Group C

1. The Age of cause
2. Richard Sheridan
3. The American War of Independence
4.The Agrarian Revolution
5.Dryden
4. The Rape of the Lock.

(4*2=8 marks)

Group D

1.The Boston Tea Party
2.Dr.Johnson
3.Charles Dickens
4. Robert Browning
5.The War Poets
6.Imagist Poetry
(4*2=8 marks)

Group E

1.Raja Rao
2.Chinue Achebe
3.The Movement authors
4.Samuel Beckett
5.The early Indian Poetry in English
6.Mulk Raj Anand

(4*2=8 marks)

Earning:   Approval pending.