Periyar University 2009-1st Sem B.A English , EMBER/EMBER- - Question Paper

part - A

ans ALL ques..

1. describe the Divine Right Theory of Kingship. [ marks 2]

2. Name any 2 commanders who led the English fleet to Victory over the Spanish Armada. [ marks 2]

3. Write a note on the Poor legal regulations of 1601. [ marks 2]

4. Who were the Roundheads? Why were they called so? [ marks 2]

5. What were the Clarendon Code? [ marks 2]

6. Who started the Methodist Movement? When? [ marks 2]

7. Write a brief note on Lord Dalhousie. [ marks 2]

8. What was the purpose of the Miracle plays and Morality plays? [ marks 2]

9. Which were the 2 companies started to promote colonization in America? [ marks 2]

10. What were the 2 great national calamities of the Restoration period? [ marks 2]



part - B

ans the subsequent in about 150 words every

11. (a) The outcomes of the Renaissance. [ marks 5]

Or

(b) The Black Death and its consequences.[ marks 5]



12. (a) William Caxton[ marks 5]


Or

(b) The Tower of London.[ marks 5]


13. (a) The Oxford movement.[ marks 5]


Or

(b) The Clarendon Code.[ marks 5]


14. (a) The Whigs and the Tories.[ marks 5]


Or

(b) The Glorious Revolution.[ marks 5]


15. (a) Puritanism.[ marks 5]


Or

(b) The English Coffee-houses.[ marks 5]



part - C

ans any 3 of the subsequent in about 300 words every.


16. explain the effects of the dissolution of the monastries.[ marks 10]

17. provide an account of the defeat of the Spanish Armada.[ marks 10]

18. define the British colonial expansion during the 1st half of the seventeeth century.[ marks 10]

19. Comment on the Restoration drama and theatre.[ marks 10]

20. provide an account of the Agrarian Revolution.[ marks 10]

Earning:   Approval pending.