Tamil Nadu Open University (TNOU) 2006 B.A Political Science The Twentieth Century - Question Paper

B.A. DEGREE exam - JANUARY,2006.
(ForAcademicYear 2003- 04 and Calendar Year
2004 students)
Second Year
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Time: three hours Maximum marks: 75

Write short notes on any 5 of the subsequent in
about 30 words each: (5 x 3=15)

1. What, according to Gardiner, is the relation
ranging from the size of one's head and his intelligence?
2. Why did Shaw refrain from writing his
autobiography?
3. define Orwell's experiences as an inpatient.
4. What was the Greek attitude to life?
5. How are the soldiers dehumanized?
6. Why is the hollow man afraid of facing reality, whether oflife or of death?
7. List out the objects loved by Rupert Brooke.
8. How is the power of the hawk expressed by Ted
Hughes?

Write short essays on any 3 of the subsequent
in about 200 words each: (3 x 10 =30)

9. Bring out the political overtones current in The
Apple Cart
10. 'My subject is war, and the pity of war. The poetry
is in the pity' - explain Wilfred Owen's statement in
relation to his "Insensibility".
11. Trace the fellings and thoughts expressed by
Dylan Thomas in "Do not go gentle into that Good
Night".
12. How does Sir Arthur Conan Doyle exhibit his
amazing powers of deduction in The Hound of the
Baskervillies?
13. Analyse in detail the women characters in the
novel, Heart of Darkness.
14. Why does Priestly say that a man suffering from a
cold in the head looks like a comedian?

Write short notes on any TWOof the following:
(2 x 10 =20)

15. What do you learn of Huxley's attitude to Dr.
Spooner?
16. Do you consider "The Hollow Men" a remarkable
tech. achievement ofT.S. Eliot?
17. Comment on Larkin's "Church Going" as a poem
that makes him think.
18. explain the importance of Becket's sermon in the
play Murder in the Cathedral.

Write an essay on any 1 of the following:
(1 x 10=10)

19. What does Gardiner think of the judgment about others by the rich?
20. What do you learn of Marie Antoinette, Lafayette and Mirabeau from "The French Revolution"?
21. Bring out the significance of the title, Look Back in Anger.

Earning:   Approval pending.