2019
(December)
ENGLISH
Paper: AECC - 2
ALTERNATIVE ENGLISH
Full Marks: 40
Pass Marks: 16
Time: 2 hours
The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions
UNIT – 1
1. Answer the following questions: 4
X 5 = 20
(a) Explain Gandhi’s opinion on cowardice and violence. 4
Or
Write a brief note on the Boer War.
(b) How does the caste system operate at various levels of Indian
society? 4
Or
Explain, after Ambedkar, the negative side of education.
(c) “I am a member of a committee established by the British Broadcasting
Corporation ….” What committee is referred to here? Did it meet its objective? 2+2 = 4
Or
Elaborate shaw’s views on company manners and home manners.
(d) How is Mass Culture utilized by power groups in the East and the
West? 4
Or
Why does the author say that Mass Culture vulgarizes High Culture?
(e) Briefly explain the features of Greek Religion. 4
Or
Examine Dickinson’s view that harmony was central to Greek
institutions.
UNIT – II
2. Answer the following questions: 4
X 5 = 20
(a) How does the acquisition of land affect Pahom’s personality? 4
Or
Who were the Bashkirs? Give a brief description of their way of
life. 1 + 3 = 4
(b) Give a brief physical description of the astrologer and mention
its effects on the people who saw him. 4
Or
How is coincidence an important element in Narayan’s An Astrologer’s Day? Discuss.
(c) Give a brief description of Dulcie. What did she sell at the
departmental store? 2+2 = 4
Or
Comment on the ending of O. Heny’s
An Unfinished Story.
(d) What were the similarities between the conditions of the Pakistani
and Indian soldiers fighting the war described in the story, The Dog of
Tithwal? 4
Or
How did corporal Harman Singh greet the dog when it tried to return
to the Indian side? How did the Pakistani side retaliate? 2+2 = 4
(e) What were the ‘new happenings’ in Nagaland that were shaping
people’s lives in the late fifties? 4
Or
Give a brief description of Boss.
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