Muhammed Siddique

SREE SANKARA VIDYAPEETOM COLLEGE, NAGAROOR Sixth Semester B A Degree Model Examination, March 2021 First Degree Programme under CBCSS English Language and Literature Core Course-11; EN 1641: WORLD CLASSICS Time: 3HoursMax.Marks:80 Answer ALL QUESTION, each in a word or sentence. 1. Who is the author of Crime and Punishment? 2. Name the epic written by Dante? 3. Who is considered as the father of tragedy? 4. Who wrote the Theban Trilogy? 5. What is the tragic flaw of Creon? 6. Which animal looks at the distant sky with parched throat in the summer? 7. Who is the author of ‘The Aeneid’? 8. What was the narrator doing when Zorba comes to meet him? 9. At the funeral service of Ilych which character tries to set up a game of bridge? 10. From whom did Zorba learn to play santuri? 1 x 10 = 10 Marks Answer any EIGHT, each in a short paragraph not exceeding 50 words. 11. How does the peacock react to the summer? 12. What are the features of epic? 13. Define Classics? 14. What do the female buffaloes do in the summer? 15. Write a note on classical Italian writers? 16. Comment on the role of the Sentry in Antigone? 17. How does the lion react to the summer heat? 18. Comment on Zorba style of working? 19. Tolstoy’s religious sentiments expressed in the novel The Death of Ivan Ilych? 20. Write a note on Indian classical Sanskrit writers? 21. Describe the accident that happened to Ivan? 22. Write a short note on Roman Classicism? 2 x 8 =16 Marks Answer any SIX, each in a paragraph not exceeding 100 words. 23. Write a brief note on Leo Tolstoy? 24. Write a note on classical drama? 25. The early life of Ivan Ilych? 26. Comment on the role of Gerasim? 27. The role of Tiresias in Antigone? 28. Comment on the dramatic purpose of the opening dialogue between Antigone and Ismene? 29. How does summer transform the basic instincts of animals? 30. The relationship between Zorba and the narrator? 31. Briefly describe the arrival of Zorba and the narrator at Crete and the tragic event that shatters the narrator? 4 x 6 = 24 Marks Answer any TWO, each in about three hundred words. 32. How Kalidasa describe the summer season in his Ritusamhara? 33. Consider Antigone as a tragedy of conflicting emotions and moral orders? 34. Discuss Zorba the Greek as a philosophical work? 35. How does Tolstoy bring out the pettiness of human beings in The Death of Ivan Ilych? 15 x 2 = 30 Marks