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6th Sem English Hons Question Paper

The document appears to be an exam paper for an English Honours course, focusing on Partition Literature. It contains 4 questions - the first asks to identify details from specific stories, the second asks to comment on themes/symbols in one of the assigned texts, the third asks to discuss symbols/themes in two other assigned texts, and the fourth asks to analyze imagery or themes in one of the assigned poems.

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6th Sem English Hons Question Paper

The document appears to be an exam paper for an English Honours course, focusing on Partition Literature. It contains 4 questions - the first asks to identify details from specific stories, the second asks to comment on themes/symbols in one of the assigned texts, the third asks to discuss symbols/themes in two other assigned texts, and the fourth asks to analyze imagery or themes in one of the assigned poems.

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2022
ENGLISH HONOURS
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Paper : DSE-A-3
(Partition Literature)
Full Marks : 65

Thefigures in the margin indicate full marlcs.


Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words
as far as practicable.

I Answer the following questions : 1,.5

(a) Name the person who takes care of Jethamoshai in Dhaka tn The Shadow Lines.
(b) What is the name of Keshabananda's organization in 'The Marooned'?
(c) What disease is Mallika's husband suffering from in 'The Final Solution'?
(d) What did the Alglo-Indian inmates of the Lahore asylum fear eating most?
(e) "You are no less a sinner."- Whom does Ludhianvi call a 'sinner' in his poem?
2. Answer any one of lhe following questions within 600 words : l5xl
(a) Comment on the appropriateness of the title of Amitav Ghosh's lie Shadow Lines.
(b) "The upside-down house of Thamrna's memory is a potent metaphor for the chaos and confusion
wrought by Partition in The Shadow Zares."- Discuss.

3. Answer any th,o of the following questions within 600 words each : 75\2
(a) In Manto's 'Toba Tek Singh' the madhouse is a symbol of the partitioned nation. Do you agree?
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(b) Manik Bandopadhyay's 'The Final Solution' documents women's response to the event of the
Partition.- Discuss.
(c) Protiva Basu's 'The Marooned' depics how women's bodies became the sites of sexual violence
duing the Partition. Do you agree? Discuss-

4. Answer any one of the following questions within 600 words : lsxl
(a) Critically analyze the imagery of Birendra Chattopadhyay's poem, 'After Death : Twenty years'.
(b) How does the poet-speaker in Sankha Ghosh's 'Rehabilitation' reconcile memory and reality in
the poem?

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