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Sogam College English Exam Questions

This document contains a practice exam for a General English course. It has 15 multiple choice questions from Modules I and II about texts including Pico Iyer's essay "Why We Travel" and The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. It also contains 4 long answer questions worth 7.5 marks each from Modules III and IV about poems dealing with themes of identity, tradition, oppression, and the struggles of low caste people in India. The exam is out of a total of 30 marks and students must score at least 12 marks to pass.

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Sogam College English Exam Questions

This document contains a practice exam for a General English course. It has 15 multiple choice questions from Modules I and II about texts including Pico Iyer's essay "Why We Travel" and The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. It also contains 4 long answer questions worth 7.5 marks each from Modules III and IV about poems dealing with themes of identity, tradition, oppression, and the struggles of low caste people in India. The exam is out of a total of 30 marks and students must score at least 12 marks to pass.

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Govt. Degree College Sogam Lolab.

BG 2nd Sem General English (Arts) Internal Exam.

Max. Marks:-30 Min. Marks: - 12

Objective type Questions from Module I and 2 nd

(Attempt all objectives from Section Ist)

1) According to pico Iyer we travel to


a) To lose ourselves
b) To find ourselves
c) Initially to loose and then to find ourselves
d) None of the above

2) Pico Iyer maintains that travelling


a) allows us to see how provincial we are.

b) Saves us from reductionism.

c) Shakes up our complacencies.

d) all of the above.

3) Pico Iyer says that travel

a) Emancipates us.

b) Disrupts us.

c) Simplifies us

d) all of the abo

4) Santayana believed that travel can

a) Kill prejudice

b) Keep the mind nimble

c) Foster humour

d) all of the above


5) Who said, “travelling is a fool’s paradise”

a) Henery David Thoreau

b) George Santayana

c) Sir Thomas Brown

d) R. W. Emerson.

6) Pico Iyer compares journey to a love affair because

a) one experiences both fear and wonder

b) It carriers one out of one’s self

c) One is always in a state of heightened awareness

d) all of the above

7) The essay why we travel ends with the line

a) The best trips, like best love affairs, never really end

b) The best trips are necessary part of education

c) Travel actually exhausts a person beyond limits

d) None of the above.

8) Pico Iyer is a
a) Novelist

b) Essayist

c) Dramatist

d) Poet

9) The Diary of a young girl is a tale of

a) Jewish girl

b) Muslim girl

c) Both a and b

d) None of the above

10) The Diary of a young girl was originally written in which language

a) English

b) French
c) Dutch
d) Greek

11) Anne frank believed that to keep a diary for someone like her was

a) A good idea

b) An odd idea

c) An interesting idea

d) A silly idea

12) What name did Anne gave to her diary?

a) Kitten

b) Catty

c) Kitty
d) None of the above.

13) Why does Anne want to keep a diary

a) She loves to write

b) She has no close friends

c) She wants people to read about her

d) She loves to write.

14) Why does Anne think she was lonely?

a) She has no real friends

b) She was an introvert

c) She was all alone

d) all of the above

15) According to one of the anti-Jewish laws, the Jewish people were made to wear a

a) Blue star

b) Yellow star

c) Yellow band

d) Blue band (15x1) =15


section 2nd Module III and iv

Long Answer type questions (Attempt any two)

Q1:- Explain the poem “Identity Card” as a weapon of resistance against Israeli occupation of Palestine.

Q2:- The poem “Digging” reflects speakers feelings about his tradition and heritage. Discuss.

Q3:- Explain how the poet has described the life of a women in oppressed and male dominated society in the poem “This is a photograph
of Me”.

Q4:- How does Omprakash Valmiki describes the pain of low caste people in “Joothan”? 7.5x2=15

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