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FINAL EXAMINATION

2ND SEMESTER

2005/2006

Course No: A319

Course Title: Literature in the Modern World

Date & Time: 3 July 2006 (6:00 9:00 pm)

Time Allowed: 3 hours

(Please read instructions on P.2 before you proceed to answer)

Exam Components and Grades* (To be filled by tutor)

EARNED GRADES Tutors name& signature)

PART/QUESTION

POINTS

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LANGUAGE

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PART ONE

Extract

(Out of 16 Points)

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PART TWO

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PART THREE

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1.Language

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NOTES

Before you write:

1. Make sure that you have written yourfull name in Arabic & English,your registration number, your section number on the coverpage. You are also advised to write your name on every page.

2. Write only on the examination paper provided.

3. You may write on both sides of the sheet.4. The Exam is in 3 parts. Part One has one question. You should

answer eitherA orB. Parts Two and Three contain two questionseach. You must answer one question from each Part. Please notethat if you answer two questions in the same Part, only one answerwill be marked.

5. The questions may be answered in any order.6. Before starting to write your answer, write the full text of the

question you have chosen. Notice the length of answer requiredwhich is mentioned at the beginning of each Part. You should keepwell within the required length.

7. Answers must be written in essay form.8. Also remember to start your essay with a short introduction then

proceed to the main body and end it with a short conclusion. Allparts of your answer should be fairly concise, and relevant to thequestion you have chosen.

9. Clearly mark your quotations. Insert them in inverted commas andmention the source and page number of each quotation.

10. Cross out any rough notes which you write and which you do not

wish to be marked.11.Make sure all the examination sheets are well collated and fixed

together firmly so that you avoid the risk of losing any part youranswer.

Good Luck!

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When you have finished writing

Proofread your answers twice: once to check content and a second

time to correct any English language mistakes you may have made.

Remember that your tutor will mark the essay in terms of both

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Part I: Answer the following Question

Question 1

A Passage to India is a profoundly intriguing novel because of its perfect

combination of symbolic suggestion, psychological insight and social realism

where the human issues are succinctly represented within an Imperial East-West interaction context.

Discuss this notion with reference to one of the following extracts from thenovel.

(You answer should be approximately 600 words excluding quotations

and extract/s.)

Extract A: (From: Mosque;Chapter II)

Here was Islam, his own country, more than a Faith, more than a battle-cry,

more, much moreIslam, an attitude towards life both exquisite and durable,

where his body and his thoughts found their home.

His seat was the low wall that bounded the courtyard on the left. The ground

fell away beneath him towards the city, visible as a blur of trees, and in the

stillness he heard many small sounds. On the right, over in the Club, the

English community contributed an amateur orchestra. Elsewhere some

Hindus were drumming he knew they were Hindus, because the rhythm was

uncongenial to him and others were bewailing a corpse he knew whose,

having certified it in the afternoon. There were owls, the Punjab mailand

flowers smelt deliciously in the station-masters garden. But the mosque

that alone signified, and he returned to it from the complex appeal of the

night, and decked it with meanings the builder had never intended. Some day

he too would build a mosque, smaller than this but in perfect taste, so that all

who passed by should experience the happiness he felt now.

...

The secret understanding of the heart! He repeated the phrase with tears in

the eyes, and as he did so one of the pillars of the mosque seemed to quiver.

It swayed in the gloom and detached itself. Beliefs in ghosts ran in his blood,

but he sat firm. Another pillar moved, a third, and then an English woman

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stepped out into the moonlight. Suddenly he was furiously angry and

shouted: Madam! Madam! Madam!

Oh! Oh! the woman gasped.

Madam, this is a mosque, you have no right here at all; you should

have taken off your shoes; this is a holy place for Moslems.

I have taken them off.

You have?

I left them at the entrance.Then I ask your pardon.

Extract B: (From: CAVES;Chapter XX)

People drove into the Club with studious calm the jogtrot of country

gentlefolk between green hedgerows, for the natives must not suspect that

they were agitated. They exchanged the usual drinks, but everything tasted

different, and then they looked out at the palisade of cactuses stabbing thepurple throat of the sky; they realized that they were thousands of miles from

any scenery that they understood. The Club was fuller than usual, and several

parents had brought their children into the rooms reserved for adults, which

gave the air of the Residency at Lucknow. One young mother a brainless

but most beautiful girl sat on a low ottoman in the smoking-room with her

baby in her arms; her husband was away in the District, and she dared not

return to her bungalow in case the niggers attacked. The wife of a small

railway official, she was generally snubbed; but this evening, with her

abundant figure and masses of corngold hair, she symbolized all that is worth

fighting and dying for; more permanent a symbol, perhaps, than poor Adela.

...

When the smoking-room was clear, the Collector sat on the edge of a table,

so that he could dominate without formality. His mind whirled with

contradictory impulses. He wanted to avenge Miss Quested and punish

Fielding, while remaining scrupulously fair. He wanted to flog every native

that he saw, but to do nothing that would lead to a riot or to the necessity for

military intervention.

..

Poor young Heaslop had taken a step in this direction by refusing bail, but

the Collector couldnt feel this was wise of poor young Heaslop. Not only

would the Nawab Bahadur and others be angry, but the Government of India

itself also watches and behind it is that caucus of cranks and cravens, the

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British Parliament. He had constantly to remind himself that, in the eyes of

the law, Aziz was not yet guilty, and the effort fatigued him.

Write your answer here.

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Part II: Answer one question from this part (The answer should be

within 600 words excluding the quotations).

Question 2.

Cultural confrontation and reconciliation may be both subtly and bluntly

expressed in literary works.

Elaborate on this statement with reference to Chinua Achebes Things FallApart and Derek Walcotts poetry.

Your answer may refer to critical concepts in theReaderas well as thePoetryand Drama Anthology in addition following extract from Things Fall Apart(Chapter twenty-one)

There were many men and women in Umuofia who did not feel as strongly

as Okonkwo about the new dispensation. The white man had indeed brought a

lunatic religion, but he had also built a trading store and for the first timepalm-oil and kernel became things of great price, and much money flowed

into Umuofia.

And even in the matter of religion there was a growing feeling that there

might be something in it after all, something vaguely akin to method in the

overwhelming madness.

This growing feeling was due to Mr. Brown, the white missionary, who was

very firm in restraining his flock from provoking the wrath of the clan.

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Mr. Brown preached against such excess of zeal. Every thing was possible,

he told his energetic flock, but everything was not expedient. And so Mr.

Brown came to be respected even by the clan, because he trod softly on its

faith. He made friends with some of the great men of the clan and on one of

his frequent visits to the neighbouring villages he had been presented with a

carved elephant tusk, which was a sign of dignity and rank. One of the great

men in that village was called Akunna and he had given one of his sons to be

taught the white mans knowledge in Mr. Browns school.

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Question 3.

Womens emancipation and Feminist issues are vividly represented in the post

colonial literature. Examine these issues and trends illustrating your answerwith reference to Grace Nichols poems as well as R. K. Narayans novel

The Painter of Signs.

Your answer may refer to thePoetry and Drama Anthology and the following

extract from R. K. Narayans The Painter of Signs (Part Four):

Ramans aunt left three days ago. For Raman, the house seemed to have

become vast and full of echoes. He diverted himself by peering into every

part of it and planning alterations for Daisys coming. This home on the river

was to be managed by Daisy hereafter no, she disliked the term

housekeeping; she wasnt going to do that. During their evening discussions,

she had quite often remarked You will be as much a housekeeper as Ill be.What does that term mean away? It makes no sense to me. I dont like all

this obsession with a house and the keeping of it. Home was a secondary

matter, the primary one was work.

Preventing conception is the only subject of importance, I suppose! Raman

reflected, but did not utter it. A home, in Daisys view, was only a retreat

from sun and rain, and for sleeping, washing, and depositing ones trunk. Her

possessions were limited to this ideal in some ways, very much like Aunt.

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PART III: Answer One of the following questions. (Your answer

should be within 600 words excluding the quotations.)

Question 4 :

All the three poets quoted below have borne witness to past events. Their

works both magnify the momentous events of history while coping withchallenges within their contemporary political contexts.

Discuss this assumption in relation to extracts quoted below and or with

reference to any other poems by the same authors quoted in the Poetry andDrama Anthology.

Seamus Heaney (From Funeral Rights)

II

Now as news comes in

of each neighbourly murder

we pine for ceremony,

customary rhythms:

the temperate footsteps

of a cortge, winding past

each blinded home.

the whole country tunesto the muffled drumming

of ten thousand engines.

Somnambulant women,

left behind , move

through emptied kitchens

imagining our slow triumph

towards the mounds.

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Anna Akhmatova (from:Requiem 1935-1940)

That moan,

that sudden spurt of womans tears,

shows one distinguished from the rest,

as if theyd knocked her to the ground

and wrenched the heart out of her breast,

then let her go, reeling, alone.Where are they now, my nameless friends

from those two years I spent in hell?

What spectres mock them now, amid

the fury of Siberian snows,

or in the blighted circle of the moon?

To them I cry, Hail and Farewell

March 1940

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The Sentence

The word dropped like a stone

on my still living breast.

Confess: I was prepared,

am somehow ready for the test.

So much to do today:

Kill memory, kill pain,Turn heart into a stone,

And yet prepare to live again.

Not quite. Hot summers feast

brings rumors of carouse.

How long have I foreseen

this brilliant day, this empty house?

Summer, 1939

MIROSLAV HOLUB

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From: FiveMinutes After the Air Raid

In Pilsen,

Twenty-six Station Road,

she climbed to the third floor

up stairs which were all that was left

of the whole house,she opened her door

full on to the sky,

stood gaping over the edge.

For this was the place

The world ended.

QUESTION 5.

J. G. Ballards Empire of the Sun raises questions about therelationship between literature and history. Discuss the historic

perspective of the novel. Include in your answer a comparison

between the general historical facts and how they are represented

through the protagonists eyes.

Write your answer on the following

pages.

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