B1
What do you know about the Exclusion Crisis?
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Part B · Short Questions — Previous Year Questions
2015–2024
80 questions · 🔥 marks repeated ones · ⭐ marks the most important ones ·
Part B · Short Questions80 questions
Part B · Short Questions80
B2
Why was Absalom hesitant to revolt against his father?
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B3
Write down the significance of the title of the poem 'The Rape of the Lock'.
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B4
"Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."-Explain with reference to the context.
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B5
Write a note on the wit and humour in Congreve's 'The Way of the World'.
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B6
"I like her with her faults, I like her for her faults."-Explain.
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B7
What elements of romantic comedy do you find in She Stoops to Conquer?
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B8
Why did Hastings and Miss Neville plan to elope?
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B9
Write a sort note on Popish Plot.
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B10
What is the purpose behind Dryden's writing of 'Absalom and Achitophel'?
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B11
What are the features of Restoration Comedy? Illustrate it with reference to 'The Way of the World'.
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B12
Write a short note on Sir Rowland.
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B13
What does Belinda's Guardian Sylph warn her at the beginning of the day?
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B14
What did the Baron desire observing the locks of Belinda?
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B15
Why does Tony misdirect Marlow and Hastings?
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B16
What is 'sentimental comedy'?
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B17
Write a short note on the Proviso Scene.
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B18
What is a comedy of manners?
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B19
Why was Absalom unwilling to revolt against his father?
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B20
How does Dryden ridicule the contemporary English society in "Absalom and Achitophel"?
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B21
How does Tony Lumpkin take revenge on his mother?
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B22
Write a short note on the comedy of intrigues.
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B23
How does Belinda wake up from her bed in the morning?
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B24
Explain the following: "This to disclose is all thy guardian can: Beware of all, but most beware of man!"
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B25
"I like her with her faults, I like her for her faults."-Explain with reference to the context.
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B26
What does Mirabell contrive against Lady Wisfort?
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B27
How did Belinda win the game of Ombre at Hampton court?
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B28
How did the poet console Belinda finally?
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B29
Why does Tony misguide Marlow and Hastings?
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B30
Give an account of the casket episode in She Stoops to Conquer.
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B31
How is Zimri an unqualified ruler?
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B32
What is the purpose of Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel?
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B33
Write a short note on Popish Plot.
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B34
Identify the political personages in the poem 'Absalom and Achitophel'.
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B35
Comment on the character of Lady Wishfort.
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B36
Write a short note on 'Comedy of Manners'.
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B37
Explain the following: "I like her with her faults, I like her for her faults".
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B38
Give an account of the Casket episode.
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B39
Describe Belinda's toilette.
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B40
Why did Hastings and Miss Neville plan to elope?
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B41
Why was Absalom unwilling to revolt against his father?
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B42
What is the purpose of Dryden's 'Absalom and Achitophel'?
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B43
What are the features of Restoration Comedy?
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B44
"Female frailty! We must all come to it, if we live to be old, and feel the craving of a false appetite when the true is decayed."- Explain.
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B45
Comment on the opening of 'The Rape of the Lock'.
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B46
How does Belinda wake up from her sleep in the morning?
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B47
Why does Tony take revenge on his mother?
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B48
Describe Mr. Hardcastle's love of old things.
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B49
Identify the political personages in the poem 'Absalom and Achitophel'.
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B50
Write a short note on Shimel.
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B51
Comment on the character of Lady Wishfort.
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B52
Write a short note on comedy of manners.
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B53
Describe Belinda's toilette.
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B54
Describe the game of ombre at Hampton Court.
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B55
Give an account of the casket episode.
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B56
Why did Hastings and Miss Neville plan to elope?
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B57
How does Dryden satirize the contemporary English people in "Absalom and Achitophel"?
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B58
Why was Absalom unwilling to revolt against his father?
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B59
Write a short note on Mirabel.
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B60
Explain the following: "I like her with her faults, I like her for her faults."
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B61
Write a short note on Clarissa.
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B62
Why does Tony misdirect Marlow and Hastings?
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B63
How does Belinda wake up from her sleep?
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B64
What is a 'sentimental comedy'?
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B65
What view of life do Mirabell and Millament present through the 'Proviso Scene'?
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B66
Describe the two hand maidens of goddess Spleen-Ill-Nature and Affection.
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B67
How did Achitophel manage to unite all the 'malcontents' in the land.
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B68
How does Marlow confess his modesty to Hastings?
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B69
How does Belinda set off for Hampton Court Palace?
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B70
Who are the political personages in the poem 'Absalom and Achitophel'?
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B71
Why did Hastings and Miss Neville plan to elope?
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B72
Write short note on any one of the followings: (i) Comedy of Manners. (ii) Comedy of Intrigues.
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B73
What does Thomas gray say in the epitaph about himself?
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B74
What is a sentimental comedy?
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B75
What might the dead rustics become if they got proper opportunities?
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B76
Write a note on 'Cabal night'.
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B77
Explain the following: The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth ever gave, A waits alike the inevitable hown, The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
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B78
Describe Belinda's Toilette?
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B79
What are the epic elements in "Mac Flecnoe"?
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B80
Describe Mr. Hardcastle's love of old things.
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