AZM-E-NAU Educational Complex
Date: 30-08-2021 Class: B.A III Paper: English
Question 1: Explain with reference to the context any THREE of the followings extracts.
| a. When everybody is praising the sun, The rebel remarks on the need for rain. | b. Standing upon the shore of all we know We Linger for moment doubtfully , Then with a song upon o lips sail we Across the harbor bar—no chart to show No light to warn of rock which lie below, But Let us yet put forth courageously. |
| c. When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charact’ry Hold like rich garners the full-ripened grain; | |
| d. Are you afraid? Yes? Alit No. you don’t get out of it! You come with me! I shan’t have any peace until I’ve made a hole in your forehead. .. That forehead which I hate so much! Are you afraid? | |
| e. Alt, but mustn’t think that after four years of war one has quit the same ideas about the sanctity of human life. How could one?  | |
Q. #2: Attempt any TWO of the following questions (150 words each)
a) Ustad Mangu in the New Constitution is the voice of the suppressed people of India. Explain the statement.
b) Describe the life and feelings of Matilda after she lost her borrowed necklace at the Minister’s ball.
c) ‘The Boy Comes Home’ by A.A Mime is a play which registers the effects of war on human beings. Elaborate
Q. #3: Attempt any TWO of the following questions (130 words each) (20)
a) What kind of life will the protagonist enjoy if he were the king of Tartary?
b) The poetess Elizabeth Bishop in her poem ‘One Art’ stresses upon the reader to learn the art of losing things. Do you agree with her?
c) Discuss the poem Kubla Khan as a fantasy.
Section B
Q #4: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given at the end.
Nations, the basic principle to whose collective life is territorial, need not be afraid to Rationalism; to us it is dangerous foe, since it aims at the very principle which gives us communal Life, and alone makes our collective existence intelligible. Rationalism is essentially analysis and consequently threatens to disintegrate the communal synthesis achieved by the force to religious idée is undoubtedly true that we can meet Rationalism on its own ground. But the point which I wish to impress on you s that the dogma, i.e., the point of universal agreement on which our communal solidarity depends, has essentially a national rather than intellectual significance for us. To try to cover religion into a system to speculative knowledge is, in my opinion, absolutely useless, and even absurd, since the object of religion is not thinking about life; its main purpose is to build up a coherent social whole for the gradual elevation of life.
1) Which are the nations who need not be afraid of Rationalism? 2
2) Why is Rationalism a dangerous foe for the Muslim community’? 2
3) What is the true nature of our religious dogma? 2
4) Why does the writer think that speculative knowledge is absolutely useless? 2
5) What is the main object of religion according to the writer? 2
6) Make a précis of the above passage. 15
Q. # 5: Write a dialogue between father and son on generation gap. OR
Translate the following passage into English
شمالی پنجاب کے راجپوتوں نے مغر ب سے آنے والے قبائلیوں سے محفوظ رہنےکے لیے قلعوں کا ایک سلسلہ تعمیر کر رکھا تھا۔ ان میں روات کا قلعہ بھی شامل تھا۔ یہ قلعہ سولھوی صدی کے شروع میں تعمیر کیا گیا تھا۔ یہ اک ٹیلے پر واقع ہے۔ یہ قلعہ بے ہنگم طریقے سے بنے ہوئے گھروں میں گھرا ہوا ۔ اس کے باوجود یہاں سے دریائے سون کی راولپنڈی تک پھیلی ہوئی وادی کے خوبصورت مناظر دیکھائی دیتے ہیں۔
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