Name: Santanu
Email: santanu53@gmail.com

WEST BENGAL SCHOOL SERVICE COMMISSION-2012
ENGLISH (PASS)
SUBJECT CODE-47
1. Why does Ulysses consider his people to be a savage race in Tennyson’s poem by the same name?
2. what is the poet’s prayer to the Skylark in the poem To a Skylark?
3. In Ode to a Nightingale what does keats contrast with the song of the Nightingale? Is the song a permanent or temporary release from suffering?
4. what are the ‘strange fits of passion’ that Wordsworth has ‘known’?
5.”Since now at length my fate I know.”-Who is the speaker? what is his fate? what last thing does he wish for and how does he compare his fate with that of others?
6. How does the poet build up a supernatural atmosphere in The Listeners?
7. what according to yeats, are the differences between himself and the wild swans?
8.”I am the enemy you killed my friend.”-explain the line with reference to its context.
9. How does Hardy describe nature in Darkling Thrush?
10. From which mythology has Shelley borrowed the idea of “destroyer and preserver” in Ode to the West Wind? Who is the “destroyer and preserver” in the poem?
11. What is the significance of the title She Stoops To Conquer?
12.”Yeas!Thats Don Quixote….”-Who is referred to as Don Quixote in Shaw’s play? And why?
13. In Justice which literary reference does Walter cite to prove his point?
14.What does the expression,” After all he only got what he deserved”, mean in the short story The Lotus Eater?
15. Why are jim and Della called the Magi?
16. How did Arsat’s brother die in Conrad’s story The Lagon ?
17.”…..both the children gradually grew fainter….”Why did the “children” grow fainter in Lamb’s essay? Who was their mother?
18. What, according to Hill, are the principles of good writing?
19. Sketch the character of Mrs. Thurlow as presented by bates in The ox?
20. Write a paragraph (50 words) on the ideals of Swami Vivekananda.
21. Fill in the blanks with articles and prepositions:
(a) There were___ good many caravans scattered___.
(b)He looked___ at___ clouds and wished it would rain.
22. Do as directed.
(a)He was too tired to walk.(split the sentence).
(b)Mr. Bose is rich. He is an honest man.(make a compound sentence).
23. Give the noun forms of the following words:
(a) assume, (b)begin, (c)compare, (grow).
24. Give the adjective forms of the following words:
(a)badly, (b)awfully, (c)ferocity, (d)unjustly.
25. Change the voice:
(a)She seems to be overburdened by the work.
(b)We visited the Agra fort last year.
26. Make sentences with the following:
(a)Work out, (b) Bring about.
27. Change into indirect speech:
(a)He said to me, ”I have often told you not to play with fire.”
(b)The police said to us, ” where are you going at this hour of the night.”
28.Do as directed.
(a)As soon as the guests had seated themselves the Minister arrived.(use ‘no sooner’)
(b)He has the most wonderful house at the town.(turn into negative sentence).
29. Replace the underlined words with appropriate phrasal verb:
(a)He has stopped smoking.
(b)The police have promised to investigate the matter.
30. Identify the clause and indicate its nature:
(a)He says that he won’t go.
(b)As soon he heard the news he wrote to me.