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MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH
Term-End Examination

December, 2005

MEG-6 : AMERICAN LITERATURE

Time: 3 hours
Maximum Marks: 100

1. Write short notes on any two of the following : (2x10=20)
(a) Literary Style of the Puritans
(b) The Harlem Renaissance
(c) Open-endedness in The Scarlet Letter
(d) John Dickinson's "Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania"

2. Write a critical note on "The Emperor of lcecream". (20)

3. Discuss Pecola Breedlove as the central character of the novel The Bluest Eye. (20)

4. Examine the salient features of a well-made play and a problem play. (20)

5. Compare and contrast Hemingway and Faulkner as short story writers. (20)

6. Discuss the salient characteristics of the poetry of Emily Dickinson, illustrating them from the poems you have read. (20)

7. Examine the theme and technique of "A Clean Well Lighted Place". (20)

8. Examine The Hairy Ape as a tragi-comedy. (20)