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Midterm Examination 2025-26 for MA First Sem English Literature at UOK

by Avinash Modi•

Paper codes are given below, and the following questions were asked in this examination, which was held on 8 jan 2026. As we all know, new fresher students find difficulties in finding out what type of question an examiner is going to ask, so it is easier to solve the problem through the sample answer and questions. Thus, I, Avinash Modi, First sem regular student giving you the exact exam paper that was made for our examinations. I hope you will also share these questions with your mates enrolling for masters in English at the University of Kota.

Paper Code 101 ( Tushar sir)

Time is 1 hour and 15 minutes. The maximum marks for this paper are 30. All the questions are compulsory.

Section A

Answer the following questions in 20 to 30 words.

  1. Explain prefix with an example .
  2. Explain suffix with an example.
  3. What do you mean by CV?
  4. Identify the fallacy in the given sentence – “Mr. Bacchan advertises Bikaneri Bhujia hence it must be very tasty and healthy.”
  5. Define Fallacy.

Section B

2. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb

  1. He ………… (fast) four five weeks when they had to summon the doctor.
  2. I won’t go out now as it ……… (rain) and I (not have) an umbrella.
  3. Look at the crowd. I ……..(wonder)what they…… (wait) for.
  4. When I ….. (look) for my passport, I found this old photograph.
  5. As I …. cross the road, I ……(step) on a banana skin and (fall) heavily.
  6. To get home he (have) to go through a field where bad-tempered bull usually……. (graze).
  7. The actors ……………. (arrive) yesterday and …………….. (start) rehearsals early this morning.
  8. I ………………… (grease) my car. That’s why my hands are so dirty.
  9. If petrol pumps attendants go on strike, we (not, have) petrol.
  10. You ………………. (understand) when you are older.

3. You are Sujatha a qualified fashion designer You came across the given advertisement in a newspaper and wish to apply for the position advertised. Write a letter of application along with bio data for the same.

WE ARE HIRING
APPAREL DESIGNER
REQ. QUALIFICATION – Graduation in Fashion Design
Exp. Minimum – Creativity, Computer designing of apparels, aptitude for sewing, business sense, in depth knowledge of fabric drafting.

Apply to the Director, Estella House of fashion 26, MG Road, Kanthapuram.

Paper Code 102 ( Rashmi Madam) Chaucer to Milton

Total marks 30, Time is allocated 1 hour, and all the questions are compulsory to attempt.

Section A

  1. Answer the questions in 20 to 30 words
    • What does the soliloquy “to be or not to be” mean in Hamlet?
    • What is Milton’s main objective in writing Paradise Lost?
    • Why are the travellers going to Canterbury?
    • Who is the next to Saturn in power and crime in Paradise Lost?
    • What is the main theme of the play Hamlet?

Section B

2. Attempt any one question

  1. Discuss Schausser’s technique of characterisation in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
  2. Write the reference to the context
    • All is not lost: the unconquerable will,
      And study of revenge, immortal hate,
      And courage never to submit or yield:
      And what is else not to be overcome?

      or

      B) Discuss Hamlet as a Shakespearean tragedy.

Paper Code 103 ( Neeta Madam)

Section A

Answer the given questions in no more than 20 words

  1. To which is Gray and Collins belong?
  2. State the alternative title of She Stoops to Conquer?
  3. What is an Allegory? Which allegory has been used by Swift in his work?
  4. Say, has he given in vain the heavenly Muse? – Which poem of your syllabus has this line?
  5. According to William Collins Who is Nature Taught?

Section B

2.Attempt any question (Reference to the context)

Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault,
if Memr’y o’er their tomb no trophies raise,
Where thro’ the long-drawn aisle and freeted vault
The pealing anthem swells the note of Praise.

Or

They snatched her instruments of sound,
and as they oft had heard apart,
Sweet lessons or her forceful Art
Each , for madness Rul’d the hour,
would prove his own expressive pow’r

3. h Elaborate the Spider and the Bee episode from the Battle of the Books ( marks 16, word limit is 400 words)

Paper Code 104 ( Jyoti Madam)

The maximum marks are 30, time allocated to attempt these questions is 60 minutes.

Section A

Each question has 5 marks, and at least 100 words for each question.

  1. Who was Ozymandias? What is the message of the poem?
  2. Comment on the horror elements in the poem Kubla Khan?
  3. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” John keats Poem Lines, Comment on these lines.

Section B

  1. Write the summary of the poem” The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (15 Marks, 350 Words)

    Or

    How is lord Byron a poet of nature? Critically Analyse.