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European Literature Upto 19Th Century Question Paper

European Literature Upto 19Th Century

Course:Bachelor Of Arts In Literature

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2009

KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2009/2010
FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR
OF ARTS AND BACHELOR OF EDUCATION

ALT 307: EUROPEAN LITERATURE UPTO 19TH CENTURY

DATE: Tuesday 29th December, 2009
TIME: 4.30 p.m ? 6.30 p.m

INSTRUCTIONS:
Answer any THREE questions
1.
? Alexander Pushkin?s work Queen of Spades discusses the role of gambling. With
adequate illustrations say whether you agree with the statement.
2.
In what ways can you say that Shakespeare?s Othello proves that man is

responsible for his own destiny?
3.
Discuss the centrality of material wants in Honore Balzac?s Old Guriot
4.
Deriving your illustration from the text show the extent to which Happy ever

after by leo Tolstoy can be said to be autobiographical.
5.
Discuss the theme of Love in relation to the family as an institution showing clearly
whether Emma Bovary deserved what happens to her in Gustav Flaubert?s Madam
Bovary.
6.
Read the following poem carefully then critically respond to it in terms of Language,

style, meaning and implications.

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LITTLE BLACK BOY

My mother bore me in the southern wild,

And I am black, but O! my soul is white;

White as an angel is the English child:

But I am black as if bereav?d1of light.

My mother taught me underneath a tree

5

And sitting down before the heat of day,

She took me on her lap and kissed me,

And pointing to the east began to say.

Look on the rising sun: there God does live

And gives his light, and gives his heat away.

And flowers and trees and beasts and men receive 10

Comfort in morning joy in the noon day.

And we are put on earth a little space, 2

That we may learn to bear the beams of love,

And these black bodies and this sun- burnt face 15

Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.

For when our souls have learn?d the heat to bear

The cloud will vanish we shall hear his voice.
Saying:
come
out
from
the grove my love & care,

And round my golden tent like lambs rejoice. 20

Thus did my mother say and kissed me,

And thus I say to little English boy.

When I from block and he from white cloud free,
And
round
the
tent
of
God like lambs we joy:

I?ll
shade
him
from
the heat till he can bear, 25

To lean in joy upon our fathers knee.

And then I? ll stand and stroke his silver hair,

And be like him and he will then love me.

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