OR
Why is marriage better to men? (Marriage as a Social Institution)
c) What route did the Persona in the poem 'I was My Own Route'
prefer? Why?
d) Why does the world need more wisdom than knowledge in the future ?.
(Knowledge and Wisdom)
OR
What impression did the author have about the library at The Albert Einstein
College of Medicine? (On Libraries)
e) What explanation related to the love letter helped the Famous Actress to
convince the Earnest Young Woman? (A matter of Husbands)
3. Write long answers to the following questions in about 150 words each.[2x5=10]
a) The writer
mentions the eyes of different places with their significance.
What are those eyes and
what do they symbolize ? Do you also agree
with their significance as
mentioned in the story? Give reasons.
(The Half Closed Eyes of the Buddha and the Slowly Sinking Sun)
OR
Describe the story 'An Old Man With Enormous Wings' as a story of
realism and supernatural elements.
b) Explain the following lines of the poem, The Awakening Age' with reference
to the context.
O ye who travel the meridian line,
May the vision of a new world with in you shine.
May eyes that have lived with poverty's rage,
See through to the glory of the awakening age.