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II. Answer the following questions in a paragraph. 5 marks each:

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Explain what happened in Hiroshima on 6th August 1945.

What are the three main purposes of studies ? What are the benefits of reading ?
What were the qualities of Lamb’s grandmother ?

How does Chesterton portray Battersea during the times of flood ?

What is Albert Camus’ idea about a true artist ?

How does Achebe sketch the Igbo people ?

How does Pico Iyer connect punctuation marks with road signs ?

What is the main focus of “Come September” ?

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III. Write essays on any two of the following :

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What are the features of Bacon’s prose style ?

How does Chesterton romanticize difficult situations by dwelling on the notion that “an

inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered” ?
Justify the title “Dream Children : A Reverie”.

Bring out the linguistic and socio-cultural aspects of punctuation marks as expressed by
lyer in the essay “In Praise of the Humble Comma”.

(2 x 10 = 20 marks)