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8.

William Wilberforce.

9.

English society between the wars.

Register Number :
Name of the Candidate :

5045
B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, 2010

10. The United Nations Organisations.

( ENGLISH )
( FIRST YEAR )
( PART - III )
( PAPER - I )

530. SOCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND

( Including Double Degree )
December ]

[ Time : 3 Hours
Maximum : 100 Marks

I.

Write essays on any FOUR choosing ONE

from each Group :
(420 =80)
GROUP - A

1. Explain the major causes of the Reformation.

2. Bring out the social effects of the dissolution
of Monasteries.
3. Elizabethan Theatre and audience.
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4. The use of prose and verse in the plays of
Shakespeare.
GROUP - B
5. Puritanism was the religion of all those who
wished to purify the rituals of the established
Church from the taint of Roman Catholicism.Discuss.
6. The role of the whigs and the Torics in the
coffee - houses.
7. The Restoration audience.

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GROUP - D
13. Briefly explain the Parliamentary Reforms.
14. Explain the invention of electric telegraph.
15. The development of science and technology in
the 20th Century.
16. Describe the socialogical outlook of the
English society between the wars.
II. Write short notes on any
following :

FIVE of the
(5 4 =20)

1.

Elizabethan literature.

2.

New England Colonies.

3.

Wills coffee-house.

9. Briefly explain the American Colonies.

4.

Morality and the Restoration theatre.

10. Navigation Act.

5.

Industrial Revolution.

11. Bring out the causes of the French Revolution.

6.

12. The development of medical science in Victorian

England.

Science and technology in the 19th

Century.

7.

French Revolution and English society.

8. The display of art and culture in the Age of

Dr. Johnson.
GROUP - C

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