BLS LLB 5 Years Sem 1 English 1 2023-24 ATKT 75/25 Question Paper - Mumbai University | munotes

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SECTION I - Q.1.a) Answer any four of the following in two sentences only (08 marks)

1. Q1 "It is enthroned in the hearts of kings; it is an attribute to God himself." Identify the speaker of the above quotation? What is being referred as an attribute to God himself?
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2. Q2 "I have other testimony -----and better." Who is the speaker? Which testimony is being referred here?
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3. Q3 "Another book that I have cherished is 'Man the Unknown' by Dr. Alexis Carrel, a doctor turned philosopher and a Nobel Laureate." Identify the speaker of above quotation? What is the central theme of the book?
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4. Q4 "Let us reflect in another way, and we shall see that there is great reason to hope that death is a good for one of two things" Identify the speaker of above quotation? Write about interpretation of death by the speaker?
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5. Q5 "I couldn't help taking to the little thing and being anxious about it." What is this little thing and in which chapter does it appear?
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SECTION II - Q.1.b) Do as directed (04 marks)

1. Q6 She said, "How can I, a girl, who cannot ride or use sword or lance, be of any help? Rather would I stay at home and spin beside my dear mother?" (Convert the direct speech in to the indirect speech.) 2 marks
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2. Q7 Your sister cooks well. (Add question tag) (01)
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3. Q8 The manager will give you a ticket. (Change the voice) (01)
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SECTION III - Q.2) Write short notes on any two of the following (12 marks)

1. Q9 Character-sketch of John Franting.
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2. Q10 How and why does the Ku Klux Klan get involved in the case?
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3. Q11 Comment on O'Henry's presentation of Soapy?
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4. Q12 According to Bacon, what is the function of judges?
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SECTION IV - Q.3.a) Application or letter (06 marks)

1. Q13 Write an application enclosing your biodata for the position of Asst. Professor in a renowned National Law University.
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2. Q14 Write a letter of complaint to the municipal authority of your area regarding the infrequent supply of water in your area.
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SECTION V - Q.3.c) Precis or speech (06 marks)

1. Q15 Make the precise of the following in about 50 words and give the suitable title for the same. To present a general view of the Common Law, other tools are needed besides logic. It is something to show that the consistency of a system requires a particular result, but it is not all. The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience. The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow-men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed. The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics. In order to know what it is, we must know what it has been, and what it tends to become. We must alternately consult history and existing theories of legislation. But the most difficult labor will be to understand the combination of the two into new products at every stage. The substance of the law at any given time pretty nearly corresponds, so far as it goes, with what is then understood to be convenient; but its form and machinery, and the degree to which it is able to work out desired results, depend very much upon its past. In Massachusetts today, while, on the one hand, there are a great many rules which are quite sufficiently accounted for by their manifest good sense, on the other, there are some which can only be understood by reference to the infancy of procedure among the German tribes, or to the social condition of Rome under the Decemvirs. I shall use the history of our law so far as it is necessary to explain a conception or to interpret a rule, but no further. In doing so there are two errors equally to be avoided both by writer and reader. One is that of supposing, because an idea seems very familiar and natural to us, that it has always been so. Many things which we take for granted have had to be laboriously fought out or thought out in past times. The other mistake is the opposite one of asking too much of history. We start with man full grown. It may be assumed that the earliest barbarian whose practices are to be considered, had a good many of the same feelings and passions as ourselves.
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2. Q16 Write a speech to welcome the chief guest Adv. Ujjwal Nikam who has been invited to inaugurate Moot-Court Competition in your college.
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SECTION VI - Q.4) Answer any three of the following questions and illustrate your answer with reference to the text (39 marks)

1. Q17 Critically analyze Portia's role as a lawyer in The Merchant of Venice.
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2. Q18 Comment on Puddn'head Wilson's defense of the Twins.
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3. Q19 Discuss Socrates defense of himself at his trial.
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4. Q20 Explain the story of Steven as narrated by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
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5. Q21 What is the main theme of the novel 'A Time to kill'.
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