BEGC-102 · December 2025 · English
IGNOU BEGC-102 December 2025 Previous Year Question Paper
EUROPEAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE
Structured previous year question paper for BEGC-102, December 2025 session.
Max marks: 100 · Questions: 7 · Sections: 3
Verified: 5 Aug 2026
B. A. (HONOURS) ENGLISH (BAEGH)
Term-End Examination
December, 2025
BEGC-102 : EUROPEAN CLASSICAL
LITERATURE
Time : 3 Hours Maximum Marks : 100
Note : This paper has three Sections —A, B and
C. All Sections are compulsory th ough
there are internal choices within each
Section.
Section—A
Q1.Explain any four of the following passages with reference to the context, giving brief in critical comments (150 words each) : 4×5=20
(a) Goddess, sing me the anger, of Achilles, Peleus’ so n that fatal anger that [ 2 ] BEGC–102 brought countless sorrows on the Greeks, and sent many valiant souls of warriors down to Hades, lea ving their bodies as spoil for d ogs and c arrion birds : f or thus was the mill of Zeus brought to fulfilment.
(b) You are the one hit hardest by the fighting, Hector, you more them all — and all for me, where that I am, and this blind mad Paris.
(c) Then I would not have come to kill my father and marry my mother infamously. Now I am goddess and child of impurity, begetter in the same seed that created my wretched self. [ 3 ] BEGC–102
(d) My one cash he’s promising. He hungers for my gold, Holding bread in one hand and a big rock in the other. Never trust a rich man when his civil to a pauper, When he shakes your hand he really wants to shake you down !
(e) When my good father taught me to be good, Scarecrows he took of living flesh and blood. Thus, if he warned me not to spend but spare ’Twas, See the life that son of Albius leads ! [ 4 ] BEGC–102
(f) after assuming the form of a crone with whitened temples, Wrinkles living her skin, bent back and tottering legs. Adopting an old racked voice, she quickly appeared in the sp itting image of zero, se’mele’s old Epidausian nurse.
Section—B
Q2.Write short notes on any two of the following in about 250 words each : 2×10=20
(a) Peripetia
(b) Unity of Time
(c) Formal verse satire
(d) Stoicism
Section—C
Note : Attempt any three of the following
questions in about 350-400 words each.
3×20=60
Q3.Comment on the ending of the Iliad. [ 5 ]
Q4.Illustrate the use of the three unities with respect to Oedipus Rex.
Q5.Would you agree that Pot of Gold sheds light on the position of women in soci ety ? Substantiate your argument with examples from the text.
Q6.Write a note on the myth of Bacchus and why do you think that there was a clash in worshipping him ?
Q7.Why did Omid’s Metamorphoses have such a powerful impact on subsequent literature and art ? Elaborate.