IGNOU BEGC-105 December 2024 Previous Year Question Paper

Q1.The medieval navigators rise before me, The w orld of 1492, with its aw aken’d enterprise, Something swelling in humanity now like the sap of the earth in spring. [ 2 ]

Q2.We passed before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground– The roof was scarcely visible– The cornice–in the ground–

Q3.Buffalo Bill opens a pawn shop on the reservation right acr oss the border from the liquor store and he stays open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and the Indians come running in with jewelry television sets, a VCR a full -length beaded buckskin outfit

Q4.My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, Its voyages used, and done, From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won; [ 3 ]

Q5.Write a note on the realism in American Drama.

Q6.Write a character sketch of Joe Keller in All My Sons.

Q7.Examine the structure of the novel The Scarlet Letter.

Q8.Trace the development of s hort fiction in the 20th century America.

Q9.Write a critical appreciation of the poem ‘Because I Could Not Stop for Death’.

Q10.Discuss All My Sons as a modern tragedy. [ 4 ]

Q11.Examine the narrative technique and point of view in The Scarlet Letter.

Q12.Critically evaluate the poetry of Ralph Waldo Emerson in the light of the poems prescribed in your course.