BEGC-111 · December 2024 · English
IGNOU BEGC-111 December 2024 Previous Year Question Paper
WOMEN’S WRITING
Structured previous year question paper for BEGC-111, December 2024 session.
Max marks: 100 · Questions: 10 · Sections: 3
Verified: 5 Aug 2026
B. A. (HONOURS) ENGLISH
(BAEGH)
Term-End Examination
December, 2024
BEGC-111 : WOMEN’S WRITING
Time : 3 Hours Maximum Marks : 100
Note :
(i) There are three Sections—A, B and C.
(ii) All Sections are compulsory. There are
internal choices in each Section.
Section—A
Q1.Explain with reference to the context any four of the following (100-150 words each) : 4×5=20
(a) For the akshara you scratched on the walls so furtively, the akshara you tried to match With the sounds you heard They've quickened now, with life. [ 2 ] BEGC–111 Even as you wash rice, fish, vegetables Even as you peel, cut, bake, stir and cook The thieving letters on the wall will take wings.
(b) I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, eyes— I wonder if it weighs like Mine— Or has an Easier size.
(c) I wonder if it hurts to live— And if They have to try— And whether—could They choose between— It would not be—to die—
(d) The grieved—are may—I am told— There is the various Cause— Death—is but one—and comes but once— And only nails the eyes— [ 3 ] BEGC–111
(e) The language I speak Becomes mine, its distortions, its queerness All mine, mine alone. It is half English, half Indian, funny perhaps, but it is honest, It is as human as I am human, don’t You see ? It voices my joys, my longings, my Hopes, and it is useful to me as cawing
Section—B
Note : Answer any four of the following questions
(250-300 words each) .
Q2.Define Autobiography. Bring out Pandita Ramabai’s contribution to Autobiography.
Q3.Comment on Kamala Das as an autobiographical poet. 10 [ 4 ]
Q4.How does shifting the focus from Rama to Sita in Chandrabati Ramayana alter the storyline ?
Q5.Discuss the central idea of the poem ‘Don’t Wash’.
Q6.“ ‘Neither a Shadow nor a Reflection’ is an assertion of every woman’s right to be like Krishna and behave as the situation requires for a woman is a thinking and feeling person, not just a lifeless image. ” What makes the women from the myths exemplary ?
Section—C
Note : Attempt any two of the following questions
(400-500 words each).
Q7.Write about Katherine Mansfield 's prose style as reflected in A Cup of Tea. 20 [ 5 ] B
Q8.Discuss how Gilbert Clandon’s reflections foreshadow the real circumstances surrounding Angela’s death. Does he fully understand the implications of her diary ?
Q9.Write a detail ed essay on the social, cultural and religious tendencies of the latter half of the nineteenth century, with focus on the status of women in the late nineteenth century American society.
Q10.“In Sunlight on a Broken Column , the broken column represents fading culture and sunlight signifies the light cast on this fading way of life.” Elaborate.