BEGE-141 · June 2025 · English
IGNOU BEGE-141 June 2025 Previous Year Question Paper
UNDERSTANDING PROSE
Structured previous year question paper for BEGE-141, June 2025 session.
Max marks: 100 · Questions: 9
Verified: 5 Aug 2026
BACHELOR IN ENGLISH HONOURS
(CBCS) (BAEGH)
Term-End Examination
June, 2025
BEGE-141 : UNDERSTANDING PROSE
Time : 3 Hours Maximum Marks : 100
Note : Answer any five questions. All questions
carry equal marks. Yours answer should
be in approximately 500 words each,
unless specified otherwise.
Q1.Write short notes on any two of the following in about 250 words each : 2×10=20
(a) Descriptive prose
(b) Forms of prose [ 2 ] BEGE–141
(c) Difference between biography and autobiography
(d) What is a speech ?
Q2.Summarize the main ideas given in Jawaharlal Nehru's The Quest of Man.
Q3.“ ‘Shooting an Elephant ’ reveals the evil effects of imperialism on the rulers (narrator) and the ruled (the Burme se people).” Discuss.
Q4.“Chekov's story 'Misery' deals with human insensitivity to other people's grief. ” Do you agree ? Give a reasoned answer.
Q5.Outline the horrors of the Holocaust as can be perceived through Anne Frank's diary.
Q6.Write a detailed note on Bertrand Russell's relationship with his grandmothers, Lady Russell and Lady Stan ley, as seen from his Autobiography.
Q7.Discuss Strachey's technique as a biographer from your reading of the excerpt from Queen Victoria.
Q8.Discuss Laurence's commit tment to social causes as seen in her speech "My Final Hour".
Q9.Write a note on Bill Aitken's observations about the cultural divide between the North and the South from your reading of Travels by a Lesser Line.