LITERATURE IN ENGLISH S6
- Prose…../20pts
At Aloo’s answer, his eyes widened. “Henh?” he said. “All A’s?” “Yes,” replied Aloo, a little too meekly.
Mr Velji flipped the papers one by one, cursorily at first. Then he went over them more carefully. He looked at the long visa form with the carbon copies neatly bound behind the original; he read over the friendly letter from the Foreign Student Adviser; he was charmed by the letters of invitation from the fraternities. Finally, he looked up, a little humbled. “The boy is right,” he said. “The university is good, and they are giving him a bursary. I congratulate you.”
“But what should I do?” asked Mother anxiously. “What is your advice? Tell us what we should do.”
“Well,” said Mr Velji, “it would be good for his education.” He raised his hand to clear his throat. Then he said, a little slowly, “But if you send him, you will lose your son. It’s a far place, America,” he concluded, wiping his hands briskly at the finished business. “Now what will you have – tea, orange squash?
His wife appeared magically to take orders.
“And the rich kids go every year and they are not lost,” muttered Aloo bitterly as we walked back home. Mother was silent.
That night she was at the sewing machine and Aloo was on the cough, reading. The radio was turned low and through the open front door a gentle breeze blew in to cool the sitting room. I was standing at the door. The banana tree and its offspring rustled outside, a car zoomed on the road, throwing shadows on the neighbouring houses. A couple out for a stroll, murmuring, came into sight over the uneven hedge, groups of boys or girls chattered before dispersing for the night. The intermittent buzz of an electric motor escaped from Mother’s sewing machine. It was a little darker where she sat at the other end of the room from us.
1.”If you send him, you will lose your son.” This statement means……………….2pts
a.your son will change behaviours.
b.your son will escape.
c.your son will become an alien.
d.your son will not study.
2. Who is Mr. Velji? 2pts
3. What was Aloo going to do in America? 2pts
4. In five sentences talk about Aloo’s family. 4pts
5. Explain the benefits of studying in America or Europe when you are from your country. 10pts
- Poetry 15pts
There’s something I’ve been missing
I can’t hold my head up high
It’s getting really hard to laugh
And realize (that you are already gone)
These tears always paint me
My sins are constantly judging me
I cannot run, I cannot hide
It’s killing me
And dragging me down
I can feel your eyes are watching
But I can’t hold my head up high
It’s getting really hard to understand
The way you leave me
The way you leave me
And I’m still here
Standing on this endless road
Never had a chance to say thanks
Never had a chance to say goodbye
So much sadness
What happened to happiness?
Life is too short for questions
And it’s hard to find the answers
Mesmerised by the light you exposed
Igniting a fire inside my soul
This strength runs through my vein
Wish I could bring you here again
Mesmerised by the light you exposed
Igniting a fire inside my soul
Inside my soul
Start a new beginning
Back on the track and learning
Until we meet again
Until we meet again
Until we meet again
1.Comment on the form of the poem. 3pts
2. Who do you guess is persona? 2pts
3. Identify examples of poetic devices used in the poem. 4pts
4. What effect is created by sound patterns in a poem? 3pts
5. What is the type of poem? Give reasons. 3pts
SECTION B: NOVELS ………..35pts
A.General knowledge about novels..10pts
1.What do you understand by the term “novel”? 1pt
2. Write any four features of a novel. 2pts
3. Write three titles of novels you read in class and the main character in each. 6pts
4. Which novel has a character who is also its narrator? 1pt
B.
EITHER: Mine Boy……..15pts
Xuma looked at the Red One and did not like him. His eyes were hard and brooding. No laughter in them like in
Chris’s. And his mouth was hard. A just one but a hard one, Xuma decided.
He was a little shorter than Chris but broader. His chin pushed out and his eyes were blue. And because of his mass
of red hair he was called the Red One.
For a long time he stared at Xuma without saying a word, then he turned to the white man who had told Xuma to push
the truck:
“This is my boy, and if I were you I shouldn’t try that again.”
His voice was deep and low. He turned to Xuma: “I cannot make the click in your name come right so I’ll call you Zuma. All right?”
Xuma nodded. He wondered if the Red One ever smiled.
Chris smiled at Xuma, and the two white men walked away. Somewhere the five-thirty whistle blew. . . .
For Xuma the day was strange. Stranger than any day he had ever known. There was the rumbling noise and the shouting and the explosions and the tremblings of the earth.
And always the shouting indunas driving the men on to work.
And over all those was the bitter eyes and hardness of the white man who had told him to push the truck when he
did not know how.
But these were not the worst. These were confusing and frightening. It was the strangeness of it that terrified him.
And the look in the eyes of the other men who worked with him. He had seen that look before when he was at home on the farms.
1.Where and when does this passage take place? 2pts
2. What is the theme being portrayed? 2pts
3. Identify and copy one literary device used in the passage. 3pts
4. What difference is conveyed about the characters in the extract? 4pts
5. Discuss the characters of Maisy, Eliza, Leah and Ma Plank. 4pts
OR: THE PEARL ……….15pts
The late moon arose before the first rooster crowed. Kino opened his eyes in the darkness, for he sensed movement near him, but he did not move. Only his eyes searched the darkness, and in the pale light of the moon that crept through the holes in the brush house Kino saw Juana arise silently from beside him. He saw her move toward the fireplace. So carefully did she work that he heard only the lightest sound when she moved the fireplace stone. And then like a shadow she glided toward the door. She paused for a moment beside the hanging box where Coyotito lay, then for a second she was black in the doorway, and then she was gone.
And rage surged in Kino. He rolled up to his feet and followed her as silently as she had gone, and he could hear her quick footsteps going toward the shore. Quietly he tracked her, and his brain was red with anger. She burst clear out of the brush line and stumbled over the little boulders toward the water, and then she heard him coming and she broke into a run. Her arm was up to throw when he leaped at her and caught her arm and wrenched the pearl from her. He struck her in the face with his clenched fist and she fell among the boulders, and he kicked her in the side. In the pale light he could see the little waves break over her, and her skirt floated about and clung to her legs as the water receded.
Kino looked down at her and his teeth were bared. He hissed at her like a snake, and Juana stared at him with wide unfrightened eyes, like a sheep before the butcher. She knew there was murder in him, and it was all right; she had accepted it, and she would not resist or even protest. And then the rage left him and a sick disgust took its place. He turned away from her and walked up the beach and through the brush line. His senses were dulled by his emotion.
1.Pick the following from the excerpt: 3pts
a.Two Similes
b. Repetition
c. Characters
2. What is the conflict in the passage? 2pts
3. What happens immediately after this scene? 3pts
4. Explain two cases of betrayal in The Pearl. 4pts
5. Is the novel a tragedy? Why yes? 3pts
- ANIMAL FARM 10pts
Discuss two themes in Animal Farm
SECTION D: PLAYS……../30pts
THE CRUCIBLE 15pts
Hale: Ah! The stoppage of prayer – that is strange. I’ll speak further on that with you.
Giles: I’m not sayin’ she’s touched the Devil, now, but I’d admire to know what
books she reads and why she hides them. ‘ She’ll not answer me, y’ see.
Hale: Aye, we’ll discuss it. To all: Now mark me, if the Devil is in her you will
witness some frightful wonders in this room, so please to keep your wits about
you. Mr. Putnam, stand close in case she flies. Now, Betty, dear, will you sit
up? Putnam comes in closer, ready-handed. Hale sits Betty up, but she hangs
limp in his hands. Hmmm. He observes her carefully. The others watch
breathlessly. Can you hear me? I am John Hale, minister of Beverly. I have
come to help you, dear. Do you remember my two little girls in Beverly? She does not stir in his hands.
Parris, in fright: How can it be the Devil? Why would he choose my house to
strike? We have all manner of licentious . people in the village!
Hale: What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the
best the Devil wants, and who is better than the minister?
Giles: That’s deep, Mr, Parris, deep, deep!
Paaris, with resolution now: Betty! Answer Mr. Hale! Betty!
Hale: Does someone afflict you, child? It need not be a woman, mind you, or a man.
Perhaps some bird invisible to others comes to you – perhaps a pig, a mouse, or
any beast at all. Is there some figure bids you fly? The child remains limp in his hands. In silence he lays her back on the
pillow Now, holding out his hands toward her, he intones: In nomine Domini Sabaoth sui filiique ite ad infernos. She does not stir. He turns to Abigail, his eyes narrowing. Abigail, what sort of dancing were you doing with her in the forest?
Abigail: Why – common dancing is all.
Parris: I think I ought to say that I – I saw a kettle in the grass where they were dancing.
Abigail: That were only soup.
Hale: What sort of soup were in this kettle, Abigail?
Abigail: Why, it were beans – and lentils, I think, and –
Hale: Mr. Parris, you did not notice, did you, any living thing in the kettle? A mouse,
perhaps, a spider, a frog – ?
Parris, fearfully: I – do believe there were some movement – in the soup.
Abigail: That jumped in, we never put it in!
Hale, (quickly): What jumped in?
Abigail: Why, a very little frog jumped –
Parris: A frog, Abby!
Hale, (grasping Abigail): Abigail, it may be your cousin is dying. Did you call the Devil
last night?
Abigail: I never called him! Tituba, Tituba…
Parris, (blanched): She called the Devil?
Hale: I should like to speak with Tituba,
Parris: Goody Ann, will you bring her up? (Mrs, Putnam exits.)
Hale: How did she call him?
1.Where does the scene take place?2pts
2. What is the relationship among the characters in the extract? 3pts
3. Why is Reverend Parris worried? 4pts
4. What is the root cause of the conflict between Abigail and Elizabeth Proctor? 3pts
5. What theme is portrayed through the actions of Abigail against Elizabeth? 3pts
EITHER: THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE 15pts
Discuss five character traits of Grusha.
OR: AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE 15pts
What do you know about the following characters?
a.Morten Kiil
b.Aslaksen
c.Captain Horster
d.Katherine
e.Hovstad