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ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE P2
HIGHER GRADE
2014
MARKS: 100
TIME: 2½ hours
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INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION
1. Answer FIVE questions in all: THREE in SECTION A, ONE in SECTION B
and ONE in SECTION C as follows:
SECTION A: POETRY [40 MARKS]
Answer THREE questions: Answer QUESTION 1 OR QUESTION 2 AND any
TWO of QUESTIONS 3, 4, 5 and 6.
SECTION B: DRAMA [30 MARKS]
Answer ONE question.
SECTION C: NOVEL [30 MARKS]
Answer ONE question.
2. Your answers to SECTION B (DRAMA) and SECTION C (NOVEL) MUST
comprise ONE ESSAY and ONE CONTEXTUAL answer.
3. Do NOT attempt to read through the entire paper. Refer to the TABLE OF
CONTENTS on page 3 for a breakdown of the selection of setworks. Mark the
numbers of the questions set on work you have studied during the year.
4. Your literature essay should not exceed 500 words.
5. In contextual questions, the number of marks allocated to each subsection
should serve as a guide to the expected length of your answer.
6. Number the answers correctly according to the numbering system used in this
question paper.
7. Write neatly and legibly.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
SECTION A: POETRY [40 MARKS]
The unseen poetry is COMPULSORY.
Answer QUESTION 1 OR QUESTION 2 AND any TWO of QUESTIONS 3, 4, 5
and 6.
QUESTION PAGE NO.
1. Sundays – William Nicholson Contextual question 5
OR
2. Sundays – William Nicholson Mini-essay question 6
AND ANY TWO OF:
3. Old Folks Laugh – Maya Angelou Contextual question 6
OR
4. Lake Morning in Autumn – Douglas Contextual question 7
Livingstone
OR
5. On the Move – Thom Gunn Contextual question 8
OR
6. When I Have Fears – John Keats Mini-essay Question 9
SECTION B: DRAMA [30 MARKS]
Answer ONE question.
7. Othello – William Shakespeare Essay question 9
OR
8. Othello – William Shakespeare Contextual question 10
OR
9. The Crucible – Arthur Miller Essay question 12
OR
10. The Crucible – Arthur Miller Contextual question 13
SECTION C: NOVEL [30 MARKS]
Answer ONE question.
11. Lord of the Flies – William Golding Essay question 15
OR
12. Lord of the Flies – William Golding Contextual question 15
OR
13. Animal Farm – George Orwell Essay question 17
OR
14. Animal Farm – George Orwell Contextual question 17
NOTE: Your answers to SECTION B (DRAMA) and SECTION C (NOVEL) should
comprise ONE ESSAY and ONE CONTEXTUAL answer. If you answer
an essay question in SECTION B (DRAMA), you must answer a
contextual question in SECTION C (NOVEL) and vice versa.
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NOTE:
You must answer ONE essay and ONE contextual question from SECTIONS B
and C. If you choose to answer a contextual from Section B, then you have to
answer an essay from Section C.
CHECKLIST:
Question 1 – 2: Choose ONE
Questions 3, 4, 5, 6: Choose TWO
Questions 7 – 10: Choose ONE
Questions 11 – 14: Choose ONE
You must answer ONE contextual and ONE essay question.
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SECTION A POETRY
Answer QUESTION 1 OR QUESTION 2
AND
Any TWO questions from QUESTIONS 3, 4, 5 and 6
UNSEEN POEM – SOUTH AFRICAN COMPONENT
Read the poem carefully, and then answer either QUESTION 1 OR QUESTION 2.
QUESTION 1: CONTEXTUAL QUESTION
SUNDAYS – William Nicholson
(Pretoria Boys' High, adapted)
Slowly the webs of black smoke
Drift to vanish into the blue vastness,
Blurred by the waves of heat over the braai.
The obstinate sun shows little remorse for sore eyes
And the mind is still dense with faded beer, 5
While a memory pulses faintly through the veins.
Somewhere the icecream-man's lonely jingle
Resounds over the rooftops,
Lamenting a lost childhood.
The bare grey buildings of the city 10
Sit with their backs to me,
The storm clouds leering behind them.
The raging flames lap thirstily
At the juices of the searing meat,
While the distant church bells chide 15
And promise the alternative.
1.1 Refer to stanzas 1 and 5.
Describe what the speaker experiences on a Sunday. (2)
1.2 Describe the visual image that the metaphor in line 1 creates. (2)
1.3 What atmosphere is created in lines 10 to 12? Explain your answer. (3)
1.4 Explain the effectiveness of the metaphor in lines 13-14. (3)
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QUESTION 2: MINI-ESSAY
In a carefully constructed essay of not more than 200 words, discuss how the poet uses
poetic devices to create the atmosphere of his Sunday memories.
Do NOT count your words. [10]
AND
QUESTIONS 3, 4, 5, 6 – PRESCRIBED POETRY
Answer TWO questions from this section. One question must be a CONTEXTUAL
QUESTION and one question must be an ESSAY QUESTION.
QUESTION 3: CONTEXTUAL QUESTION
Read the poem carefully, and then answer the questions that follow.
OLD FOLKS LAUGH – Maya Angelou
They have spent their
content of simpering,
holding their lips this
and that way, winding
the lines between 5
their brows. Old folks
allow their bellies to jiggle like slow
tambourines.
The hollers
rise up and spill 10
over any way they want.
When old folks laugh, they free the world.
They turn slowly, slyly knowing
the best and the worst
of remembering. 15
Saliva glistens in
the corners of their mouths,
their heads wobble
on brittle necks, but
their laps 20
are filled with memories.
When old folks laugh, they consider the promise
of dear painless death, and generously
forgive life for happening
to them. 25
3.1 Describe the physical appearance of the old people in lines 6–8. (2)
3.2 What do lines 9 to 11 suggest about the "hollers"? (2)
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3.3 Explain in what way old folks' laughter can "free the world" (line 12). (3)
3.4 Why does the speaker mention the old folks' dribbling? (2)
3.5 Refer to lines 20 to 21.
3.5.1 What are the benefits of old age, according to the speaker? (1)
3.5.2 Why does the speaker focus on "laps" that are "filled"? (2)
3.6 Comment on the old folks' attitude to life and death in lines 23 to 25. Justify your
answer. (3)
[15]
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QUESTION 4: ESSAY QUESTION
Read the poem, 'Old Folks Laugh', and answer the question that follows.
Write a mini-essay of approximately 200 words in which you discuss how the imagery in
this poem conveys the speaker's feelings about the old folks and their laughter, and how
she responds to them.
Do NOT count your words. [15]
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QUESTION 5: CONTEXTUAL QUESTION
Read the poem carefully, and then answer the questions that follow.
LAKE MORNING IN AUTUMN – Douglas Livingstone
Before sunrise the stork was there
resting the pillow of his body
on stick legs growing from the water.
A flickering gust of pencil-slanted rain
swept over the chill autumn morning; 5
and he, too tired to arrange
his wind-buffeted plumage,
perched swaying a little,
neck flattened, ruminative,
beak on chest, contemplative eye 10
filmy with star vistas and hollow
black migratory leagues, strangely,
ponderously alone and some weeks
early. The dawn struck and everything,
sky, water, bird, reeds 15
was blood and gold. He sighed.
Stretching his wings he clubbed
the air; slowly, regally, so very tired,
aiming his beak he carefully climbed
inclining to his invisible tunnel of sky, 20
his feet trailing a long, long time.
5.1 Use your own words to describe the stork (lines 2 to 3). (2)
5.2 Explain the effectiveness of the metaphor in line 4. (3)
5.3 Refer to lines 6 and 7.
5.3.1 Why does the stork need to rearrange his "plumage"? (1)
5.3.2 Why has the speaker chosen the word "buffeted"? (2)
5.4 What does the phrase "black migratory leagues" (line 12) suggest? (2)
5.5 Explain why the stork "sighed" (line 16). (2)
5.6 How does the word "clubbed" (line 17) add to the atmosphere? (3)
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QUESTION 6: ESSAY QUESTION
Read 'Lake morning in autumn', and then answer the question that follows.
Write a mini-essay of approximately 200 words in which you discuss how the imagery in
this poem conveys the speaker's feelings about the stork and its environment, and how
he responds to them.
Do NOT count your words. [15]
TOTAL SECTION A: 40
SECTION B: DRAMA
Answer ONE question from this section.
OTHELLO – WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
QUESTION 7: ESSAY
It is because of the natures of both Iago and Othello that Othello is destroyed.
In an essay of 450-500 words, discuss to what extent you agree with this statement,
using examples and textual references from the play to support your argument.
Do NOT count the number of words. [30]
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QUESTION 8: CONTEXTUAL
Read both extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow.
TEXT A
OTHELLO
O my fair warrior!
DESDEMONA
My dear Othello!
OTHELLO
It gives me wonder great as my content
To see you here before me. O my soul's joy!
If after every tempest come such calms,
May the winds blow till they have waken'd death! 5
And let the laboring bark climb hills of seas,
Olympus-high, and duck again as low
As hell's from heaven! If it were now to die,
'Twere now to be most happy, for I fear
My soul hath her content so absolute 10
That not another comfort like to this
Succeeds in unknown fate.
DESDEMONA
The heavens forbid
But that our loves and comforts should increase
Even as our days do grow!
OTHELLO
Amen to that, sweet powers! 15
I cannot speak enough of this content;
It stops me here. It is too much of joy.
And this, and this, the greatest discords be (They kiss.)
That e'er our hearts shall make!
IAGO
(Aside) O, you are well tun'd now!
But I'll set down the pegs that make this music, 20
As honest as I am.
Act 2, scene i
8.1 Place this extract in context by describing what has just happened. (2)
8.2 Why does Othello refer to Desdemona as his "warrior"? (2)
8.3 Refer to lines 8 to 12. ("If it were now to die … unknown fate")
Explain what Othello means in these lines. (3)
8.4 How does Desdemona's respond when Othello says he would be happy to die at
this moment? (Refer to lines 12 to 14.) (3)
8.5 Othello believes that the conflict is over and everyone is safe. Discuss the irony of
this statement. (3)
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TEXT B
LODOVICO
Is there division between my lord and Cassio?
DESDEMONA
A most unhappy one. I would do much
T'atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio.
OTHELLO
Fire and brimstone!
DESDEMONA
My lord?
OTHELLO
Are you wise? 5
DESDEMONA
What, is he angry?
LODOVICO
Maybe the letter moved him,
For as I think, they do command him home,
Deputing Cassio in his government.
DESDEMONA
By my troth, I am glad on't.
OTHELLO
Indeed!
DESDEMONA
My lord?
OTHELLO
I am glad to see you mad.
DESDEMONA
Why, sweet Othello? 10
OTHELLO
Devil!
(Striking her)
DESDEMONA
I have not deserved this.
LODOVICO
My lord, this would not be believed in Venice,
Though I should swear I saw't. 'Tis very much.
Make her amends - she weeps. 15
OTHELLO
O devil, devil!
Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.
Out of my sight!
DESDEMONA
I will not stay to offend you.
(Desdemona starts to go)
Act IV, scene i
8.6 Place this extract in context by describing what had just happened. (2)
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8.7 8.7.1 In the context of the passage, what is Desdemona "glad" about in line 8? (1)
8.7.2 How does Othello interpret Desdemona's "glad[ness]? (2)
8.8 Discuss the significance of Lodovico's response to Othello's violence. (3)
8.9 Comment on the irony of Othello's calling Desdemona "devil". (2)
8.10.1 Describe Desdemona's reaction to Othello's anger. In your answer, refer to the
stage directions (Desdemona starts to go). (3)
8.10.2 Describe and discuss one incident in the play where Desdemona shows similar
characteristics. (4)
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THE CRUCIBLE – Arthur Miller
QUESTION 9: ESSAY
It is because of the natures of Abigail and Proctor that Proctor is destroyed.
In an essay of 450-500 words, discuss to what extent you agree with this statement,
using examples and textual references from the play to support your argument.
Do NOT count the number of words. [30]
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QUESTION 10: CONTEXTUAL
Read both extracts and answer the questions that follow.
TEXT A
HALE (holding up his hands): No, no. Now let me instruct you. We cannot look to
superstition in this. The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone,
and I must tell you all that I shall not proceed unless you are prepared to believe me if I
should find no bruise of hell upon her.
PARRIS: It is agreed, sir — it is agreed — we will abide by your judgement. 5
HALE: Good then. (He goes to the bed. Looks down at Betty. To Parris.) Now, sir, what
were your first warning of this strangeness?
PARRIS: Why, sir - I discovered her – (indicating Abigail) – and my niece and ten or
twelve of the other girls, dancing in the forest last night.
HALE (surprised): You permit dancing? 10
PARRIS: No, no, it were secret -
MRS PUTNAM (unable to wait): Mr. Parris's slave has knowledge of conjurin', sir.
PARRIS (to Mrs Putnam): We cannot be sure of that, Goody Ann –
MRS PUTNAM (frightened, very softly): I know it, sir. I sent my child - she should learn
from Tituba who murdered her sisters. 15
REBECCA (horrified): Goody Ann! You sent a child to conjure up the dead?
MRS PUTNAM: Let God blame me, not you, not you, Rebecca! I'll not have you judging
me any more! (To Hale.) Is it a natural work to lose seven children before they live a
day?
PARRIS: Sssh! 20
REBECCA, with great pain, turns her face away. There is a pause.
HALE: Seven dead in childbirth?
MRS PUTNAM (softly): Aye. (Her voice breaks; she looks up at him. Silence. HALE is
impressed. PARRIS looks to him. He goes to his books, opens one, turns pages, then
reads. All wait, avidly.) 25
PARRIS (hushed): What book is that?
MRS PUTNAM: What's there, sir?
HALE (with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit): Here is all the invisible world, caught,
defined, and calculated. In these books the Devil stands stripped of all his brute
disguises. Here are all your familiar spirits - your incubi and succubi; your witches that 30
go by land, by air, and by sea; your wizards of the night and of the day. Have no fear
now - we shall find him out and I mean to crush him utterly if he has shown his face! (He
starts for the bed.)
[ACT ONE]
10.1 What has Mr Parris asked Hale to investigate in Salem? (lines 1 to 4) (2)
10.2 Why does Hale choose the word "bruise" (line 4)? (2)
10.3 Explain why Hale is surprised (line 10). (2)
10.4.1 In what tone would Mrs Putnam speak to Rebecca in lines 17 and 18 ("Let God
blame me, … any more")? Motivate your answer. (3)
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10.4.2 Discuss how the Putnams take revenge on Rebecca Nurse and her husband later
in the play.. (3)
10.5 Explain Parris and Mrs Putnam's attitude to the books which Hale consults. (2)
10.6 Is Hale's confidence during his speech in lines 28 to 32 ("Here is all … shown his
face") justified in terms of what happens later in the play? Explain. (3)
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TEXT B
HALE: Woman, plead with him! (He starts to rush out the door and then goes
back to her.) Woman! It is pride, it is vanity. (She avoids his eyes and moves to
the window. He drops to his knees.) Be his helper! - What profit him to bleed?
Shall the dust praise him? Shall the worms declare his truth? Go to him, take his
shame away! 5
ELIZABETH: (supporting herself against collapse, grips the bars of the window
and with a cry): He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!
The final drumroll crashes, then heightens violently. HALE weeps in frantic
prayer, and the new sun is pouring in upon her face, and the drums rattle like
bones in the morning air. 10
[ACT FOUR]
10.7 What has Hale hoped to achieve by speaking to the prisoners? (2)
10.8 Is Hale correct in saying that Proctor's death is caused by his pride and vanity?
Support your answer with careful reference to the scene between Elizabeth and
Proctor just before he dies. (4)
10.9 10.9.1 Explain Elizabeth's refusal to plead with Proctor. (2)
10.9.2 How do the stage directions ("supporting herself against collapse, grips
the bars of the window and with a cry") in lines 6 and 7 help to create
sympathy for Elizabeth? (3)
10.10 How will the audience feel when they hear the sound of the drums (rattle like
bones, lines 9-10)? Motivate your answer. (2)
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SECTION C: NOVEL
Answer ONE question from this section.
LORD OF THE FLIES – William Golding
QUESTION 11: ESSAY
It is inevitable that the initial hopes and ideals of the boys will not be fulfilled.
In an essay of 450-500 words, discuss this statement with detailed reference to the novel.
[Do NOT count your words.] [30]
OR
QUESTION 12: CONTEXTUAL
Read both extracts, and answer the questions that follow.
TEXT A
Jack was on his feet.
"We'll have rules!" he cried excitedly. "Lots of rules! Then when anyone breaks 'em -"
"Whee-oh!"
"Wacco!"
"Bong!" 5
"Doink!"
Ralph felt the conch lifted from his lap. Then Piggy was standing cradling the great
cream shell and the shouting died down. Jack, left on his feet, looked uncertainly at Ralph
who smiled and patted the log. Jack sat down. Piggy took off his glasses and blinked at the
assembly while he wiped them on his shirt. 10
"You're hindering Ralph. You're not letting him get to the most important thing."
He paused effectively.
"Who knows we're here? Eh?"
"They knew at the airport"
"The man with a trumpet-thing -" 15
"My dad."
Piggy put on his glasses.
"Nobody knows where we are," said Piggy. He was paler than before and breathless.
"Perhaps they knew where we was going to; and perhaps not. But they don't know where
we are 'cos we never got there." He gaped at them for a moment, then swayed and sat 20
down. Ralph took the conch from his hands.
"That's what I was going to say," he went on, "when you all, all. . . ." He gazed at their
intent faces. "The plane was shot down in flames. Nobody knows where we are. We may
be here a long time."
[CHAPTER TWO]
12.1 Place this passage in context by describing what has happened that has led to the
boys being stranded on the island. (3)
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12.2 12.2.1 Why do you think the boys need rules? (2)
12.2.2 Use your own words to describe how the boys feel about having rules. (2)
12.3 Refer to lines 8 and 9 to describe the relationship between Jack and Ralph at this
point in the novel. (3)
12.4 How does Piggy's contribution to this meeting reveal his character? (3)
12.5 What is Golding's intention in mentioning Piggy's glasses at this point in the
novel? (2)
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TEXT B
Below him, Ralph was a shock of hair and Piggy a bag of fat.
"I got this to say. You're acting like a crowd of kids." The booing rose and died again
as Piggy lifted the white, magic shell.
"Which is better - to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like
Ralph is?" 5
A great clamour rose among the savages. Piggy shouted again.
"Which is better - to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?"
Again the clamour and again - "Zup!"
Ralph shouted against the noise.
"Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?" 10
Now Jack was yelling too and Ralph could no longer make himself heard. Jack had
backed right against the tribe and they were a solid mass of menace that bristled with
spears. The intention of a charge was forming among them; they were working up to it and
the neck would be swept clear. Ralph stood facing them, a little to one side, his spear
ready. By him stood Piggy still holding out the talisman, the fragile, shining beauty of the 15
shell. The storm of sound beat at them, an incantation of hatred. High overhead,
Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever.
[CHAPTER 11]
12.6 Place this passage in context by describing what has happened shortly before this
incident. (2)
12.7 How would Roger have responded to the question: "Which is better - to have rules
and agree, or to hunt and kill?" (line 7)? Justify your answer by referring to this
extract and the novel as a whole. (3)
12.8 Discuss the symbolism of the conch. Support your answer by referring to this
extract and the novel as a whole. (4)
12.9 In the light of Roger's actions in lines 16 and 17, discuss the significance of Ralph
being described as "a shock of hair" and Piggy as "a bag of fat" in line 1. (2)
12.10 Outline how this extract develops the main theme of the novel. (4)
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ANIMAL FARM – George Orwell
QUESTION 13: ESSAY
It is inevitable that the hopes and ideals of the animals will not be fulfilled.
In an essay of 450-500 words, discuss this statement with detailed reference to the novel.
Do NOT count your words. [30]
OR
QUESTION 14: CONTEXTUAL
Read both extracts, and answer the questions that follow.
TEXT A
The men gave a shout of triumph. They saw, as they imagined, their enemies in
flight, and they rushed after them in disorder. This was just what Snowball had
intended. As soon as they were well inside the yard, the three horses, the three
cows, and the rest of the pigs, who had been lying in ambush in the cowshed,
suddenly emerged in their rear, cutting them off. Snowball now gave the signal 5
for the charge. He himself dashed straight for Jones. Jones saw him coming, raised
his gun and fired. The pellets scored bloody streaks along Snowball's back, and a
sheep dropped dead. Without halting for an instant, Snowball flung his fifteen stone
against Jones's legs. Jones was hurled into a pile of dung and his gun flew out of his
hands. But the most terrifying spectacle of all was Boxer, rearing up on his hind legs 10
and striking out with his great iron-shod hoofs like a stallion. His very first blow took a
stable-lad from Foxwood on the skull and stretched him lifeless in the mud. At the
sight, several men dropped their sticks and tried to run. Panic overtook them, and the
next moment all the animals together were chasing them round and round the yard…
…All the men were gone except one. Back in the yard Boxer was pawing with his 15
hoof at the stable-lad who lay face down in the mud, trying to turn him over. The boy
did not stir. 'He is dead,' said Boxer sorrowfully. `I had no intention of doing that. I
forgot that I was wearing iron shoes. Who will believe that I did not do this on
purpose?'
'No sentimentality, comrade!' cried Snowball from whose wounds the blood was 20
still dripping. 'War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.'
'I have no wish to take life, not even human life,' repeated Boxer, and his eyes
were full of tears.
[Chapter IV]
14.1 Place this extract in context by describing what has just happened. (2)
14.2 Explain why this "disorder" is "what Snowball had intended" (line 2). (2)
14.3 What does Snowball's behaviour in lines 5 to 9 suggest about his character? (3)
14.4 Explain why the men retreat. (2)
14.5 Discuss how the reader responds to Boxer's final line in this extract. (3)
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TEXT B
The animals were stupefied. This was a wickedness far outdoing Snowball's
destruction of the windmill. But it was some minutes before they could fully take it
in. They all remembered, or thought they remembered, how they had seen
Snowball charging ahead of them at the Battle of the Cowshed, how he had rallied
and encouraged them at every turn, and how he had not paused for an instant even 5
when the pellets from Jones's gun had wounded his back. At first it was a little
difficult to see how this fitted in with his being on Jones's side.
Even Boxer, who seldom asked questions, was puzzled. He lay down, tucked his
fore hoofs beneath him, shut his eyes, and with a hard effort managed to formulate
his thoughts. 'I do not believe that,' he said. 'Snowball fought bravely at the Battle 10
of the Cowshed. I saw him myself. Did we not give him 'Animal Hero, First Class,'
immediately afterwards?'
'That was our mistake, comrade. For we know now it is all written down in the
secret documents that we have found that in reality he was trying to lure us to our
doom.'
Chapter VII
14.6 Refer to paragraph 1. What have the animals just been told about Snowball that
"stupefied" them? (2)
14.7 Why is it surprising that it is Boxer who questions Squealer? (2)
14.8 Why doesn't Boxer "believe" Squealer (line 10)? (2)
14.9 What attitude do you think George Orwell expects the reader to have about Boxer
at the end of the novel? Motivate your answer by referring to the novel as a
whole. (3)
14.10 Why does Squealer tell the animals lies about Snowball? (2)
14.11 Discuss the effectiveness of the emotive language of "lure us to our doom" in
lines 14 and 15. (3)
14.12 Identify two propaganda techniques in the extract, and discuss how they are used
to convince the animals that Snowball is a traitor. (4)
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TOTAL SECTION C: 30
GRAND TOTAL: 100
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