English Hl Grade 12 P2 NSC June 2012 Question Paper (English)

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Downloaded from hlayiso.com ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE SG 2 (Second Paper) 10422/12A GAUTENG DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SENIOR CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE SG (Second Paper: Literature) TIME: 2 hours MARKS: 75 INSTRUCTIONS: Answer FOUR questions as follows: SECTION A: POETRY Answer TWO questions: Answer Question 1 OR Question 2 AND Question 3 OR [25] Question 4. Answer ONE from EACH of the following sections: SECTION B: SHAKESPEARE [25] SECTION C: NOVEL [25] N.B. Your answers to Section B (Shakespeare) and Section C (Novel) MUST comprise ONE ESSAY and ONE CONTEXTUAL answer. e Do not attempt to read through the whole paper. Consult the Table of Contents and mark the numbers of the questions set on work that you have studied. e Your literature essay should not exceed 350 words. e In contextual questions, the number of marks allocated to each sub-section should be a guide to the number of lines required to answer the questions. e The examiners will assess your answers on the understanding of, and insight into, the given texts and will also assess the competence with which your answers are expressed. e Please remember to number your answers in exact agreement with the question numbers. e It is in your own interest to write legibly and to present your work neatly. P.T.O.

Downloaded from hlayiso.com ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE SG 3 (Second Paper) 10422/12A TABLE OF CONTENTS: A total of FOUR questions for 75 marks must be answered. SECTIONA POETRY Answer Question 1 OR Question 2 AND Question 3 OR Question 4. [25] QUESTION 1: On His Blindness (John Milton) 12 marks OR QUESTION 2: Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night (Dylan Thomas) 12 marks AND QUESTION 3: Death be not Proud (John Donne) 13 marks OR QUESTION 4: Mending Wall (Robert Frost) 13 marks SECTION B SHAKESPEARE Answer ONE question. [25] QUESTION 5: Macbeth Essay 25 marks QUESTION 6: Macbeth Contextual 25 marks QUESTION 7: Julius Caesar Essay 25 marks QUESTION 8: Julius Caesar Contextual 25 marks SECTION C NOVEL Answer ONE question. [25] QUESTION 9: A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens) Essay 25 marks QUESTION 10: A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens) Contextual 25 marks QUESTION 11: July’s People (Nadine Gordimer) Essay 25 marks QUESTION 12: July’s People (Nadine Gordimer) Contextual 25 marks QUESTION 13: Maru (Bessie Head) Essay 25 marks QUESTION 14: Maru (Bessie Head) Contextual 25 marks QUESTION 15: Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell) Essay 25 marks QUESTION 16: Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell) Contextual 25 marks 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 OR Question 2 Choose ONE Question 3 OR Question 4 Choose ONE Question 5, 6, 7,8 Choose ONE Question 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,16 Choose ONE P.T.O.

Downloaded from hlayiso.com ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE SG 4 (Second Paper) 10422/12A SECTION A POETRY Answer EITHER Question 1 OR Question 2 and EITHER Question 3 OR Question 4. QUESTION 1 Read the poem and then answer the questions that follow. On His Blindness — John Milton When | consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present 5 My true account, lest He returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?" | fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts: who best 10 Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait." 1.1 The word “consider” (line 1) means “to gaze fixedly or thoughtfully at, contemplate with the eyes”. Explain why it is ironic in the context of the poem. (2) 1.2 Why does Milton seem so afraid in the first eight lines of this poem? (3) 7 What figure of speech is “Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies...”? (1) 1.4 According to the poem, who are God’s most loyal servants? (2) 1.5 What is the poet’s mood in the last six lines of the poem? (1) 1.6 Why is it easy to identify this poem as an Italian sonnet? (3) [12] OR P.T.O.

Downloaded from hlayiso.com ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE SG 5 (Second Paper) 10422/12A QUESTION 2 Read the poem and then answer the questions that follow. Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night - Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they 5 Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, 10 And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. 15 And you, my father, there on that sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, | pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. 2.1 To whom is the poem addressed? (2) 2.2 Explain how the words ‘burn and rave” illustrate how old men should face their death. (2) 2.3 These are euphemisms for death: good night, dying of the light, close of day, dark. What is a euphemism? (2) 2.4 How do the four types of people described in stanzas 2—5 respond in a similar way to death? (2) 2.5 For what does the poet pray in the last stanza? (3) 2.6 What is Dylan Thomas's tone in this poem? (1) [12] AND EITHER P.T.O.

Downloaded from hlayiso.com ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE SG 6 (Second Paper) 10422/12A QUESTION 3 Read the poem and then answer the questions that follow. Death be not Proud — John Donne Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so, For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, 5 Much pleasure, then from thee much more must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery. Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, 10 And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then? One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die. 3.1 What does proud mean as used in the title? (1) 7 2. Identify the figure of speech in line 4. (1) 3.2.2 Explain what Donne means by ‘nor yet canst thou kill me’. (3) 3.3 Death associates with things that are horrible, dangerous and unhealthy. Is this statement TRUE or FALSE? Support your choice by quoting from the poem. (2) 3.4 According to the poem, in what sense will Death die? (2) 3.5 What effect does Donne create by using informal language in this poem? (2) 3.6 Why do you think Donne wrote this poem? (2) [13] OR P.T.O.

Downloaded from hlayiso.com ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE SG (Second Paper) 10422/12A QUESTION 4 Read the poem and then answer the questions that follow. Mending Wall — Robert Frost Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun, And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: 5 | have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone, But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, To please the yelping dogs. The gaps | mean, No one has seen them made or heard them made, 10 But at spring mending-time we find them there. | let my neighbour know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again. We keep the wall between us as we go. 15 To each the boulders that have fallen to each. And some are loaves and some so nearly balls We have to use a spell to make them balance: ‘Stay where you are until our backs are turned!’ We wear our fingers rough with handling them. 20 Oh, just another kind of outdoor game, One on a side. It comes to little more: There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all pine and | am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across 25 And eat the cones under his pines, | tell him. He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbours.’ Spring is the mischief in me, and | wonder If | could put a notion in his head: ‘Why do they make good neighbours? Isn't it 30 Where there are cows? But here there are no cows. Before | built a wall I'd ask to know What | was walling in or walling out, And to whom | was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, 35 That wants it down. | could say 'Elves' to him, But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather He said it for himself. | see him there Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed. 40 P.T.O.

Downloaded from hlayiso.com ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE SG 8 (Second Paper) 10422/12A He moves in darkness as it seems to me, Not of woods only and the shade of trees. He will not go behind his father's saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, "Good fences make good neighbours." 45 4.1 Refer to lines 1-9 and explain two factors which cause walls to collapse. (4) 4.2 According to Frost, why is this particular wall unnecessary? (2) 4.3 What do we learn about Frost’s neighbour when Frost says that ‘he will not go behind his father’s saying’? (2) 4.4 Explain the irony of the neighbours’ method of repairing the wall. (2) 4.5 Identify the figure of speech in “like an old-stone savage armed” . (1) 4.6 Give the literal and figurative meanings of the phrase ‘he moves in darkness’ which Frost uses to refer to his neighbour. (2) [13] TOTAL SECTION A: 25 P.T.O.

Downloaded from hlayiso.com ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE SG 9 (Second Paper) 10422/12A SECTION B: SHAKESPEARE Answer ONE question from this section MACBETH — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE QUESTION 5 ESSAY In an essay of not more than 350 words (1-1% pages), discuss how the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth change during the course of the play. Do NOT count your words. [25] OR QUESTION 6 CONTEXTUAL Read both extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow. TEXTA Lady Macbeth: That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold: What hath quench’d them hath given me fire. Hark!—Peace! It was the owl that shriek’d, the fatal bellman, Which gives the stern’st good-night. He is about it: 5 The doors are open; and the surfeited grooms Do mock their charge with snores: | have drugg’d their possets, That death and nature do contend about them, Whether they live or die Macbeth: (Within) Who's there?—what, ho! 10 Lady Macbeth: Alack! | am afraid they have awak’d, And ‘tis not done: - the attempt, and not the deed, Confounds us. Hark! | laid their daggers ready He could not miss ‘em. Had he not resembled My father as he slept, | had done’t. My husband! 15 Re-enter Macbeth Macbeth: | have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise? Lady Macbeth: __| heard the owl scream and the crickets cry. 6.1 6.1.1 To whom is Lady Macbeth referring in line 1? (2) 6.1.2 Explain Lady Macbeth’s reference to their being drunk. (2) 6.2 6.2.1 What do lines 1 and 2 tell the audience about Lady Macbeth’s character? Justify your answer. (2) 6.2.2 Why are we surprised at Lady Macbeth’s actions here in the light of what she had told Macbeth earlier in the play? (2) P.T.O.

Downloaded from hlayiso.com ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE SG 40 (Second Paper) 10422/12A 6.3 6.3.1 Identify the figure of speech in line 5. (1) 6.3.2 Explain the effectiveness of this figure of speech. (2) 6.4 Refer to line 5. What does Lady Macbeth mean when she says “He is about it’? (2) 6.5 Why are the words “death and nature” so significant in this passage? (2) AND TEXT B Lady Macbeth: | pray you, speak not; he grows worse and worse; Question enrages him: at once, good night: Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once. Lennox: Goodnight; and better health 5 Attend his majesty! Lady Macbeth: A kind good-night to all [Exeunt Lords and Attendants] Macbeth: It will have blood; they say blood will have blood: Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak; 10 Augurs, and understood relations, have By maggot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret’st man of blood. What is the night? Lady Macbeth: Almost at odds with morning, which is which. Macbeth: How say’st thou, that Macduff denies his person 15 At our great bidding? Lady Macbeth: Did you send to him, sir? Macbeth: | hear it by the way; but | will send: There’s not a one of them but in his house | keep a servant fee’d. | will to-morrow 20 (And betimes | will) to the Weird Sisters: 6.6 Refer to line 1. Explain why Lady Macbeth says “he grows worse and worse”. (2) 6.7 Refer to line 9. What has Macbeth just realised? (2) 6.8 6.8.1 What are “maggot-pies and choughs and rooks” (line 12)? (1) 6.8.2 What do they symbolize? (1) 6.9 Why does Macbeth mention Macduff at this point in the play? (2) 6.10 How does Macbeth’s intention to go to the “Weird Sisters” (line 21) increase the tension in the action of the play? (2) [25] P.T.O.

Downloaded from hlayiso.com ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE SG 41 (Second Paper) 10422/12A JULIUS CAESAR - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE QUESTION 7 ESSAY In an essay of no more than 350 words (1-1% pages) discuss what we learn about the character of Brutus from his dealings with Antony, Caius Ligarius and Lucius. Do NOT count your words. [25] QUESTION 8: CONTEXTUAL Read the following passage and then answer the questions that follow. TEXT A Marullus: Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home? What tributaries follow him to Rome To grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels? You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, 5 Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft Have you climbed up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day with patient expectation 10 To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome. And when you saw his chariot but appear, Have you not made an universal shout, That Tiber trembled underneath her banks To hear the replication of your sounds 15 Made in her concave shores? And do you now put on your best attire? And do you now cull out a holiday? And do you now strew flowers in his way That comes in triumph over Pompey’s blood? 20 Be gone! Run to your houses, fall upon your knees, Pray to the gods to intermit the plague That needs must light on this ingratitude. 8.1 Why are the common people celebrating? (2) 8.2 What point is Marullus trying to drive home in the first three lines of his speech? (3) 8.3 Explain the kind of tension that has arisen in Rome and which is to play such an important role in the development of the play. (2) 8.4 Say why Marullus is so angry with the crowd. (2) 8.5 What is Marullus’s intention in using exaggeration when addressing the crowd? (2) 8.6 To whom does ‘Pompey’s blood’ (line 20) refer? (1) P.T.O.

Downloaded from hlayiso.com ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE SG 12 (Second Paper) 10422/12A TEXT B Fifth Plebian: Marked ye his words? He would not take the crown, Therefore ‘tis certain he was not ambitious. First Plebian: If it be found so, some will dear abide it. Fourth Plebian: Poor soul, his eyes are red as fire with weeping. Third Plebian: = There’s not a nobler man in Rome than Antony. 5 Fifth Plebian: Now mark him: he begins again to speak. Antony: But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world. Now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence. O masters, if | were disposed to stir 10 Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, | should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong, Who, you all know are honourable men. | will not do them wrong. | rather choose To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you, 15 Than | will wrong such honourable men. But here’s a parchment with the seal of Caesar. | found it in his closet. ‘Tis his will. Let but the commons hear this testament— Which, pardon me, | do not mean to read— 20 And they would go and kiss dead Caesar’s wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood, Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it as a rich legacy 25 Unto their issue. 8.7 Why has Antony been allowed to bury Caesar? (2) 8.8 Explain what the citizen means and implies when he says, ‘He would not take the crown Therefore ‘tis certain he was not ambitious’. (3) 8.9 By using ‘O masters’ in speaking to the crowd, what impression does Antony wish to give about his position in relation to theirs? (2) 8.10 | Why does Antony use language that is simple and goes straight to the heart? (2) 8.11. What important theme of the play is established in Antony’s speech? (2) 8.12 In what tone does Antony say the word ‘honourable’ on the two occasions he uses it in this extract? Why does he say it this way? (2) [25] TOTAL SECTIONB: 25 P.T.O.

Downloaded from hlayiso.com ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE SG 43 (Second Paper) 10422/12A SECTION C NOVEL Answer ONE question from this section A TALE OF TWO CITIES — CHARLES DICKENS QUESTION 9 ESSAY In an essay of + 350 words (1-1% pages) discuss the importance of the letter Dr Manette had written while imprisoned in the Bastille for eighteen years and explain how it affects the novel as a whole. Do NOT count your words. [25] OR QUESTION 10 CONTEXTUAL Read the following passages and then answer the questions that follow. TEXT A Yet, no one had followed them, and no man spoke when they entered the wine-shop, though the eyes of every man there were turned upon them. ‘Good-day, gentlemen’ said Monsieur Defarge. It may have been a signal for loosening the general tongue. It elicited an answering chorus of ‘Good day!’ 5 ‘It is bad weather, gentlemen,’ said Defarge, shaking his head. Upon which, every man looked at his neighbour, and then all cast down their eyes and sat silent. Except one man, who got up and went out. ‘My wife,’ said Defarge aloud, addressing Madame Defarge; ‘I have travelled certain leagues with this good mender of roads, called Jacques. | met him — by accident — a day and half’s journey out of 10 Paris. He is a good child, this mender of roads, called Jacques. Give him to drink, my wife!’ A second man got up and went out. Madame Defarge set wine before the mender of roads called Jacques ... A third man got up and went out. Defarge refreshed himself with a draught of wine — but, he took less than was given to the stranger, as being himself a man to whom it was no rarity — and stood waiting until the countryman had 15 made his breakfast. He looked at no one present, and no one now looked at him; not even Madame Defarge, who had taken up her knitting, and was at work. ‘Have you finished your repast, friend?’ he asked, in due season. ‘Yes, thank you.’ ‘Come, then! You shall see the apartment that | told you you could occupy. It will suit you to a 20 marvel.’ Out of the wine-shop into the street, out of the street into a court-yard, out of the court-yard up a steep staircase, out of the staircase into a garret,— formerly the garret where a white-haired man sat ona low bench, stooping forward and very busy, making shoes. P.T.O.

Downloaded from hlayiso.com ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE SG 14 (Second Paper) 10422/12A 10.1. 10.1.1 Why do the men in the wine shop cast down their eyes and sit silent after Defarge says, “It is bad weather, gentlemen.”? (2) 10.1.2 Why are these people careful about not speaking openly or greeting Defarge openly or even looking at him directly? (2) 10.2 How did the mender of roads first become involved in Defarge’s business? (2) 10.3 Explain Defarge’s reasons for taking the road mender up to the garret where the shoemaker had been. (3) 10.4 Whatis the significance of Madam Defarge’s knitting? (3) TEXT B ‘Itis best, he said, finally resolved, ‘that these people should know there is such a man as | here.’ And he turned his face towards Saint Antoine. As Carton walked in, took his seat and asked (in very indifferent French) for a small measure of wine, Madame Defarge cast a careless glance at him, and then a keener, and then a keener, and then advanced to him herself, and asked him what it was he had ordered. 5 He repeated what he had already said. ‘English?’ asked Madame Defarge, inquisitively raising her dark eyebrows. After looking at her, as if the sound of even a single French word were slow to express itself to him, he answered, in his former strong foreign accent, ‘Yes, madame, yes. | am English!’ Madame Defarge returned to her counter to get the wine, and, as he took up a Jacobin journal 10 and feigned to pore over it puzzling out its meaning, he heard her say, “I swear to you, like Evrémonde!’ ... Jacques Three pacifically remarked, ‘He is so much in your mind, see you, madame.’ The amiable Vengeance added, with a laugh, ‘Yes, my faith! And you are looking forward with so much pleasure to seeing him once more tomorrow!’ ... 15 ‘It is tue what madame says,’ observed Jacques Three. ‘Why stop? There is great force in that. Why stop?’ ‘Well, well,’ reasoned Defarge, ‘but one must stop somewhere. After all, the question is still where?’ ‘At extermination,’ said madame. ‘Magnificent’ croaked Jacques Three. The Vengeance, also, highly approved. 20 ‘Extermination is good doctrine, my wife,’ said Defarge, rather troubled; ‘in general, | say nothing against it. But this Doctor has suffered much; you have seen him to-day; you have observed his face when the paper was read.’ 10.5 10.6 10.7 10.8 10.9 Who are “these people” to whom Carton refers in line 1? (2) In what way is this Carton very different from the person he was in London? (4) What theme is established by Carton pretending his knowledge of French is not very good? (1) 10.8.1 To whom is the Vengeance referring when she says Madam Defarge will see “him” on the morrow? (1) 10.8.2 Why does Madam Defarge hate this man so much? (2) What is the significance of the paper Defarge speaks about in the last line of this passage? (3) [25] P.T.O.

Downloaded from hlayiso.com ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE SG 15 (Second Paper) 10422/12A JULY’S PEOPLE — Nadine Gordimer QUESTION 11 ESSAY Although the Smales are forced to leave their life of luxury, we do not totally sympathise with them as without July's help they could have been in a much worse situation. In an essay of not more than 350 words (1-1% pages), discuss to what extent you agree with this statement. Substantiate your viewpoint with reference to specific incidents in the novel. Do NOT count your words. [25] OR QUESTION 12 CONTEXTUAL Read both extracts, and then answer the questions that follow. TEXTA Why do they come here? Why to us? - His wife had accepted his dictum, when he arrived that night in a white man’s bakkie with a visitation of five white faces floating in the dark. Given up the second bed, borrowed a Primus for them; watched hin, in the morning, take the beautiful cups he had once brought her from the place of his other life. His mother had given up her hut-the trees for the walls and roof-poles felled and 5 raised by him, the mud of the walls mixed and built up by his mother and herself, that was due to have a new roof next thatching season. Both women had moved about under his bidding without argument. But that was not the end of it. He knew that would not be the end of it. - You don’t understand. Nowhere else to go. I've told you. - His wife jerked her chin in exaggerated parody of accord. She hung her head to her 10 hunched shoulder as she had done as a girl. - White people here! Didn't you tell us many times how they live, there. A room to sleep in, another room to eat in, another room to sit in, a room with books (she had a Bible), | don’t know how many times you told me, a room with how many books ... Hundreds | think. 12.1 To whom does the ‘they’ in line 1 refer? (1) 12.2 Briefly explain why July’s wife is upset with him. (2) 12.3 Refer to line 9: (‘You don’t understand ... I’ve told you.’) Discuss why July’s wife would find it difficult to believe that the white family had nowhere to go. (2) 12.4 In your opinion, is the white family’s presence finally accepted by July’s wife and mother? Provide a reason for your response. (3) P.T.O.

Downloaded from hlayiso.com ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE SG 16 (Second Paper) 10422/12A TEXT B - And where were you yesterday? What's the story? - July went on doing what he was expert at. The snap of twigs, the shuffle of a single paper fist uncrumpling itself (no cupboard full of old newspapers, here, everything that was worth nothing must be used sparingly), a word or two to keep Royce in bed-Little while, it’s coming nice and warm, you coming nice by the fire. — 5 - We were very worried.—Her implication was the flattery, ‘about you’. - Where did you go?—Bam giving the man every chance to give a satisfactory account of himself. 12.5 Who do you think is to blame for the incident referred to in Text B? Provide reasons for your answer. (3) 12.6 Explain fully why Bam asks July these questions. (2) 12.7. Refer to lines 2-5 ‘July went on doing ... nice by the fire.’ 7 Why does July not answer Bam’s questions? (2) 12.7.2 What does July’s behaviour in these lines suggest about the change in his character since his return to the village? (2) 12.8 In your view, are Maureen and Bam justified in worrying about July’s actions referred to in the above extract? Substantiate your answer. (3) 12.9 From your knowledge of later events in the novel, comment on the relationship between Maureen and July. (3) 12.10 Is the title ‘July’s People’ a suitable one for this novel? Provide a reason for your response. (2) [25] MARU - Bessie Head QUESTION 13 ESSAY In the novel Maru; Bessie Head depicts Maru and Moleka as equally powerful men. In an essay of not more than 350 words (1-1% pages), discuss to what extent you agree with this statement. Substantiate your answer by referring to incidents in the novel. Do NOT count your words. [25] OR P.T.O.

Downloaded from hlayiso.com ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE SG 17 (Second Paper) 10422/12A QUESTION 14 CONTEXTUAL Read both extracts, and then answer the questions that follow. TEXTA From that eventful evening to a day seventeen years later some wonder had indeed been created. Margaret Cadmore had produced a brilliant student, whose name, identical to hers, was always at the top of the list of passes. That the brilliance was based entirely on social isolation and lack of communication with others, except through books, was too painful for the younger Margaret ever to mention. The old white-haired lady was retiring to England. There was still one term left before 5 her ‘experiment’ passed out as a fully trained primary school teacher. She came in a car with pretty floral dresses and a pair of white shoes and practical last minute advice. “Don’t wear lipstick. It won’t suit you, but here’s some eye make-up because you have eyes as pretty as stars. Don't forget to shave regularly under your arms and apply this perfumed powder. Don’t forget to write to me.” The old plump lady pretended to cry, dabbing at dry eyes with a 10 dry handkerchief. One abrupt tear shot out of the young girl’s eyes. The years at the teacher training college had passed by with little torture. Because of the regular appearances of the white woman and the unashamed public kisses on the cheek, she had been mistaken by the students for another variant of the word ‘Bushman’. 15 14.1. Who are Margaret Cadmore (line 2) and Margaret (line 4)? (2) 14.2 Refer to line 6. 14.2.1 Explain why Margaret is referred to as Margaret Cadmore’s ‘experiment’. (2) 14.2.2 Was Margaret Cadmore successful in her ‘experiment’? Provide reasons for your answer. (2) 14.3. Refer to lines 3-5: ‘That the brilliance...ever to mention.’ In your own words, explain what these lines reveal about the younger Margaret. (2) 14.4 Refer to lines 12-13: ‘The years at the ... little torture.’ 14.4.1 Mention ONE occasion in the novel when Margaret experienced torture. (2) 14.4.2 Discuss why Margaret had been tortured. (2) 14.5 Identify a theme that is evident in this extract. (1) 14.6 From this extract and your knowledge of the novel, how would you describe the relationship between Margaret and Margaret Cadmore? Substantiate your answer. (3) P.T.O.

Downloaded from hlayiso.com ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE SG (Second Paper) 10422/12A 8 TEXT B “lll make some tea,” she said, jumping up and putting it to one side, relieved to have a genuine excuse to stop work. He sat down and absorbed himself in his own thoughts. Soon his sister returned with the tea tray. She still held it in her hands as she talked. “| saw my colleague enter the office not so long ago,” she said. “It made me curious.” 5 “Moleka loaned her a bed,” he said. “Il made her return it.” ene put the tray down on the table so roughly that a little of the milk in the jug splashed up into her face. “Why?” she asked sharply. “| did it to quieten the village,” he said. “People expect a Masarwa revolution, because of 10 Moleka’s behaviour on Sunday.” “There’s no such thing as Masarwa,” she said, a sudden shrill edge in her voice. “There are only people.” “Oh,” he said sarcastically. “You think you have found a bit of humanity and can lecture to me?” “Have you ever tried sleeping on the hard floor?” she asked, also curling her lips in sarcasm. 15 14.7 How did Margaret and Dikeledi become colleagues? (1) 14.8 Refer to line 6: ‘Moleka loaned her a bed...return it.’ 14.8.1 Who is Moleka? (1) 14.8.2 What reason does Maru give his sister for ensuring the bed is returned? (2) 14.8.3 Do you believe Maru’s explanation? Substantiate your response. (3) 14.9 Howis the uneasy situation between Maru and Moleka resolved in the end? (2) [25] P.T.O.

Downloaded from hlayiso.com ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE SG 419 (Second Paper) 10422/12A NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR —- GEORGE ORWELL QUESTION 15 ESSAY While Winston is doing the Physical Jerks, he thinks, “... where did that knowledge come from? Only in his own consciousness ...” In an essay of not more than 350 words (1-1% pages), discuss how the citizens’ “consciousness” (thought processes and awareness) is controlled by the Party. You should refer to the concepts of: The Thought Police Newspeak Altering historical facts Thoughtcrime Do NOT count your words. [25] OR QUESTION 16 CONTEXTUAL Read both extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow. TEXT A People were leaping up and down in their places and shouting at the top of their voices in an effort to drown the maddening bleating voice that came from the screen. The little sandy-haired woman had turned bright pink, and her mouth was opening and shutting like that of a landed fish. Even O’Brien’s heavy face was flushed. He was sitting very straight in his chair, his powerful chest swelling and quivering as though he were standing up to the assault of a wave. The dark-haired girl 5 behind Winston had begun crying out ‘Swine! Swine! Swine!’ and suddenly she picked up a heavy Newspeak dictionary and flung it at the screen. It struck Goldstein’s nose and bounced off; the voice continued inexorably. In a lucid moment Winston found that he was shouting with the others and kicking his heel violently against the rung of his chair. The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid 10 joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge-hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp. 15 P.T.O.

Downloaded from hlayiso.com ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE SG 20 (Second Paper) 10422/12A 16.1 16.1.1 What event is taking place in this extract? (1) 16.1.2 Why does the Party hold such events? (2) 16.2 16.2.1 Why is the physical description of the woman in lines 2 to 3 so effective? Explain your answer. (4) 16.2.2 Why does Orwell not give her a name? (1) 16.3. Who is the “dark-haired girl” in line 5 and why are her actions here strange in the context of the novel? (3) 16.4 16.4.1 Identify the figure of speech in line 15. (1) 16.4.2 Explain the effectiveness of the figure of speech. (2) AND TEXT B His frog-like face grew calmer, and even took on a slightly sanctimonious expression. ‘Thoughtcrime is a dreadful thing, old man,’ he said sententiously. ‘It’s insidious. It can get hold of you without your even knowing it. Do you know how it got hold of me? In my sleep! Yes, that’s a fact. There | was, working away, trying to do my bit — never knew | had any bad stuff in my mind at all. And then | started talking in my sleep. Do you know what they heard me saying?” 5 He sank his voice, like someone who is obliged for medical reasons to utter an obscenity. “Down with Big Brother!” Yes, | said that! Said it over and over again, it seems. Between you and me, old man, I’m glad they got me before it went any further. Do you know what I’m going to say to them when | go up before the tribunal? “Thank you,” I’m going to say, “thank you for saving me before it was too late.” 10 16.5 Parsons’ face grows “calmer” (line 1). Why should Parsons not be calm at all? (2) 16.6 Why is Parsons’ hope in the “tribunal” (line 9) pointless? (2) 16.7 What is Thoughtcrime? (2) 16.8 Describe Parsons’ character. Justify your statements by referring to the passage. (3) 16.9 Explain Orwell’s message in this passage. ee TOTAL SECTIONC: 25 TOTAL: 75 END