English HL Grade 11 P2 November Mock Exam 2 2026 QP (Eng)

Copyright reserved Please turn over Mock hlayiso mock exams Practice Series: Grade 11 Exam Preparation WWW.HLAYISO.COM NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE GRADE 11 ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2 NOVEMBER EXAMINATION 2026 (MOCK) MARKS: 80 TIME: 2½ hours This question paper consists of 25 pages.

English Home Language/P2 2 NSC Mock Hlayiso/Mock 2026 INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION 1. Read these instructions carefully before you begin to answer the questions. 2. Do NOT attempt to read the entire question paper. Consult the table of contents on page 3 and mark the numbers of the questions set on texts you have studied this year. Thereafter, read these questions and choose the ones you wish to answer. 3. This question paper consists of THREE sections: SECTION A: Poetry (30) SECTION B: Novel (25) SECTION C: Drama (25) 4. Answer FIVE questions in all: THREE in SECTION A, ONE in SECTION B and ONE in SECTION C as follows: SECTION A: POETRY PRESCRIBED POETRY – Answer TWO questions. UNSEEN POEM – COMPULSORY question SECTION B: NOVEL Answer ONE question. SECTION C: DRAMA Answer ONE question. 5. CHOICE OF ANSWERS FOR SECTIONS B (NOVEL) AND C (DRAMA): • Answer questions ONLY on the novel and the drama you have studied. • Answer ONE ESSAY QUESTION and ONE CONTEXTUAL QUESTION. If you answer the essay question in SECTION B, you must answer the contextual question in SECTION C. If you answer the contextual question in SECTION B, you must answer the essay question in SECTION C. Use the checklist to assist you. 6. LENGTH OF ANSWERS: • The essay question on Poetry should be answered in about 200–250 words. • Essay questions on the Novel and Drama sections should be answered in 300–350 words. • The length of answers to contextual questions should be determined by the mark allocation. Candidates should aim for conciseness and relevance. 7. Follow the instructions at the beginning of each section carefully. 8. Number your answers correctly according to the numbering system used in this question paper. 9. Start EACH section on a NEW page. 10. Suggested time management: SECTION A: approximately 40 minutes SECTION B: approximately 55 minutes SECTION C: approximately 55 minutes 11. Write neatly and legibly. Copyright reserved Please turn over

English Home Language/P2 3 NSC Mock Hlayiso/Mock 2026 TABLE OF CONTENTS SECTION A: POETRY Prescribed Poetry: Answer ANY TWO questions. QUESTION NO. QUESTION MARKS PAGE NO. 1. 'We Wear the Mask' Essay question 10 5 2. 'Sonnet 130' Contextual question 10 6 3. 'The Author to Her Book' Contextual question 10 7 4. 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge' Contextual question 10 8 AND Unseen Poetry: COMPULSORY question 5. 'Piano' Contextual question 10 9 SECTION B: NOVEL Answer ONE question.* 6. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Essay question 25 10 7. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Contextual question 25 11 8. Pride and Prejudice Essay question 25 14 9. Pride and Prejudice Contextual question 25 14 SECTION C: DRAMA Answer ONE question.* 10. Macbeth Essay question 25 17 11. Macbeth Contextual question 25 17 12. The Merchant of Venice Essay question 25 22 13. The Merchant of Venice Contextual question 25 22 *NOTE: In SECTIONS B and C, answer ONE ESSAY and ONE CONTEXTUAL question. You may NOT answer TWO essay questions or TWO contextual questions. NOTE ON THIS MOCK PAPER (Hlayiso): Grade 11 literature is prescribed per province and school, so this paper uses only public-domain works. The novels and dramas are the same as in Mock 1, with new extracts and questions. The prescribed poems are 'We Wear the Mask' (P.L. Dunbar, 1895), 'Sonnet 130' (W. Shakespeare, 1609), 'The Author to Her Book' (Anne Bradstreet, 1678) and 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge' (W. Wordsworth, 1802), public-domain poems typical of Grade 11 Home Language study. The unseen poem is 'Piano' (D.H. Lawrence, 1918). Copyright reserved Please turn over

English Home Language/P2 4 NSC Mock Hlayiso/Mock 2026 CHECKLIST Use this checklist to ensure that you have answered the correct number of questions. SECTION QUESTION NUMBERS NO. OF QUESTIONS TO ANSWER TICK (✓) A: Poetry (Prescribed Poetry) 1–4 2 A: Poetry (Unseen Poem) 5 1 B: Novel (Essay or Contextual) 6–9 1 C: Drama (Essay or Contextual) 10–13 1 NOTE: In SECTIONS B and C, ensure that you have answered ONE ESSAY and ONE CONTEXTUAL question. You may NOT answer TWO essay questions or TWO contextual questions. Copyright reserved Please turn over

English Home Language/P2 5 NSC Mock Hlayiso/Mock 2026 SECTION A: POETRY PRESCRIBED POETRY Answer any TWO of the following questions. QUESTION 1: POETRY – ESSAY QUESTION Read the poem below and then answer the question that follows. WE WEAR THE MASK – Paul Laurence Dunbar 1 We wear the mask that grins and lies, 2 It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes, – 3 This debt we pay to human guile; 4 With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, 5 And mouth with myriad subtleties. 6 Why should the world be over-wise, 7 In counting all our tears and sighs? 8 Nay, let them only see us, while 9 We wear the mask. 10 We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries 11 To thee from tortured souls arise. 12 We sing, but oh the clay is vile 13 Beneath our feet, and long the mile; 14 But let the world dream otherwise, 15 We wear the mask! Glossary: guile: cunning, deceit; myriad: countless; subtleties: fine, clever details; over-wise: too knowing, too curious; clay: earth, the ground (also the human body) Paul Laurence Dunbar, the son of formerly enslaved parents, wrote this poem in 1895, when African Americans in the United States still faced harsh discrimination. In a carefully planned essay, critically discuss how the poet uses imagery, diction and tone to convey the suffering that is hidden behind the 'mask'. Your essay must be 200–250 words (about ONE page) in length. [10] Copyright reserved Please turn over

English Home Language/P2 6 NSC Mock Hlayiso/Mock 2026 QUESTION 2: POETRY – CONTEXTUAL QUESTION Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow. SONNET 130 – William Shakespeare 1 My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; 2 Coral is far more red than her lips' red; 3 If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; 4 If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. 5 I have seen roses damasked, red and white, 6 But no such roses see I in her cheeks; 7 And in some perfumes is there more delight 8 Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. 9 I love to hear her speak, yet well I know 10 That music hath a far more pleasing sound; 11 I grant I never saw a goddess go; 12 My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground. 13 And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare 14 As any she belied with false compare. Glossary: dun: dull greyish-brown; damasked: patterned or mingled (pink); reeks: is breathed out, comes out; go: walk; rare: precious, special; belied: misrepresented, lied about; false compare: exaggerated comparisons 2.1 Refer to lines 1–4: 'My mistress' eyes … on her head.' Explain how the speaker's comparisons in these lines differ from those usually found in love poetry of his time. (2) 2.2 Refer to line 8: 'Than in the … my mistress reeks.' Comment on the speaker's choice of the word 'reeks' in this line. (2) 2.3 Refer to lines 11–12: 'I grant I … on the ground.' Discuss the effectiveness of the contrast between the 'goddess' and the 'mistress' in these lines. (3) 2.4 Refer to lines 13–14: 'And yet, by … with false compare.' Critically discuss how the rhyming couplet changes the tone of the sonnet and conveys its central message. (3) [10] Copyright reserved Please turn over

English Home Language/P2 7 NSC Mock Hlayiso/Mock 2026 QUESTION 3: POETRY – CONTEXTUAL QUESTION Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow. THE AUTHOR TO HER BOOK – Anne Bradstreet 1 Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, 2 Who after birth didst by my side remain, 3 Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true, 4 Who thee abroad, exposed to public view, 5 Made thee in rags, halting to th' press to trudge, 6 Where errors were not lessened (all may judge). 7 At thy return my blushing was not small, 8 My rambling brat (in print) should mother call, 9 I cast thee by as one unfit for light, 10 Thy visage was so irksome in my sight; 11 Yet being mine own, at length affection would 12 Thy blemishes amend, if so I could: 13 I washed thy face, but more defects I saw, 14 And rubbing off a spot still made a flaw. 15 I stretched thy joints to make thee even feet, 16 Yet still thou run'st more hobbling than is meet; 17 In better dress to trim thee was my mind, 18 But nought save homespun cloth i' th' house I find. 19 In this array 'mongst vulgars may'st thou roam. 20 In critic's hands beware thou dost not come, 21 And take thy way where yet thou art not known; 22 If for thy father asked, say thou hadst none; 23 And for thy mother, she alas is poor, 24 Which caused her thus to send thee out of door. Glossary: Bradstreet's first collection of poems was taken to England and printed in 1650 without her knowledge; she wrote this poem while revising it for a second edition. halting: limping; press: printing press; visage: face; irksome: annoying; even feet: regular rhythm (metrical feet); meet: proper; homespun: simple, home-made; array: clothing; vulgars: ordinary people 3.1 Refer to lines 3–6: 'Till snatched from … (all may judge).' Explain what these lines reveal about how the book came to be published. (2) 3.2 Refer to lines 7–8: 'At thy return … should mother call'. Account for the speaker's 'blushing' when the book returns to her. (2) 3.3 Refer to lines 13–14: 'I washed thy … made a flaw.' Discuss how the image in these lines conveys the speaker's frustration in trying to improve her work. (3) 3.4 Refer to lines 21–24: 'And take thy … out of door.' Critically discuss the tone of the concluding lines and what they suggest about the speaker's position as a woman writer. (3) [10] Copyright reserved Please turn over

English Home Language/P2 8 NSC Mock Hlayiso/Mock 2026 QUESTION 4: POETRY – CONTEXTUAL QUESTION Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow. COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE – William Wordsworth 1 Earth has not anything to show more fair: 2 Dull would he be of soul who could pass by 3 A sight so touching in its majesty: 4 This City now doth, like a garment, wear 5 The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, 6 Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie 7 Open unto the fields, and to the sky; 8 All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. 9 Never did sun more beautifully steep 10 In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; 11 Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! 12 The river glideth at his own sweet will: 13 Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; 14 And all that mighty heart is lying still! Glossary: Wordsworth wrote this sonnet after crossing Westminster Bridge over the River Thames in London early on the morning of 3 September 1802. Dull of soul: insensitive, lacking feeling; doth: does; smokeless: (at this early hour) free of the smoke of household fires and factories; steep: soak, bathe; splendour: brilliance; ne'er: never; glideth: glides, flows smoothly 4.1 Refer to lines 2–3: 'Dull would he … in its majesty'. What do these lines suggest about the speaker's attitude towards anyone who could ignore this sight? (2) 4.2 Refer to lines 4–5: 'This City now … of the morning'. Explain the comparison in these lines. (2) 4.3 Refer to lines 9–10: 'Never did sun … rock, or hill'. Discuss why the speaker's comparison of the city with natural scenery is surprising and effective. (3) 4.4 Refer to lines 12–14: 'The river glideth … is lying still!' Critically discuss how the personification in the final lines and the speaker's tone convey his response to the sleeping city. (3) [10] Copyright reserved Please turn over

English Home Language/P2 9 NSC Mock Hlayiso/Mock 2026 UNSEEN POETRY (COMPULSORY) QUESTION 5: POETRY – CONTEXTUAL QUESTION Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow. PIANO – D.H. Lawrence 1 Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; 2 Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see 3 A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings 4 And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings. 5 In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song 6 Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong 7 To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside 8 And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide. 9 So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour 10 With the great black piano appassionato. The glamour 11 Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast 12 Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past. Glossary: vista: a long view; poised: balanced, steady; insidious: working secretly and gradually; parlour: sitting room; vain: useless; clamour: loud noise; appassionato (Italian): played with great passion; glamour: magic spell, enchantment 5.1 Refer to lines 1–2: 'Softly, in the … till I see'. Explain how the woman's singing affects the speaker. (2) 5.2 Refer to lines 5–6: 'In spite of … weeps to belong'. Comment on the speaker's choice of the word 'insidious' to describe the power of the song. (2) 5.3 Refer to lines 7–8: 'To the old … piano our guide.' Discuss how the imagery in these lines creates a mood of warmth and security. (3) 5.4 Refer to stanza 3 (lines 9–12). Critically discuss how the diction in the final stanza conveys the speaker's conflicting feelings about his memories of childhood. (3) [10] TOTAL SECTION A: 30 Copyright reserved Please turn over

English Home Language/P2 10 NSC Mock Hlayiso/Mock 2026 SECTION B: NOVEL Answer ONLY on the novel you have studied. THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE – Robert Louis Stevenson Answer EITHER QUESTION 6 (essay question) OR QUESTION 7 (contextual question). QUESTION 6: DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE – ESSAY QUESTION The respectable society of Victorian London, with its obsession with reputation and secrecy, is as much to blame for the tragedy in the novel as Mr Hyde himself. In a carefully planned essay of 300–350 words (1½–2 pages) in length, critically discuss to what extent you agree with this statement. [25] Copyright reserved Please turn over

English Home Language/P2 11 NSC Mock Hlayiso/Mock 2026 QUESTION 7: DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE – CONTEXTUAL QUESTION Read the extracts below and then answer the questions that follow. EXTRACT A Nearly a year later, in the month of October, 18—, London was startled by a crime of singular ferocity and rendered all the more notable by the high position of the victim. The details were few and startling. A maid servant living alone in a house not far from the river, had gone upstairs to bed about eleven. Although a fog rolled over the city in the small hours, the early part of the night was cloudless, 5 and the lane, which the maid's window overlooked, was brilliantly lit by the full moon. It seems she was romantically given, for she sat down upon her box, which stood immediately under the window, and fell into a dream of musing. Never (she used to say, with streaming tears, when she narrated that experience), never had she felt more at peace with all men or thought more kindly of the world. And as 10 she so sat she became aware of an aged beautiful gentleman with white hair, drawing near along the lane; and advancing to meet him, another and very small gentleman, to whom at first she paid less attention. … the moon shone on his face as he spoke, and the girl was pleased to watch it, it seemed to breathe such an innocent and old-world kindness of disposition, yet with something high too, as of 15 a well-founded self-content. Presently her eye wandered to the other, and she was surprised to recognise in him a certain Mr Hyde, who had once visited her master and for whom she had conceived a dislike. He had in his hand a heavy cane, with which he was trifling; but he answered never a word, and seemed to listen with an ill-contained impatience. And then all of a sudden he broke out in a great flame 20 of anger, stamping with his foot, brandishing the cane, and carrying on (as the maid described it) like a madman. The old gentleman took a step back, with the air of one very much surprised and a trifle hurt; and at that Mr Hyde broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth. And next moment, with ape-like fury, he was trampling his victim under foot and hailing down a storm of blows, under 25 which the bones were audibly shattered and the body jumped upon the roadway. At the horror of these sights and sounds, the maid fainted. It was two o'clock when she came to herself and called for the police. The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled. The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some 30 rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty; and one splintered half had rolled in the neighbouring gutter – the other, without doubt, had been carried away by the murderer. [Chapter 4: The Carew Murder Case] Glossary: singular: remarkable, unusual; romantically given: inclined to dreamy, sentimental thoughts; musing: daydreaming; trifling: playing idly; insensate: senseless, unfeeling 7.1 What has Mr Utterson already learnt about Mr Hyde and his connection with Dr Jekyll before the events described in this extract? Mention THREE points. (3) 7.2 Refer to lines 4–10: 'Although a fog … of the world.' Explain why the narrator describes the moonlit lane and the maid's peaceful mood just before the murder. (3) Copyright reserved Please turn over

English Home Language/P2 12 NSC Mock Hlayiso/Mock 2026 7.3 Refer to lines 10–16: 'And as she … a well-founded self-content.' Discuss how the contrast between the old gentleman (Sir Danvers Carew) and Mr Hyde in this extract reflects an important theme in the novel. (3) 7.4 Refer to lines 24–26: 'And next moment … upon the roadway.' Comment on the effectiveness of the image 'ape-like fury' in the context of the novel as a whole. (3) 7.5 Refer to lines 28–33: 'It was two … by the murderer.' Explain the significance of the broken stick for the development of the plot. (3) AND Copyright reserved Please turn over

English Home Language/P2 13 NSC Mock Hlayiso/Mock 2026 EXTRACT B 'Jekyll,' cried Utterson, with a loud voice, 'I demand to see you.' He paused a moment, but there came no reply. 'I give you fair warning, our suspicions are aroused, and I must and shall see you,' he resumed; 'if not by fair means, then by foul – if not of your consent, then by brute force!' 'Utterson,' said the voice, 'for God's sake, have mercy!' 5 'Ah, that's not Jekyll's voice – it's Hyde's!' cried Utterson. 'Down with the door, Poole!' Poole swung the axe over his shoulder; the blow shook the building, and the red baize door leaped against the lock and hinges. A dismal screech, as of mere animal terror, rang from the cabinet. Up went the axe again, and again the panels 10 crashed and the frame bounded; four times the blow fell; but the wood was tough and the fittings were of excellent workmanship; and it was not until the fifth, that the lock burst and the wreck of the door fell inwards on the carpet. The besiegers, appalled by their own riot and the stillness that had succeeded, stood back a little and peered in. There lay the cabinet before their eyes in the quiet 15 lamplight, a good fire glowing and chattering on the hearth, the kettle singing its thin strain, a drawer or two open, papers neatly set forth on the business table, and nearer the fire, the things laid out for tea; the quietest room, you would have said, and, but for the glazed presses full of chemicals, the most commonplace that night in London. 20 Right in the midst there lay the body of a man sorely contorted and still twitching. They drew near on tiptoe, turned it on its back and beheld the face of Edward Hyde. He was dressed in clothes far too large for him, clothes of the doctor's bigness; the cords of his face still moved with a semblance of life, but life was quite gone; and by the crushed phial in the hand and the strong smell of kernels that hung 25 upon the air, Utterson knew that he was looking on the body of a self-destroyer. 'We have come too late,' he said sternly, 'whether to save or punish. Hyde is gone to his account; and it only remains for us to find the body of your master.' [Chapter 8: The Last Night] Glossary: baize: thick woollen cloth used to cover doors; cabinet: Jekyll's private room above the laboratory; presses: cupboards; phial: small glass bottle; kernels: the bitter-almond smell of the poison prussic acid (cyanide); gone to his account: died and gone to face God's judgement 7.6 Account for the presence of Mr Utterson and Poole outside the door of the cabinet on this night. (3) 7.7 Refer to lines 14–20: 'The besiegers, appalled … night in London.' Comment on the irony of the description of the cabinet. (3) 7.8 Refer to both EXTRACT A and EXTRACT B. Critically discuss how Hyde's behaviour in EXTRACT A contrasts with his final moments in EXTRACT B, and what this contrast suggests about the fate of evil in the novel. (4) [25] Copyright reserved Please turn over

English Home Language/P2 14 NSC Mock Hlayiso/Mock 2026 PRIDE AND PREJUDICE – Jane Austen Answer EITHER QUESTION 8 (essay question) OR QUESTION 9 (contextual question). QUESTION 8: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE – ESSAY QUESTION In Pride and Prejudice, Austen shows that a happy marriage must be based on love and mutual respect rather than on money and social position. In a carefully planned essay of 300–350 words (1½–2 pages) in length, critically discuss to what extent this statement is true. Refer to at least THREE marriages or engagements in the novel. [25] QUESTION 9: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE – CONTEXTUAL QUESTION Read the extracts below and then answer the questions that follow. EXTRACT C Mr Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike: he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners. … but his friend Mr Darcy soon drew the attention of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien, and the report, which was in general circulation within five minutes after his entrance, of his having ten thousand a year. The gentlemen pronounced him to be a fine figure of a man, 5 the ladies declared he was much handsomer than Mr Bingley, and he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening, till his manners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be proud, to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable 10 countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend. … 'Which do you mean?' and turning round, he looked for a moment at Elizabeth, till, catching her eye, he withdrew his own, and coldly said, 'She is tolerable: but not handsome enough to tempt me; and I am in no humour at present to give 15 consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. You had better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles, for you are wasting your time with me.' Mr Bingley followed his advice. Mr Darcy walked off; and Elizabeth remained with no very cordial feelings towards him. She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in 20 anything ridiculous. [Chapter 3] Glossary: countenance: face, expression; mien: bearing, appearance; ten thousand a year: an annual income of £10 000 (a very large fortune); give consequence to: pay attention to, honour 9.1 Place this extract in context. (3) 9.2 Refer to lines 1–11: 'Mr Bingley was … with his friend.' Discuss how the narrator uses irony in these lines to comment on the values of Meryton society. (3) Copyright reserved Please turn over

English Home Language/P2 15 NSC Mock Hlayiso/Mock 2026 9.3 Refer to lines 14–16: 'She is tolerable … by other men.' What do these words reveal about Darcy's character at this stage of the novel? (3) 9.4 Refer to lines 18–21: 'Mr Bingley followed … in anything ridiculous.' What does Elizabeth's reaction reveal about her character? Substantiate your answer. (3) AND EXTRACT D 'Not so hasty, if you please. I have by no means done. To all the objections I have already urged I have still another to add. I am no stranger to the particulars of your youngest sister's infamous elopement. I know it all; that the young man's marrying her was a patched-up business, at the expense of your father and uncles. And is such a girl to be my nephew's sister? Is her husband, who is the son of his late 5 father's steward, to be his brother? Heaven and earth! – of what are you thinking? Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?' 'You can now have nothing further to say,' she resentfully answered. 'You have insulted me, in every possible method. I must beg to return to the house.' … 10 'You are then resolved to have him?' 'I have said no such thing. I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.' 'It is well. You refuse, then, to oblige me. You refuse to obey the claims of duty, 15 honour, and gratitude. You are determined to ruin him in the opinion of all his friends, and make him the contempt of the world.' 'Neither duty, nor honour, nor gratitude,' replied Elizabeth, 'have any possible claim on me, in the present instance. No principle of either would be violated by my marriage with Mr Darcy. And with regard to the resentment of his family, or the 20 indignation of the world, if the former were excited by his marrying me, it would not give me one moment's concern – and the world in general would have too much sense to join in the scorn.' [Chapter 56] Glossary: steward: the manager of a landowner's estate; shades: (here) the grounds and woods of the estate; resolved: determined 9.5 Explain why Lady Catherine de Bourgh has come to Longbourn to speak to Elizabeth. (3) 9.6 Refer to lines 1–7: 'Not so hasty … to be thus polluted?' Comment on the irony of Lady Catherine's attitude towards Lydia's marriage in the light of what Darcy has done for the Bennet family. (3) Copyright reserved Please turn over

English Home Language/P2 16 NSC Mock Hlayiso/Mock 2026 9.7 Refer to lines 12–14: 'I have said … unconnected with me.' What do these lines reveal about Elizabeth's values? (3) 9.8 Refer to both EXTRACT C and EXTRACT D. Critically discuss how Elizabeth's response to being insulted in EXTRACT C differs from her response in EXTRACT D, and what this reveals about her development in the novel. (4) [25] TOTAL SECTION B: 25 Copyright reserved Please turn over

English Home Language/P2 17 NSC Mock Hlayiso/Mock 2026 SECTION C: DRAMA Answer ONLY on the drama you have studied. MACBETH – William Shakespeare Answer EITHER QUESTION 10 (essay question) OR QUESTION 11 (contextual question). QUESTION 10: MACBETH – ESSAY QUESTION In Macbeth, the disruption of the natural order is shown to be the inevitable consequence of regicide (the killing of a king). In a carefully planned essay of 300–350 words (1½–2 pages) in length, critically discuss to what extent you agree with this statement. [25] QUESTION 11: MACBETH – CONTEXTUAL QUESTION Read the extracts below and then answer the questions that follow. EXTRACT E BANQUO All's well. I dreamt last night of the three Weird Sisters: To you they have show'd some truth. MACBETH I think not of them: Yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve, 5 We would spend it in some words upon that business, If you would grant the time. BANQUO At your kind'st leisure. MACBETH If you shall cleave to my consent, when 'tis, It shall make honour for you. 10 BANQUO So I lose none In seeking to augment it, but still keep My bosom franchis'd, and allegiance clear, I shall be counsell'd. MACBETH Good repose the while! 15 BANQUO Thanks, sir: the like to you. Exeunt Banquo and Fleance. Copyright reserved Please turn over

English Home Language/P2 18 NSC Mock Hlayiso/Mock 2026 … MACBETH Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: – I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible 20 To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? … I see thee still; 25 And on thy blade and dudgeon, gouts of blood, Which was not so before. – There's no such thing. It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes. – Now o'er the one half-world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse 30 The curtain'd sleep. Witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's off'rings; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design 35 Moves like a ghost. … A bell rings. I go, and it is done. The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell. [Act 2, Scene 1] Glossary: cleave to my consent: support me; franchis'd: free (from guilt); counsell'd: willing to listen; sensible: able to be felt; dudgeon: handle of a dagger; gouts: drops; Hecate: goddess of witchcraft; Tarquin: a Roman prince who committed a terrible crime at night; knell: the bell rung for a death 11.1 Place this extract in context. (3) 11.2 Refer to lines 9–14: 'If you shall … shall be counsell'd.' Explain what Macbeth is suggesting to Banquo and what Banquo's reply reveals about Banquo's character. (3) 11.3 Refer to lines 17–23: 'Is this a … the heat-oppressed brain?' What does the vision of the dagger reveal about Macbeth's state of mind at this point in the play? (3) 11.4 Refer to lines 29–36: 'Now o'er the … Moves like a ghost.' Discuss how the imagery in these lines creates an appropriate atmosphere for the murder of Duncan. (3) Copyright reserved Please turn over

English Home Language/P2 19 NSC Mock Hlayiso/Mock 2026 11.5 Refer to lines 37–39: 'I go, and … or to hell.' If you were the director of a production of Macbeth, how would you instruct the actor playing Macbeth to deliver these lines? Pay attention to both tone and body language. Motivate your instructions. (3) AND Copyright reserved Please turn over

English Home Language/P2 20 NSC Mock Hlayiso/Mock 2026 EXTRACT F DOCTOR What is it she does now? Look how she rubs her hands. GENTLEWOMAN It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus washing her hands. I have known her continue in this a quarter of an hour. LADY MACBETH Yet here's a spot. DOCTOR Hark, she speaks. I will set down what comes from her, to satisfy my remembrance 5 the more strongly. LADY MACBETH Out, damned spot! out, I say! One; two. Why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky! Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? 10 DOCTOR Do you mark that? LADY MACBETH The Thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now? – What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting. DOCTOR Go to, go to. You have known what you should not. GENTLEWOMAN She has spoke what she should not, I am sure of that: heaven knows what she 15 has known. LADY MACBETH Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh! DOCTOR What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged. … DOCTOR This disease is beyond my practice: yet I have known those which have walked 20 in their sleep, who have died holily in their beds. [Act 5, Scene 1] Glossary: murky: dark, gloomy; Thane of Fife: Macduff; starting: sudden fearful movements; sorely charged: heavily burdened 11.6 Account for the presence of the Doctor and the Gentlewoman in this scene. (3) Copyright reserved Please turn over

English Home Language/P2 21 NSC Mock Hlayiso/Mock 2026 11.7 Refer to lines 17–18: 'Here's the smell … Oh, oh, oh!' Explain the irony of these words when they are compared with what Lady Macbeth says to Macbeth shortly after the murder of Duncan. (3) 11.8 Refer to both EXTRACT E and EXTRACT F. In both extracts a character sees or senses something that is not really there (a dagger and a spot of blood). Critically discuss how these two visions show the effect of guilt on Macbeth and Lady Macbeth at different stages of the play. (4) [25] Copyright reserved Please turn over

English Home Language/P2 22 NSC Mock Hlayiso/Mock 2026 THE MERCHANT OF VENICE – William Shakespeare Answer EITHER QUESTION 12 (essay question) OR QUESTION 13 (contextual question). QUESTION 12: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE – ESSAY QUESTION In The Merchant of Venice, love and friendship prove to be more powerful than money. In a carefully planned essay of 300–350 words (1½–2 pages) in length, critically discuss to what extent you agree with this statement. [25] QUESTION 13: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE – CONTEXTUAL QUESTION Read the extracts below and then answer the questions that follow. EXTRACT G SHYLOCK There I have another bad match, a bankrupt, a prodigal, who dare scarce show his head on the Rialto, a beggar, that was used to come so smug upon the mart; let him look to his bond. He was wont to call me usurer; let him look to his bond: he was wont to lend money for a Christian courtesy; let him look to his bond. SALARINO Why, I am sure if he forfeit, thou wilt not take his flesh! What's that good for? 5 SHYLOCK To bait fish withal; if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me and hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies. And what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the 10 same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what 15 is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge! The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. [Act 3, Scene 1] Glossary: prodigal: someone who wastes money; mart: market; wont: used to; usurer: moneylender who charges interest; courtesy: favour (lending money without interest); withal: with; hindered: cost me (in lost profit); sufferance: patient endurance 13.1 Place this extract in context. (3) 13.2 Refer to lines 1–4: 'There I have … to his bond.' Comment on the effect of the repetition of 'let him look to his bond' and what it reveals about Shylock's state of mind. (3) 13.3 Refer to lines 9–14: 'Hath not a … we not revenge?' Discuss how Shylock uses rhetorical questions to make his argument persuasive. (3) Copyright reserved Please turn over

English Home Language/P2 23 NSC Mock Hlayiso/Mock 2026 13.4 Refer to lines 17–18: 'The villainy you … better the instruction.' Shylock threatens to 'better the instruction'. Critically discuss whether he succeeds in doing so by the end of the trial. (3) AND Copyright reserved Please turn over

English Home Language/P2 24 NSC Mock Hlayiso/Mock 2026 EXTRACT H DUKE We all expect a gentle answer, Jew. SHYLOCK I have possess'd your Grace of what I purpose, And by our holy Sabbath have I sworn To have the due and forfeit of my bond. If you deny it, let the danger light 5 Upon your charter and your city's freedom! You'll ask me why I rather choose to have A weight of carrion flesh than to receive Three thousand ducats. I'll not answer that, But say it is my humour. Is it answer'd? 10 What if my house be troubled with a rat, And I be pleas'd to give ten thousand ducats To have it ban'd? What, are you answer'd yet? … So can I give no reason, nor I will not, More than a lodg'd hate and a certain loathing 15 I bear Antonio, that I follow thus A losing suit against him. Are you answer'd? BASSANIO This is no answer, thou unfeeling man, To excuse the current of thy cruelty. SHYLOCK I am not bound to please thee with my answers. 20 Copyright reserved Please turn over

English Home Language/P2 25 NSC Mock Hlayiso/Mock 2026 BASSANIO Do all men kill the things they do not love? SHYLOCK Hates any man the thing he would not kill? BASSANIO Every offence is not a hate at first. SHYLOCK What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice? ANTONIO I pray you, think you question with the Jew. 25 You may as well go stand upon the beach And bid the main flood bate his usual height; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb; You may as well forbid the mountain pines 30 To wag their high tops and to make no noise When they are fretten with the gusts of heaven; You may as well do anything most hard As seek to soften that – than which what's harder? – His Jewish heart. 35 [Act 4, Scene 1] Glossary: possess'd: informed; charter: the rights and freedoms granted to the city; carrion: dead, rotting; humour: whim, mood; ban'd: poisoned; lodg'd: deep-rooted; main flood: the sea; bate: lower; fretten: troubled, shaken 13.5 Refer to line 1: 'We all expect a gentle answer, Jew.' Explain the pun on the word 'gentle' and why the Duke's appeal is unlikely to succeed. (3) 13.6 Refer to lines 7–13: 'You'll ask me … you answer'd yet?' If you were the director of a production of The Merchant of Venice, how would you instruct the actor playing Shylock to deliver these lines? Pay attention to both tone and body language. Motivate your instructions. (3) 13.7 Refer to lines 26–35: 'You may as … His Jewish heart.' Discuss the effectiveness of the images Antonio uses to convey the futility of trying to soften Shylock's heart. (3) 13.8 Refer to both EXTRACT G and EXTRACT H. Critically discuss how the reasons Shylock gives for wanting his bond in EXTRACT G differ from the reasons he gives in court in EXTRACT H, and what this difference suggests about him. (4) [25] TOTAL SECTION C: 25 GRAND TOTAL: 80 Copyright reserved