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CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS

COUNCIL

CARIBBEAN SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE@

EXAMINATION

ENGLISH

B

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General Proficiency

I

hour 45 minules

DO NOT TURN

THIS

PAGE

UNTIL

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ARE TOLD TO

DO SO.

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5.

READ

THE

FOLLOWING

INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY.

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This paper consists of THREE questions. Answer

ALL

questions. Write your answers in the spaces provided in this answer booklet. Do NOT write in the margins.

You are advised to take some time to read through the paper and plan your answers.

lf

you need to rewrite any answer and there is not enough space to do so on the original page, you must use the extra lined page(s) provided at the back

of

this booklet. Remember to

draw

a line through

your original

answer.

If

you use the

extra

page(s) you MUST

write

the question number

clearly

in

the box provided at the top of the

extra

page(s) and, where relevant, include the question

part

beside the answer.

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DRAMA

Read the

following

extract

carefully

and

answerALL

the questions

that

follow.

fMusic.

Enter

HELEN)

HELEN:

Jo!

Your beloved old lady's arrived. Well, where is she, Romeo?

GEOF:

Don't tell her I came for you.

HELEN:

What? Don't mumble.

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I said don't tell her I came for you. HELEN

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All right. All right.

This place hasn't changed much, has

it?

Still the same

old miserable

hole.

Well, where's the lady in question? In there.

What, lazing in bed, as usual? _{fThey enter}Jo b room) Come on, get up; plenty

of girls

in your condition have to go out to work and take care

of

a family.

Come on, get up.

What blew you in?

Let me have a look at you. Who told you about me?

Your mother has a right to know.

She has no rights where

I'm

concerned.

I didn't need to talk to her. The whole district knows what's going on _{here. [7o}

Geofl

And what's your part in this Iittle Victorian melodrama? Nursemaid?

And what has been going on?

I suppose you think you can hide yourself away in this chicken run, don't you? Well, you

can't.

Everybody knows.

She won't go out anywhere, not even for a walk and a bit of fresh

air.

That's why I came to you.

And what do you think I can do about

it?

ln any case, bearing a child doesn't

place anyone under an obligation to it. I should have thought it did

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-5-[To Geof) Serves you right for bringing her here, Geof.

HELEN Where's the loving father? Distinguished by his absence, I suppose. lTo Geof )

Did she hear any more of him?

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JO:

No, she didn't.

HELEN:

When

I'm

talking to the organ grinder I don't expect the monkey to answer.

JO:

I could get him back tomorrow

if

I wanted to.

HELEN:

Well, that's nice to

know.

He certainly left you a nice Christmas

box.

It did

happen at Christmas, I suppose? When the cat's away.

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JO:

Get out of here. You should have been locked up years ago, with my father.

HELEN:

Let me get a hold of her!

GEOF:

Please,

Jo.

Helen, Please!

JO:

[To

Helenf

If you don't get out of here

I'll

...

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lull.)

Shelagh Delaney, A Tbste of Honelt. Grove Press, 1956'

pp'

59-62'

(a)

Describe what is happening in lines

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(2 marks)

(b)

(i)

Suggest ONE reason Geof might not want Jo to know he asked Helen to visit.

(2 marks)

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What is Jo's attitude to her

'condition'?

Support your answer with evidence from the extract.

(2 marks)

(c)

Comment on the dramatic significance of Helen's entrance.

(3 marks)

(d)

Describe Ceof's role in the extract.

(2 marks) Briefly discuss the nature

of

the relationship between the mother (Helen) and daughter (Jo) in the extract. Support your response with evidence from the extract.

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Comment on the dramatic impact of repetition in the following lines: "Well, that's nice to know. He certainly left you a nice Christmas box. It did happen at Christmas, I suppose?"

(lines 33-34).

(3 marks)

(g)

Explain ONE way in which the playwright uses suspense to create interest.

(2 marks)

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POETRY

Read the

following

poem carefully and answer

ALL

the questions

that

follow.

Affrontr

Bernie fall asleep many mornings in The Dragon's

class where Geography meant saying pages by heart.

As soon as he sat down sleepiness came on like tons

he could carry no more. So almost from the start

of the recitations his eyes drooped and shut. By turn we all had to repeat from memory undigested

gobbets of that day's set chapter.

An

unbroken drone

answered The Dragon's demand, a charlatan2 vested

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in the robes of a teacher. Promised punishment fell

on all who faltered. But most nights Bernie could not read

norsleep. Home was notsetup

forthat.

Sowhen we woke him to recite the next sentence of course he couldn't

he was made to stand on one leg, (The Dragon's grim joke about treating the class to a sleepwalker's stunt),

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ofthe

period and through the recess

Mr

H called it an affront he was not prepared

to waive3. His record of examination success

made that clear, he said. Now shame asks why none of us dared

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to defend Bernie. Were we

all

like the Dragon, there just to safeguard some false acclaim? We pretended that

it was not our business and Ieft Bernie to bear

his torture alone. We turned to our own combat with the rungs up a ladder to ascend to the top

where the ground below could not be seen. We wriggled up.

I _{to do or}_say_{something that shows a lack}_of

respect for someone's feelings

2 _{A con man/fraud} 3 _put_aside_or_ignore

Cecil Gray, "Affront

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Who is Bernie and where is the event taking place?

(2 marks)

State ONE thing we learn about Bernie's behaviour. Suggest ONE reason for this behaviour. Use evidence from the poem to support your answer.

(3 marks) (c) What does "Promised punishment

fell /

on all who faltered" (lines

9-10)

suggest about

the Dragon?

(2 marks)

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What is the speaker's attitude towards the following characters?

(i)

Bernie

(ii)

The Dragon

Use evidence from the poem to support your answer.

(i)

Bernie

(2 marks)

(ii)

The Dragon

(e)

(2 marks) Identify the figurative device used in ONE ofthe following and comment on its effectiveness:

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"sleepiness came on like tons / he could carry no more" (lines 3-4)

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"The Dragon's grim

joke" (line

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(3 marks)

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(e)

(3 marks) How appropriate is the

title of

the poem? Justify your answer

with

evidence from the poem.

(3 marks)

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FICTION

3.

Read the

following

extract carefully and

answerALL

the questions

that

follow.

The leopard came out in the afternoon.

It

came out

of

a clump

of

husky chestnuts,

off

a

low

limb, and

it

was cold and wet and murderous. Save

for

the quick scrabble

of

the claws on the slippery wood,

it

left the limb without a sound; and when Nebu saw it the hindlegs were already hooking inward for sinking into the boy's shoulders. It was an alien flicker in the corner

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ofNebu's eyes but his jungle senses instantly smote into action. He was quicker than the cat, with the upward lunge of the spear. But the flying brute curved magnificently in the air, striking at the

iron as it passed. Nebu felt the earthquake in his shoulder, in his arm, as the point raked savagely,

helplessly, along the tuming, cheating hard-skinned coat.

It dropped squarely and the fore-legs hit and bounded offthe turf-like rubber pads. Snarling,

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it pivoted on hindlegs. The great head slashed around and Nebu looked

full

into the face of the cat. Hate, fury, purpose, flourished like green things in the tawny face; desiring Nebu, rippling to tear him down. The claws drew red wounds into the earth. The claws were dirty, Nebu noticed. The boy whimpered where he had fallen to the ground and the sound drew the reptilian head around to him and the pouched lips lifted

offthe

teeth.

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'No!'Nebu

_cried

Anything to turn the pouring eyes back to himself. He gestured with the seven-foot spear.

'No!

Child of

filth!

To

me! Me!

Carrion!

Work for your

meal!'

Like the nobler ones

of the forest. And Nebu heard the animal purr and he saw how the end of the tail moved lightly,

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and his bowels contracted as under a sharp blow and he lurched forward, yelling.

He would have plunged the spear into

it

but the leopard groped in the ground and found footing, hurled itself backward and was gone with two bounds into the bush. Nebu waited until the crash of its going was lost to the clearing.

Victor S. Reid, The Leopard. Heinemann, 2008. pp. 63-61.

(a)

Describe what is happening in the extract.

(2 marks)

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in

line 6, "the

flying

brute curved magnificently in the air"?

(2 marks)

(c)

(i)

Identify the setting of the extract.

(1

mark)

(ii)

Explain how the setting is appropriate

(d)

(2 marks)

What mood is created in paragraph 2? Suppon your answer with evidence from the extract.

(3 marks)

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"bounded

offthe

turf-like rubber pads" (line 9)

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"The claws drew red wounds into the eatth"

(line

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(3 marks)

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(i)

What is the effect of Nebu's words to the leopard?

(2 marks)

(ii)

What TWO characteristics are shared by both Nebu and the leopard?

(2 marks)

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-(e) What might be the outcome of another encounter between Nebu and the leopard? Support your response with evidence from the extract.

(3 marks)

Total20

marks

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