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CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL CARIBBEAN SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE@ EXAMINATION ENGLISH B Paper
0l - General Proficiency I
hour 45 minules
READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY. I
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This paper consists of THREE questions. Answer ALL questions.
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Write your answers in the spaces provided in this answer booklet.
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Do NOT write in the margins.
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-4SECTION A _ DRAMA
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Read the following extract carefully and answerALL the questions that follow.
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HELEN:
Jo! Your beloved old lady's arrived. Well, where
GEOF:
Don't tell her I came for you.
HELEN:
What? Don't mumble.
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is she, Romeo?
I said don't tell her I came for you.
HELEN
All right. All right. This
GEOF
In there.
HELEN
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.
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place hasn't changed much, has old miserable hole. Well, where's the lady in question?
it? Still the same
Come on, get up. JO
What blew you in?
HELEN
Let me have a look at you.
JO
Who told you about me?
15 GEOF JO
HELEN
Your mother has a right to know. She has no rights where I
I'm concerned.
didn't need to talk to her. The whole district knows what's going on here. [7o part in this Iittle Victorian melodrama? Nursemaid?
Geofl And what's your JO
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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.
GEOF:
She won't go out anywhere, not even for a walk and a bit of fresh air. That's why I came to you.
HELEN:
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.
GEOF:
I should have thought it did
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Where's the loving father? Distinguished by his absence, I suppose. lTo Geof ) Did she hear any more of him?
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.
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:
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Helenf If you don't get out of here I'll ...
lThere is a sudden lull.)
(a)
Jo. Helen,
Shelagh Delaney, A Tbste of Honelt. Grove Press, 1956' pp' 59-62'
Describe what is happening in lines
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(b)
(i)
Suggest ONE reason Geof might not want Jo to know he asked Helen to visit.
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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) (e)
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 5
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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for the rest 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 A con man/fraud 3 put aside or ignore 2
Cecil Gray, "Affront
". In Careenage. LiIibeI Publications, 2003, p.7.
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Who is Bernie and where is the event taking place?
(2 marks)
(b)
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?
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What is the speaker's attitude towards the following characters?
(i) (ii)
Bernie The Dragon
Use evidence from the poem to support your answer.
(i)
(ii)
Bernie
(2 marks) The Dragon
(2 marks) (e)
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 l3)
(3 marks)
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How appropriate is the title of the poem? Justify your answer with evidence from the poem.
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-12SECTION C _ PROSE FICTION
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Read the following extract carefully and answerALL the questions that follow.
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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 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, 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.
'No!'Nebu cried
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Anything to turn the pouring eyes back to himself. He gestured with the seven-foot spear.
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'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, 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.
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What image of the leopard is created in line 6, "the flying brute curved magnificently in the air"?
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(c)
(i)
Identify the setting of the extract.
(1 mark)
(ii)
Explain how the setting is appropriate
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Identifl the figurative device used in ONE ofthe following and comment on its effectiveness
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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 l2)
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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?
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What might be the outcome of another encounter between Nebu and the leopard? Support your response with evidence from the extract.
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