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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS
International General Certificate of Secondary Education
READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST
If you have been given an Answer Booklet, follow the instructions on the front cover of the Booklet.
Write your Centre number, candidate number and name on all the work you hand in.
Write in dark blue or black pen.
Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid.
Answer four questions.
Answer at least one question from each section.
Each of your answers must be on a different text.
Answer at least one passage-based question (marked *) and at least one essay/empathic question.
At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together.
All questions in this paper carry equal marks.
LITERATURE (ENGLISH) 0486/04
Paper 4 October/November 2009
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CONTENTS
Section A: Drama
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Alan Ayckbourn: A Small Family Business 1, 2, 3 pages 45
Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun 4, 5, 6 pages 67
Charlotte Keatley: My Mother Said I Never Should 7, 8, 9 page 8
Arthur Miller: The Crucible 10, 11, 12 pages 1011
William Shakespeare: As You Like It 13, 14, 15 pages 1213
William Shakespeare: Richard III 16, 17, 18 page 14
Section B: Poetry
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Songs of Ourselves: from Part 3 19, 20, 21 pages 1516
John Keats: Poems 22, 23, 24 page 17
Section C: Prose
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Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart 25, 26, 27 pages 1819
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice 28, 29, 30 pages 2021
Ian Cross: The God Boy 31, 32, 33 pages 2223
Anita Desai: Games at Twilight 34, 35, 36 pages 2425
William Golding: Lord of the Flies 37, 38, 39 pages 2627
Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd 40, 41, 42 pages 2829
Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird 43, 44, 45 pages 3031
Barrie Wade (ed.): Into the Wind:
Contemporary Stories in English 46, 47, 48 pages 3233
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SECTION A: DRAMA
ALAN AYCKBOURN: A Small Family Business
Either * 1 Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it.
A silence. Benedict stares at him.
Jack (slightly nervously ): Does that seem fair enough to you?
Benedict: Frankly no, Mr McCracken. It doesnt seem fair to me at all.
Jack: Ah.
Benedict: Not fair to anyone, in fact. Not to the firm, not to Mr Ayres, not
to me nor indeed, most important, to the course of justice.
Slight pause.
Jack: Yes, well. Fair enough. I meant to add, of course, that that
we were all when we talked so impressed with your
work to date Mr Hough that it was generally felt overall
that a bonus would be in order. A cash bonus. (Pause.)
A large cash bonus.
Benedict: I see.
Jack: The figure talked of was five thousand pounds. (Slight pause.)
Five thousand five hundred pounds. Cash.
A chilly pause.
I dont know how that strikes you.
Benedict: It strikes me as most offensive, Mr McCracken.
Jack: Ah. (Pause.) I er now, where did I put it? (He slaps his
pockets.) I may have got it slightly wrong, the sum You
know, Ive had a head full of figures all day It could have
been nearer six thousand, now I come to think of it where
did I ? I wrote it down somewhere
Jack opens the attach case so that Benedict gets a clear
view of the contents, then closes it again.
No. Its not in there. No, Im almost certain now I think about
it, that it was six. Six, seven, something like that.
Benedict (quietly ): Mr McCracken, what is the maximum sum you have
been authorized to offer me?
Jack: Ten.
Benedict: Ten?
Jack: Yes. Thousand. (with sudden courage) Thats it. Take it or
leave it.
Benedict: Im afraid youre left with it, Mr McCracken.
Jack: Well, thats that. (making to shake hands) Its certainly
refreshing in this world, Mr Hough, to meet an incorruptible
man. Im sorry I
Benedict: Oh no, Mr McCracken, Im eminently corruptible, dont worry
on that score. Its just that I do have a very good assessment
of my own worth.
Jack: Yes. I see. And that ? Roughly? Would you care to put a
value on that, Mr Hough? On your worth?
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Benedict: Shall we say fifty thousand?
Jack (blinking ): Yes. Well, I have to tell you, Mr Hough, you can take it from
me, right now that you are whistling up a gum tree, old
chum.
Benedict: Believe me, Mr McCracken, if this is not resolved to my
satisfaction, I shall be whistling on every street corner until
you cannot see across this room for blue uniforms. I have
some idea of the sums involved over the years maybe you
dont. Just thank your lucky stars Im not demanding a 10 per
cent finders fee or I could be into you to the tune of a quarter
of a million pounds. You tell that to your associates.
Jack (rather shaken): Yes. I will. Right. Now, you mean? Right. I shall need
to telephone, you understand. Will you excuse me a
moment?
Benedict: Of course. (glancing at his watch) I dont have a lot of
Jack: Neither do I. Excuse me.
He goes to the door, remembers the briefcase, returns and
walks out with it, maintaining as much dignity as he can
muster.
Excuse me.
Benedict remains calmly seated and relaxed, sipping his
drink.
What do you think makes this conversation so amusing and yet so shocking? Support
your ideas with details from the extract.
Or 2 Does Ayckbourn make you sympathise with Jack or despise him? Support your ideas
with details from the play.
Or 3 You are Anita after the party at the end of the play. Write your thoughts.
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LORRAINE HANSBERRY: A Raisin in the Sun
Either * 4 Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it.
Walter enters. We feel the edge of unreality is still with him.
Walter: New York aint got nothing Chicago aint. Just a bunch of
hustling people all squeezed up together being Eastern.
(He turns his face into a screw of displeasure.)
George: Oh youve been?
Walter: Plenty of times.
Ruth (shocked at the lie): Walter Lee Younger!
Walter (staring her down): Plenty! (Pause.) What we got to drink in this
house? Why dont you offer this man some refreshment.
(To George.) They dont know how to entertain people in
this house, man.
George: Thank you I dont really care for anything.
Walter (feeling his head, sobriety coming): Wheres Mama?
Ruth: She aint come back yet.
Walter (Looking George over from head to toe, scrutinising his carefully
casual tweed sports jacket over cashmere V-neck sweater
over soft eyelet shirt and tie, and soft slacks, finished off with
white buckskin shoes): Why all you college boys wear them
faggoty-looking white shoes?
Ruth: Walter Lee!
George ignores this remark.
Walter (to Ruth): Well, they look crazy as hell white shoes, cold as it is.
Ruth (crushed ): You have to excuse him
Walter: No, he dont! Excuse me for what? What you always excusing
me for! Ill excuse myself when I needs to be excused!
(Pause.) They look as funny as them black knee socks
Beneatha wears out of here all the time.
Ruth: Its the college style, Walter.
Walter: Style, hell. She looks like she got burnt legs or something!
Ruth: Oh, Walter
Walter (an irritable mimic ): Oh, Walter! Oh, Walter! (to George.) Hows
your old man making out? I understand you all going to buy
that big hotel on the Drive? (He finds a beer in the refrigerator,
wanders over to George, sipping and wiping his lips with
the back of his hand and straddling a chair backwards to talk
to the other man.) Shrewd move. Your old man is all right,
man. (Tapping his head and half winking for emphasis.)
I mean he knows how to operate. I mean he thinks big, you
know what I mean, I mean for a home, you know? But I think
hes kind of running out of ideas now. Id like to talk to him.
Listen, man, I got some plans that could turn this city upside
down. I mean I think like he does. Big. Invest big, gamble
big, hell, lose big if you have to, you know what I mean. Its
hard to find a man on this whole Southside who understands
my kind of thinking you dig? (He scrutinises George
again, drinks his beer, squints his eyes and leans in close,
confidential, man to man.) Me and you ought to sit down and
talk sometimes, man. Man, I got me some ideas
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George (with boredom): Yeah sometimes well have to do that, Walter.
Walter (understanding the indifference, and offended ): Yeah well, when
you get the time, man. I know you a busy little boy.
Ruth: Walter, please
Walter (bitterly, hurt ): I know aint nothing in this world as busy as you
coloured college boys with your fraternity pins and white
shoes
Ruth (covering her face with humiliation): Oh, Walter Lee
Walter: I see you all all the time with the books tucked under your
arms going to your (He mimics the British a.) clahsses.
And for what? What the hell you learning over there? Filling
up your heads (Counting off on his fingers.) with the
sociology and the psychology. But they teaching you how to
be a man? How to take over and run the world? They teaching
you how to run a rubber plantation or a steel mill? Naw just
to talk proper and read books and wear them faggoty-looking
white shoes
George (looking at him with distaste, a little above it all ): Youre all whacked
up with bitterness, man.
Walter (intently, almost quietly, between the teeth, glaring at the boy ): And
you aint you bitter, man? Aint you just about had it yet?
Dont you see no stars gleaming that you cant reach out
and grab? You happy? you contented son-of-a-bitch you
happy? You got it made? Bitter? Man, Im a volcano. Bitter?
Here I am a giant surrounded by ants! Ants who cant even
understand what it is the giant is talking about.
Ruth ( passionately and suddenly ): Oh, Walter aint you with nobody?
Walter (violently ): No! Cause aint nobody with me! Not even my own
mother!
How does Hansberry powerfully convey Walters feelings to you in this extract?
Or 5 Which character in the play does Hansberry make you particularly admire, and for what
reasons? Support your answer by close reference to the play.
Or 6 You are Lindner at the end of the play. Write your thoughts.
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CHARLOTTE KEATLEY: My Mother Said I Never Should
Either * 7 Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it.
Rosie: If you were really my Mum you wouldnt have been able to give
me away!
Jackie: How dare you! (Goes to hit Rosie but cannot.) Youre at the
centre of everything I do! (Slight pause.) Mummy treated me as
though Id simply fallen over and cut my knee, picked me up
and said youll be all right now, it wont show much. She wanted
to make it all better. (Quiet.) She was the one who wanted it
kept secret I WANTED you, Rosie, (Angry.) For the first time
in my life I took care of myself refused joints, did exercises,
went to the clinic. (Pause.) Its a girl. (Smiles irresistibly.) After
youd gone I tried to lose that memory. (Pause. Effort.) Graham
your Father. (Silence.) He couldnt be there the day you were
born, he had to be in Liverpool. He was married. (Emphatic.)
He loved me, he loved you, you must believe that! (Pause.) He
said hed leave his wife, but I knew he wouldnt; there were two
children, the youngest was only four wed agreed, separate
lives, I wanted to bring you up. He sent money. (Pause.) I took
you to Lyme Park one day, I saw them together, across the lake,
he was buying them ice creams, his wife was taking a photo.
I think they live in Leeds now, I saw his name in the Guardian
last year, an article about his photographs (Pause.) It was a
very cold winter after you were born. There were power cuts.
I couldnt keep the room warm; there were no lights in the tower
blocks; I knew he had an open fire, it was trendy; so we took
a bus to Didsbury, big gardens, pine kitchens, made a change
from concrete. I rang the bell. (Stops.) A Punjabi man answered,
said he was sorry theyd moved. By the time we got back
to Mosside it was dark, the lift wasnt working (Stops.) That
was the night I phoned Mummy. (Difficult.) Asked her. (Pause.)
I tried! I couldnt do it, Rosie. (Pause.) It doesnt matter how
much you succeed afterwards, if youve failed once. (Pause.)
After youd gone I kept waking in the night to feed you A
week in the flat Then I went back to art school. Sandra and
Hugh thought I was inhuman. I remember the books that came
out that winter how to succeed as a single working mother
fairy tales! (Pause.) Sandra and Hugh have a family now. Quite
a few of my friends do. (Pause.) I could give you everything now.
Rosie?
Explore the ways in which Keatley vividly conveys Jackies feelings in this extract.
Or 8 Explore Keatleys portrayal of Margaret as a mother. Refer to details in the play as you
answer.
Or 9 You are Doris, aged 87, living in Oldham, thinking about your great-granddaughter Rosie.
Write your thoughts.
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ARTHUR MILLER: The Crucible
Either * 10 Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it.
Hale: Tituba. You must have no fear to tell us who they are, do
you understand? We will protect you. The Devil can never
overcome a minister. You know that, do you not?
Tituba (kisses Hales hand ): Aye, sir, oh, I do.
Hale: You have confessed yourself to witchcraft, and that speaks
a wish to come to Heavens side. And we will bless you,
Tituba.
Tituba (deeply relieved ): Oh, God bless you, Mr Hale!
Hale (with rising exaltation): You are Gods instrument put in our hands to
discover the Devils agents among us. You are selected,
Tituba, you are chosen to help us cleanse our village. So
speak utterly, Tituba, turn your back on him and face God
face God, Tituba, and God will protect you.
Tituba ( joining with him): Oh, God, protect Tituba!
Hale (kindly): Who came to you with the Devil? Two? Three? Four? How
many?
Tituba pants, and begins rocking back and forth again,
staring ahead.
Tituba: There was four. There was four.
Parris (pressing in on her ): Who? Who? Their names, their names!
Tituba (suddenly bursting out ): Oh, how many times he bid me kill you,
Mr Parris!
Parris: Kill me!
Tituba (in a fury ): He say Mr Parris must be kill! Mr Parris no goodly man,
Mr Parris mean man and no gentle man, and he bid me
rise out of my bed and cut your throat! (They gasp.) But
I tell him No! I dont hate that man. I dont want kill that
man. But he say, You work for me, Tituba, and I make
you free! I give you pretty dress to wear, and put you way
high up in the air, and you gone fly back to Barbados! And
I say, You lie, Devil, you lie! And then he come one stormy
night to me, and he say, Look! I have white people belong
to me. And I look and there was Goody Good.
Parris: Sarah Good.
Tituba (rocking and weeping): Aye, sir, and Goody Osburn.
Mrs Putnam: I knew it! Goody Osburn were midwife to me three times.
I begged you, Thomas, did I not? I begged him not to call
Osburn because I feared her. My babies always shrivelled
in her hands!
Hale: Take courage, you must give us all their names. How can
you bear to see this child suffering? Look at her, Tituba.
(He is indicating Betty on the bed.) Look at her God-given
innocence; her soul is so tender; we must protect her,
Tituba; the Devil is out and preying on her like a beast upon
the flesh of the pure lamb. God will bless you for your help.
Abigail rises, staring as though inspired, and cries out.
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Abigail: I want to open myself! (They turn to her, startled. She is
enraptured, as though in a pearly light.) I want the light
of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus! I danced for the
Devil; I saw him; I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus;
I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw
Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with
the Devil!
As she is speaking, Betty is rising from the bed, a fever
in her eyes, and picks up the chant.
Betty (staring too ): I saw George Jacobs with the Devil! I saw Goody Howe
with the Devil!
Parris: She speaks! (He rushes to embrace Betty.) She speaks!
Hale: Glory to God! It is broken, they are free!
Betty (calling out hysterically and with great relief ): I saw Martha Bellows
with the Devil!
Abigail: I saw Goody Sibber with the Devil! (It is rising to a great
glee.)
Putnam: The marshal, Ill call the marshal!
PARRIS is shouting a prayer of thanksgiving.
Betty: I saw Alice Barrow with the Devil!
The curtain begins to fall.
Hale (as Putnam goes out ): Let the marshal bring irons!
Abigail: I saw Goody Hawkins with the Devil!
Betty: I saw Goody Bibber with the Devil!
Abigail: I saw Goody Booth with the Devil!
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THE CURTAIN FALLS
How does Miller make this extract so powerful and horrifying?
Or 11 How do you think Miller manages to make Danforth such a cold and terrifying character?
Support your ideas with details from Danforths words and actions.
Or 12 You are Elizabeth Proctor at home at the start of Act 2. You hear John Proctor enter
downstairs. Write your thoughts.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: As You Like It
Either * 13 Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it.
Touchstone: Come apace, good Audrey; I will fetch up your goats,
Audrey. And how, Audrey, am I the man yet? Doth my
simple feature content you?
Audrey: Your features! Lord warrant us! What features?
Touchstone: I am here with thee and thy goats, as the most capricious
poet, honest Ovid, was among the Goths.
Jaques (Aside): O knowledge ill-inhabited, worse than Jove in a thatchd
house!
Touchstone: When a mans verses cannot be understood, nor a mans
good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it
strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little
room. Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical.
Audrey: I do not know what poetical is. Is it honest in deed and
word? Is it a true thing?
Touchstone: No, truly; for the truest poetry is the most feigning, and
lovers are given to poetry; and what they swear in poetry
may be said as lovers they do feign.
Audrey: Do you wish, then, that the gods had made me poetical?
Touchstone: I do, truly, for thou swearst to me thou art honest; now,
if thou wert a poet, I might have some hope thou didst
feign.
Audrey: Would you not have me honest?
Touchstone: No, truly, unless thou wert hard-favourd; for honesty
coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.
Jaques (Aside): A material fool!
Audrey: Well, I am not fair; and therefore I pray the gods make me
honest.
Touchstone: Truly, and to cast away honesty upon a foul slut were to
put good meat into an unclean dish.
Audrey: I am not a slut, though I thank the gods I am foul.
Touchstone: Well, praised be the gods for thy foulness; sluttishness
may come hereafter. But be it as it may be, I will marry
thee; and to that end I have been with Sir Oliver Martext,
the vicar of the next village, who hath promisd to meet me
in this place of the forest, and to couple us.
Jaques (Aside): I would fain see this meeting.
Audrey: Well, the gods give us joy!
Touchstone: Amen. A man may, if he were of a fearful heart, stagger in
this attempt; for here we have no temple but the wood, no
assembly but horn-beasts. But what though? Courage! As
horns are odious, they are necessary. It is said: Many a
man knows no end of his goods. Right! Many a man has
good horns and knows no end of them. Well, that is the
dowry of his wife; tis none of his getting. Horns? Even so.
Poor men alone? No, no; the noblest deer hath them as
huge as the rascal. Is the single man therefore blessed?
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No; as a walld town is more worthier than a village, so
is the forehead of a married man more honourable than
the bare brow of a bachelor; and by how much defence is
better than no skill, by so much is a horn more precious
than to want. Here comes Sir Oliver.
How does Shakespeare make this extract so entertaining and amusing?
Or 14 Explore the ways in which Shakespeare makes the relationship between Orlando and
Oliver dramatically significant.
Or 15 You are Duke Senior. You have just met Orlando and Adam for the first time in the Forest.
Write your thoughts.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Richard III
Either * 16 Read the following soliloquy, and then answer the question that follows it.
Gloucester: Was ever woman in this humour wood?
Was ever woman in this humour won?
Ill have her; but I will not keep her long.
What! I that killd her husband and his father
To take her in her hearts extremest hate,
With curses in her mouth, tears in her eyes,
The bleeding witness of my hatred by;
Having God, her conscience, and these bars against me,
And I no friends to back my suit at all
But the plain devil and dissembling looks,
And yet to win her, all the world to nothing!
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Hath she forgot already that brave prince,
Edward, her lord, whom I, some three months since,
Stabbd in my angry mood at Tewksbury?
A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman
Framd in the prodigality of nature,
Young, valiant, wise, and no doubt right royal
The spacious world cannot again afford;
And will she yet abase her eyes on me,
That croppd the golden prime of this sweet prince
And made her widow to a woeful bed?
On me, whose all not equals Edwards moiety?
On me, that halts and am misshapen thus?
My dukedom to a beggarly denier,
I do mistake my person all this while.
Upon my life, she finds, although I cannot,
Myself to be a marvllous proper man.
Ill be at charges for a looking-glass,
And entertain a score or two of tailors
To study fashions to adorn my body,
Since I am crept in favour with myself,
I will maintain it with some little cost.
But first Ill turn yon fellow in his grave,
And then return lamenting to my love.
Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass,
That I may see my shadow as I pass.
[Exit.
What do you think makes this soliloquy so vivid and dramatic? Support your ideas with
details from Shakespeares writing.
Or 17 Explore Shakespeares portrayal of the way the desire for power corrupts the people who
are around Richard. Support your ideas with details from the play.
Or 18 You are Lord Stanley, just before you go to tell Richard that, in addition to Buckingham
and Dorsets revolt, he faces Richmond coming to claim the throne. Write your thoughts.
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SECTION B: POETRY
SONGS OF OURSELVES: from Part 3
Either * 19 Read the following poem, and then answer the question that follows it.
Song to the Men of England
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Men of England, wherefore plough
For the lords who lay ye low?
Wherefore weave with toil and care
The rich robes your tyrants wear?
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Wherefore feed, and clothe, and save, 5
From the cradle to the grave,
Those ungrateful drones who would
Drain your sweat nay, drink your blood?
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Wherefore, Bees of England, forge
Many a weapon, chain, and scourge, 10
That these stingless drones may spoil
The forced produce of your toil?
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Have ye leisure, comfort, calm,
Shelter, food, loves gentle balm?
Or what is it ye buy so dear 15
With your pain and with your fear?
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The seed ye sow, another reaps;
The wealth ye find, another keeps;
The robes ye weave, another wears;
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Sow seed, but let no tyrant reap;
Find wealth, let no impostor heap;
Weave robes, let not the idle wear;
Forge arms, in your defence to bear.
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In halls ye deck another dwells.
Why shake the chains ye wrought? Ye see
The steel ye tempered glance on ye.
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With plough and spade, and hoe and loom,
Trace your grave, and build your tomb, 30
And weave your winding-sheet, till fair
England be your sepulchre.
(by Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Explore how Shelley conveys his feelings about the way most of the Men of England are
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Or 20 Explore how the words of one of the following poems vividly convey the character of the
speaker in the poem.
Monologue (by Hone Tuwhare)
Little Boy Crying (by Mervyn Morris)
The Old Familiar Faces (by Charles Lamb)
Or 21 Choose moments in two of the following poems where the language the poet uses has
particularly excited you, and explain in detail why you have found it so exciting.
Caged Bird (by Maya Angelou)
Before the Sun (by Charles Mungoshi)
Carpet-weavers, Morocco (by Carol Rumens)
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JOHN KEATS: Poems
Either * 22 Read the following extract from The Eve of St Agnes, and then answer the question that
follows it.
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St Agnes Eve Ah, bitter chill it was!
The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold;
The hare limpd trembling through the frozen grass,
And silent was the flock in woolly fold:
Numb were the Beadsmans fingers, while he told 5
His rosary, and while his frosted breath,
Like pious incense from a censer old,
Seemd taking flight for heaven, without a death,
Past the sweet Virgins picture, while his prayer he saith.
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Then takes his lamp, and riseth from his knees,
And back returneth, meagre, barefoot, wan,
Along the chapel aisle by slow degrees:
The sculpturd dead, on each side, seem to freeze,
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Knights, ladies, praying in dumb oratries,
He passeth by; and his weak spirit fails
To think how they may ache in icy hoods and mails.
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Northward he turneth through a little door,
And scarce three steps, ere Musics golden tongue 20
Flatterd to tears this aged man and poor;
But no already had his deathbell rung;
The joys of all his life were said and sung:
His was harsh penance on St Agnes Eve:
Another way he went, and soon among 25
Rough ashes sat he for his souls reprieve,
And all night kept awake, for sinners sake to grieve.
Explore Keatss writing here, showing how he creates a striking atmosphere.
Or 23 In what ways does Keats appeal to your senses in either Ode to a Nightingale or Ode on
a Grecian Urn? Refer in detail to the words in your chosen poem.
Or 24 A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.
How do you think Keats explores this idea in the extract from Endymion?
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CHINUA ACHEBE: Things Fall Apart
Either * 25 Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it.
And so the six men went to see the District Commissioner armed with
their matchets. They did not carry guns, for that would be unseemly.
They were led into the courthouse where the District Commissioner
sat. He received them politely. They unslung their goatskin bags and
their sheathed matchets, put them on the floor, and sat down.
I have asked you to come, began the Commissioner, because of
what happened during my absence. I have been told a few things but
I cannot believe them until I have heard your own side. Let us talk about
it like friends and find a way of ensuring that it does not happen again.
Ogbuefi Ekwueme rose to his feet and began to tell the story.
Wait a minute, said the Commissioner. I want to bring in my men
so that they too can hear your grievances and take warning. Many of
them come from distant places and although they speak your tongue
they are ignorant of your customs. James! Go and bring in the men.
His interpreter left the courtroom and soon returned with twelve men.
They sat together with the men of Umuofia, and Ogbuefi Ekwueme
began to tell the story of how Enoch murdered an egwugwu.
It happened so quickly that the six men did not see it coming.
There was only a brief scuffle, too brief even to allow the drawing of
a sheathed matchet. The six men were handcuffed and led into the
guardroom.
We shall not do you any harm, said the District Commissioner to
them later, if only you agree to co-operate with us. We have brought
a peaceful administration to you and your people so that you may
be happy. If any man ill-treats you we shall come to your rescue. But
we will not allow you to ill-treat others. We have a court of law where
we judge cases and administer justice just as it is done in my own
country under a great queen. I have brought you here because you
joined together to molest others, to burn peoples houses and their
place of worship. That must not happen in the dominion of our queen,
the most powerful ruler in the world. I have decided that you will pay a
fine of two hundred bags of cowries. You will be released as soon as
you agree to this and undertake to collect that fine from your people.
What do you say to that?
The six men remained sullen and silent and the Commissioner
left them for a while. He told the court messengers, when he left the
guardroom, to treat the men with respect because they were the
leaders of Umuofia. They said, Yes, sir, and saluted.
As soon as the District Commissioner left, the head messenger,
who was also the prisoners barber, took down his razor and shaved
off all the hair on the mens heads. They were still handcuffed, and
they just sat and moped.
Who is the chief among you? the court messengers asked in jest.
We see that every pauper wears the anklet of title in Umuofia. Does it
cost as much as ten cowries?
The six men ate nothing throughout that day and the next. They were
not even given any water to drink, and they could not go out to urinate
or go into the bush when they were pressed. At night the messengers
came in to taunt them and to knock their shaven heads together.
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Even when the men were left alone they found no words to speak
to one another. It was only on the third day, when they could no longer
bear the hunger and the insults, that they began to talk about giving in.
We should have killed the white man if you had listened to me,
Okonkwo snarled.
We could have been in Umuru now waiting to be hanged, someone
said to him.
Who wants to kill the white man? asked a messenger who had just
rushed in. Nobody spoke.
You are not satisfied with your crime, but you must kill the white
man on top of it. He carried a strong stick, and he hit each man a few
blows on the head and back. Okonkwo was choked with hate.
In this episode, how far do you think Achebe suggests Okonkwo is right to be full of hate?
Support your ideas with details from the extract.
Or 26 What do you find most memorable about Achebes portrayal of the traditional life of the
tribe? Justify your ideas by close reference to the writing.
Or 27 You are Okonkwo on the day your father Unoka is carried off into the forest to die.
Write your thoughts.
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JANE AUSTEN: Pride and Prejudice
Either * 28 Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it.
She would not give him time to reply, but hurrying instantly to her
husband, called out as she entered the library,
Oh! Mr Bennet, you are wanted immediately; we are all in an
uproar. You must come and make Lizzy marry Mr Collins, for she vows
she will not have him, and if you do not make haste he will change his
mind and not have her.
Mr Bennet raised his eyes from his book as she entered, and fixed
them on her face with a calm unconcern which was not in the least
altered by her communication.
I have not the pleasure of understanding you, said he, when she
had finished her speech. Of what are you talking?
Of Mr Collins and Lizzy. Lizzy declares she will not have Mr Collins,
and Mr Collins begins to say that he will not have Lizzy.
And what am I to do on the occasion? It seems an hopeless
business.
Speak to Lizzy about it yourself. Tell her that you insist upon her
marrying him.
Let her be called down. She shall hear my opinion.
Mrs Bennet rang the bell, and Miss Elizabeth was summoned to the
library.
Come here, child, cried her father as she appeared. I have sent for
you on an affair of importance. I understand that Mr Collins has made
you an offer of marriage. Is it true? Elizabeth replied that it was. Very
well and this offer of marriage you have refused?
I have, Sir.
Very well. We now come to the point. Your mother insists upon your
accepting it. Is not it so, Mrs Bennet?
Yes, or I will never see her again.
An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you
must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never
see you again if you do not marry Mr Collins, and I will never see you
again if you do.
Elizabeth could not but smile at such a conclusion of such a
beginning; but Mrs Bennet, who had persuaded herself that her
husband regarded the affair as she wished, was excessively
disappointed.
What do you mean, Mr Bennet, by talking in this way. You promised
me to insist upon her marrying him.
My dear, replied her husband. I have two small favours to request.
First, that you will allow me the free use of my understanding on the
present occasion; and secondly, of my room. I shall be glad to have
the library to myself as soon as may be.
Not yet, however, in spite of her disappointment in her husband, did
Mrs Bennet give up the point. She talked to Elizabeth again and again;
coaxed and threatened her by turns. She endeavoured to secure Jane
in her interest, but Jane with all possible mildness declined interfering;
and Elizabeth sometimes with real earnestness and sometimes
with playful gaiety replied to her attacks. Though her manner varied
however, her determination never did.
Explore the amusing picture which Austen creates here of the relationship and
personalities of Mr and Mrs Bennet.
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Or 29 What do you think it is about Darcys character which makes credible Elizabeths attraction
and eventual love for him? Support your ideas with details from Austens writing.
Or 30 You are Lady Catherine. You have just received the letter from Darcy telling you of his
intention to marry Elizabeth Bennet. Write your thoughts.
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IAN CROSS: The God Boy
Either * 31 Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it.
She sat down and bent her face down and rubbed it hard with
her hands. She rubbed her eyes with her fingers, and then both her
cheeks, as though she was scrubbing off dirt. She was so white and
spidery-looking sitting down there, all arms and legs.
Lets go for a swim, I said. Youll feel a lot better in the water.
I am willing to admit now that I felt glad she was crying. Yet once
I felt glad I wanted her to stop. But at first, even though she looked like
a white golliwog with half the stuffing taken out of it, flopped on the
sand and no sign of anybody to pick it up, I didnt mind.
I walked around her, and when she was quiet I took a handful of
warm sand and poured it over her shoulders.
Take me in for a swim. Thats what you brought me down her for,
I said.
She got up as if nothing had happened and took me by the hand
and together we walked into the water. The water was really warm, yet
it was cold when it first hit your skin, and I jumped up and down. Molly
tightened her grip on my hand and kept on walking out as though she
wasnt even feeling the water. In a matter of seconds it was up to my
waist and I threw myself forward and went under, head and all.
You float and Ill push you out past the breakers, said Molly, sliding
into the water beside me.
The sea was very calm, and the swells were hardly breaking,
just frothing slightly as they curled. It was easy going, as I floated
on my back kicking my feet, and Molly pushed me along, up and
over the rollers, till the water was up to her neck, and then swinging
her up out of her depth. She was a good swimmer and I wasnt
frightened; water never frightened me. I lay there, seeing the dark
blue sky and feeling the sun, like a ship at sea, a small ship at sea,
and Molly was steering me. My feet splashed and her arms dipped
and pushed as she swam sidearm alongside me. I turned my head
slightly and I could see her face beside my shoulders, and she and
I were the friendliest we had ever been.
Her hair was wet and clinging to her head, and her big eyes were
looking at me in a very nice way. It couldnt have been very long we
were like that, yet Ive always remembered those moments. And really,
when I think of Molly, that is one of the times that come back to me.
Do you love me, Jimmy? she asked in a funny voice.
I laughed and got some water in my mouth and was about to give
her some cheek when I thought of how mean I had been about not
being sorry she had cried.
Yes, I said. Of course.
She closed her eyes, and opened them again, and it was as though
she had changed inside as she blinked, there was so much difference
in her look.
Lets go on and on and not go back, she said. Thatll show them.
You cant swim for ever, youre not that good, I said.
It doesnt make any difference.
Silly thing, I said.
I stopped kicking and just waggled my hands around. She dug her
fingers into my chest with the hand she was steering me with, and let
herself sink until her hair was floating underneath my shoulder like
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seaweed. She came up again and wriggled her mouth up to my ear,
as though she was whispering to me in the dark, and said, Please
come with me, Jimmy. Id be frightened by myself.
I splashed back from her with a couple of kicks and turned over on
my stomach. She was looking so red and puffy and silly-looking that
I thought it best not to talk any more; besides, I wasnt good enough
to talk and swim at the same time. I took a deep breath and started
paddling back to the beach.
What do you think makes this passage so sad? Support your ideas with details from
Crosss writing.
Or 32 What kind of picture do you think Cross creates of Raggleton and the people who live in it?
Support your ideas with details from the novel.
Or 33 You are Sister Angela as you watch Jimmy being taken away from home. Write your
thoughts.
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ANITA DESAI: Games at Twilight
Either * 34 Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it.
He smiles at her curiosity. Nothing, he says. Not real flowers just
anything at all.
Really! she exclaims, shaking her enamelled ear-rings. How
wonderful to be able to imagine such forms, such colours. Look, Ram,
arent they pretty? The two men become infected by her exaggerated
attitude of relaxation. They begin to prowl about the room, now
showing amusement at the litter which is, after all, only to be expected
in an artists studio, then crinkling their noses for, one has to admit,
it does smell, and then showing surprised interest in the pictures of
which they have come to select one for their home which is newly built
and now to be furnished. What with the enthusiasm and thoroughness
they bring to their task, the rags and grime of the studio are soon
almost obliterated by the fanfare of colour that spills forth, a crazy
whorl of them, unknown colours that cannot be named, spilling out of
forms that cannot be identified. One cannot pinpoint any school, any
technique, any style one can only admit oneself in the presence of
a continuous and inspired act of creation: so they tell themselves. The
woman gives cry upon cry of excitement and turns again and again to
the artist who stands watching them thoughtfully. But how did you get
this colour? You must tell me because I paint and I could never get
anything like this. What is it?
Ahh, Naples Yellow, he says, as if making a guess.
No, but there is some orange in it too.
Ah yes, a little orange also.
And green?
Yes, a little perhaps.
No, but that special tinge how did you get it? A little bit of white
or flesh pink? What is it? Ram, Ram, just look, isnt it pretty this
weird bird? I dont suppose it has a name?
No, no, it is not real. I am a city man, I know nothing about birds.
But you know everything about birds! And flowers. I suppose they
are birds and flowers, all these marvellous things. And your paintings
are full of them. How can it possibly be that you have never seen
them?
He has to laugh then she is so artless, so completely without any
vestige of imagination, and so completely unlike his wife. Look, he says,
suddenly buoyant, and points to the window. She has to stand on her
toes to look out of the small aperture, through the bars, and then she
gazes out with all the intentness she feels he expects of her, at the deep,
smoke-ridden twilight wound around the ill-lit slum, the smoking heaps
of dung-fires and the dark figures that sit and stand in it hopelessly.
Like fog-horns, conch shells begin to blow as tired housewives
summon up their flagging spirits for the always lovely, always
comforting ritual of evening prayers. She tries to pierce the scene with
her sharp eyes, trying to see what he sees in it, till she hears him
laughing behind her with a cracked kind of hilarity. There you see
my birds and my flowers, he tells her, clapping his hands as though
enjoying a practical joke he has played on her. I see a tram and that
is my mountain. I see a letter-box and that is my tree. Listen! Do you
hear my birds? He raises his hand and, with its gesture, ushers in
the evening voices of children uttering those cries and calls peculiar
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to the time of parting, the time of relinquishing their games, before
they enter their homes and disappear into sleep voices filled with an
ecstasy of knowledge, of sensation drawn to an apex, brought on by
the realization of imminent departure and farewell: voices panicky with
love, with lament, with fear and sacrifice.
The artist watches the three visitors and finds them attentive,
puzzled. There, he says, dropping his hand. There are my birds.
I dont see them but I hear them and imagine how they look. It is
easy, no, when you can hear them so clearly?
You are a magician, says the quiet man, shaking his head and
turning to a crayon drawing of pale birds delicately stalking the
shallows of a brooding sea. Look at these I cant believe you havent
actually painted them on the spot.
No, I have not, but I do know the sea. You know, I am a fisherman!
I should have been my people are. How do you like this one of fishing
boats? I used to see them coming in like this, in the evening, with the
catch. And then my mother would cook one large one for dinner oh,
it was good, good!
They all stand around him, smiling at this unexpected burst of
childish exuberance. You paint from memory then? enquires one, but
the woman cries You like fish? You must come and eat at our house
one day I cook fish very well.
Explore how in this passage Desai vividly portrays the lack of understanding between
the artist and his possible buyers.
Or 35 In these stories men are often shown to be weak-willed and unhappy. Explore in detail
one story which you think portrays this particularly well.
Or 36 You are David, at the end of Scholar and Gypsy, travelling to Delhi from Manali.
Write your thoughts.
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WILLIAM GOLDING: Lord of the Flies
Either * 37 Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it.
Again the stars spilled about the sky. Eric shook his head, earnestly.
Listen, Ralph. Never mind whats sense. Thats gone
Never mind about the chief
you got to go for your own good.
The chief and Roger
yes, Roger
They hate you, Ralph. Theyre going to do you.
Theyre going to hunt you to-morrow.
But why?
I dunno. And Ralph, Jack, the Chief, says itll be dangerous
and weve got to be careful and throw our spears like at a pig.
Were going to spread out in a line across the island
were going forward from this end
until we find you.
Weve got to give signals like this.
Eric raised his head and achieved a faint ululation by beating on his
open mouth. Then he glanced behind him nervously.
Like that
only louder, of course.
But Ive done nothing, whispered Ralph, urgently. I only wanted to
keep up a fire!
He paused for a moment, thinking miserably of the morrow. A matter
of overwhelming importance occurred to him.
What are you ?
He could not bring himself to be specific at first; but then fear and
loneliness goaded him.
When they find me, what are they going to do?
The twins were silent. Beneath him, the death rock flowered again.
What are they oh God! Im hungry
The towering rock seemed to sway under him.
Well what ?
The twins answered his question indirectly.
You got to go now, Ralph.
For your own good.
Keep away. As far as you can.
Wont you come with me? Three of us wed stand a chance.
After a moments silence, Sam spoke in a strangled voice.
You dont know Roger. Hes a terror.
And the Chief theyre both
terrors
only Roger
Both boys froze. Someone was climbing towards them from the
tribe.
Hes coming to see if were keeping watch. Quick, Ralph!
As he prepared to let himself down the cliff, Ralph snatched at the
last possible advantage to be wrung out of this meeting.
Ill lie up close; in that thicket down there, he whispered, so keep
them away from it. Theyll never think to look so close
The footsteps were still some distance away.
Sam Im going to be all right, arent I?
The twins were silent again.
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Here! said Sam suddenly. Take this
Ralph felt a chunk of meat pushed against him and grabbed it.
But what are you going to do when you catch me?
Silence above. He sounded silly to himself. He lowered himself
down the rock.
What are you going to do ?
From the top of the towering rock came the incomprehensible reply.
Roger sharpened a stick at both ends.
How does Golding make this such a terrifying moment in the novel?
Or 38 How does Golding persuade you of Piggys importance to Ralph? Support your answer
by close reference to the novel.
Or 39 You are Jack. Ralph has just blown the conch to summon an assembly after you have
explored the island. Write your thoughts.
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THOMAS HARDY: Far from the Madding Crowd
Either * 40 Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it.
Bathsheba went home, her mind occupied with a new trouble, which
being rather harassing than deadly was calculated to do good by
diverting her from the chronic gloom of her life. She was set thinking a
great deal about Oak and of his wish to shun her; and there occurred
to Bathsheba several incidents of her latter intercourse with him,
which, trivial when singly viewed, amounted together to a perceptible
disinclination for her society. It broke upon her at length as a great pain
that her last old disciple was about to forsake her and flee. He who had
believed in her and argued on her side when all the rest of the world
was against her, had at last like the others become weary and neglectful
of the old cause, and was leaving her to fight her battles alone.
Three weeks went on, and more evidence of his want of interest
in her was forthcoming. She noticed that instead of entering the
small parlour or office where the farm accounts were kept, and
waiting, or leaving a memorandum as he had hitherto done during
her seclusion, Oak never came at all when she was likely to be
there, only entering at unseasonable hours when her presence
in that part of the house was least to be expected. Whenever he
wanted directions he sent a message, or note with neither heading
nor signature, to which she was obliged to reply in the same
off-hand style. Poor Bathsheba began to suffer now from the most
torturing sting of all a sensation that she was despised.
The autumn wore away gloomily enough amid these melancholy
conjectures, and Christmas-day came, completing a year of her
legal widowhood, and two years and a quarter of her life alone.
On examining her heart it appeared beyond measure strange that the
subject of which the season might have been supposed suggestive
the event in the hall at Boldwoods was not agitating her at all; but
instead, an agonizing conviction that everybody abjured her for what
she could not tell and that Oak was the ringleader of the recusants.
Coming out of church that day she looked round in hope that Oak,
whose bass voice she had heard rolling out from the gallery overhead
in a most unconcerned manner, might chance to linger in her path in
the old way. There he was, as usual, coming down the path behind her.
But on seeing Bathsheba turn, he looked aside, and as soon as he got
beyond the gate, and there was the barest excuse for a divergence,
he made one, and vanished.
The next morning brought the culminating stroke; she had been
expecting it long. It was a formal notice by letter from him that he
should not renew his engagement with her for the following Lady-day.
Bathsheba actually sat and cried over this letter most bitterly.
She was aggrieved and wounded that the possession of hopeless
love from Gabriel, which she had grown to regard as her inalienable
right for life, should have been withdrawn just at his own pleasure in
this way. She was bewildered too by the prospect of having to rely on
her resources again: it seemed to herself that she never could again
acquire energy sufficient to go to market, barter, and sell. Since Troys
death Oak had attended all sales and fairs for her, transacting her
business at the same time with his own. What should she do now?
Her life was becoming a desolation.
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Refer to details in the novel as you answer.
Or 42 You are Bathsheba. You have just been informed that you are to have sole control of your
uncles farm. Write your thoughts.
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HARPER LEE: To Kill a Mockingbird
Either * 43 Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it.
What makes this such a powerfully dramatic moment in the novel?
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Or 44 To what extent do you think the relationship between Scout and Jem changes during the
course of the novel? Support your ideas with details from the novel.
Or 45 You are Bob Ewell as you make your way to the courthouse at the beginning of the trial
of Tom Robinson. Write your thoughts.
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BARRIE WADE (ed.): Into the Wind: Contemporary Stories in English
Either * 46 Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it.
She saw the way he looked at her when she was dancing and knew.
Only a stranger would look like that at the Umu-ogbo dance, and only
a man who had fallen would linger on her movements that way. Yet it
embarrassed her when, sitting with the elderly women in the bright
hot afternoon, she looked up from her sewing and saw him, asking
questions. Though she knew he had seen her, he did not once look in
her direction. He looked so transparently silly and pitiable.
She wondered what to do. Should she go to his help there while
her mother and her fiancs mother were present? He seemed to be
holding his own, telling fables, something about having missed his
way, having recently crossed the Niger She would go to his aid.
Suddenly she caught the hard look on his unsmiling face, a look full of
the agony of desire.
Her legs felt too heavy to stir. Too many eyes. In Onitsha Town there
were eyes on the walls. In the compound, eyes. In the streets, eyes.
Such a small town, and so small-town-minded. You went down Market
Street, new or old, and came back into Market Street, new or old,
through a number of parallel feeder streets. Of course, Lilian had lived
here since she was born and she knew her way to her lovers house
without being seen even by day, and with her mother happily thinking she
had gone to market. But once they saw her, once they saw a girl they
knew and respected speaking with a glamorous-looking stranger like
this one, or in a hotel, or standing in the streets and talking to a man
in broad daylight, or daring to hold hands or to linger too long with a
handshake, the eyes would roll and the tongues would wag and the girls
best course of action would be to leave the town or immediately be
branded.
By the time Lilian looked up from her machine, he was gone. Her
mother was coming back to the veranda.
What did he say he wanted?
Do I know? Her mother shrugged and made a face. These young
men from Lagos, who understands the language they speak?
Lilian knew he had come for her but his courage had failed him. Did
he say his name, or where he lives?
He called a name. He is not of a family I know.
Unlike her mother, Lilian cared little for families she knew. She
judged young men by what her instincts told her, and this time they
told her she had made a conquest, full of strange enchantment. She
put the scissors through the wax print and shaped it into a skirt that
ended well above her knees. Her mothers eyes followed her with
resentment. She called such tight clothes mad peoples clothes.
On her way down Market Street, Lilian wiggled in the new dress.
Her hair had been newly done, and the loop earrings were large
enough to play hula-hoop. Someone stopped just behind her. She
looked round. Eyes. From the windows of the hotels, bookshops, sign
painters, mechanics workshops, eyes focused enquiringly on her and
the stranger with such intentness that she felt like something projected
on a 3-D screen for all Onitsha to view. This was sensation.
He was tall and good-looking and did not show any embarrassment
at being made the spectacle of Market Street. Of course, he did not
know the town. He would scandalize her, and leave her to it. That was
the way of strangers. They left you to the gossips.
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Lilian and about the people of Onitsha Town? Support your thoughts with details from the
passage.
Or 47 Explore in detail how in either The Lemon Orchard (by Alex La Guma) or Samphire
(by Patrick OBrian) the writer creates a vivid picture of the power of hatred.
Or 48 You are Tom in A Woman on a Roof at the end of the story. You have finally left the
woman and gone down the ladder into the street. Write your thoughts.
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Copyright Acknowledgements:
Question 1 Alan Ayckbourn; A Small Family Business ; Casarotto Ramsay & Associates.
Question 4 Lorraine Hansberry; A Raisin in the Sun ; Methuen.
Question 7 Charlotte Keatley; My Mother Said I Never Should ; Methuen.
Question 10 Arthur Miller; The Crucible ; Methuen Drama.
Question 25 Chinua Achebe; Things Fall Apart ; Harcourt Education.
Question 31 Ian Cross; The God Boy ; Penguin Books; 2004.
Question 34 Anita Desai; Games at Twilight ; Vintage.
Question 37 William Golding; Lord of the Flies ; Faber & Faber.
Question 43 Harper Lee; To Kill a Mockingbird ; Vintage.
Question 46 Cyprian Ekwensi; A Stranger from Lagos ; Heinemann Educational Books Ltd.
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