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INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION

Please read this page carefully before you begin to answer the questions.

This question paper consists of THREE sections: SECTION A: Poetry SECTION B: Novel SECTION C: Drama

Follow the instructions at the beginning of each section carefully.

Answer FIVE QUESTIONS in all: 3 in Section A and 1 in Section B and 1 in Section C

Use the checklist – that appears at the end of this paper – to assist you.

Number your answers exactly as the questions have been numbered in the question paper.

Start each section on a NEW page.

Write neatly and legibly.

Suggested time management: Section A: approximately 40 minutes Section B: approximately 55 minutes Section C: approximately 55 minutes

ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE: Task 06 Test – May 2017

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Use this table to help you choose the questions that you wish to answer.

Remember that you must not read through the entire question paper.

SECTION A: POETRY Prescribed Poetry: Answer any TWO questions.

QUESTION NUMBER QUESTION MARKS

1 An Irish Airman Forsees His Death Essay question 10

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2 An abandoned bundle Contextual question 10

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3 City Johannesburg Contextual question 10

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4 The Zebras Contextual question 10

AND Unseen Poetry: Answer ONE question.

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5 A caged bird Contextual question 10

SECTION B: NOVEL Answer any ONE question. *

6 The Great Gatsby Essay question 25

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7 The Great Gatsby Contextual question 25

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SECTION C: DRAMA Answer any ONE question. *

8 Hamlet Essay question 25

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9 Hamlet Contextual question 25

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* NOTE: In Sections B and C, answer ONE ESSAY and ONE CONTEXTUAL question.


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SECTION A: POETRY

Questions have been set on four prescribed poems and one unseen poem. You must answer the questions set on ANY TWO prescribed poems AND the ONE unseen poem. NOTE: The unseen poem is COMPULSORY.

PRESCRIBED POETRY: Answer any TWO questions. QUESTION 1: (ESSAY QUESTION) An Irish Airman foresees his Death

I KNOW that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate Those that I guard I do not love; My country is Kiltartan Cross, 5 My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public man, nor cheering crowds, 10 A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds; I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind 15

In balance with this life, this death.

1.1. Discuss the Airman’s quest of fulfilling his dream and ambition. Your

response must be between 150-200 words.

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QUESTION 2: AN ABANDONED BUNDLE OSWALD MBUYISENI MTSHAL The morning mist and chimney smoke of White City Jabavu flowed thick yellow as pus oozing from a gigantic sore. It smothered our little houses like fish caught in a net. Scavenging dogs draped in red bandanas of blood fought fiercely for a squirming bundle. I threw a brick they bared fangs flicked velvet tounges of scarlet and scurried away, leaving a mutilated corpse an infant dumped on a rubbish heap- 'Oh! Baby in the Manger sleep well on human dung.' Its mother had melted into the rays of the rising sun, her face glittering with innocence her heart as pure as untrampled dew. 2.1. Protest poem (1) 2.2. A baby left on rubbish heap by its mother (2) 2.3. Alliteration. It emphasises the fact that mist was a health hazard. (4) 2.4. White City Jabavu is an example of…

D Irony (1)


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2.5 They eat rotten food.They also victims of starvation. (2) /10/ QUESTION 3: City Johannesburg by Mongane Wally Serote 1 This way I salute you: My hand pulses to my back trouser pocket Or into my inner jacket pocket For my pass, my life, 5 Jo’burg City. My hand like a starved snake rears my pockets For my thin, ever lean wallet, While my stomach groans a friendly smile to hunger, Jo’burg City. 10 My stomach also devours coppers and papers Don’t you know? Jo’burg City, I salute you; When I run out, or roar in a bus to you, I leave behind me, my love, 15 My comic houses and people, my dongas and my ever whirling dust, My death That’s so related to me as a wink to the eye. Jo’burg City I travel on your black and white roboted roads 20 Through your thick iron breath that you inhale At six in the morning and exhale from five noon. Jo’burg City That is the time that I come to you, When your neon flowers flaunt from your electrical wind, 25 That is the time when I leave you, When your neon flowers flaunt their way through the falling darkness On your cement trees. And as I go back, to my love, My dongas, my dust, my people, my death, 30 Where death lurks in the dark like a blade in the flesh, I can feel your roots, anchoring your might, my feebleness In my flesh, in my mind, in my blood, And everything about you says it, That, that is all you need of me. Jo’burg City, Johannesburg, 35 Listen when I tell you


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36 When you leave the women and men with such frozen expressions, 3.1 By searching himself, looking for his pass. (2) 3.2 True. Only black people live in a city that is titled white. (2)

3.3 Without his pass he will not have access to the city as he may easily get

arrested. (2) 3.4 He makes his living by selling newspaper, and the little he makes, he

quickly spends. (2) 3.5 The city is developed with a lot of infrastructure such as robotted roads,tarred roads, electricity, etc, whilst the township where the speaker comes from is dusty, filthy, squalid, undeveloped, no electricity, no sanitation, etc. (2)

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The Zebras - Poem by Roy Campbell From the dark woods that breathe of fallen showers, Harnessed with level rays in golden reins, The zebras draw the dawn across the plains Wading knee-keep among the scarlet flowers. The sunlight, zithering their flanks with fire, 5 Flashes between the shadows as they pass Barred with electric tremors through the grass Like wind along the gold strings of a lyre. Into the flushed air snorting rosy plumes That smoulder round their feet in drifting fumes, 10 With dove-like voices call the distant fillies, While round the herds the stallion wheels his flight, Engine of beauty volted with delight, To roll his mare among the trampled lilies.

4.1. Italian sonnet (2) 4.2. ABBA ABBA CCDE ED (3) 4.3. They do not literally draw the dawn (3) 4.4. Simile (2)

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UNSEEN POETRY (COMPULSORY) Caged Bird Maya Angelo

A free bird leaps

on the back of the wind

and floats downstream

till the current ends

and dips his wing

in the orange sun rays

and dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks

down his narrow cage

can seldom see through

his bars of rage

his wings are clipped and

his feet are tied

so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings

with a fearful trill

of things unknown

but longed for still

and his tune is heard

on the distant hill

for the caged bird

sings of freedom.

The free bird thinks of another breeze

and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees

and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn

and he names the sky his own

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams

his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream

his wings are clipped and his feet are tied

so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings

with a fearful trill

of things unknown

but longed for still


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and his tune is heard

on the distant hill

for the caged bird

sings of freedom.

QUESTION 5: 5.1. Free bird takes to the sky without restrictions.A caged bird is locked up. Sings songs of freedom.No limit to movement.A free bird can do whatever it wants. A caged bird has no access to worms. (4) 5.2. It is a bird put in a birdcage/cage. (1) 5.3. It is not free to fly./It can only imagine the world outside./It is afraid of the future and not sure it will live to see tomorrow. (2) 5.4. Alliteration: a lot of fat worms waiting outside the cage are emphasised. (2) 5.5. Sad. (1) /10/


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SECTION B: NOVEL

Questions have been set on three different novels. You must answer ONE question set on the novel you have studied. If you choose to answer the essay question in this section, then you must answer the contextual question in Section C, and vice-versa.

F SCOTT FITZGERALD: THE GREAT GATSBY QUESTION 6: ESSAY QUESTION In an essay of 200 – 250 words, discuss the American Dream of the 1920s and how Myrtle, Daisy and Gatsby were all corrupted and destroyed by it.

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OR QUESTION 7: CONTEXTUAL QUESTION Read the two extracts below and then answer the questions that follow them. 7. In this extract, the object of Gatsby’s dream is standing in his house.

7.1. Gatsby’s dream is centred on winning Daisy back and marry her. Nothing else matters to

him. (2)

7.1.1. He made money through illegal dealings or bootlegging. He bought a mansion next to the

Buchanans. He organised overgenerous parties. (3)

7.2 “I keep it always full of people night and day. People who do interesting things” (line

22)

In which way can this, Gatsby’s answer to Daisy’s question, be considered ironic?

[3]

The irony lies in the fact that all the party attendees are strangers to Gatsby.Gatsby’s

house is still empty without Daisy.After the party, the house is still empty.The full house


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is not able to fill his empty heart.Gatsby feels lonesome in a house full of people. Any

three.

7.3 What does this extract reveal about the way in which Gatsby had made his fortune?

Explain your answer. [3]

That Gatsby is a criminal.He has been heavily involved in the drug business.He inherited

some money. Any three.

7.4 Why, do you think, Nick feels that there “were guests concealed

behind every couch and table, under orders to be breathlessly

silent …”? (line 34) [2]

Gatsby’s house was overflowing with people always. His house was too big for only one

or a few people. By the time Nick visited the house was empty, and quite strange.

7.5 Based on the description in this extract, what is your impression of Gatsby’s house?

Mention TWO features.

Expensive furniture

Large rooms

Marble steps Any two relevant points [2]

7.6 List THREE emotions experienced by Gatsby in this extract. You

may quote. . [3]

dazed

clumsy

embarrassed

nervous Any three

7.7 At the end of the extract, Daisy is overcome with emotion and

began to “cry stormily”. Give TWO possible reasons why she

became so emotional at this point. [2]

She is filled with regret for having not waited for Gatsby.

She is married to Tom Buchanan

She missed Gatsby

Any two


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7.8 Explain why this extract may be considered the climax / turning point

of Gatsby’s life. [2]

After all the hard work and the parties, he finally gets to see and meet Daisy. Accept any

reasonable answer.

7.9. Gatsby’s showing off of his clothes in lines 63 to 75 is his way of

reacting to Daisy’s response to his display of wealth.

7.9.1 Shocked/charmed/overwhelmed (1)

7.9.2 Gatsby feels that all the hard work has finally paid off. He is delighted. (2)

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SECTION C: DRAMA

Questions have been set on two different dramas. You must answer ONE question set on the drama you have studied. If you choose to answer the essay question in this section, then you must answer the contextual question in Section B, and vice-versa.

William Shakespeare: Hamlet QUESTION 08: ESSAY QUESTION The Hamlet (play) begins with the fantastical appearance of a ghost. Discuss the appearance of the ghost at different occasions and how it affects the characters in the play. Your response should take the form of a well-constructed essay of 200–250 words .

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OR QUESTION 09: CONTEXTUAL QUESTION

MARCELLUS

Holla! Bernardo!

BERNARDO

Say,

What, is Horatio there?

HORATIO

A piece of him.

BERNARDO

Welcome, Horatio: welcome, good Marcellus. 5

MARCELLUS

What, has this thing appear'd again to-night?

BERNARDO

I have seen nothing.

MARCELLUS

Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy,

And will not let belief take hold of him

Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us: 10

Therefore I have entreated him along

With us to watch the minutes of this night;


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That if again this apparition come,

He may approve our eyes and speak to it.

HORATIO

Tush, tush, 'twill not appear. 15

BERNARDO

Sit down awhile;

And let us once again assail your ears,

That are so fortified against our story

What we have two nights seen.

HORATIO

Well, sit we down, 20

And let us hear Bernardo speak of this.

BERNARDO

Last night of all,

When yond same star that's westward from the pole

Had made his course to illume that part of heaven

Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself, 25

The bell then beating one,-- 9.1 What kind of a play is Hamlet? Substantiate your answer. (2) Tragedy. There is the death of King Hamlet.√√ 9.2 To what is Horatio referring to by ‘a piece of him’? (2) Himself√√ 9.3 Marcellus asks: Has the thing appeared tonight. What is this thing and why must it appear? (3) The ghost of king Hamlet.√ It seeks revenge for the death of Hamlet.√√ 9.4 Why does Horatio feel that the appearance of the thing is but a ‘fantasy’?(2) The ghost has never appeared before him. He feels that the other soldiers are making this up. 9.5 Provide the synonym of ‘entreat’, line 11. (2) invite√√ 9.6.Name the time for the expected appearance of the thing. (2) At 12 midnight/At night 9.7. Under which conditions does the thing appear according to Bernardo. (2) Under westward star

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AND KING CLAUDIUS

Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine,

And thy best graces spend it at thy will!

But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,--

HAMLET

[Aside] A little more than kin, and less than kind.

KING CLAUDIUS

How is it that the clouds still hang on you?

HAMLET

Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun.

QUEEN GERTRUDE

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off,

And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.

Do not for ever with thy vailed lids

Seek for thy noble father in the dust:

Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,

Passing through nature to eternity.

HAMLET

Ay, madam, it is common.

9.5 Where is Laertes going? (2)

France

9.6 (a) Why does King Claudius refer to Hamlet as ‘my cousin and my son’? (2)

King Claudius is king Hamlet’s brother (making him Hamlet Junior’s cousin). Hamlet

junior is Claudius’ son because Claudius has married Hamlet’s wife.

(b) In his aside, is Hamlet pleased with this? Substantiate. (2)

No. Hamlet is not pleased. He feels that Claudius’ marriage to his mother is not a good

thing.

9.7 Why are the clouds still hanging on Hamlet? Why does Claudius expect them to be

still hanging? (2)

Hamlet junior is still grieving his father’s death. Claudius feels that it is normal for

someone as young as Hamlet to still be fragile.


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9.8 Queen Gertrude thinks Hamlet ‘seeks his noble father in the dust’. Explain how

Hamlet could be seeking his father in the dust. Does his father dwell there? (2)

King Hamlet,having been buried, it’s only expected that Hamlet Junior will look to the

cemetery to find his dead father.

9.9 Who is this Hamlet mentioned in the extract? (2)

It is Hamlet Junior/King Hamlet’s son.


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Name of Learner:……………………………………

CHECKLIST Use the checklist below to make sure that you have answered the required number of questions.

SECTION

QUESTION NUMBERS

NO. OF QUESTIONS TO ANSWER

TICK

A: POETRY (Prescribed Poetry)

1 - 4

2

A: POETRY (Unseen Poetry)

5

1

B: NOVEL (Essay OR Contextual)

6 - 7

1

C: DRAMA (Essay OR Contextual)

8 - 9

1

NOTE: In Sections B and C, answer ONE ESSAY and ONE CONTEXTUAL question.

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