1014.2S ENGLISH SECOND LANGUAGE SG (ADDITIONAL …

1014.2S

ENGLISH SECOND LANGUAGE SG (ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE) (PAPER 2) MARCH 2007

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SENIOR CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION 2007

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ENGLISH SECOND LANGUAGE STANDARD GRADE (ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE) (PAPER 2)

This question paper consists of 23 pages.

WCED: SENIOR CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION/M’2007 (1014.2S) ENGLISH SECOND LANGUAGE SG/P2

(ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE)

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INSTRUCTIONS 1. Answer TWO questions, ONE on each of the books you have studied. 2. Begin the answer to each new section on a new page. 3. Do not quote unless you are asked to do so. 4. Please write as neatly as possible. 5. Leave a line open after each answer. 6. Leave the last two lines on every page open. 7. Answers must be short and relevant. 8. Up to one third of the marks achieved (to a maximum of three) may be deducted for language, spelling and punctuation errors.

TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE SECTION A - POETRY Worldscapes (Question 1) …………………………… 3 SECTION B - SHORT STORIES Transitions (Question 2) …………………………… 6 SECTION C - NOVEL Buckingham Palace (Question 3) …………………………… 9 OR Dance With A Poor Man’s Daughter (Question 4) …………………………… 13 SECTION D - DRAMA Othello (Question 5) …………………………… 16 OR Hamlet (Question 6) …………………………… 20



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SECTION A QUESTION 1: WORLDSCAPES Robin Malan (ed) This question contains ONE POEM.

In praise of the shades (Akudlozi lingay ‘ekhaya No shade fails to go home

A Zulu proverb) Chris Zithulele Mann

Hitching across a dusty plain last June, down one of those deadstraight platteland roads, I met a man with rolled-up khakhi sleeves, who told me his faults, and then his beliefs. It’s amazing, some people discuss more 5 with hitchhikers than even their friends. His bakkie rattled a lot on the ruts, so I’m not exactly sure what he said. Anyway, when he’d talked about his church, and when the world had changed from mealie-stalks 10 to sunflowers, which still looked green and firm, he lowered his voice, and spoke about his shades. This meant respect, I think, not secrecy. He said he’d always asked them to guide him, and that, even in the city, they did. 15 He seemed to me a gentle balanced man, and I was sorry to stick my kitbag onto the road again and say goodbye. When you are alone and brooding deeply, do all your teachers and loved ones desert you? Stand on a road when the fence is whistling. 20 You say, ‘It’s the wind’, and if the dust swirls, ‘Wind again’, although you never see it. The shades work like the wind, invisibly. And they have always been our companions, dressed in the flesh of the children they reared, 25 gossiping away from the books they left, a throng who even in the strongest light are whispering, ‘You are not what you are, remember us, then try to understand’.



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They come like pilgrims from the hazy seas 30 which shimmer at the borders of a dream, not such spirits that they can’t be scolded, not such mortals that they can be profaned, for scolding them, we honour each other, and honouring them, we perceive ourselves. 35 When all I ever hear about these days is violence, injustice, and despair, or worse than that, humourless theories to rescue us all from our human plight, those moments in a bakkie on a plain 40 make sunflowers from a waterless world. 1.1 Refer to the title.

1.1.1 Provide a word of similar meaning to ‘praise’ (1) 1.1.2 What are the ‘shades’ which are referred to in the poem? (1) [2]

1.2 Refer to stanza 1.

1.2.1 Briefly explain where the speaker is. (2) 1.2.2 (a) Quote ONE word which places the poem in a South African context. (1) (b) Explain your answer. (2) 1.2.3 Quote TWO consecutive words which indicate that the area was not mountainous and wet. (1) 1.2.4 What is the occupation of the driver of the bakkie? (1) 1.2.5 What surprises the speaker about the driver’s behaviour? (2) [9]


1.3.1 Quote TWO separate words which indicate that the road was not in a good condition. (2) 1.3.2 The speaker is not sure what the driver said (line 8) because he was (Choose the correct answer) A admiring the bakkie. B enjoying the scenery. C not interested. D distracted by the bakkie’s noise. (1) 1.3.3 Explain what is suggested by ‘the world changed from mealie-stalks

to sunflowers’. (2) 1.3.4 Quote a THREE-word expression which suggests talking softly. (1) 1.3.5 Why does he talk softly? (2) [8]



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1.4.1 Does the speaker have a positive opinion of the driver? Motivate your answer. (You may quote.) (2) 1.4.2 Why does the driver think it strange that the shades are present in the city? (2) 1.4.3 Does the driver stop the bakkie and tell the speaker to get out the bakkie?

Motivate your answer. (2) 1.4.4 Why does the speaker feel sad to be left at the side of the road? (2) [8]

1.5 With what does the speaker compare the ‘shades’ in order to explain how they appear? [1] 1.6 Refer to stanza 5.

1.6.1 In what TWO forms does the presence of the ‘shades’ remain with us? (2) 1.6.2 In lines 28 and 29, we are told to ‘remember’ the shades. Why are we to remember the shades? (2) 1.6.3 What is it that we are given through our shades? (2) [6] 1.7 Refer to stanza 6

Quote TWO separate words to show that the shades are present yet not clearly seen. [2] 1.8 Refer to the last two lines of the poem.

Explain what the poet means when he says that ‘sunflowers are made from a waterless world’. [2]

1.9 In ONE sentence explain why the speaker is grateful for the experience he has with the stranger. [2]

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SECTION B QUESTION 2: TRANSITIONS Craig Mackenzie (compiler) This question contains TWO EXTRACTS. Answer the questions set on BOTH. EXTRACT A: He sat beside her. The closeness of her presence, the perfume she exuded stirred currents of feeling within him. He glanced at her several times, watched the deft movements of her hands and legs as she controlled the car. Her powdered profile, the outline taut with a resolute quality, 5 aroused his imagination. There was something so businesslike in her attitude and bearing, so involved in reality (at the back of his mind there was Salima, flaccid, cowlike and inadequate) that he could hardly refrain from expressing his admiration. “You must understand that I’m only going to see my brother 10 because you have come to me. For no one else would I have changed my mind.” “Yes I understand. I’m very grateful.” “My friends and relatives are going to accuse me of softness, of weakness.” 15 “Don’t think of them now. You have decided to be kind to me.” The realism and commonsense of the woman’s words! He was overwhelmed by her. 2.1.1 Who are the TWO people who are referred to in line 1? (2) 2.1.2 What is their relationship? (1) 2.1.3 Why are these two people together? (2) 2.1.4 Name the place they are going to. (1) 2.1.5 Quote ONE word from the rest of the extract which shows what emotion has been aroused in him by her presence. (1) [7] 2.2 Mention is made of Salima. (line 7)

2.2.1 Who is Salima? (1) 2.2.2 Explain what is meant when she is described as being ‘flaccid’. (2) 2.2.3 From lines 1 – 7 quote ONE word which is opposite to ‘flaccid’. (1) [4]



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2.3 Refer to lines 9 – 11.

2.3.1 Who is the brother? (1) 2.3.2 Explain how these brothers came to be separated. (3) 2.3.3 Is the speaker truthful when he says, ‘I’m only going to see my brother because you have come to me. For no one else would I have changed my mind.’? Explain your answer. (3) 2.3.4 Quote a statement, (from the rest of the extract), made by this speaker, which shows his concern for what others will say about his decision to visit his brother. (1) [8]

AND EXTRACT B: Hassen looked at them, annoyed, hurt. Then something snapped within him and he stood there, transfixed. They laughed at him in a raucous chorus as the lift doors shut. He remained immobile, his dignity clawed. Was there anything 5 so vile in him that the youths found it necessary to maul the recess of self-respect within him? “They are whites,” he said to himself in bitter justification of their attitude. He would take the stairs and walk down the five floors. As he descended he thought of Karim. Because of him, he had come here and 10 because of him he had been insulted. The enormity of the insult bridged the gap of ten years when Karim had spurned him, and diminished his being. Now he was diminished again. He was hardly aware that he had gone down five floors when he reached ground level. He stood still, expecting to see the three youths 15 again. But the foyer was empty and he could see the reassuring activity of street life, through the glass panels. He quickly walked out as though he would regain in the hubbub of the street something of his assaulted dignity. He walked on, structures of concrete and glass on either side of him, and it did not even occur to him to take a taxi. It was in Hillbrow that Karim 20 had lived with the white woman and forgotten the existence of his brother; and now that he was dying he had sent for him. For ten years Karim had lived without him. O Karim! The thought of the Institute, a religious seminary, though it was governed like a penitentiary, brought the tears to his eyes and he stopped against a shopwindow and wept. 25 A few pedestrians looked at him. When the shopkeeper came outside to see the weeping man, Hassen, ashamed of himself, wiped his tears and walked on. 2.4 Refer to lines 1 – 3.

2.4.1 Who are the ‘they’ who are referred to here? (1) 2.4.2 What causes Hassen to be annoyed and hurt? (2) 2.4.3 Does this scene take place before or after the visit? Motivate your answer. (3) [6]



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2.5 Refer to paragraph 2.

2.5.1 Quote ONE word from paragraph 1 which has a similar meaning to ‘immobile’. (1) 2.5.2 This scene brings the focus into a particular period in South African history.

(a) What period is it? (1) (b) What is the reason for the reaction Hassen gets when he is in the lift? (2) (c) Quote THREE consecutive words which support your answer in (b). (1) [5]

2.6 Refer to paragraph 3. 2.6.1 Who does Hassen blame for the insult that he suffers? (1) 2.6.2 Give TWO reasons he gives for blaming this person? (2) 2.6.3 When Hassen is insulted he feels that his ………..(a)………. and his ……..(b)………….. have been touched through this scene. (Complete with ONE word for each blank space.) (2) [5]

2.7 Refer to line 13.

2.7.1 Give a reason why Hassen is hardly aware that he is on the ground floor. (2) 2.7.2 On what are his thoughts when he arrives on the ground floor? (1) [3]

2.8 ‘… he stopped against a shopwindow and wept.’ (line 24) Why does Hassen stop and weep? [2]

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SECTION C (ANSWER QUESTION 3 OR 4) QUESTION 3: BUCKINGHAM PALACE Richard Rive This question has TWO EXTRACTS. Answer the questions on BOTH. EXTRACT A: She had been staring hard at the table while Zoot was speaking. Now she started slowly without looking up. ‘Maybe Zoot is right. Maybe if I had been younger and stronger I would also know what to do. I don’t want to leave the District. Believe 5 me, I don’t want to leave all you people. I want to fight the way Zoot says we must. I want to remain with you until everything comes crashing down. But this thing is bigger than everything I can cope with.’ ‘Not if we all stand together,’ Zoot said. ‘What can eight of us do?’ 10 ‘We are not eight. We are eight thousand, more than eight million. We are all those who suffer in this sad land.’ ‘My arms are far too old and weak to fight any more.’ Mary did indeed look a tired old woman as she sat staring at the table. ‘Everyone around here has given up and is leaving or being forced to leave the District, 15 so we might as well leave also.’ ‘Not everyone, Mary. We’re still here,’ Zoot said. ‘But if they force us out we’ll form another group somewhere else, and if they put us out there, we’ll form another group somewhere else. They can’t put us out for ever. And one day we’ll come back.’ 20 ‘It’s no use. Of the five houses in Buckingham Palace, three are already standing empty. Tomorrow there will be one more. How do you fight these people with your bare hands?’ ‘You don’t give up. You just go on fighting.’ ‘So what are you planning to do, Mary?’ Pretty-Boy asked gently. 25 ‘I think it’s time I also left. I know it’s cowardly but I am tired and want to get away from all this. I want to go as far as possible.’ ‘As long as you don’t forget what they have done,’ Zoot insisted. ‘Where’ll you go, Mary?’ Pretty-boy insisted quietly. ‘I am going back to the Boland. I am going to look after my father. 30 He is an old man and needs me. He must not die in a lonely room in Long Street. Maybe you’re right, Zoot. Maybe I should stay with you and fight. Maybe what I am doing is wrong. But I promise you that, wherever I am, I will not forget.’ ‘We’re going to miss you,’ Zoot said. 35 ‘And I’m going to miss you too, because I will not forget.’ The Butterfly, who had been listening all the while without speaking, now got to her feet. She seemed to be wrestling with herself and she twisted her mouth nervously as she tried to speak.



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3.1 Who is ‘she’ (line 1) who is speaking here? [1] 3.2 Refer to “Now she started slowly without looking up.” Name the literary device that is used. [1] 3.3 ‘I want to fight the way Zoot says we must.’ (lines 5 – 6) 3.3.1 To what ‘fight’ is she referring? (1) 3.3.2 Against whom will the fight be? (1) 3.3.3 Why is it necessary to have the ‘fight’? (1) [3] 3.4 Refer to lines 9 - 11. 3.4.1 To what does the number ‘eight’ refer? (1) 3.4.2 Zoot says ‘We are all those who suffer in this sad land’. Why is South Africa referred to as a ‘sad land’? (2) [3] 3.5 “‘Of the five houses in Buckingham Palace, three are already standing empty.”’ Name the THREE families who have left these houses. [3] 3.6 When we read this extract we see that Zoot is ………(3.6.1)………….. to fight to the end while she is ………(3.6.2) ………… and wants to leave. (Complete suitably) [2] 3.7 ‘I am going back to the Boland. I am going to look after my father.’ 3.7.1 Give TWO reasons why she had to leave the Boland. (2) 3.7.2 What type of work does her father do? (1) 3.7.3 Explain what she means when she says she is ‘going to look after’ her father. (2) 3.7.4 Zoot says they are going to miss her. Give TWO reasons why they will miss her. (2) [7]

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EXTRACT B: Friday evenings were warm and relaxed. We felt mellow because it was the week-end and payday. While my sister got dressed to go to the Star or National Bioscope with her boyfriend, since there was no time for her to cook I was sent to 5 Millard’s Fish and Chips shop beyond Tennant Street to get the evening’s supper. I raced with the south-easter and then forced my way into the shop crowded with customers, the air thick with the smell of stale sawdust, boiling fish oil and sweaty bodies as steam rose from the frying-pans. When I had wriggled my way through the forest of grown-up legs and 10 torsos, I found myself jammed against the counter, always just too late to order from the last batch of fish and chips, and then had to wait, fighting to

prevent the breath from being squeezed out of my body, until the next batch of gleaming stockfish and thick fingers of potato chips were hoisted, dripping oil, and spewed out onto the warmers. On the way home I raced to keep the parcels hot, but not so fast that I could not pierce a small hole in the packet and 15 remove a few chips. But this was finally detected by my hawkeyed mother, who knew what was happening in spite of my denials. Saturdays and Sundays were different. Saturday mornings were brisk, for some men must work and all women must shop. And Hanover Street was crowded and the bazaars and 20 fish-market did a roaring trade. There were groceries to buy on the book and clothes on hire-purchase. Katzen, who was the landlord of Buckingham Palace, had his emporium on the corner of Hanover and Tennant Streets. His shop windows were cluttered with bric-à-brac such as celluloid dolls, huge 25 glass tankards still celebrating the Coronation, rolls of crêpe de chine, gramophones, and framed and mounted prints of a violently pink-faced King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. After his premises had been broken into six times in so many weeks, Katzen displayed a notice outside his shop, ‘Although Katzen has been burgled again, Katzen will never burgle 30 you!’ We all knew that there was no chance of the small, Jewish shopkeeper with his walrus moustache and large feet ever climbing through our back windows to steal our radios, but we also felt that he could rob us in other ways.

The thieves always seemed to steal his gramophones and crêpe de Chine and patriotically left the prints of King George VI and his queen.

Saturday mornings Tenant Street, Hanover Street and Castle Bridge 35 heaved and bustled with housewives, peddlers, skollies, urchins, pimps and everybody else. Everybody bought everything on lay-bye and it was all written down in exercise books; Moodley, the Indian general dealer in Caledon Street, scribbled it on the back of brown paper-bags which he lost when he absent- mindedly used them as containers for sugarbeans or rice. Everyone also knew 40 they would have to pay in the end, even those who owed Moodley, although when that end was, was extremely flexible and it could be next week or next year or next never.



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3.8 Refer to line 1 -16. 3.8.1 Give TWO reason why Fridays ‘were warm and relaxed’ (line 1) (2) 3.8.2 Why is fish and chips on the menu on the Friday evening? (1) 3.8.3 What does the narrator do while he is on his way home? (1) 3.8.4 Quote ONE word which tells us that the narrator’s action is seen by his mother. (1) 3.8.5 Quote ONE word which means the narrator’s refusals to acknowledge that he has done wrong. (1) [6] 3.9 Refer to lines 18 – 21. 3.9.1 The ‘shops did a roaring trade’ (line 20). Explain what is meant. (1) 3.9.2 The people were able to ‘buy on the book’ and on ‘hire-purchase’ (lines 20 – 21). Explain what each expression means. (2) [3] 3.10 The people of Buckingham make contact with Katzen in TWO different ways. Describe these TWO different ways. [2] 3.11 Katzen experiences a series of unpleasant events at his shop. 3.11.1 Explain what happened. (1) 3.11.2 Although he says that he will not do something, how, according to the narrator, could Katzen get his revenge on the people? (1) 3.11.3 Name the TWO items that are high on the list of the thieves. Explain why these items are targeted by the thieves. (4) [6] 3.12 Refer to lines 34 – 42. 3.12.1 ‘Everybody bought everything on lay-bye’ (line 36). Explain this expression. (1) 3.12.2 Give TWO reasons why Mr Moodley’s business was not operating efficiently. (2) [3]

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QUESTION 4: DANCE WITH A POOR MAN’S DAUGHTER Pamela Jooste This question has TWO EXTRACTS. Answer the questions on BOTH. EXTRACT A: All we hear about these days is trouble so that sometimes I think we’re all just sitting around like sitting ducks waiting for it to come and get us. The problem is that trouble doesn’t always come marching 5 along behind a big brass band, so even though we are on the look out we don’t know who it will single out or from which direction it will come and when it comes, it comes to my mother and we are not the ones who see it. It is old Dudda One-Eye Dollie, the first-year medical student, 10 who sees it and his one eye doesn’t let him down because he sees everything and goes straightaway to tell James about it and James comes to tell us what’s happened and to fetch us in his friend’s car and take us to the hospital. My grandmother and I are sitting in the back of the car together 15 and my grandmother is still in her apron and she’s holding onto my hand for dear life because we only have a second-hand story. We don’t know what to expect when we get to the hospital but the news isn’t good and I’m crying because I don’t know what else to do and James keeps on blaming himself which is not what my mother would want him to do. 20 My mother has been attacked by a policeman and is very badly hurt. All because she was running around in a black sash and not minding her own business and being egged on by James while she was doing it and that’s what James is blaming himself for. 4.1 Refer to paragraph 1. 4.1.1 Name the figure of speech used in line 2. (1) 4.1.2 What are the TWO things being compared? (2) 4.1.3 What does ‘sitting around like sitting ducks’ (line 2) mean? (1) [4]


4.2.1 What point is being made about trouble in lines 4 - 5? (1) 4.2.2 The trouble ‘comes to my mother’ (line 7). Who is the mother? (1) 4.2.3 Explain what the trouble is that ‘comes to my mother’. (4) [6] 4.3 Refer to paragraph 3.

4.3.1 What specifically does Dudda see? (1) 4.3.2 What does he decide to do? (1) [2]



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4.4.1 Quote THREE consecutive words which show that the grandmother has left the house in a hurry. (1) 4.4.2 Why does the narrator talk about a ‘second-hand story’? (2) 4.4.3 Why does James blame himself for what has happened to ‘my mother’? (2) [5] 4.5 Refer to lines 20 - 23.

4.5.1 The speaker’s mother is ‘badly hurt’. Where are the injuries? (1) 4.5.2 Because of these injuries, the narrator has a fear of what is going to happen to her mother. What fear does the narrator have? (2) 4.5.3 When she was hit by the policeman, she was wearing a black sash. Why does she wear a black sash? (2) 4.5.4 Quote TWO consecutive words which suggest that somebody was pushed or encouraged to do something. (1) [6]

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My grandmother says I must look on the bright side and keep my chin up and remember I’m going away but it’s not for ever. It’s only until they get settled in a new place and things change for the better but she can’t say when that will be. 5 ‘Perhaps when I turn a hundred years old things will have changed for the better and then I can come home but everyone will have forgotten me by then.’ ‘Don’t you talk like that,’ my grandmother says getting hold of me. ‘Do you think I’d ever let you go for such a long time? I could never spare 10 you for that long and your mother and James both know where I stand. So you can pick your chin right up off the ground if you don’t mind. We don’t need any long faces around here.’ She says I mustn’t think about the day I leave them, which is all anyone seems to be talking about these days. I must think of the day I’ll be 15 coming back because between ourselves, that’s what she’s doing and can’t I just imagine what a red-letter day that will be. ‘You’ll come straight to our new place,’ she says and I ask her how I’m supposed to do that when I don’t even know where it will be and she tells me not to keep myself such a fool.



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4.6 Explain the situation that has led to the scene described here. [2] 4.7 Refer to paragraph 1. 4.7.1 How does the narrator feel about the idea that she is going to have to leave her grandmother? (1) 4.7.2 Why does the narrator feel her grandmother has let her down? (1) 4.7.3 Where is the narrator supposed to be going? (1) 4.7.4 With whom will she be staying? (1) 4.7.5 Give TWO reasons why the narrator is going to be sent away. (2) 4.7.6 Why must the grandmother settle in a new place? (2) [8] 4.8 Refer to paragraph 2. 4.8.1 Who is the speaker in paragraph 2? (1) 4.8.2 When the narrator says these words it shows that she is (Choose the best answer) A excited. B surprised. C joking. D sarcastic. (1) 4.8.3 Where is the narrator’s mother at this moment? (1) 4.8.4 When the grandmother says, ‘you can pick your chin right up off the ground’, does she mean it literally or figuratively? Explain your answer. (3) 4.8.5 What does the grandmother want the narrator to do? (1) [7]

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SECTION D: (ANSWER QUESTION 5 OR 6) QUESTION 5: OTHELLO William Shakespeare This question has TWO EXTRACTS. Answer the questions on BOTH. EXTRACT A: Act 1 Sc 3 IAGO No more of drowning, do you hear? 360 RODERIGO I am changed. I’ll go sell all my land. Roderigo off IAGO Thus do I ever make my fool my purse, For I mine own gained knowledge should profane If I would time expend with such a snipe But for my sport and profit. I hate the Moor, 365 And it is thought abroad that ‘twixt my sheets He’s done my office. I know not if’t be true, Yet I, for mere suspicion in that kind, Will do as if for surety. He holds me well – The better shall my purpose work on him. 370 Cassio’s a proper man. Let me see now … To get his place and to plum up my will In double knavery. How? How? Let’s see. After some time, to abuse Othello’s ear That he is too familiar with his wife. 375 He hath a person and a smooth dispose To be suspected, framed to make women false. The Moor is of a free and open nature, That thinks men honest that but seem to be so, And will as tenderly be led by the nose 380 As asses are. I have’t. It is engendered. Hell and night Must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light. Off 5.1 In line 360 Iago says ‘no more of drowning’ to Roderigo. Why does he say this? [2] 5.2 Give TWO reasons why Roderigo says ‘I’ll go sell all my land.’ (line 361) [2]



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5.3 Refer to lines 362 – 383. 5.3.1 Iago is all alone on the stage when he makes this speech. What is this type of speech called? (1) 5.3.2 What is Iago’s attitude towards Roderigo in this speech? Support your answer with a ONE word quote. (2) 5.3.3 Provide a word of similar meaning to ‘profit’. (line 363) (1) [4] 5.4 ‘I hate the Moor.’ (line 365) 5.4.1 Who is the Moor? (1) 5.4.2 Why is he referred to as a Moor? (1) 5.4.3 Give TWO reasons why Iago hates the Moor. (2) [4] 5.5 ‘He’s done my office.’ (line 367) 5.5.1 What does this mean? (2) 5.5.2 Is Iago sure that this is true? Quote THREE statements of no more than six words each to support your answer. (4) [6] 5.6 Who are the two people Iago wants to get at through his evil actions? [2] 5.7 ‘That he is too familiar with his wife.’ (line 375) 5.7.1 Who is the ‘he’ referred to here? (1) 5.7.2 Who is ‘the wife’? (1) [2] 5.8 Name ONE of Othello’s strengths that Iago is challenging in his evil plan of action. [1] 5.9 ‘And will as tenderly be led by the nose As asses are.’ (lines 380 – 381) 5.9.1 Is this used literally or figuratively? (1) 5.9.2 What does Iago mean? (1) [2] 5.10 What is Othello’s opinion of Iago which Iago uses against him here? [2] 5.11 ‘Hell and night Must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light.’ (lines 382 – 383) What are the THREE things that he plans to do? [3]

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EXTRACT B: Act 3 Sc 3 OTHELLO Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul 90 But I do love thee! And when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. IAGO My noble lord – OTHELLO What dost thou say, Iago? IAGO Did Michael Cassio, when you wooed my lady, Know of your love? 95 OTHELLO He did, from first to last. Why dost thou ask? IAGO But for a satisfaction of my thought – No further harm. OTHELLO Why of thy thought, Iago? IAGO I did not think he had been acquainted with her. OTHELLO O yes, and went between us very oft. 100 IAGO Indeed! OTHELLO Indeed? Ay, indeed. Discern’st thou aught in that? Is he not honest? IAGO Honest, my lord? OTHELLO Honest? Ay, honest. 105 IAGO My lord, for aught I know. OTHELLO What dost thou think? IAGO Think, my lord? 5.12 Refer to lines 1 – 3.

5.12.1 Who is Othello calling a ‘wretch’? (1) 5.12.2 Which word prepares us for the tragedy that is to come? (1) 5.12.3 What causes the tragedy in the end? (2) [4]



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5.13 Why does Iago bring in Cassio’s name into his conversation with Othello? [2] 5.14 Throughout this extract there is use of the words ‘honest’ and ‘honesty’.

Why is this? [2] 5.15 Quote THREE consecutive words spoken by Iago which suggest that his plan with Othello’s marriage is working already. [1] 5.16 Why does Iago not come straight to the point with Othello? [1]

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QUESTION 6: HAMLET William Shakespeare This question has TWO EXTRACTS. Answer the questions on BOTH. EXTRACT A: Act 4 Sc 7 KING O, for two special reasons, Which may to you perhaps seem much unsinewed, 10 But yet to me they’re strong. The queen his mother Lives almost by his looks, and for myself, My virtue or my plague, be it either which, She is so conjunctive to my life and soul, That as the star moves not but in his sphere 15 I could not but by her. The other motive, Why to a public count I might not go, Is the great love the general gender bear him, Who, dipping all his faults in their affection, Would, like the spring that turneth wood to stone, 20 Convert his gyves to graces, so that my arrows, Too slightly timbered for so loud a wind, Would have reverted to my bow again, And not where I had aimed them. LAERTES And so have I a noble father lost, 25 A sister driven into desperate terms, Whose worth, if praises may go back again, Stood challenger on mount of all the age For her perfections. But my revenge will come. KING Break not your sleeps for that, you must not think 30 That we are made of stuff so flat and dull, That we can let our beard be shook with danger And think it pastime. You shortly shall hear more. I loved your father, and we love ourself, And that I hope will teach you to imagine … 35 Enter a messenger with letters How now! What news! MESSENGER Letters, my lord, from Hamlet. KING This to your majesty; this to the queen. From Hamlet! Who brought them?



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6.1 Refer to lines 9 - 24. 6.1.1 Who is the King talking about? (1) 6.1.2 What, according to Laertes, is the King supposed to have done? (1) 6.1.3 Rewrite, in your own words, the TWO reasons the king gives for not doing what he is supposed to have done. (4) 6.1.4 Explain what the king means when he says ‘so that my arrows, … would have reverted to my bow again, and not where I had aimed them.’ (lines 21 – 24.) (2) [8] 6.2 Refer to Laertes’ response. (lines 25 – 29) 6.2.1 What is Laertes’ frame of mind when he says these words? Explain your answer. (3) 6.2.2 Who was his father? (1) 6.2.3 He describes his father as ‘noble’. Do you agree? Explain your answer. (3) 6.2.4 Describe how Laertes’ father met his death. (4) 6.2.5 Who is Laertes’ sister? (1) 6.2.6 What has happened to her which causes Laertes to say she has been driven ‘into desperate terms’? (1) 6.2.7 Two people are to blame for Laertes’ sister’s condition. (a) Who are these TWO people? (2) (b) What role did each of these TWO people play in leading her to this condition? (2) 6.2.8 What decision does Laertes make? (1) [18] 6.3 Why does the king tell Laertes ‘Break not your sleeps for that’? (line 29) [2] 6.4 Give TWO reasons why the king is surprised at the news of the messenger. [2]

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EXTRACT B: Act 5 Sc 2 HAMLET (Attacks) Nay, come again. The Queen falls OSRIC

Look to the queen there, ho! 275 Hamlet wounds Laertes. HORATIO They bleed on both sides! – How is it, my lord? Laertes falls OSRIC (Tending him) How is’t, Laertes? LAERTES (Aside) Why, as a woodcock to my own springe, Osric I am justly killed with mine own treachery. HAMLET How does the queen? KING

She swounds to see them bleed. 280 QUEEN No, no, the drink, the drink – O my dear Hamlet – The drink, the drink! I am poisoned! She dies HAMLET O villainy! Ho! Let the door be locked! Treachery! Seek it out. LAERTES It is here, Hamlet. Hamlet, thou art slain, 285 No medicine in the world can do thee good. In thee there is not half an hour of life. The treacherous instrument is in thy hand, Unbated and envenomed. The foul practice Hath turned itself on me, lo, here I lie, 290 Never to rise again. Thy mother’s poisoned. I can no more. The king, the king’s to blame. HAMLET The point envenomed too! Then, venom, to thy work. He stabs the King ALL Treason! Treason! 295 KING O, yet defend me, friends; I am but hurt.



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HAMLET Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damnéd Dane, He forces him to drink Drink off this potion. Is thy union here? Follow my mother. 6.5 Explain what is intended to happen in this scene. [3] 6.6 Why does the Queen fall (stage directions between lines 274 -275)? [1] 6.7 What confession does Laertes make to Osric? [1] 6.8 Refer to lines 281 – 282.

6.8.1 To what drink is the Queen referring? (1) 6.8.2 Besides warning Hamlet, what else does the queen attempt to do when she says, ‘O my dear Hamlet – ‘ (line 281)? (1) [2] 6.9 Refer to line 297.

Explain why Hamlet says the following words about the King: 6.9.1 incestuous (1) 6.9.2 murderous (1) 6.9.3 damnéd (1) [3] /40/

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