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ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE HIGHER GRADE(SECOND PAPER - LITERATURE)

This question paper consists of 29 pages.

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INSTRUCTIONSCHOICE OF QUESTIONS

This question paper consists of 4 sections.Answer Section A (Poetry) as specified in the instructions tothat section.Answer a further three questions, one from each ofSections B, C and D;i.e. do not answer more than one question per book.

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Note:ARRANGEMENT OF ANSWERS: Begin each section on a new page. Donot write headings for your answers. Write only the question numbers.

SUGGESTED LENGTH OF ESSAY ANSWERS:approximately two pages at eight words a line.

500 words; i.e.

LENGTH OF CONTEXTUAL ANSWERS: Aim at conciseness andrelevance. Be guided by the mark allocation. Answer in your own words asfar as possible, except when actually quoting.

In the mini-essay section of the contextual, you should attempt to writeabout 200 words.

PRESENTATION: Accuracy in grammar, spelling and punctuation, as wellas neat presentation, will count in your favour.

For errors of grammar, spelling and punctuation in the contextual questions,a candidate may be penalized by a deduction of up to a maximum of onethird of the mark obtained.

PERSONAL JUDGEMENT: Do not hesitate to give your personaljudgement frankly. The examiners will assess your answers on thecompetence with which they are expressed and the understanding of the textswhich they reveal.

ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE HG (SECOND PAPER) (0002.2S) 3SECTION A: POETRY

Answer Question 1 and any two other questions from thissection.

UNSEEN POEMOUESTION 1 (COMPULSORY)

Milking Kraal F C Slater

When stars begin softly to spatterMilky drops in the bowl overhead;And the wings of brown bats shear obliquelyThe fleece of dusk;In the kraal squatting milkers are stitchingEach cow to a pailWith silvery thread.

Full-bellied cows chew serenelyThe cud, and they gulp and they sighWith contentment; while milkers chant slowlySongs wordless and strange:In the distance a veld-ranging jackalScrews into the silenceHis agonised cry.

Now the kindly harvest is gathered,The milk-pails are carried away;And sly little herd boys gleefullyTickle their teethWith gleanings of milk from reaped udders,Wisely squeezing the last dropsOf delight from spent day.

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1.1 In lines 1-4, the appearance of the sky is described in two ways.Choose one of them and explain in your own words what is beingcompared to what. [2]

1.2 Literally, what is the 'silvery thread' (line 7)? [2]

1.3 Suggest why it is important to mention that the cows are full of'contentment' (line 10). [2]

[2]1.4 How can a 'harvest' be 'kindly' (line IS)?

1.5 Suggest why the poet chooses to use the word 'tickle' (line 18). [2]

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Robin Malan (ed.) : NEW INSCAPES

(Answer two further questions from this section.)

QUESTION 2

On His Blindness John Milton

When I consider how my life is spent,Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,And that Talent which is death to hide,Lodged with me useless, though my Soul more bentTo serve therewith my Maker, and presentMy true account, lest He returning chide,'Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?'I fondly ask. But Patience, to preventThat murmur, soon replies, 'God doth not needEither man's work or his own gifts. Who bestBear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His StateIs Kingly: thousands at his bidding speedAnd post o'er Land and Ocean without rest;They also serve who only stand and wait.'

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2.1 Suggest two ways in which the speaker's world is 'dark' ftom hispoint of view. (1+ 1) [2]

2.2 Refer to lines 3-6. Explain in your own words why God might'chide' the speaker. [2]

2.3 What is the tone of the question occupying line 7?JustifY your answer. (1+2) [3]

2.4 Why does the word 'fondly' (line 8) indicate that the speaker'sfears are groundless? [2]

2.5 Quote ftom the sestet of this sonnet a word which indicatesthat God is not cruel or even very demanding. [1]

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Oh, just another kind of outdoor game,One on a side. It comes to little more:There where it is we do not need the wall:He is all pine and I am apple orchard.My apple trees will never get acrossAnd eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbours. 'Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonderIf! could put a notion in his head:'Why do they make good neighbours? Isn't it 30Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.Before I built a wall I'd ask to knowWhat I was walling in or walling out,And to whom I was like to give offense.Something there is that doesn't love a wall,That wants it down.'

OUESTION 3from Mending Wall Robert Frost

3.1 Consider line 21 ('Oh, just another kind of outdoor game').What does this line suggest about mending the wall? Justifyyour answer. (2+2)

3.2 'My apple trees will never get across/And eat the cones underhis pines, I tell him' (lines 25-26). What do you think is thetone of what 'I tell him'? Justify your answer. (1+2)

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3.3 Refer to line 30. Why is 'Why' italicized? (It is not sufficient togive an excessively obvious answer such as 'For emphasis'.) [2]

3.4 In the light of the poem as a whole, suggest what it is 'thatdoesn't love a wall,lThat wants it down' (lines 35-36). [1]

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ENGLISH FIRST LANGUAGE HG (SECOND PAPER) (OO02.2S) 9OUESTION 4

i thank You God for most this amazing e e cummmgs

i thank You God for most this amazingday:for the leaping greenly spirits of treesand a blue true dream of sky;and for everythingwhich is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birthday oflife and oflove and wings:and of the gaygreat happening illimitably earth)

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how should tasting touching hearing seeingbreathing any-lifted trom the noof all nothing-human merely beingdoubt unimaginable You?

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(now the ears of my ears awake andnow the eyes of my eyes are opened)

4.1 In this poem, cummings uses capital letters on onlythree occasions. Why? [2]

4.2 What does cummings mean by 'which is yes' (line 4)? [2]

4.3 In what sense do you think that 'i ... have died' (line 5)? [2]

4.4 Quote trom the second stanza the word which best describesthe tone of the poem as a whole. [I]

4.5 Give one plausible meaning of 'human merely being' (line 11). [2]4.6 Quote trom the first two stanzas the two separate words which

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OUESTION 5An Abandoned Bundle Oswald M Mtshali

The morning mistand chimney smokeof White City Jabavuflowed thick yellowas pus OOZIng:IToma gigantic sore.

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It smothered our little houseslike fish caught in a net.

Scavenging dogsdraped in red bandanas of bloodfought fiercelyfor a squirming bundle.

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I threw a brick;they bared fangsflicked velvet tongues of scarletand scurried away,leaving a mutilated corpse -an infant dumped on a rubbish heap -'Oh! Baby in the Mangersleep wellon human dung.'

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Its motherhad melted into the rays of the rising sun,her face glittering with innocenceher heart as pure as untrampled dew. 25

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5.1 Explain what is suggested by the image of 'pus oozing/from agigantic sore' (lines 5-6).

5.2 Explain what lines 7-8 ('It smothered ... in a net') say about thecondition of poor black South Africans.

5.3 Refer to lines 19-21 ('Oh! ... on human dung').

5.3.1 With what other baby is the 'infant dumped on a rubbish heap'being compared? (1)

5.3.2 What is the point of this comparison?

5.4 Refer to the last verse-paragraph (lines 22-25).In what way could the mother be innocent?

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QUESTION 6Poem for My Mother

That isn't everything, you saidon the afternoon I brought a poemto you hunched over the washtubwith your handsthe shrivelledburnt granadillaskin of your handscovered by foam.

And my wordsslid like a ballof hard blue soapinto the tubto be grabbed and used by youto rub the clothes.

A poem isn't allthere is to life, you saidwith your blue-ringed gazescanning the pageonce looking over my shoulderand back at the immediatedirty water

and my wordsbeing clenchedsmaller andsmaller.

Jennifer Davids

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6.1 Why do you think that the speaker emphasizes theappearance of her mother's hands (lines 4-8)? [3]

6.2 In lines 9-11, the speaker's 'words' are compared to'a balllofhard blue soap'. In lines 22-25, these 'words'are described as becoming 'smaller andlsmaller.'

Explain what this tells us about what is happeningto the speaker's 'words'. [3]

6.3 Refer to line 19 ('once looking over my shoulder').How does this detail contribute to your understandingof the mother's attitude to the poem? [2]

6.4 Refer to lines 20-21. Why is the 'dirty water' describedas 'immediate'? [2]

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SECTION B : SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMA

Answer ONE question from this section.

QUESTION 7 : KING LEAR CONTEXTUAL

LEARMeantime we shall express our darker purpose.Give me the map there. Know that we have dividedIn three our kingdom, and 'tis our fast intentTo shake all cares and business from our age,Conferring them on younger strengths, while weUnburdened crawl toward death. Our son of Cornwall,And you our no less loving son of Albany,We have this hour a constant will to publishOur daughters' several dowers, that future strifeMay be prevented now. The princes, France and Burgundy, 10Great rivals in our youngest daughter's love,Long in our court have made their amorous sojournAnd here are to be answered. Tell me, my daughters,Since now we will divest us both of rule,Interest of territory, cares of state,Which of you shall we say doth love us most?That we our largest bounty may extendWhere nature doth with merit challenge. Goneril,Our eldest born, speak first.

GONERILSir, I love you more than word can wield the matter,Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty,Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare,No less than life with grace, health, beauty, honour;As much as child e'er loved or father found.

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A love that makes breath poor and speech unable.Beyond all manner of so much I love you.

CORDELIA(Aside)

What shall Cordelia speak? Love, and be silent.LEAR

Of all these bounds even from this line, to this,With shadowy forests, and with champains richedWith plenteous rivers and wide-skirted meads,We make thee lady. To thine and Albany's issuesBe this perpetual. What says our second daughter,Our dearest Regan, wife of Cornwall?

REGANI am made of that self mettle as my sisterAnd prize me at her worth. In my true heartI find she names my very deed of love,Only she comes too short, that I professMyself an enemy to all other joysWhich the most precious square of sense possesses,And find I am alone felicitateIn your dear Highness's love.

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Then poor Cordelia!And yet not so, since I am sure my love'sMore ponderous than my tongue.

LEARTo thee and thine hereditary everRemain this ample third of our fair kingdom,No less in space, validity and pleasureThan that conferred on Goneril. Now, our joy,Although our last and least, to whose young loveThe vines of France and milk of BurgundyStrive to be interessed; what can you say to draw

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A third more opulent than your sisters'? Speak.CORDELIA

Nothing, my lord.LEAR

Nothing?CORDELIA

Nothing.

7.1 Refer to lines 4-6 (ftom 'To shake' to 'death').

7.1.1 Do you think that Lear is being irresponsible? Brieflyjustify your opinion. (2)

7.1.2 What turns out to be ironic about Lear's word, 'Unburdened'?(2) [4]

7.2 Lear intends 'that future strife/May be prevented now' (lines 9-10).What is ironic about this? [2]

7.3 Lear says 'Tell me, my daughters' (line 13), 'Which of youshall we say doth love us most?' (line 16) and 'Goneril,lOureldest born, speak first' (lines 18-19). What is wrong withLear's emphasis on speaking? [2]

[4]7.4 Comment on Goneril's words in lines 20-26.

7.5 Regan says: 'I am made of that self mettle as my sister/Andprize me at her worth' (lines 34-35). Do you agree with her?Justify your answer. [2]

7.6 Refer to lines 47-51 (ftom 'Now, our joy'). Suggest one wayin which Lear's finer self is revealed in these words. [2]

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7.7 If you were directing a production of this play, how wouldyou tell the actor playing Cordelia to speak line 52('Nothing, my lord')? Justify your answer.

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The extract ends with emphasis on the word 'Nothing'.How does the extract provide evidence of the differencebetween 'Nothing' and that which has substance?(Do not refer to material from elsewhere in the play.)

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QUESTION 8 : KING LEAR ESSAY

The Fool says that 'lords and great men' are also fools, 'Andladies too'. Are all of the characters in King Lear foolish to asignificant extent?

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OUESTION 9 : KING LEAR ESSAY

Lear is the author of his own tragic fate.

Do you agree?

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SECTION C : THE NOVEL

Answer ONE question ftom this section on eitherThin s Fall A art or The Great Gatsb .

QUESTION 10 : THINGS FALL APART CONTEXTUAL

Here follow two extracts from chapter 1. They are separatedby three asterisks.

The drums beat and the flutes sang and the spectators held theirbreath. Amalinze was a wily craftsman, but Okonkwo was asslippery as a fish in water.. Every nerve and every muscle stood outon their arms, on their backs and their thighs, and one almost heardthem stretching to breaking point. In the end Okonkwo threw the Cat.

That was many years ago, twenty years or more, and during thistime Okonkwo's fame had grown like a bush-fire in the harmattan.He was tall and huge, and his bushy eyebrows and wide nose gavehim a very severe look. He breathed heavily, and it was said that,when he slept, his wives and children in their out-houses could hearhim breathe. When he walked, his heels hardly touched the groundand he seemed to walk on springs, as ifhe was going to pounce onsomebody. And he did pounce on people quite often. He had a slightstammer and whenever he was angry and could not get his words outquickly enough, he would use his fists. He had no patience withunsuccessful men. He had no patience with his father.

Unoka, for that was his father's name, had died ten years ago. Inhis day he was lazy and improvident and was quite incapable ofthinking about tomorrow. If any money came his way, and it seldomdid, he immediately brought gourds of palm-wine, called round hisneighbours and made merry. He always said that whenever he saw adead man's mouth he saw the folly of not eating what one had in one'slifetime.

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money, from a few cowries to quite substantial amounts.He was tall but very thin and had a slight stoop. He wore a haggard

and mournful look except when he was drinking or playing on his flute.He was very good on his flute, and his happiest moments were the twoor three moons after the harvest when the village musicians broughtdown their instruments, hung above the fireplace. Unoka would playwith them, his face beaming with blessedness and peace. Sometimesanother village would ask Unoka's band and their dancing egwugwuto come and stay with them and teach them their tunes. They wouldgo to such hosts for as long as three or four markets, making music andfeasting. Unoka loved the good fare and the good fellowship, and heloved this season of the year, when the rains had stopped and the sunrose every morning with dazzling beauty.

* * *Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, andproverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. Okoye was agreat talker and he spoke for a long time, skirting round the subjectand then hitting it finally. In short, he was asking Unoka to returnthe two hundred cowries he had borrowed from him more than twoyears before. As soon as Unoka understood what his friend wasdriving at, he burst out laughing. He laughed loud and long and hisvoice rang out clear as the ogene, and tears stood in his eyes. Hisvisitor was amazed, and sat speechless. At the end, Unoka was ableto give an answer between fresh outbursts of mirth.

'Look at that wall,' he said, pointing to the far wall of his hut, whichwas rubbed with red earth so that it shone. 'Look at those lines ofchalk;' and Okoye saw groups of short perpendicular lines drawn inchalk. There were five groups, and the smallest group had ten lines.Unoka had a sense of the dramatic and so he allowed a pause, in whichhe took a pinch of snuff and sneezed noisily, and then he continued:'Each group there represents a debt to someone, and each stroke is onehundred cowries. You see, I owe that man a thousand cowries. Buthe has not come to wake me up in the morning for it. I shall pay you,

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but not today. Our elders say that the sun will shine on those who standbefore it shines on those who kneel under them. I shall pay my big debtsfirst' And he took another pinch of snuff, as if that was paying thebig debts first Okoye rolled his goatskin and departed.

When Vnoka died he had taken no title at all and he was heavily indebt Any wonder then that his son Okonkwo was ashamed of him?Fortunately, among these people a man was judged according to hisworth and not according to the worth of his father. Okonkwo wasclearly cut out for great things. He was still young but he had wonfame as the greatest wrestler in the nine villages. He was a wealthyfarmer and had two barns full of yams, and had just married his thirdwife. To crown it all he had taken two titles and had shown incredibleprowess in two inter-tribal wars. And so although Okonkwo was stillyoung, he was already one of the greatest men of his time. Age wasrespected among his people, but achievement was revered.

10.1 Refer to line 5: 'In the end Okonkwo threw the Cat' What is thesignificance of this?

10.2 Refer to lines 9-11: 'He breathed heavily, and it was said that,when he slept, his wives and children in their out-houses couldhear him breathe.' Suggest why Achebe gives Okonkwo thischaracteristic.

10.3 Speculate as to why Okonkwo 'had a slight stammer'(lines 13-14).

10.4 Okonkwo 'had no patience with his father' (lines 16). Does ittherefore follow that Vnoka has no effect on Okonkwo'sdevelopment? Explain your answer.

10.5 Refer to lines 39--40: ' Okoye ... spoke for a long time, skirtinground the subject'. Why does Okoye not get to the point faster?Use your own words.

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10.6 Re-read lines 48-60. What is your opinion of Unoka's reaction toOkoye's request for the repayment of the loan? Argue carefully,referring to selected details oflines 48-60. [5]

10.7 Why should Okonkwo be ashamed that his father 'had taken notitle at all' (line 61)? [2]

10.8 Mini-essay

Ifwe assume that one of Achebe's motives for writing Things FallApart is to help non-Africans to realize that the society of hisforefathers was not barbaric, how would the material in thisextract contribute to the achievement of this end? (Do not referto material from elsewhere in the novel.) [10]

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QUESTION 11 : THINGS FALL APART ESSAY

Unoka fathers Okonkwo and Okonkwo fathers Nwoye. Thepattern is ironic but makes perfect sense.

Discuss the father-son relationships that are presented in Things FallApart. Be warned that in an essay of this kind it is particularly easyto fall into the trap of merely re-telling chunks of the story. Allreference to what happens in the course of the novel must clearlyillustrate your understanding of the emotional impacts of therelationships and their effects on the mentalities of those involved.

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QUESTION 12 : THINGS FALL APART ESSAY

The British District Commissioner intends to write a book with thetitle, The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger.How 'primitive' is the society described in Achebe's novel?

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QUESTION 13 : THE GREAT GATSBY CONTEXTUAL

But above the grey land and the spasms of bleak dust which driftendlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T.J.Eckleburg. The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic-their retinas are one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead,from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a non-existent nose. Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them thereto fatten his practice in the borough of Queens, and then sank downhimself into eternal blindness, or forgot them and moved away. Butthe eyes, dimmed a little by many paintless days, under sun and rain,brood on over the solemn dumping ground.

The valley of ashes is bounded on one side by a small foul river, and,when the drawbridge is up to let barges through, the passengers onwaiting trains can stare at the dismal scene for as long as half an hour.There is always a halt there of at least a minute, and it was because ofthis that I first met Tom Buchanan's mistress.

The fact that he had one was insisted upon wherever he was known.His acquaintances resented the fact that he turned up in popular cafeswith her and, leaving her at a table, sauntered about, chatting withwhomsoever he knew. Though I was curious to see her, I had no desireto meet her - but I did. I went up to New York on the train one after- 20noon, and when we stopped by the ashheaps he jumped to his feet and,taking hold of my elbow, literally forced me from the car.

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I think he'd tanked up a good deal at luncheon, and his determin-ation to have my company bordered on violence. The superciliousassumption was that on Sunday afternoon I had nothing better to do.

I followed him over a low whitewashed railroad fence, and wewalked back a hundred yards along the road under Doctor Eckleburg'spersistent stare. The only building in sight was a small block of yellowbrick sitting on the edge of the waste land, a sort of compact MainStreet ministering to it, and contiguous to absolutely nothing. One ofthe three shops it contained was for rent and another was an all-nightrestaurant, approached by a trail of ashes; the third was a garage -Repairs. GEORGEB. WILSON. Cars bought and sold - and I followedTom inside. 35

The interior was unprosperous and bare; the only car visible was thedust-covered wreck of a Ford which crouched in a dim comer. It hadoccurred to me that this shadow of a garage must be a blind, and thatsumptuous and romantic apartments were concealed overhead, whenthe proprietor himself appeared in the door of an office, wiping hishands on a piece of waste. He was a blond, spiritless man, anaemic,and faintly handsome. When he saw us a damp gleam of hope spranginto his light blue eyes.

'Hello, Wilson, old man,' said Tom, slapping him jovially on theshoulder. 'How's business?'

'I can't complain,' answered Wilson unconvincingly. 'When are yougoing to sell me that car?'

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maybe I'd better sell it somewhere else after alL''I don't mean that,' explained Wilson quickly. 'I just meant - 'His voice faded off and Tom glanced impatiently around the garage.

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13.1 Refer to lines 1-2: 'the grey land and the spasms of bleak:dust which drift endlessly over it'. Explain how this imagegives an idea of the lives of people such as the Wilsons. [3]

13.2 'The eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg' are described in lines 3-10.What do you think is their significance in our novel as a whole? [4]

13.3 Refer to lines 18-19: 'leaving her at a table, sauntered about,chatting with whomsoever he knew,'

13.3.1 What does this suggest about Tom's attitude toward Myrtle?Justify your answer. (2+2) [4]

13.3.2 What does it suggest about Tom? Justify your answer.(2+2) [4]

13.4 Consider the following (lines 42-45):When he saw us a damp gleam of hope sprang intohis light blue eyes.

'Hello, Wilson, old man,' said Tom, slapping himjovially on the shoulder. 'How's business?'

How does this detail illustrate the relationship of rich peoplelike Tom and poor people like Wilson? [5]

13.5 Mini-essavShow how the sensitivity and intelligence of Nick (the narrator)are demonstrated in this extract. (Do not refer to material fromelsewhere in the novel.) [10]

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QUESTION 14 : THE GREAT GATSBYESSAY

There is a well-worn argument, common among teachers and learnersin both secondary and tertiary educational institutions, about whetherNick or Gatsby is the central character in The Great Gatsby.

But here is a different question: does it really matter whether oneregards Nick or Gatsby as the central character?

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'Her voice is full of money,' he said suddenly.That was it. I'd never understood before. It was full

of money - that was the inexhaustible charm that roseand fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it ...

High in a white palace the king's daughter, the goldengirl...

Daisy's 'voice is full of money', but, in fact, it is money that in oneway or another dominates the lives of all of the characters.

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SECTION D : SHORT STORIES

Answer one question from this section.

QUESTION 16 : WORDSMITHS CONTEXTUAL

!Tom 'The Red Coat' Herman Charles Bosman

I often hears Piet Niemand relate the story of how he foundAndries Visagie lying unconscious in a donga on the battlefield,and of how he revived him with brandy that he had in his water-bottle.

Piet Niemand explained that, from the number of red-coats thatwere lined up at Bronkhorst Spruit that morning, he could see it wasgoing to be a serious engagement, and so he had thoughtfully emptiedall the water out of his bottle and had replaced it with Magaliesbergpeach brandy of the rawest kind he could get. Piet Niemand said thathe was advancing against the English when he came across the donga.He was advancing very fast and was looking neither to right nor leftof him, he said. And he would draw lines on any piece of paper thatwas handy to show you the direction he took.

I can still remember how annoyed we all were when a young school-teacher, looking intently at that piece of paper, said that if that was thedirection in which Piet Niemand was advancing, then it must havemeant that the English had got right to behind the Boer lines, whichwas contrary to what he had read in the history books. Shortly after-wards, Hannes Potgieter, who was chairman of our school committee,got that young school-teacher transferred.

As Hannes Potgieter said, that young school-teacher with hishistory-book ideas had never been in a battle and didn't know whatreal fighting was. In the confusion of a fight, with guns going off allround you, Hannes Potgieter declared, it was not unusual for a burgherto find himself advancing away from the enemy - and quite fast too.

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16.1.1 What does Piet Niemand imply is the reason for hisfilling his water-bottle with brandy? (2)

16.1.2 What seems to be the real reason for his filling hiswater-bottle with brandy? (2) [4]

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a long way, because he had suddenly felt that he wanted to make surethat the kaffir agterryers were taking proper care of the horses. Buthe need have had no fears on that score, Hannes Potgieter added.Because when he reached the sheltered spot among the thorn-treeswhere the horses were tethered, he found that three commandantsand a veld-kornet had arrived there before him, on the same errand.The veld-kornet was so anxious to reassure himself that the horseswere all right, that he was even trying to mount one of them.

When Hannes Potgieter said that, he winked. And we all laughed.For we knew that he had fought bravely at Majuba Hill. But he wasalso ready always to acknowledge that he had been very frightenedat Majuba Hill. And because he had been in several wars, he didnot like to hear the courage ofPiet Niemand called in question. WhatHannes Potgieter meant us to understand was that if, at the Battle ofBronkhorst Spruit, Piet Niemand did perhaps run at one stage, it wasthe sort of thing that could happen to any man; and for which anyman could be forgiven too.

16.1 Refer to lines 1-8 (up to 'he could get').

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16.2 Refer to lines 13-17 (up to 'the history books'). Explainhow Bosman's satire is apparent in what the teacherreveals about Niemand's story that he had been 'advancing'?

16.3 How do we know that the school-teacher is almostcertainly not a local man?

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16.4 Explain why 'Hannes Potgieter ... got that young school-teachertransferred' (lines 18-19). [2]

16.5 Explain whether the use of'kaffir' (line 28) indicates thatBosman is necessarily a racist. [2]

16.6 What is particularly satirical about the fact that 'threecommandants and a veld-komet had arrived there beforehim, on the same errand' (lines 31-32). [3]

[2]16.7 Refer to line 35. Why does Hannes Potgieter wink?

16.8 Mini-essayDoes the extract indicate that there is anything to admireabout the Boers?(Do not refer to material from elsewhere in the story.) [10]

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QUESTIONS 17 AND 18 (SHORT STORY ESSAY OPTIONS)ON PAGE 29


QUESTION 17 : WORDSMITHS ESSAY

Adultery, betrayal, revenge, broken-heartedness and suicide canbe found in any social class, in any ethnic group, in any countryand at any time. So there is nothing particularly 'South Aftican'or 'Third World' or 'working-class' about Can Themba's 'The Suit'.

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QUESTION 18 : WORDSMITHS ESSAY

Guy de Maupassant's 'Vendetta' might be a grim tale, but it is,above all, a tribute to the power of love and devotion.

Do you think that this is a reasonable way oflooking at 'Vendetta'?

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