INTERNAL UCE MOCK EXAMINATIONS 2011 S.4 LITERATURE IN ENGLISH 2 HOURS 30 MINUTES

INSRUCTIONS - Answer five questions in all, on five books, choosing two from section A and three from section B. - In section A you must answer one question from sub – section (i) and one question from subsection (ii) . - You must cover one play and one novel. SECTION A SUB – SECTION (i)

Choose one of the passages below , read it carefully and answer the questions that follow as concisely as possible.

Either 1 Wole Soyinka: The Lion and the Jewel

SADIKU: What on earth has got into her? LAKUNLE: I wish I knew She took off suddenly Like a hunted buck. (looks off stage) I think – yes, she is She is going home. Sadiku, will you go? Find out if you can What she plans to do. (Sadiku nods and goes. Lakunle walks up and down And now I know I am the biggest fool That ever walked this earth. There are women to be found In every town or village in these parts, And every one a virgin. But I obey my books. (Distant music, light drums, flutes, box – guitors, ‘sekere’) ‘Man takes the fallen woman by the hand’ And ever after they live happily Moreover, I will admit, It solvs the problems of her bride – price too. A man must live or fall by his true Principles. That, I had sworn, Never to pay. (Enter Sadiku) SADIKU: She is packing her things. She is gathering her clothes and

1 Trinkets together, and oiling herself as a bride does before her her wedding. LAKUNLE: Heaven help us! I am not impatient. Surely she can wait a day Or two at least. There is the asking to be done. And then I And then I have to hire a praise-singer, and such a number of Ceremonies must firstly be performed. SADUKU: Just what I said but she only laughed at me and called me a…a…what was it now…a…bra…braba…brabararian. It serves you right. It all comes of your teaching . I said what about the asking and the other ceremonies . And she looked at me and said, leave all that nonsense to savages and brabararians.

QUESTIONS a) What happens just before this scene? b) Why does Sidi laugh at Sadiku when she talks about the ceremonies to be peformed. c) ‘A man must live or fall by his true principles? Explain what Lakunle means by this statement. d) From what is revealed in the passage and elsewhere in the play, why does Sidi choose Baroka and not Lakunle?

2. Camara Laye: The African Child Of all the kinds of work my father performed, none fascinated me so much as his skill with gold. No other occupation was so noble, no other needed such a delicate touch; and , morever , this sort of work was always a kind of festival: it was a real festival that broke the monotony of ordinary working days.

So if a woman, accompanied by a go – between, crossed the threshold of the workshop, I would follow her in at once. I knew what she wanted: she had brought some gold and wanted to ask my father to transform it into a trinket. The woman would have collected the gold in the placers of Siguiri, where, for months on end , she would have crouched over the river, washing the mud and patiently extracting from it the grains of gold. These women never came alone: they were well aware that my father had other things to do than to make trinkets for all and sundry! And even if the making of jewellery had been his main occupation, they would have realized that they were not his first or his only customers and that their wants could not be immediately attended to.

Generally these women required the trinket for a certain date, either for the festival of Ramadan or for the Tabaski ,or for some other family festivity, or for a dance ceremony.

QUESTIONS a) What other kinds of work does the father perform? (2 marks) b) What preparations does the father make before he works in gold? How does he know before hand that someone is going to bring gold? (5 marks) c) What is the function of the go – between? (3 marks) d) Outline briefly the main stages in the father’s way of working with gold. (6 marks) 2 e) Compare the attitudes of Camara Laye and his mother towards the father’s work as a goldsmith. (4 marks)

SUB – SECTION (ii) Select one question from this section. If you answered a play in subsection A(i), now choose a novel; if you choose a novel in subsection A(i) , now select a play.

Wole Soyinka: The Lion and the Jewel

Either 3. In what ways is Sidi a typical village girl in ‘The Lion and the Jewel’? (20 marks) Or 4. Describe any two mines in the play ‘The Lion and the Jewel’ and explain their importance. (10 marks)

CAMARA LAYE: The African Child

Either 5. Describe the two ceremonies of Konden Diara, and circumcision. What effect do they have on the African child? (7:7:6)

Or 6. Comment on the theme of love on ‘The African child? (20 marks)

SECTION B Choose two questions from this section.

JOHN RUGANDA: The Burdens

Either 7. Discuss the various burdens in this play.

Or 8. Describe the character of each of the following; Tinka and Wamala

EARNEST HEMINGWAY: The Old Man and the Sea.

Either 9. Describe the character of Santiago. In which ways is he useful to Manolin?

Or 10. What values does the novel, ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ teach you? SECTION C This section is compulsory.

D. WOOLGER & K. OGUNGBESAN: Rhymes and Rhythms.

SUPERSTITION I know that when a grumbling old woman is the first thin I meet in the morning I must rush back to bed and cover my head. That wondering sheep on a sultry afternoon are really men come from their dark graves to walk in light. In mortal sight. That when my left hand or eyelid twitches or when so an owl hoots from a nearby tree I should need pluck it means bad luck; 3 That drink spilled goes to ancestral spirits, that witches dance in clumps of bananas; That crumbs must be left in pots and plates. Until the morn. For babes unborn. That it’s wrong to stand in doorways at dusk. For the ghosts must pass – they have right of way! That when a hidden root trips me over Fault’s not in my foot. It’s an evil root. That if I sleep with feet towards the door. I’II not long be fit. I know it – Yes, I know it!

QUESTIONS

a) Give six(6) different superstitions mentioned in the poem. (6 marks) b) Describe the speaker’s view towards superstition. How can you tell? (3 marks) c) Mention two superstitions you believe in, giving reasons why. (4 marks) d) What two lessons has this poem taught you? (4 marks) e) Explain the following words as used in the poem: (i) sultry (ii) pluck (iii) until the morn (3 marks)

12. Select a poem from Rhymes and Rhythms on the theme of ‘childhood and youth’ and then answer the following questions: a) Mention the title of the poem and the name of the poet. (2 marks) b) Reproduce or paraphrase the poem. (4 marks) c) What does the poet say about childhood or youth? (6 marks) d) Do you agree with the poet’s views? Why or why not? (2 marks) e) Why did you choose this poem? (6 marks)

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