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1 hour 45 minutes

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2. Answer ALL questions.

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SECTION A – DRAMA

1. Read the extract below carefully and answer ALL the questions that follow.

Matilda and Betty are busily putting the finishing touches to the house in preparation for Pat’s
arrival.

BETTY: Mamma, I think that’s them coming now!

(Both look excitedly at each other, waiting. A knock is heard at the door.)

5 BETTY: I’ll get it, Mamma. Pat!

PAT: Well my little baby sister, how you’ve grown! (She kisses her cheeks and sees
Mamma.) Mamma, how are you?

MATILDA: Pat, my child, you sure look good. I’m glad to see you come home.

PAT: It’s rather nice to be back home after three years, Mamma.

10 MATILDA: You like Jamaica, Pat?

PAT: I made the most of my time there until I could get my BA. (All smile proudly.) But
you know, now that I’m back home, as I gazed at the old homes and the same old
narrow streets everything suddenly seemed so small. Even this house, Mamma
… nothing has really changed. What I mean is that everything is so teeny-weeny.
15 Why, I feel suffocated already.

(She takes her purse from the table, opens it, takes a pack of cigarettes from it, lights one and
smokes. All around are stunned.

(Junior comes into the room.)

PAT: (Drily) Hi, big brother! You certainly have grown. Why, I have to look up to you
20 now.

JUNIOR: Well, yes … I guess so.

PAT: (Sarcastically) Only in some things though. (Junior is a little surprised.) By the
way, Junior, thanks for the twenty dollars you so faithfully sent me every month.
It certainly did come in handy for lipstick, cigarettes and the likes.

25 JUNIOR: (Astounded) Lipstick … cigarettes … and the likes! I hope “the likes” means your
room, rent and food.

PAT: Rent and food? That couldn’t begin to give me a comfortable room let alone
nourishment. No, Junior, my scholarship did all that. Didn’t Mamma tell you all
this?
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30 JUNIOR: (Very angrily) I’ve just finished seeing who you are, Pat. So that’s the way it goes!
Three long years I’m here working myself to death, scraping together every cent
I could get, doing without lunch in the day, can’t even afford to go to the movies
on Saturday, like other boys, just to make up the twenty dollars for you to buy
lipstick, cigarettes and the likes.

35 PAT: Now just a minute, Junior. Why are you so upset? I think you’re being very unfair.
You’re trying to compare me with yourself now. I’m a different kind of person.
Because you don’t care for the finer things of life, why shouldn’t I?

JUNIOR: So you’re different … and Junior, he’s just a small brain kid who don’t care for the
“finer things of life”, so he takes what money he would buy these things with and
40 gives it to his precious, “different” sister. So you had to have lipstick; you had to
have cigarettes; you had to have “the likes”. What about me? Does it matter to
you whether I have shoes, clothes or even lunch at lunchtime? Tell me that!

PAT: (Deliberately) I should be angry at you, Junior, but I’m not. In fact, I feel sorry
for you. Don’t you think that it’s time for you to face up to the realities of life?
45 Why should you spend money on fancy clothes when you don’t need more than a
few pairs of dungarees? You don’t meet the type of people I meet or go the kind
of places I go.
Adapted from S. Wallace,“The Chance”. In Back Home:
An Original Anthology, The Nassau Guardian (1844) Ltd, 2005, pp. 20–26.

(a) Describe what is happening in lines 1–10.

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(b) What impression of Pat is created in lines 11–15? Support your answer with evidence
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(d) Describe the relationship between Pat and Junior. Support your answer with evidence
from the extract.

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(e) Explain the dramatic effect of Pat’s lighting up a cigarette and smoking (lines 16–17).

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(f) What does Pat’s treatment of her family suggest about her attitude to education? Support
your answer with evidence from the extract.

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SECTION B – POETRY

2. Read the poem below carefully and answer ALL the questions that follow.

Mother in the Morning

Mother sips tea in her garden on mornings,

abandoning the kitchen that echoes with breakfast,
lunch kits, laces untied, and the dripping faucet.
She sits on a cracked footstool in silence
5 as the heat from the teacup rises,
whispers warm comforting secrets
only she can understand.

There are sharp things in the ground

and her hands are soft
10 But she never wears gloves.
She is not afraid of the damp, dark earth
with its shards of buried glass and crawling creatures.
She has planted hope,
seen it grow tall.

15 When my mother’s hands are in the dew-damp earth

and she is fragile in the morning light,
sharp things are buried in her,
and I realize how the fluorescent kitchen light dims her,
hides the secret flower she is growing
20 that only blooms when she does.

Danielle Boodoo-Fortune, “Mother in the Morning”.

In Coming up Hot, Peekash Press, 2015, p. 34.

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(b) (i) Who is the speaker in the poem?

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(ii) State ONE observation the speaker makes about the mother’s relationship with
the garden. Support your answer with evidence from the poem.

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• “as the heat from the teacup rises, / whispers warm comforting secrets” (lines 5–6)

• “I realize how the fluorescent kitchen light dims her” (line 18)

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(e) Explain the meaning of the following lines in the poem:

(i) “She has planted hope, / seen it grow tall” (lines 13–14)

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(ii) “hides the secret flower she is growing / that only blooms when she does”
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(f) Identify ONE example of contrast in the poem and show how it highlights the speaker’s
attitude to the mother.

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SECTION C – PROSE FICTION

3. Read the extract below carefully and answer ALL the questions that follow.

My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America. “Of course you
can be prodigy1, too,” my mother told me when I was nine. “You can be best anything.”

I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images. I was a dainty ballerina girl,
waiting to hear the right music that would send me floating on my tiptoes. I was Cinderella stepping
5 from her pumpkin carriage with sparkly cartoon music filling the air. In all of my imaginings, I
was filled with a sense that I would become perfect. My mother and father would adore me. I
would be beyond reproach.

And then I saw what seemed to be the prodigy side of me. I looked at my reflection. The
girl staring back at me was angry, powerful. This girl and I were the same. I had new thoughts,
10 wilful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won’t. I won’t let her change me, I promised
myself, I won’t be what I’m not.

One day my mother was watching The Ed Sullivan Show. She seemed entranced by the
music. It was being pounded out by a little Chinese girl, about nine years old. Three days after my
mother told me what my schedule would be for piano lessons and piano practice. She had talked to
15 Mr Chong, a retired piano teacher and my mother had traded house cleaning services for weekly
lessons and a piano for me to practise on every day. I soon found out why Old Chong had retired
from teaching piano. He was deaf. I learnt that I could be lazy and get away with mistakes, lots
of mistakes. If I hit the wrong notes, I never corrected myself. I just kept playing in rhythm. I did
pick up the basics pretty quickly. But I was so determined not to try, not to be anybody different
20 that I learned to play only the most earsplitting preludes, the most discordant hymns.

A few weeks later, Old Chong and my mother conspired to have me play in a talent show.
My parents invited all the couples from the Joy Luck Club to witness my debut. When my turn
came, I was very confident. It was as if I knew, without a doubt, that the prodigy side of me really
did exist. I had no fear whatsoever, no nervousness. As I sat down I envisioned Ed Sullivan
25 rushing up to introduce me to everyone on TV.

And I started to play. It was so beautiful. I was so caught up in how lovely I looked that
at first I didn’t worry how I would sound. So it was a surprise to me when I hit the first wrong
note and realized something didn’t sound quite right. And then I hit another and another followed
that. Yet I couldn’t stop playing, as though my hands were bewitched. I kept thinking my fingers
30 would adjust themselves back, like a train switching to the right track. I played this strange jumble
through two repeats, the sour notes staying with me all the way to the end. Then I saw my mother’s
face, her stricken face.

Adapted from Amy Tan, “Two Kinds”. In The Woman That I Am.
St. Martin’s Press, 1994, pp. 276–281.

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(ii) What narrative point of view is used in the extract?

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(b) State TWO qualities of the daughter. Support EACH response with evidence from the
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(d) Identify the figurative device used in ONE of the following and comment on its effectiveness:

• “I kept thinking my fingers would adjust themselves back, like a train switching to the
right track.” (lines 29–30)

• “the sour notes staying with me all the way to the end.” (line 31)

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(e) Comment on ONE example of irony in the extract.

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(f) Identify ONE theme in the extract. Support your answer with evidence from the extract.

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(g) What lesson might the narrator learn from her experience at the talent show? Support
your answer with evidence from the extract.

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READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY.

1. This paper consists of THREE questions. Each question is worth 20 marks.

2. Answer ALL questions.

3. Write your answers in the spaces provided in this answer booklet.

4. Do NOT write in the margins.

5. You are advised to take some time to read through the paper and plan your answers.

7. If you use the extra page(s) you MUST write the question number clearly in
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SECTION A – DRAMA

1. Read the extract below carefully and answer ALL the questions that follow.

The CAPTAIN. BERTHA. The CAPTAIN is sitting crumpled up over the table.

BERTHA: [Going up to him]. Are you ill, Father?

CAPTAIN: [Looks up dully]. Me?

BERTHA: Do you know what you’ve done? Do you know you threw a lamp at Mother?

5 CAPTAIN: Did I?

BERTHA: Yes, you did! What if she’d been hurt?

CAPTAIN: What difference would that make?

BERTHA: You’re not my father when you talk like that!

CAPTAIN: What’s that you say? I’m not your father? How do you know? Who told you
10 that? Who is your father, then? Who?

BERTHA: Well, not you, anyway!

CAPTAIN: Still not me! Who then? Who? You seem well informed. Who have you been
talking to? That I should live to hear my own child tell me to my face I’m not her
father! Don’t you realize you’re insulting your mother when you say that? Don’t
15 you understand that if it’s true, it’s to her shame?

BERTHA: Don’t say anything bad about my mother, do you hear?

CAPTAIN: No, you stick together, all of you against me. You’ve done so all along.

BERTHA: Father!

CAPTAIN: Don’t use that word again!

20 BERTHA: Father, Father!

CAPTAIN: [Pulls her to him]. Bertha, my dear, dear child, of course you’re my child! Yes,
yes, it can’t be otherwise. It must be so!

BERTHA: No, no! I want to be myself!

CAPTAIN: Don’t be afraid, my darling child, I shan’t hurt you!

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25 BERTHA: [Tries to get away]. Help, Mother, help! He’s going to kill me!

NURSE: [Enters]. Master Adolf, what’s the matter?

She takes the CAPTAIN by the arm and seats him on the chair, where he remains
sitting apathetically. Then she takes out the straitjacket and stations herself behind
the chair.

30 [Bertha steals out to the left].

NURSE: Do you remember, Master Adolf, when you were my dear little boy, and I tucked
you up at night, and read to you? Do you remember how I lit the candle and
told you pretty stories when you had horrid dreams and couldn’t sleep? Do you
remember?

35 CAPTAIN: Go on talking, Margaret, it soothes my head so. Go on talking.

NURSE: All right, but you listen carefully, then. Do you remember the times you had to
get dressed, and didn’t want to? And then I took your little undershirt and said: ‘In
with your arms now, both of them.’ And then I said: ‘Sit still now and be a good
boy while I button up the back.’ [She has got the straitjacket on him]. And then
40 I said: ‘Get up now, and walk nicely across the floor so I can see how it fits’…
[She leads him over to the sofa]. And then I said: ‘Now it’s time to go to bed.’

CAPTAIN: What did you say? Go to bed when he’d just got dressed? —Damnation! What
have you done to me? [Tries to free himself]. Oh, you damned cunning woman!
Who’d have thought you were so clever? [Lies down on the sofa]. Caught, clipped
45 and double-crossed.

NURSE: Forgive me, Master Adolf, forgive me, but I had to stop you.

Adapted from August Strindberg, “The Father.”

In Michael Robinson, Miss Julie and Other Plays,
Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 47–49.

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(b) How does Bertha feel about her father, the Captain? Support your answer with evidence
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(d) (i) Comment on the dramatic significance of the Nurse reminding the Captain about
his childhood in lines 31– 41.

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Explain what the Nurse’s actions in lines 31– 41 reveal about her attitude towards
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(e) Identity ONE prop used in the extract and explain its effect on the conflict.

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(f) Comment on the effect of the Captain’s statement “Caught, clipped, and double-crossed”
(lines 44–45).

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(2 marks)

(g) Suggest a title for the extract. Justify your answer with evidence from the extract.

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SECTION B – POETRY

2. Read the poem below carefully and answer ALL the questions that follow.

Curandera1

They think she lives alone

On the edge of town in a two-room house
where she moved when her husband died
at thirty-five of a gunshot wound
5 in the bed of another woman. The curandera
and house have aged together to the rhythm of the desert.

She wakes early, lights candles before
her sacred statues , brews tea of yerbabuena.
She moves down her porch steps, rubs
10 cool morning sand into her hands, into her arms
like a large black bird, she feeds on
the desert, gathering herbs for her basket.

Her days are slow, days of grinding

dried snake into powder, of crushing
15 wild bees to mix with white wine.
And the townspeople come, hoping
to be touched by her ointments,
her hands, her prayers, her eyes.
She listens to their stories, and she listens
20 to the desert, always, to the desert.

By sunset she is tired. The wind

strokes the strands of long gray hair,
the smell of drying plants drifts
into her blood, the sun seeps
25 into her bones. She dozes
on her back porch. Rocking, rocking.

Pat Mora,
Retrieved from http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/24329

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(a) State THREE things we learn about the curandera in stanza 1.

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(b) What does “she lives alone / On the edge of town” (lines 1–2) suggest about the curandera?

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• “like a large black bird, she feeds on / the desert” (lines 11–12)

• “The wind / strokes the strands of long gray hair” (lines 21–22)

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(d) Comment on the poet’s use of imagery in stanza 3.

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(e) Identify the speaker’s attitude towards the curandera. Select TWO pieces of evidence
from the poem to support your answer.

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Identify ONE example of contrast in the poem and show how the poet uses this contrast
to make the poem interesting.

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(g) What impressions are created of the curandera’s situation in the last stanza? Support your
answer with evidence from the last stanza.

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SECTION C – PROSE FICTION

3. Read the extract below carefully and answer ALL the questions that follow.

Everyone knew Ma; she lived just down the road next to Mr Smith’s corner rum shop.
She was a small, short woman, but had a temperament some said was like a force of nature,
unconquerable. Ma’s house was like her in many ways. It wasn’t an architectural wonder but it
had character.

5 Joe “Fishcake” Brown (so called because of his insatiable craving for the tidbit) was
propping up against the rum shop door, pelting back a beer, declaring loudly that there was nothing
that anyone could dare him to do that he couldn’t do. Mr Smith in a sly manner, belted out a
challenge. Fishcake boldly accepted. The shop went dead silent.

A week after the bet, I saw a head poke through Ma’s unlocked back door. It was Fishcake,
10 dressed in all black (in broad daylight, mind you) and wearing dark sunglasses. From a large
pocket in his pants Fishcake pulled out a folded knapsack and glanced around. He searched the
drawers and closets, dropping everything of value into his knapsack.

Instead of making his escape, Fishcake headed for the kitchen. Resting his heavy knap
sack on the counter, he opened the fridge door and took out a bottle of water. He was about to
15 close the door when something else caught his eye — a cling wrap covered bowl, filled to the
brim with fishcake batter. The kitchen was soon filled with the delicious aroma of fishcakes, and
the little ball of batter danced merrily in the oil accompanied by the usual frying noises.

Ma sniffed the air. A frown puckered her forehead and a puzzled look settled on her brown,
aged features. Ma moved slowly and quietly towards the kitchen. Spying Fishcake, she moved
20 back a few steps into the hallway, and flattened herself to one side. When I saw her again she was
holding a rolling pin.

With a big smile on his face and humming a little tune, Fishcake engrossed himself in
dabbing his golden brown fishcakes with a paper towel. Grabbing the one closest to hand, he was
about to take the first bite when Ma snuck up behind him. Holding the rolling pin above her head,
25 Ma carried it up and brought it down.

Ma ran outside and came back with a long piece of rope. Pushing Fishcake on his stomach,
she tied his two hands together behind his back. Bending both feet at the knees so that they could
reach his hands, she secured them too. Now satisfied that he could not escape, Ma left Fishcake
trussed-up like a turkey and went to call the police.

30 As you can imagine, the boys from the shop were the first to gather at the scene.

Adapted from Shirnelle Blackman, “Ma’s House.”

In The Hole and Other Barbadian Poems and Short Stories:
A Winning Words Anthology, National Cultural Foundation, 2004, pp. 119–123.

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(a) State THREE things we learn about Ma in paragraph 1.

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(b) Comment on the effectiveness of “dressed in all black (in broad daylight, mind you) and
wearing dark sunglasses” (line 10).

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(ii) What does the reason identified in (b) (i) above suggest about Fishcake’s character?

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(d) How does Ma’s behaviour in lines 21–28 (“she was holding a rolling pin . . . call the
police”) make the extract humorous?

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(e) Identify the figurative device in “trussed-up like a turkey” (line 29) and comment on its
effectiveness.

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(f) (i) Comment on the significance of the rum shop in the extract.

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(ii) Suggest how the boys in the shop might respond to Fishcake’s predicament.

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(g) Identify ONE theme in the extract. Support your answer with evidence from the extract.

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Total 20 marks

END OF TEST

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