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Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education FORM 2
101
ENGLISH
TIME – 2 ½ HOURS.
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(a) Write your name and index number in the spaces provided at the top of this page.
(b) Sign and write the date of examination in the spaces provided above.
(c) Answer all questions in this question paper in the spaces provided
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2 20
3 20
4 20
5 10
6 20
TOTAL SCORE 100
TRIAL 1
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Answer all questions in this paper.
1. CLOZE TEST
Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with an appropriate word. (10 MARKS)
What is good governance? This is a question that people 1 very often. It refers to the
responsible 2 of the affairs of a village, town or country. Where there is
good governance, people live in harmony; ways of 3 poverty are sought and
people assume ownership 4 the process of developing their communities.
5 the government is expected to create a 6 political
and legal environment for development, it cannot succeed if ordinary citizen ns do not cooperate and
play their role. Everyone craves for the 7 of the rule of law, but if we do not obey
that 8 law, we will not know peace. We accuse certain sectors of
9 but give bribes in order to induce others to give us 10
treatment. If we really desire to have positive changes in society, we must change our attitudes and
join hands in building a society we can all be proud of.
2. COMPREHENSION (2O MARKS)
Read the passage below and then answer the questions that follow.
A Rebel with a Cause
This passage talks about Oginga Odinga, one of Kenya’s renowned fighters. Oginga
odinga was able to assert himself long before many Africans could stand up to the colonial masters.
In 1940, Oginga Odinga joined Maseni secondary school as a teacher in Mathematics and sports
master. He immediately encountered obstacles created by colonialism and racism. Although the
African teachers had been to Makerere, the colonial Government paid them wages that were one-
fifth of their European colleagues’. Their housing was also inferior. An African teacher could not be
called Mr. Adonijah, his Christian name. They had no say in running the school. The white teachers
at Maseno University even wanted to tell odinga what to wear: he could not own and wear his own
suits and ties but must wear a khaki uniform that the colonialists had designed as suitable clothing
for Africans.
Odinga rebelled against all this from the start. He decide to speak his mind. He also decided
to decolonize his mind. The decolonization involved rejecting colonial authority based on European
domination and African obedience. The decolonization of the mind also called for innovation, for
creating an alternative world view different from British view. This declaration included obtaining
freedom for his own person. He would eat; l…. and wear what he chose. It also included freedom to
choose his own identity. He would be called Ajuma Oginga Odinga instead of Mr. adonijah. When
he made a family with mary Ng’onga and gave birth to his children he insisted they get baptized
in church but with African names – Oburu Odinga, Raila Amolo Odinga and Ngire Agola Oginga.
Having liberated his mind and body, Oginga found that he still had a tougher job at his
place of work. For the five years he taught at maseno secondary school and Maseno Veterinary
School consecutively, Odinga found himself incessantly banging his head against the white hand of
authority. The attitude of his white colleagues, which was typical in thopse days, was that educated
people like Odinga were still inferior to whites. They had the mind of twelve year old whites, Odinga
was told to his face by one of them. They should not really be teaching academic subjects to Africans
but straight forward manual labour, they were reminded time and again. They should know that it
took Europeans two thousand years to be “civilized” and so the Africans must wait for a similarly long
time to be civilized. Above all, they needed Europeans to represent their interests since they were
still only a generation removed from primitive life. Thus, when Eliud Mathu, graduate of Oxford
University, was appointed to represent Africans interests in the Legislative council in 1944, a white
school master at Maseno directly asked Odinga what Mathu was going to so in the council.
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The sum total of this run as follows: Odinga found himself living in a colonial wor ld
dominated by the colonial government, settlers and the white missionaries. It was a world where
the African had no authority and no voice. It was a world lacking in human dignity and freedom even
for the educated Africans. Some Africans chose to live with it by conforming and accepting the idea
of colonialism. They were known as collaborators. Others chose to reject white patronage. They
were called the rebels. Prof.B.A.Ogot has described Oginga Odinga as a rebel all his life. Maseno is
where rebellion began, between 1940 and 1945.
It is one thing to be a rebel, and quite another to do something about it. Between 1945 and 1956
Odinga created an alternative system to the colonial world. By 1945 he had decided that he would
no longer live under the patronage of the white hand. He quit the teaching job at Maseno and began
the pursuit of economic and social independence.
(Source: ‘Makers of Kenya’s History” Jaramogi Oginga Odinga’ by E. S. Atieno Adhiambo)
Questions
i) What were Jaramogi’s duties as a teacher? (2 marks)
ii) What were the obstacles faced by African teachers during the colonial period? (4 marks)
iii) “A white school master at Maseno directly asked Odinga what Martin really knew and what
Mathu was going to don in the council”
What does this statement tell us about the writer’s attitude towards Africans. (2 marks)
iv) What was the difference in terms of employment between the Europeans and Africans .(2 marks)
v) This passage is a writing about the life story of somebody (Oginga Odinga). What do we call
such kind of writing? (1 mark)
vi) List four things that odinga did to demonstrate his freedom. (4 marks)
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vii) Rewrite the following statement into direct speech .
A white school master Odinga what matron really knew and what matters was going to do in
the council. (1 mark)
viii)What does the title ‘a rebel with a cause’ mean? (2 marks)
ix) Explain the meaning of the following terms as used in the passage.
a) Liberated
b) Inferior
3. ORAL LITERATURE (20 MARKS)
Q3. Read the following narrative and answer the questions that follow.
THE BLACK AND THE RED GOD
Once there were two gods, the black god and the red god. The black god was very humble, kind and
lo9ving, while the red god was malevolent and did not care about the people at all. These gods lived
together way up in heaven but the black god lived below the red god, therefore closer to the people
on the earth.
One day, famine spread allover the world. Cattle could find neither grass to eat nor water to drink
and they were almost dying of starvation. Then the black god spoke to the red god and said, “Let us
give people water for they are about to starve to death.” The red god was reluctant to the let the
people have water, for he hard no liking for them, but after much pleading from the black god, he
relented. It was then agreed that water was to be released from heaven to earth. When this was
done, it rained very hard or many days.
After sometimes, the red god said to the black god, “You can now hold back the water, for the
people have had enough.” The black god answers, “let us leave it for a few more days for the earth
has been parched dry.” This was done and when the red god again told the black god to hold back
the water, he did so and the rain stopped falling.
A few more days elapsed and the black god now asked the red god to release some more water
for the people. The red god refused; and there ensued an argument between them, with the red god
threatening to wipe out all the people, whom he descry bed as having been spoilt and the black
god struggling to prevent him from doing do. And so, up to this day, when one hears loud thunder,
it is the red god tying to get past the black god to wipe out the people of the earth. But when the
sound of thunder is not very loud, it is the black god who is trying to prevent the red god from killing
the people.
Questions
a) Classify this narrative. (2 marks)
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b) Describe one character trait of each god. (4 marks)
(i) The red god
(ii) The black god
c) Discuss the effectiveness of any two literary devices. (4 marks)
d) Identify any three features of oral narratives in this story. (3 marks)
e) What economic activity is practiced by the people described in this story? (2 marks)
f) What moral lesson can be learn from this story? (2 marks)
g) What do you infer from the fact that the black god lived below the red god? (3 marks)
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4. POETRY (20 MARKS)
Q4. Read the poem and answer the questions that follow:
No Easy Task Son
My son
Stop gazing at me
And walk straight ahead;
I know
There is no road ahead
But open your eyes
And walk through
That fog of reality;
Keep running my son
Keep running, from unto the unknown
You may stumble upon your
Fortune of happiness;
Ignore the mutilated bodies
My son
Ignore the easy pleasures
That appear and disappear
Like bubbles in a stormy sea;
Open your eyes wide
And hear the message
Of the whispering voices
Open your eyes and avoid ditches
Son,
Being alive is no easy task.
Lanfton Hughes
Questions
a) Who is the persona in this poem? (2 marks)
b) Explain the meaning of these lines in stanza two;
i) ‘And walk through , That fog of reality’ (2 marks)
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c) Identify and explain the figures of speech in stanza four. (4 marks)
d) Briefly describe the character of the speaker in this poem. (4 marks)
e) What part of speech is each of the following words? (4 marks)
(i) Gazing
(ii) Mutilated
(iii) Pleasures
(iv) Ditches
f) Why do you think this poem was written? (2 marks)
g) Give a homophone for each of these words: (2 marks)
i) Son
ii) There
5. ORAL SKILLS (10 MARKS)
Q5. (a) Underline/ identify the silent letter(s) in the words given below:- (5marks)
(i) Indebted
(ii) Gnash
(iii) Fracas
(iv) When
(v) Bristle
(b) Write a word that is pronounced the same as the ones below:- (5 marks)
(i) Medal
(ii) Seller
(iii) Style
(iv) Moor
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6. GRAMMAR (20 MARKS)
Q6. a) Use the correct form of the words in brackets in the spaces provided. (4 marks)
(i) The of the bungalow needs a lot of money (maintain)
(ii) I scolded her for treating the old man (respect).
(iii) We shall the rope if the well is too deep. (long)
(iv) The man was felled by an gun. (assassinate).
b) Fill in the blanks spaces with the correct form of the word in brackets. (3 marks)
(i) Although she was very wealthy, she dressed very (expensive)
(ii) It is unwise for a public officer to (appropriate) funds.
(iii) The duck is a (immigrate) bird.
c) Choose the correct word from the alternatives to fill the blanks. (3 marks)
i) Wives value (complements/compliments) from their husbands.
ii) This pair of trousers does not fit me. It is (loose/lose)
iii) She always does her hair in my sister’s (salon/saloon)
d) Fill the blank with most suitable preposition. (2 marks)
i) My son is a trader who deals imported perfumes.
ii) Oblivious the danger lurking a head, the children made
their way through the forest.
iii) My brother is very good hockey.
e) Rewrite the sentences filling the blank spaces with the adjectives in the brackets in their
correct order. (3 marks)
i) I am intending to use a
(colourless, olive, cooking, a little) oil.
ii) You can use this
(imported, enormous, blue, fancy, umbrella)
iii) She lives in a
(ancient, concrete, beautiful, Chinese) House.
f) Fill in the blanks below with an appropriate preposition. (2 marks)
i) We are annoyed your behavior.
ii) The bachelor’s Degree shall be conferred Those brilliant students
tomorrow.
g) Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given after each. (3 marks)
i) The teacher told the girl guide to man the gate (use gender sensitive language)
ii) Petra interrupted their conversation (use a phrasal verb in place of the underlined word)
iii) James plays the guitar as well as Mary plays the guitar. (Rewrite using substitution).
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