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Name………………………………………………………..Adm. No…………..

Class…………
Signature……………………………………………………. Date……………………………….

TERM 3-2025

FORM THREE EVALUATION TEST ONE

101/2

ENGLISH

Paper 2

TIME: 2 ½ Hours.
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:

i) Write your name, school, and admission number in the spaces provided.
ii) Answer ALL questions in the spaces provided in this paper.
iii) This paper has 10 printed pages. Ensure all the pages are there before you answer
any question.
iv) Answer all questions in English
v) Use BLUE ink to answer your questions.

For Examiner’s Use Only

QUESTION MAXIMUM CANDIDATE’S

SCORE
SCORE
1 20
2 25
3 20
4 15
TOTAL 80

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1. Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow (20 marks)
People must be careful the kind of personal information they post on sites. It is difficult to imagine
life in what seems like a century ago without the internet and the cell phone. Just how did we
manage our lives before the age of instant communication at a fraction of the cost of the landline?
As a little child in 1960s, I could not visualize what my teenage sons do with technology today.

Could I have even dreamt of a cell phone, a device that I could have taken to school with me and
been able to chat with my friends wherever I was and whenever I wanted? You know the answer.
However, today’s heaven of instant communication can easily turn into the hell of deadly sin. I
mean quite literally.
Instant communication devices and portable entertainment products could of course be addictive
to anybody, but such addiction can be particularly destructive to young people in school. They can
distract students from homework and house chores. They can also damage ear drums. Think of the
ubiquitous iPod which the youth equate to oxygen without which life is unsuitable!
I have even seen some grown men behaving like teenagers with iPods! Last year, a person was
killed by a vehicle that spun out of control and hit him as he crossed the road somewhere in the
United States. The footage showed clearly that the victim could have heard or seen the rogue
vehicle had his ears not been plugged up to loud music.
While I do not want to sound like a Neanderthal, I nevertheless would like to reflect on the perils
of this new gadgetry and technology. The first obvious point is that not all technology is good.
Think of the A-Bomb for example, and you get my point.
I disagree with those who argue that it is not technology that is bad, but the users who misapply it.
This is how some scientists justify their abdication of social responsibility. Thus we do not have
to buy every little silly gadget that market puts out. Haven’t you noticed that the companies always
time the release of these gadgets to Christmas, or some other consumer holiday? They surely know
how to apply peer pressure and pit children against parents as a marketing tool. Sometimes I
wonder whether capitalism can be any more devious!
To be sure I cannot gainsay the benefits of new technologies. The computer and the internet are
without doubt the greatest inventions of our age. Information and knowledge that was inaccessible
just several decades ago is now a click away even in the remotest village in the world. And it is all
quite cheap. Access to information and knowledge is being democratized in a way that was
unthinkable just a few decades ago. Think about the revolution of the cell phone for the individual
communication and business transactions. Landlines are becoming virtually obsolete. It is this
revolution that should lift millions out of poverty in the near future.
But these advances come with perilous clouds over them. I particularly, I want to focus on social
networking sites and the dangers of the instant transmission of information and images. We have
known for a long time that the internet is the new Wild West where everything goes.

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Countries that are afraid of democracy and dissent, like China or Syria, limit, monitor, control,
censure or deny access to the internet. They claim they must keep at bay pornography and sexual
predators like pedophiles who troll the interment with demonic schemes. These are real problems,
but do not think that censorship is the answer. Cyber surveillance by law enforcement and the
prosecution of these malignant forces is the only effective and civilized response.
But individuals must themselves act responsibly. Ultimately, the pivot of any democracy
responsible citizen action. This is where parents, civil society and the media come in. Take Face
Book, the wildly popular social networking site, for example. Some of the things I have seen there
are downright stupid, dangerous, malevolent or just plain crazy. Teenagers on these sites
sometimes communicate with imposters bent on luring the naïve to a dead end. How many times
have we seen reports of some sixty-year-old pervert posing as a teen? Even scarier, how many
times have we read about such rendezvous ending in a fatality? There are other less deadly, but
very destructive dangers. Prospective employers are increasingly looking into social networking
sites for personal information about applicants. Even some colleges are snooping around for
information about prospective students. There are reports that some people have been rejected
because of the personal information they posted to the sites. Such information has ranged from
lurid pictures to abusive language.
This means that young folks must be very careful about posting intimate details including personal
pictures and other personal data such as birth dates, personal ID numbers and home address on
such sites. Such information about yourself can only hurt you if displayed for the entire world to
see. Teenagers need to be particularly careful about the new fad of “sexting”. This is an epidemic
in New York among teenagers. Teens and other young people are sending nude pictures of
themselves to their friends or lovers. A large number of such pictures have been shared widely
beyond the intended audience. In one case, a child whose nude pictures were revealed took her
own life. It can cause untold grief.

Questions
1. What does the writer find puzzling before the coming of technology? (2mks)
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2. What is the purpose of a cell-phone? (2mks)

3. Make notes on the dangers of modern technology. (6mks)

4. What is the attitude of the author towards modern technology? (2mks)

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5. How do scientists justify their innovations? (1mk)

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6. What is implied by the expression “perilous clouds” (2mks)
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7. Write the following sentence in indirect speech. (1mk)

I wonder whether capitalism can be more devious!

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8. Explain the meaning of the following words; (4mks)

i) Lurid

ii) Pivot

iii) Sexting

iv) Ubiquitous

2. Read the excerpt below and then answer the questions that follow (25marks)

Mr. Walomu’s opponents had a different answer: ‘When a cat gets into a pigeon coop,’ they said,
‘it kills all the pigeons it finds there, not just those it will eat.’ Mr. Walomu had already eaten three
pigeons and now had in his paws a fourth: Asiya. Strewn along his path, lay many others he had
killed but not eaten. So, who could say for sure that, months hence, Asiya would not become one
of these?
Mr. Walomu continued. ‘As for what you call ‘stealing’, a professor in Texas says that lots of
people do it.’ He threw in a Swahili cliché to support his claim. ‘Na hivyo ndivyo ilivyo’ To help
it along, he gave an approximate English equivalent. ‘And that’s how the cookie crumbles.’

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That was mockery Professor Kimani felt he had to reject. ‘You have three beautiful wives,’ he
began. This was a silly start, as even he realised. Had he not sounded an envious loser?
Nonetheless, he went on. ‘All of them are young.’
‘And young they’ll still be the day I die,’ Mr. Walomu added.
‘Karanja, you know the saying: A real bull dies with green grass in its mouth.’
‘Then why do you want to steal my wife? She is old. Not the green grass you want in your mouth.’
‘I just told you why: Old is gold. Anyway, ‘stealing’ – to use your word – is not all that uncommon,
you know. My Texas guy says thirty per cent of the British ‘steal’ married spouses from their
partners.
Repeat: thirty per cent! That is a lot of spouse stealers there, wouldn’t you say?’
Professor Kimani refused to bite the man’s bait. Still the man continued. ‘Now take Americans.
Contrary to what everyone thinks, Karanja, Americans are not great spouse stealers at all. They
check in at a mere seventeen per cent, way behind the
British. In fact, to cut a long story short, only the Greeks are greater spouse stealers than the British.
Boy, do the Greeks know this spouse stealing business! They come in at a whole forty per cent.’
The man was now toying with Professor Kimani.

Unable to tolerate it anymore, Professor Kimani moved to end it.

‘You, you greedy fat baboon!’ he shouted, closing in.
The man stood up. ‘Stop where you are, Karanja!’ he said.
A clumsy scuffle, as between bull elephants, followed. It ended only when the police came and
arrested the two angry men.

Questions

a) What happens before this excerpt? (2 Marks)

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c) Identify and illustrate two aspects of style used in the excerpt above. (4 Marks)
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d) What is the dominant theme in the above excerpt? (2Marks)
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e) Describe one character trait each for Mr. Walomu and Professor Kimani from the excerpt. (4
Marks)
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f) Why does Mr. Walomu mention statistics from American, British and Greeks in this
excerpt?m(3 Marks)
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g) What is the attitude of Mr. Walomu towards Professor Kimani? (2 Marks)
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h) What happens immediately after this excerpt? (3Marks)
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i) Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the excerpt. (4

Marks)

i. Scuffle

ii. Toying

iii. Check in

iv. Mockery

3. Read the narrative below and then answer the questions that follow (20 marks )

I WANT TO BE A DRUM

(By Jose Craveirinha)

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The drum is worth with cry
Oh! Ancient God of men
Let me be a drum
Body and soul just a drum
Just a drum in the hot night of the tropics

And not a flower born in the forest of despair

Nor a river running to the ocean of despair
Nor as assegai tempered in the living fire of despair
Nor anything

Just a drum worn with its cry in the full moon

Of my land
Just a drum shattering the bitter silence of my land
Just a drum hollowed in the hard-wood of my land
Eu!

Just a drum shattering the bitter silence of Motalala

Just a drum worn with bleeding the fatigue
Of my people
Just a drum lost in the darkness of the night
Ancient God of men
I want to be a drum
And not a river
A flower
An assegai at this moment

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Nor even poetry

Just a drum echoing the song of life’ s forces

A drum night and day
Day and night just a drum
Until the consummation of the great fiesta of batugue
Oh ancient god of men
Let me be a drum
Just a drum’ ’

QUESTIONS
(a) State and illustrate fully the themes in the poem (4mks)
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(b) Explain the significance of the title in relation to the poem (3mks)
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(c) Why do you think the persona wants to be a drum? (3mks)
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(d) Discuss the relevance of the second stanza to the rest of the poem (3mks)
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(e) Name one sound poetic device used in the poem and explain its significance (2mks)
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(f) What is the mood in this poem? Explain how this mood is brought out (4mks)
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(g) Give another suitable title to this poem (1mk)
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4. a) Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given. Do not change the
meaning. 4 marks.
a) You should not feed wild animals at the game park. (Rewrite beginning: Under….)
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b) If they had not paid my school fees, I would have gone home yesterday. (Rewrite beginning:
If my school fees….)
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c) “We cannot wait any longer because the patient needs immediate treatment.” the doctor said.
(Rewrite in reported speech.)
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iv) The topic on verbs follows the one on nouns. (Begin: After….)
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b) Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate linking words from those provided below.
4 marks.
immediately finally further
at first meanwhile secondly

We sat in the sitting room waiting. We were (i) ……….…………….. scared because we did not
know what kind of person our mother’s friend would be. (ii) …………………… we looked at the
beautiful photographs on the wall without saying a word to each other. (iii) ……………………she
arrived and her warm motherly smile (iv) ……………………dissipated our fears.
c) Fill in the blanks with the correct word to complete the sentences below. 2 marks.

i) Neither the children nor their mother ………………. at the wedding ceremony. (was/were)
ii) Of the two brands of perfume on offer, this one smells ……………… (better/ best)
d) Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the words in brackets. (3 marks)

i) The …………………. (spectacle) man looked very disturbed.

ii) Pouring water on steel nails is likely to ………………… (active) rusting.

iii) Your …………………. (hostile) will take you nowhere.

e) Punctuate the following sentences. (2marks)

i) Only one problem was yet to be solved transport to the stadium
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ii) His brother john was finally going to graduate that week
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Name………………………………………………….. Index Number…………………… /

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101/2 Candidate’s Signature
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ENGLISH

Paper 2 Date
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(Comprehension, Literary

Appreciation and grammar)

2 ½ hours

TERM 3-2025

FORM THREE EVALUATION TEST TWO

ENGLISH

Paper 2

2 ½ hours

Instruction to candidates

(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 spaces provided above.

(c) Answer all the questions in this question paper.

(d) All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.

(e) Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as
indicated and that no questions are missing.

(g) Candidates must answer all the questions in English.

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(f) This paper consists of 15 printed pages.

For Examiner’s Use Only

Question Maximum Score Candidate’s Score

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1. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: ( 20 Marks)
A Kenyan woman is among TIME’s 100 Most Influential People, a prestigious annual list
published by the American news magazine that acknowledges extraordinary people changing the
world.
M/s Nice Nailantel, a 27 year old anti FGM activist from Oloitokitok, Kajiado South, is the only
Kenyan who made it to the magazine’s 2018 list. She is listed alongside media mogul Oprah
Winfrey, President of the United States Donald Trump, Prince Harry and China’s President Xi
Jinping.
She is recognized for her relentless efforts to end female genital mutilation.
M/s Nailantel’s journey began at the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro at the age of seven when her
parents died. At this age, a Maasai girl is considered to be at the cusp of womanhood and ripe for
circumcision, and later marriage to an older man.
Nailantel’s unparalled courage – never witnessed before in her village- saved her on the eve of
her planned circumcision, she ran away with her sister, away, to avoid the cut.
When she returned home, she had clarity of thought that surprised even her grandfather, Mr.
Philip Lampat Sing’aro, a respectable village elder. She negotiated with him to give her one
more year to prepare herself for the rite of passage. When a year passed, she remained adamant
against the cut, although her sister finally gave in .M/s Nailantel would later join high school and
at 15, she became a role model and a fierce crusader against FGM.
Using diplomacy and negotiation, M/s Nailantel approached Maasai elders with information
about the ramifications of FGM on a woman, imploring them to recalibrate their thinking
around the practice.
Although her plan did not work at first, the elders warmed up gradually and the greatest sign of
respect from them came when they handed her the esiere, a powerful walking stick that
symbolizes leadership.
Now at 27, Nailantel has become a paragon of a fearless campaign against FGM that has so far
saved more than 15,000 girls. Her efforts have spawned international headlines in respectable
newspapers such as the New York Times and have afforded her an enviable seat amongst the
citadel of global icons, pioneers and world leaders.
Although the announcement was made yesterday, Nailantel received an email from the magazine
two weeks ago, but had to keep the news from her closest family members. This is because the
magazine was strict on the confidentiality of the matter.
“I am truly honored and grateful to be in the list,” she said in a phone interview with the
Saturday Nation. “It shows how important our work against FGM and child marriage is,” she
added.
M/s Nailantel is not sure how the magazine learnt about her although she suspects that it was
Jaha Dukureh, a Gambian ant-FGM crusader, who recommended her and eventually wrote a

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short story to accompany the announcement in the magazine. “I did not know she was writing
the story,” she says.
She has been closely following Jaha’s work through international media.
M/s Nailantel said her grandfather is proud of her. “I called him. He may not understand the
magnitude of this recognition but he is very proud of me and I am quite sure he is telling every
villager about this,” said a jovial Nailantel.
As she prepared to jet off to New York the following morning to receive her award at a gala
event scheduled on Tuesday/s Nailantel was mulling over what she will say during the three
minutes she will have to make a toast at the event.
(Saturday Nation April 21, 2018)

Are there other Kenyans on the 2018 Time Magazine list? Support your answer. (1 Mark)

Why was Nailantel put on the Time Magazine list? (1mark)

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Using about 43 words write a summary on how Nailantel was able to avoid FGM. (6
marks)

Explain how Nailantel was able to convince the elders about the dangers of FGM. (3marks)

5. With clear illustrations, describe any two character traits of Nailantel that are portrayed in
the passage. (4 marks)

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6. Re-write the following in reported speech: “I am truly honored and grateful to be in the list,”
Says Nailantel. (1 mark)

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7. Explain the stylistic device that is brought out when the elders give Nailantel the esiere –
walking stick. (2 marks)

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8. Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the passage. (2 marks)

i) Unparalled courage

ii) Recalibrate

2. Read the following extract and then answer the questions that follow. 25
marks

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Comrade Melusi picked up from where he had left off. “In the end, I just couldn’t resist it”, he
said. “I mean the temptation to annoy ‘the bomber’, which is what everyone had taken to calling
the new ruler because he was bombing the country’s economy back to the Stone Age. I decide to
irritate him in a small yet definite P was I naïve!”

“Don’t you mean brave?”

“No, I mean naive. This is Africa, my friend. You do not go around irritating a head of state in
Africa unless you are naive.”

“So why did you do it?”

“Mr. Longway, I’ve just told you why I did it: I was naive. Anyway, I formed an opposition
group: the New Independence Party. NIP.”The visitor liked that. “You mean there was a nip in
the air?” he joked, but the joke went completely over Comrade Melusi’s head. Still, the visitor
pressed on. “Then what did you do?”

“I ran for president. Save your breath. There is no prize for guessing what followed.”

“I’ll guess anyway-the bomber won.”

“Yes, by ninety-nine percent of the votes. I and the other candidates shared one percent. Now,
we knew we’d lose. We were naïve, not stupid, but we didn’t know we’d lose that badly. Yes,
we did lose, comprehensively, in fact. But we did not lose that badly.”

“Were you angry, after you lost?

Yes, but not so much at my enemy as at my allies.” “Wait, why

were you angry at your allies? “Because we could have defeated our man, but only if we had
fought him together.”

“What had soured matters up against him so much for you to think so?”

“You mean what had soured matters against him. First, there was a drought, the worst in a
century. It had hit Zimbabwe so badly that the bomber himself had declared it a national disaster.
Second, there was the international community. It had come and clamped on Zimbabwe a
programme it aptly called SAP.”

“SAP?”

“Structural Adjustment Programme,” explained Comrade Melusi.

“What did it want? “

“It wanted to revive Zimbabwe’s economy by restructuring it.”

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” Did it succeed? “

”Certainly not!” said Comrade Melusi emphatically. Then he sighed.” Oh well.”

a. Place the excerpt in its immediate context. (4 marks)

b. “You do not go around irritating a head of state in Africa unless you are naïve.” While
drawing illustrations from the life of the urban poor, prove this statement. (3 marks)

c. While using details in the excerpt and elsewhere in the novel, outline factors that led to the
opposition losing the elections. (3 marks)

d. Describe the attitude Comrade Melusi has towards the subject addressed in the excerpt. (3
marks)

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e. Pick out the dominant issue discussed in the excerpt. (2 marks)

f. How is Comrade Melusi portrayed in the excerpt? (4 marks)

g. Comment on the dominant aspect of writing employed in the excerpt. (3 marks)

h. The bomber himself had declared it a national disaster. (Rewrite to end in:- himself) (1 mark)

i. Explain the meaning of the following words and expressions as used in the excerpt. (2 marks)

Soured matters against –

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Clamped –

3. Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow.

MONANGAMBA.
On that big estate there is no rain
it’ s the sweat of my brow that water’ s the crops

On that big estate there is coffee ripe

and that cherry – redness
is drops of my blood turned sap.

The coffee will be roasted,

ground, and crushed,
will turn black, black with the colour of the contract labourer.

Black with the colour of the contract labourer!

Ask the birds that sing,

The streams in carefree wandering
And the high wind from inland:

Who gets up early? Who goes to toil?

Who is it that carries on the long road
The hammock or the bunch of kernels?
Rotten maize, rotten fish,
Ragged clothes, fifty shillings

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Beating for biting back?

Who?

Who makes the millet grow

And the orange groves to flower?
Who?

Who gives the money for the boss to buy

cars, machinery, women
And Negro heads for motors?

And the birds that sing,

The streams in carefree wandering
and the high wind from inland
will answer.

Mongambee ee……

Ah! Let me at least climb the palm trees

Let me drink wine, palm wine
And fuddled by my drunkenness forget.
Mongambee ee……

Questions
a) Explain who Monagamba is (3mks)

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c) State two problems that the persona experiences in the hands of his boss (4mks)

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d) Describe the tone of this poem. (2mks)

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e) Describe the character trait of the boss as depicted in the poem. (2mks)

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f) Explain the meaning of the following lines as used in the poem . (3mks)

(i) It’ s the sweat of my brow that waters the crop.

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(ii) that cherry – redness is drops of my blood turned sap.

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(iii) Black with the colour of the contract labourer

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g) How does the persona solve his problems? (2mks)

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GRAMMAR
a) Rewrite the following sentences as instructed (3 marks)
i) Nyambura never came late to school this term. (Begin: Not……)

ii) If I had known that they would bring the book with them, I would not have brought this copy.
(Rewrite the sentence using need not instead of would not)

iii) No ones likes to be sick. (change the infinitive into a gerund)

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b) For each of the following sentences replace the underlined phrasal verbs with one word
that that has the same meaning. (3mks)
i) You need to cut down on the expenses
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ii) The visitor remarked that the little boy took after his father
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iii) They made up for the lost time
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……….

c) Fill in the blanks with a suitable preposition (3 marks)

1. Nanzala came home ___________________a bus. (with/on/in)
2. The children were pleased --------------------------- the news . (about /with /at)
3. We heard it all --------------------------- the radio. (over/on)

d) Use the correct form of the adjective given in the brackets. (2 marks)
John is the ……………………….. (Cleverer /cleverest) of the two.
Her work is ……………………… (Perfect/most perfect/perfectest)

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iii) They………………………in amazement. (spin)
iv) The senator was popular for his…………………………….character. (conscience)

NAME.....................................................................................................INDEX
NO:.......................

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TERM 3-2025

FORM THREE EVALUATION TEST THREE

ENGLISH

Paper 2

2 ½ hours

101/2
ENGLISH PAPER 2
(Comprehension, Literary appreciation & Grammar)

TIME: 2 ½ HOURS

FORM THREE

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

Write your name and index number in the spaces provided.

Sign and write the date of examination.
Answer all the questions in the question paper
All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.

FOR EXAMINER’S USE ONLY

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Question Maximum Score Candidate’s Score

1 20

2 25

3 20

4 15

TOTAL 80

SECTION A: COMPREHESION

Read the passage below and then answer the questions that follow.

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As we stand, HIV/Aids pandemic is on the rampage, ravaging the young and old alike. It is time
for people to decide for themselves what is good and what is not. And the earlier they do this is
the better.

The youth, for instance, can rise up with the message of hope and assure everybody that it is
possible for a remnant to remain by just abstaining from premarital sex. And how will they
abstain if everywhere they look images of sex stare at them, beckoning alluringly?

The thing to remember is that it is their responsibility to censor the stuff that gets into their minds
because this will definitely affect the kind of decisions and lifestyles they adopt. Before reading a
pornographic book or magazine, they should pause and ask themselves, “Do I hope to become
better after reading this?” The same consideration should be made before watching certain
movies and listening to offensive music. Guarding one’s mind against trash requires laying down
very clear principles. Discipline is imperative.

For young people, it is important to choose friends wisely. They should determine what they will
be doing when they come together. If a friend is not building them up, or is causing them undue
pressure, they then should shun him or her. This pressure often takes the form of making those
who choose to abstain from pre-marital or illicit sex feel inadequate.

Avoiding idleness is equally important. The wise say that an idle mind is the devil’s workshop.
The solution is to get busy with constructive activities be they academic, economic, physical or
spiritual. Trying out new hobbies such as gardening, playing football, swimming, basket
weaving, banking and volunteer work is a step in the right direction.

Parents must also take full responsibility of bringing up their children. They are the first
counselors of their children especially in the formative stages. Unless they do something in good
time, they will cry alone when the disaster of teenage pregnancies, abortion and HIV/Aids
happens right under their own roofs. The onus is upon them to freely discuss issues of sexuality
with their children.

Teachers too have a very crucial role to play in the lives of their students. The youth spend a
bigger percentage of their waking moments with their teachers. The teachers not only equip them
with academic knowledge but also with the right attitude and behaviour. And it is good thing that
sex education has been introduced in the school curriculum. Studies by AMREF have shown

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that, contrary to popular belief, sex education does not promote promiscuity. Rather, it enlightens
its recipients on reproductive health issues.

Moreover, places of worship must pitch in with their contribution. They are in an excellent
position of imparting the correct moral values of their adherents. Besides, they can provide social
and religious activities that will build youth up spiritually and mentally.

Finally, it is incumbent upon the government to put in place legislation governing what citizens,
especially the youth, are exposed to in the form of print or electronic media.

In conclusion, the future generation is keenly watching us to see if we will wreck or salvage the
boat of their survival. Every member of our society has a part to play in enhancing morality. It is
only by doing this that we can hope to check the onslaught of HIV/Aids.
(Adapted from the “The Christian Student” Vol. 1/2001)
Questions
Why is there need to make a decision soon. (2 marks)
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What is pornography and how do you think it influences one’s behaviour. (3 marks)
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Rewrite the following sentences in indirect speech. They should pose and ask themselves “Do I
hope to become better after reading this?”(1 mark)
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Which words does the author use to show displeasure with some kinds of film music? (2 marks)
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What sort of friends does the writer appear to approve. (2 marks)

In note form, give evidence to show that every member of the society has a role to play in
enhancing morality. (4 marks)
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What is the writer’s attitude towards pornography (2 marks)

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Explain the meaning of the following words and expressions as used in the passage. (4 marks)

Beckoning alluringly

(ii) Adherents

Incumbent upon
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Onslaught
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2. Read the extract below and answer the questions that follow.

“Remember the guy from Grassroots International: short fellow, round of body and outspoken of
manner? What was his name? It’s on the tip of my tongue.”

“You must mean the fire-eater who kept accusing me of looking for answers where I shouldn’t
even look,” Dr. Afolabi said.

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“Exactly, that’s our man. Yes, I thought he was right on point, Dr. Afolabi. He too was unhappy
with the present state.”

“Wait, the present state of what?”

“Africa.”

“I don’t understand.”

“No problem: I’ll spell it out for you. You see Dr. Afolabi, Africa, in its present state, has two
new arrivals: corruption and impunity. The first is a crime the second protects from punishment,
the second is another crime the first rewards with kickbacks. That is Africa in its present state.
Now can it change?”

“Tell me. Can it?”

“Well, let’s ask the Law of Will.”

“What?”

‘“Unless there is will to change, there will be no change.’

That is the Law of Will. Dr. Afolabi, I was wondering whether you might be interested in an
adventure that is being sponsored by AGDA. Oh, I am sorry: make that the Agency for
Governance and Development in Africa. Its underlying idea is to mobilise our discontent with
Africa, in its present state, into will to change it.”

“This little meeting between us is not an accident, then, is it, Mr. Longway?”

“What’s an accident, Dr. Afolabi? All events are but consequences of events that precede them.
Now, what is this I hear about you serving as advisor at the next summit of Africa’s heads of
states in Banjul, the Gambia?”

“You are well informed, Mr. Longway,” Dr. Afolabi said. He had begun to see the green-eyed
man in a different light. “Yes, heads of state have invited me there to give them my views on
Way Omega,” he added. “You know of Way Omega, No?”

“Yes, I do. So what are they, your views?”

“They are that the summit should go with Way Omega. It will change our style of doing
business. Just think: no more military coups or rigged elections, no more civil wars or ethnic
clashes. If adopted, what a breath of fresh air Way Omega would be!”

“Dr. Afolabi, don’t confuse what you want to happen with what will. You know Way Omega
won’t fly, don’t you?”

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“I see. Do you have an alternative that will fly?”

a. Explain the circumstances that lead to this meeting. (4 marks)

b. Explain the relationship between the two new arrivals referred to by Mr. Longway? (3 marks)

c. Identify any two stylistic features evident in this excerpt. (4 marks)

d. Provide another name for Mr. Longway. (1 mark)

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………………………………………

e. What is the alternative that Mr. Longway gives? How does this alternative differ from Way
Omega. (3 marks)

f. Using illustrations from the excerpt, outline two character traits of Dr. Afolabi. (4 marks)

g. Provide one major theme evident in this excerpt. (2 marks)

h. Unless there is will to change, there will be no change (Rewrite the sentence beginning: If ...)
(1 mark)

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i. Later, after this excerpt, Mr. Longway highlights the role of Dr. Afolabi in AGDA. Describe
the roles he has to accomplish for AGDA. What does this reveal about Mr. Longway? (3 marks)

3.Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow

One weeping forest, under the wing of the evening,

The night all black, has gone to rest happy;

In the sky the stars have fled trembling,

Fireflies which shine vaguely and put out their lights;

On high the moon is dark; its white light is put out

The spirits are wandering,

Elephant – hunter, take your bow

In the frightened forest the tree sleeps, the leaves are dead,

The monkeys have closed their eyes, hanging on the branches on high,

The antelopes slip past with silent steps

Eat fresh grass, prick their ears attentively,

Lift their heads and listened frightened.

The cicada is silent and stops his grinding song.

Elephant – hunter, take your bow

In the forest lashed by that great rain,

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Father elephant walks away heavily: baou, baou,

Careless without fear, sure of his strength,

Father elephant whom no one can vanquish

Among the trees which he breaks, he stops and starts again.

He eats, roars, overturns the trees and seeks his mate.

Father elephant, you have been heard from afar

Elephant – hunter, take your bow

In the forest where no one passes but you,

Hunter, lift up your heart. Leap and walk

Meat is in front of you, the huge piece of meat,

The meat which makes glad the heart,

The meat which walks like a hill,

The meat that will roast on the hearth,

The fine red meat, and the blood that is drunk smoking.

Elephant – hunter, take your bow

Questions

What is the poem about? (2mks)

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When is the poem performed? (2mks)

Describe different feelings about the night as expressed by the persona.

(4mks)

Identify THREE stylistic devices used in the poem and give their illustrations.

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What is the persona’ s attitude towards the hunter?
(2mks)

Describe the people’ s feelings as they wait for the meat? (2mks)

Explain the meaning of the following lines:

Fireflies which shine vaguely and put out their light (1mk)

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Meat that walks like a hill (1mk)

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…………………………………………………………………………

What is the function of this oral poem? (1mk)

4. GRAMMAR

a) Complete the blank space with the correct form of the word in brackets. (3 marks)

Kimani has not yet recovered from his ……………………(dread) encounter with robbers.

Besides the men, Mau Mau also had several …………………… (hero) who fought for our
independence.
He…………………….. (often) visits his grandmother.

b) Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given after each. (3 marks)
She never came to school late last year. (Begin: Not once)
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But for the pilot’s quick action, the plane would have crashed. (Begin: Had it ............)

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The council warned the traders repeatedly but they insisted on hawking in the restricted area.
(use ‘in spite of’)
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c) Replace the words in brackets with an appropriate phrasal verb. (3 marks)

The driver who was driving at a high speed was ordered by the traffic police to
………………………….(stop) the vehicle.

We hope that our plans …………………………………(succeeds)

The grandmother ……………………………..(liked) her grandchildren.

d) Complete each of the following sentences by filling in the correct prepositions.

(3 marks)
(i) My father deals ……………………………. second hand clothes.

(ii) My sister is good …………………………………swimming.

(iii)My brothers and I will share this piece of land …………………… ourselves.

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e) Form an adverb from the word
(i) Presume …………………………….. (1 mark)

f)Explain two meanings of the following sentence. (2 marks)

(i) Flying planes can be dangerous.

TERM 3-2025

FORM THREE EVALUATION TEST FOUR

ENGLISH

Paper 2

2 ½ hours

ENGLISH

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101/2

COMPREHENSION, LITERARY APPRECIATION AND GRAMMAR

TIME: 2 ½ Hours

NAME…………………………………………………………………………………………. ADM NO………….………

CANDIDATE’S SIGNATURE……………………………. CLASS………………… DATE………………………

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

Write your Name, Admission number and class in the spaces provided above.

Sign and write the date of examination in the spaces provided above.

Answer all questions in this paper.

FOR EXAMINERS USE ONLY.

QUESTION MAXIMUM SCORE CANDIDATE’S SCORE

1 20

2 25

3 20

4 15

TOTAL SCORE 80

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1. COMPREHENSION ON UNSEEN TEXT: (20 MARKS)

Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.

There is statement that William Ellery Channing, a renowned theologian, made that sums
up everything that books mean to those who love them. ‘It is chiefly through books that
we enjoy intercourse with superior minds.’ He went on to say that great people talk to us
and give us their most precious thoughts through books.

What William Ellery meant was that books are the greatest source of knowledge. If
wehave to prosper, then we have to develop the urge, the thirst and the desire to read.
People have really not understood the fact that the only way of shedding off ignorance,

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and making an informed and meaningful contribution to society is through acquisition of
knowledge through reading.

It is sad to note that young people do not look up to widely read and knowledgeable
people as their role models. They do not appreciate someone who has made
accomplishments in the intellectual arena in the same spirit that they fall behind a sports
personality or entertainment celebrity. Many young people imitate sports people and
entertainers lavishly and look up to them as their only heroes and heroines.

The media is partially to blame for this trend. It has not always acted responsibly in the
way it has featured personalities. In most cases, the media only features, as celebrities,
people who excel in sports and entertainment. This ignores the fact that celebrities are
found in all fields of life. Some of the personalities the media features, such as musicians
and artists of dubious moral standing, alienate the youth from the grim realities of their
society. Blinded by the glamour of the lives that the celebrities live, the youth lose interest
in intellectual development.

Very few students in secondary school or even in universities are aware that reading can
open up limitless possibilities to them. Some of those who have completed school or
college education wrongly assume that the reading of books ends with the last
examination one takes. Sooner or later such people become illiterate in thought. They
stop being originators of ideas and turn into mere consumers of ideas because they are
not close to the fountain of intellectual nourishment. What is the difference between
them and those who have been unable to have access to education?

There must be sharing of ideas for development to take place. When people share ideas,
they develop mentally as well as in other facets of life. There are very few reading clubs,
meetings where members get together to exchange meaningful ideas acquired through
reading. In their free time, people gather in social set-ups where nothing serious
transpires. In bars, for example, there is no intellectual discourse that goes on.

Obnoxious and unimaginative exchange of obscene words can hardly measure up to

anything constructive. The lack of interest in debates of national importance can be
attributed to the bankruptcy of ideas as a result of the lack of a reading culture.

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The truth of the matter is that books are capable of doing many things for us. Very few
young people know that they can turn their grades from E’s, D’s and C’s to B’s and A’s by
simply reading books. If only they improve their ability to read, they will be able to open
any door they choose to go through. Reading also instills in young people the skill of self-
confidence that they need in the competitive world they are living in.

Reading activates and exercises the mind. It forces the mind to discriminate between
good and evil, and pushes us to use our imagination, thus making us more creative. In a
sense, reading actually does activate our minds in the same way we activate muscles
when we lift weights. The more active our minds are, the more agile they become, which
results in a higher level of creativity. Someone wisely pointed out that the mind, once
stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

Development psychologists estimate that less than five per cent of us are still creative by
the age of 18. By this age, many young people will have ‘wasted’ themselves watching
television shows and films where images and sounds are already packaged and ready for
them at the click of a button. They use little imagination because everything is done for
them. They do not critically think about how to dress, think or behave. Consequently, they
do not develop the habit of thinking for themselves.

QUESTIONS

1. What is identified as the only way of shedding off ignorance? (1

mark)

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

2. In point form, list down the benefits of developing a reading culture. (4

marks)

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……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

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3. What is the media accused of in this passage? (2

marks)

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4. Why do people who have completed school or secondary education stop

reading?

(1
mark)

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…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

5. What is necessary for development to take place? (1

mark)

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

6. Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the passage. (3 marks)

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(a)dimensions
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(b) trend

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(c ) obnoxious

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

7. Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given after each.

(a) It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds.

(Write in the interrogative form)

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

(b) Blinded by the glamour of the lives that the celebrities live, the youth lose
interest in intellectual development. (Use:so…that) (2
marks)

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……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

8. How is reading similar to exercise? (2

marks)

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9. Why are there only less than five per cent of people still creative by the age of
18?

(2
marks)

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10. What is the attitude of the writer towards media? (2

marks)

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2. FATHERS OF NATIONS BY PAUL B VITTA

Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow.

Dr. Afolabi heard someone call him from behind. He stopped walking then turned to
look. There she was! She wore a scarlet blouse, a black skirt, and red high heels. Who was she?
She was not anyone he could remember. Perhaps she had called someone else. He looked
around. No one else had stopped. That made sense: she had called his name. well, who was ,
and why had she chosen him?

She called again. “Dr. Afolabi! May I please have a word with you?” she asked.

“With me?” he asked. “Are you sure?”

“I am sure all right, which means you will now follow me. This way please.” She led him to a
corner with two chairs. So sit here” She indicated one of the two chairs. “One minute is all I’ll
take. Well, maybe I’ll take more, but five at most” She sat on the other chair.

“One minute, five minutes-where is the difference?” he joked. Then he sat as well.

“My name is McKenzie, “she began. Fiona McKenzie. First, let me thank you for agreeing to sit
for this interview. Wait. Can I tell you something else first before I continue? You see, whenever
I say my name is McKenzie, people look at me quizzically, silently demanding an explanation.”

“And the explanation, Ms. McKenzie, is what? He asked.

Questions

a. Why do people look at McKenzie quizzically and demand an explanation? (4mks)

b. From your knowledge the text, explain why Fiona wants to have a conversation with Afolabi
who does not seem to know her. (3mks)

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c. Identify and illustrate three stylistic devices used in this excerpt. (6mks)

d. For each of the following character, identify and illustrate one character trait. (4mks)

i. Fiona

ii. Dr. Afolabi

e. She indicated one of the two chairs.

(Rewrite and add a question tag) (1mk)

f. From your knowledge of this set text, how important is Dr. Afolabi to Fiona in person? (4mks)

g. Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases as used in the excerpt. (2mks)

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i. Made sense

ii. Quizzically

3. POETRY: (20 MARKS)

Read the following poem and then answer the questions that follow.

In the city

All moving the lord knows where,

Dressed in suits and tatters,

Bowties, tights, ochred sheets and earrings,

All thinking of things to come,

Africa is in a state of opportunity,

All look for easy chances.

Of self- upliftment or underserved promotion

That often mirage further and further

Making frustrate

Minds that should be content.

It is a time of opportunity –

When one line makes a poet

And a little acquaintance or chance

Rockets one the highest office.

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But the peasant, the pillar of the nation,

Has only to cope with prices that shift

Like the waves that rock the ship

Carrying yellow maize to the city.

The employed call out strikes

That only deplete the little funds

That may relieve the peasant.

The elder brother keeps the younger in hunger

At home, if there’s any,

The child plays with an empty bottle,

Cries for more milk

When the cost is daily on the rise.

While the incomes remain static

And the higher brackets are daily filled

By youths that will not retire

Within this century.

The child laughs gaily,

Displaying its only four teeth

That shows it grows to eat,

Unaware of all that shapes her decade

Adapted from a poem by Joseph G. Mutiga

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(a) Who is the persona in the poem? (2
marks)

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

(b) Briefly describe what the poem is about? (3

marks)

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(c ) Explain the significance of the first line in the poem. (2

marks)

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

(d) Identify the aspect of style used in stanza six and show its effectiveness. (3
marks)

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………

(e) Describe the kind of society presented in this poem. (2

marks)

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(f) What is the tone of the poem? Support your answer. (3

marks)

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

(g) Identify and discuss the use of sarcasm in the second last stanza. (3
marks)

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(h) Explain the meaning of the following lines in the poem. (2

marks)

(i) Africa is in a state of opportunity.

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

(ii) The pillar of the nation.

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

3. GRAMMAR: (15 MARKS)

(a) Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given. Do not
change the meaning.
(3 marks)

(i) Why did the thieves break into the apartment? (Rewrite in the passive).

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

(ii) The road has been graded. (Finish … road)

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

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(iii) Njenga told me that his sister is successful. (Use of in place of that).

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

(b) Complete the sentences below using the correct form of the word in brackets.

(3
marks)

(i) Mary’s face ………………….. twitched whenever she was overwhelmed.

(continue)

(ii) Such an …………………….. had never been seen. (occur)

(iii) When we saw the subject fidgeting, we knew ……………… that he was
guilty. (doubt)

(c ) In each case, give a phrasal verb that means the same as the underlined word.

(3
marks)

(i) Did you meet your boss in town?

(ii) The suspect confessed after a long interrogation.

(iii) Only very irresponsible parents can abandon their children.

(d) Fill in the blank with the correct preposition. (3

marks)

(i) The hotel is now open ……………….. its customers from six to six.

(ii) They congratulated him ………………… his good performance.

(iii) The guest arrived and sat …………………. the host.

(e) Choose the best alternative to complete the following sentences. (2

marks)

(i) It was ………………………. who saw the accident first. (me, I)

(ii) How can you be so sure it was …………………..? (they, them)

(f) Correct the error(s) in the following sentence. (1

mark)

(i) Please don’t dirtify the class.

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Name…………………………………………………. Index Number…………………………

Candidate’s Signature…………………

Date………………………………………

TERM 3-2025

FORM THREE EVALUATION TEST FIVE

ENGLISH

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Paper 2
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)

2 ½ hours.

Instructions to Candidates

Write your name and admission number in the spaces provided above.
Sign and write the date of examination in the spaces provided above.
Answer ALL the questions in this question paper.
All answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.
Candidates should check to ensure that all pages are printed as indicated and that no
questions are missing.

For Examiner’s use only.

QUESTION MAXIMUM CANDIDATE’S

SCORE SCORE

1 20

2 25

3 20

4 15

TOTAL

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1. Read the following passage and answer that questions that follows.

The worth of our children cannot be gainsaid. To have them is like having our hearts walking
around outside our bodies. Their wellbeing comes first. So, we teach them the difference
between right and wrong.

We are always furious when sentimental items go missing from our homes, only to find out that
they are with the local drug peddler. Henceforth, we dread the next phone call, while at the
same time we cannot sleep because we have not received one. Eventually, we focus all our
attention on the addict(s) in the house at the expense of the rest of our children. For drug abuse
is a cancer that saps the strength of the entire family.

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In the narcotic world, lying replaces honesty and shortcuts substitute hard work. Drugs drive
away love and hope: dents trust and confidence; and, kill happiness and dreams. In that
confusion, no one knows where the problem/solution lies. For we are reduced to a community of
zombies.

You might be thinking: drugs do not concern me. I. thought so too, until I came face-to-face with
its incapacitating darkness. Throughout my 20 plus years career as a social science researcher, I
have seen innumerable promising lives shattered by drugs — hard, soft and any combination.
Drug-taking is on the rise in our society. And. it concerns us all for it rips the lives of fellow
Kenyans.
Needless to say, the past authorities took the attitude that the drug issue was so
inconsequential or so complex that nothing could be done about it. Those days are over and
the government is acting beyond this defeatist sit-on-your-hands mentality. It has done so by
arresting and deporting a couple of highflying suspected drug lords. As we hurt the cartels, we
should not lose sight of the fact that drug barons are ingenious. For every window that we shut,
they open a new door. To remain hot on their heels, we need to be smarter, stronger and united
than them.

Law enforcers, leaders, teachers, civil society, the media and wananchi have a role to play to
counter this epidemic, Experience shows that a coordinated national strategy on addictive
drugs is more successful. Such a strategy should go beyond the supply side - drug making and
peddling to demand side — drug usage. It should seek to disrupt the dealer-user nexus by
detaching the consumer from the supplier. Hence the need for teamwork. The strategy should
be based on three principal fundamentals: institutions of early learning, treatment programmes
and the criminal justice system. First, we must stop drug usage before it starts. According to
social-scientific studies, drug consumption rarely begins by interacting with a drug-pusher.
Newbies get their first dose free, from older siblings and/or friends. As a result, drug use begins
before teenage for many. An awareness crusade should start at home.

At school, peer pressure spreads the drag culture, and therefore, social pressure can help stop
it. Second, we must help those who want to get-off drugs by establishing detoxification clinics.
Third, the law must strictly be enforced. But treat drug-takers with dignity, respect and love, as
the ultimate challenge underlying addiction is disconnection from the general society. The
campaign cannot be won without active participation of youth, Invite youth to say yes to life
and no to drugs. Remain clear-sighted, clear-minded by staying clean. Our action or inaction
against this ruination will light us down, in honour or dishonour, to the future generations.
For the love of humanity, let us have no moral middle ground and refuse indifference as an
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path for our children. Let us rally our energies, apply the tested rules of common sense, and
together we shall vanquish the drug kingpins. For, Kenya's best days are ever ahead. Our
nation's bold journey towards being drug-free must continue and be a source of our unity.

QUESTIONS.
What in the first paragraph indicates that children’s worth cannot be gainsaid? (1
mk)
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What major problem is currently experienced by most families in the society? (2

mks)
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Explain the main irony that is found in the narcotic world? (3

mks)
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State reasons why drug-taking is on the rise in our society. (3

mks)
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Make notes on why the fight against drugs should be a source of unity against evil. (4
mks)
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Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases as used in the passage. (5
mks)
Innumerable promising lives.

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Gainsaid

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Drug kingpins

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Deporting

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Zombies

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“For every window that we shut, they open a new door. (Paraphrase this statement. (2
mks)
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2. Read the following excerpt and answer the questions that follow.

She had imagined it as an ugly monster with a jungle of cables spilling out of its ears and jumble
of wires pouring out of its nostrils. Instead, before her was a sleek device, new and shiny, with
hints of gold and silver. At its centre sat a core component. It was compact to the left and right of
it were two auxiliary units. They compact as well. No cables or wires in sight.
‘‘As you can see, it has parts,’ ’the youth explained. ‘’This part over here is the receiver.’’ He
pointed at the auxiliary unit on the left, seemingly adored with strips of gold. It looked like a
refrigerator, a contented refrigerator –it was purring.
She stretched out a hand and petted it. ‘’what does it do?’’ she asked.
The youth frowned at her hand with open disapproval. ‘’It collects sound transmission,’’ he said
“That beauty can catch and analyse all sound transmissions, and I mean all sound transmissions.
So be respectful, Fiona. You’re petting a goddess you should only be worshipping.’’
She withdrew the irreverent hand at once. ‘’Shouldn’t it have an antenna?’’ she asked.
“It’s over ,’’ the youth said pointing at the window.
“Where? The window?”
“No, the dish outside the window.”
“Ah.’’
The youth moved on. And at the centre here we have the processor.’’ It was a smooth silver-
looking block, like a rich woman’s safe-deposit box, with complicated electronic gadgetry cleverly
hiding inside its simplified exterior. ‘’ What does, Fiona , is to sift through all transmissions caught
by the receiver, saving those it decides to keep and discarding the rest.’’
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“Then why aren’t you singing its praises?"
She slapped it instead. “Who tells it what to save and what to discard?”
“A computer does.”
A computer? She gave it more respectful look “ And how does the computer decide?”
“It decides programs.”
“Whatever that means.”
The youth moved on to the auxiliary unit on the right. Except for a keyboard, seamlessly joined to
its base, it might well have been one of those flat-screen TV’ s. “And the exhibitor, up there he
runs on programs as well.” He pointed at the unit whose turn to be introduced had come. “Its job
is to present them in the preferred format. This was usually audio but occasionally video. “Let’s
say, for instance that I wanted to...”
“I think I’ve got the gist of it, Nick.”
“As you like,” said the youth. He seemed offended.
“Didn’t you say you had something interesting you wanted to show me?”
“You mean nothing from what I have been showing you so far was interesting?” Now the youth
was definitely offended. “Let’s move on to this chart. If it won’t interest you either, then nothing
will.” He headed for the chart. “It’s simple enough already. Still I’ll see if I can make it even
simpler for you.”
She ignored that put-down and simply braced for jargon she would listen to but was sure she would
not understand. Her strain must have shown
“You should see yourself, Fiona!” he teased her. Cheer had returned in him.
“I haven’t begun and already you are sweating blood?”

Questions
a. Place this excerpt in its immediate context. (4 marks)
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b. Comment on any two use of language devices in the excerpt. (6 marks)
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c. She ignored that put down and simply braced for jargon.

Rewrite the statement beginning “Ignoring (1 mark)

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d. What is the full name of the youth and how did he meet Fiona? (2 marks)
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e. Discuss any two societal concerns addressed in the excerpt. (2 marks)
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f. Describe the character of the following as portrayed in the excerpt. (4 marks)

Nick

Fiona

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g. What does Fiona do? (1 mark)
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h. Describe Nick’s attitude towards Fiona as shown in the passage. (3 marks)
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i. Explain the meaning of the following as used in the passage. (2 marks)

i. Gadgetry

ii. Sweating blood

3. Read the poem then answer the questions that follow;

THE TROUBLED WARRIOR By Alexander Muigai (20 MARKS)

I’ ll put down my hoe

Let them call me lazy

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I’ ll lay aside my stick

Let my cattle rove alone

I’ ll bid farewell my girl

And my laughing sister

Despite their sweet tears

I’ ll part from my younger brother

Then i’ ll go and kneel down

Before the two heaps of stones

Where my parents lie;

I’ ll plead with them to call

The blessings of their gods

On me, a troubled youth

Before I go in the pursuit.

Then I'll gird my loin-cloth

Sling my bow and the sword

Of my clan spear in hand

I'll go to face the foe

The dewy grass shall be;

My couch; on the cold rock

My head shall rest;

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The damp night air shall blanket me

And to the wild beast

I’ ll be a guest

I will drink from the wandering stream

Suck on wild fruits

Till I have faced my foe

I'll be ashamed to face my home

Courage hate and my enemy's fate

Drive me on. Mighty he stands

But curse be on me if

I show him my naked heels:

No! Never, never!

Come, death before surrender

But I'll slay -him-this I know.

Then I'll dry my bleeding

Sword on thirsty tongue;

And proclaim victory

The will of my fathers

Thus, all having been done,

And my poor heart settled

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I’ ll venture to go home.

I'll take up my hoe and dig

I’ ll pick up my stick and herd;

I’ ll court my girl and wed,

Having done my duty.

Questions

Briefly explain the subject matter of this poem.

(4mks)

According to the second stanza, state the challenges which the persona is likely to
face (3mks)

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What drives the warrior to face his foe without retreating?
(2mks)

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Discuss the relevance of the title. "The Troubled Warrior". (3mks)

Describe two character traits of the persona in this poem (4mks)

Explain the meaning of the following lines:

Then I’ ll go and kneel down before the heaps of stones

(2mks)

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The damp night air shall blanket me
(2mks)

GRAMMAR

Complete the following sentences with the most appropriate preposition. (3

mks)

Olivia corresponds …………………………..several pen pals.

Suddenly, the plane was enveloped ……………………………dense.

Inspector Charles was an expert ………………………catching animals.

Choose an appropriate pronoun to fill the blanks. (2

mks)

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Let Lucy and ……………………..(She/her) try what they can do.

They missed as many opportunities as ………………….(we/us)

Fill in each blank space with appropriate form. (3

mks)

For urban areas the approach was………………………… (whole) inappropriate.

For us to win the game we had to take part in several …………………(strain) exercises.
The Senator was popular for his ……………………………character (conscience)

Replace the underlined words with a suitable phrasal verb based on the given verb. (3
mks)
I was completely deceived by the confident trickster. (take)
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Young things loiter at street corners at night (hang)

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He could not decipher the meaning of the coded message(make)

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Rewrite the following using a past participle. (2

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The teacher was annoyed by the students. He punished them severely.

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Alice was angered by her husband. She decided to leave the home immediately.

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Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given without changing the
Meaning. (2
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He was dismissed for negligence rather than incompetence.(Begin: negligence..)
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Some pupils are not used to hard work. (End with …hard).

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Name …………………………………………………….…….. ……. Index No.
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Candidate Signature ………………....
Date …………………………….
101/2

ENGLISH

PAPER 2

COMPREHENSIONS, LITERARY,

APPRECIATION AND GRAMMAR

TEST 6-TERM 3
FORM THREE EVALUATION TEST FIVE
ENGLISH
Paper 2
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)
2 ½ hours.

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

Answer ALL the questions in this paper

All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in the questions
paper.

This paper consist of 8 printed pages.

Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that al the pages are
printed as indicated and that no questions are missing.

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Candidates MUST answer the questions in English.

FOR EXAMINER USE ONLY

Questions Maximum Score Candidates Score

1 20

2 25

3 20

4 15

TOTAL SCORE

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Unseen passage

Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.

Ask any youngster what living with their parents is like and they will most
likely tell you its pure hell. They hate being told what to do, or taking orders or
having to explain where they are going or coming from, especially girls. Young
people hate asking for permission to go anywhere, and even worse being told
that they must be back by a certain time. They hate having to ask for permission
to use something or do something at home and consider these requirements an
infringement on their freedom. So while parents believe they are inculcating
good behavior in their children, the youngsters see it as dictatorship.

Another thorny issue is religion. I dearly remember what happened when I

decided to attend a church different from my mother. She told me in no
uncertain terms that if I wanted to continue going to my new church, I would
have to move out because she would not allow it. I found my parent restrictions
rather stifling and couldn’t wait for the day I would move out of home. I
fantasized about going on outings that were forbidden at home, returning home
late, going wherever I wanted whenever I wanted, returning from work and just
lazing on the couch, leaving my bed unmade or my clothes lying around with no
home to tell me that my room was a mess.

When it came to resources, mum would scold us if we left the door of the jiko
open while heating out bath water or left the food to cook for an unnecessarily
long time on the kerosene stove. She would breather fire about our wastefulness,
while reminding us of the high cost of living. She would conclude by telling us
that she would not allow it in her house. My dad would even be equally furious.
If he found the lights on in a room that was not being used. On several occasions
he threatened not to pay the electricity bill and leaves us in darkness for a while
so that we could learn to save resources. Sometimes my siblings would laugh and
wonder what out parent were making such a fuss about. At other times we
would be angry and grumble that they were stingy and did not want to see us
happy how we longed to get away from them.

But when the time to leave home finally came, I was apprehensive and
wondered what life without my parents would be like. One moment I would be
happy to be free, with no one to order me around, the next moment I would be
having doubts. When you are young, you think you have the freedom to do as
you please. But after something “forbidden” once or twice, you begin having
second thoughts. You realize, since you never used to go on outings for instance,
you won’t miss much by staying indoors most of the time instead of coming
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You now have to pay your bills and realize that you have to out costs, you
remove your bath water from the stove before boils and don’t allow milk to boil
for a second longer than necessary. And of course you switch the lights in any
room that’s not being used. Suddenly, you realize that you are /wing by the very
rules you resented in your parents home. You’re learning to use resources wisely
now that you have to take care of yourself. When you start a family, you impose
the same restrictions to your children. If there is one thing you can’t run away
from, its responsibility. And its door that things you were taught as a child
remain with you for life. What I have learnt is that when your parents are tough
with you, they are only teaching you to be responsible. As the saying goes “only
the wearer of the shoe knows where the shoe pinched.” I now understand why
my parent gave me a longue lashing whenever i misused resources.

Questions (20mks)

According to paragraph 1, why do you youngsters say living with parents is pure
hell? (3mks)

What would youngsters prefer rather that give in to their parents

dictatorship? (2mks)

According to the passage, parents are economical, validate this statement.

(2mks)
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In your opinion, are parents out to punish children by setting rules and
regulations in the homes. (2mks)

Explain the writers attitude towards leaving home when the time came.
(2mks)

Comment on the irony in the passage.(2mks)

Explain the meaning of the following saying as used in the passage.

“Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches” 2mks

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Mother would breathe fire about our wastefulness while reminding us of the
high cost of living (rewrite beginning: not only ……….) (1mk)

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Explain the meaning of the following words as used in passage (3mks)

Stifling

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Stingy

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Resented

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Seen text

Fathers of Nations

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

In the heat of passion, when no one reasons clearly, who has not at one time or another
misinterpreted a kind word from a friend? Who has not then reacted to it with disappointment,
though, in the light of subsequent reflection, laughter would have been the appropriate response?
Ms Mahmoud’s intention had been to conceal eagerness to accept Engineer Tahir’s offer of
tomato soup by refusing it, believing that to accept it too enthusiastically would have been
unseemly. By burying her response under layers of coyness, she only sought to show that no
actually meant yes. As a proper Libyan woman, she had felt she had to do this right: by letting
him fill in the blanks that she left blank for him.
Engineer Tahir misinterpreted a sweet no as a sour no and reacted to it violently. Convicted it
was a rebuff dealt to hurt him, he stormed back to his office in a fit of rage. Believing Ms
Mahmoud had said no to put him down, he felt humiliated, by a woman who, for all her big
smiles, was nevertheless his junior by many miles. Unwisely, he vowed to retaliate.

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As she was removing her head veil the next morning, readying for laboratory work that it would
have impeded, he went and slapped her. What made this assault seem ‘reasonable’ was that it
happened during ‘Heritage Week’, a period that the leader of Libya had set aside to give his
people time to celebrate their renowned history.
Apparently, then, Engineer Tahir slapped Ms Mahmoud to administer discipline on a female
subordinate for shedding her veil in public, in violation of Libyan culture. In truth, he did it to
take revenge against someone who, he thought, had rejected his advances. Discipline, revenge, or
whatever it in fact was, she did not take it lying down. She struck back. Had she stopped to think
of the chain of events her reaction might set off, she would have restrained herself.
Yet, in the heat of anger, when no one thinks logically, who has not reacted by reflex and hit
back on being hit first? Who has not so reacted even if, in the light of likely future consequences,
turning the other cheek would have been a better response? Ms Mahmoud hit back by reflex. A
letter opener, obeying her hand, sliced through a semicircle of air and found a soft target. Its tip,
sharp on the day of purchase but sharper and sharper each day from use caught Engineer Tahir in
his left eye and slit it open. That was ‘the accident’.

a. Explain what happens just before the events in this extract.(3 marks)
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b. Briefly discuss any two themes raised in the extract? (4 marks)
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c. Comment on the use of rhetorical questions in the last paragraph of the extract. (3 marks)
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d. With reference to the other part of the novel, outline the events that motivate Engineer Tahir’s
anger towards his country’s regime? (3 marks)

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e. What does this extract reveal about the men’s attitude towards women? (3 marks)
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f. Identify and illustrate Engineer Tahir’s character as brought out in the extract. (2 marks)
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g. Describe what happens immediately after the events presented in this extract. (3 marks)
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h. Engineer Tahir misinterpreted a sweet no as a sour no and reacted to it violently. (Rewrite this
sentence using a participle) (1 mark)
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i. Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases as used in the extract. (3 marks)

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ii. put him down ……………………………………

iii. heat of anger …………………………

POETRY

Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.

This House We Built

This house we built

With the sweat of our veins

And the genius of our brains

Has crumbled –

Crumbled like a rickety ship

Hit by a gale in the high seas

This house we built

Was for all of us:

Old and young,

Fat and thin-

But alas!

It was never to be!

It is only the few fat ones

Who sit around the glowing, flaming fire,

Belching ignominously

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While the many thin ones –

With tiny, trembling, bony bodies,

And chattering teeth

Cower

Crestfallen

In the periphery –

Miles away from

The enticing warmth of the fire.

This house we built

Has been spoilt

To the hilt:

It has gaping holes in its walls;

Termites and ants, and weevils

Now feast,

In Haste,

Unhindered, upon its once sturdy foundation.

This house we built

Is in dire need of repair, renovation, and refurbishment:

The floor needs recarpeting,

The roof cries for re – patching:

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Let’ s get rid of the lice in our feet,

And the termites and ants and weevils,

And revitalize the pillars

Of this house we built.

Questions

a) What is the poem about? (3mks)

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b) Who is the persona and what is his relationship to the house (3mks)

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c) Identify and comment on the effectiveness of any three poetic devices used in this poem
(6mks)

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d) With illustration from the poem, explain the attitude of the persona towards the “ few fat
ones”

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e) With evidence from the poem, explain the tone of the speaker (2mks)

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f) What is the mood of the poem? (2mks)

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GRAMMAR (15MKS)

Rewrite the following sentences as instructed (3mks)

It is amazing that the couple takes care of so many orphans.

(begin: that …..

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My student don’t drink. My student don’t smoke. (join into one sentence using
“neither……)

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Fill in the blanks with the correct form of verbs. (2mks)

A flock of birds ………………….(fly) away from this lake every week.

I wondered why they hand ……………………..(sing) that particular song.

Rewrite the sentences in direct speech. (3mks)

The tourist exclaimed that Kenya is a beautiful country.

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Hellena told jack to go where she was.

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The teacher inquired form the students why they were late for class.

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Complete the following sentences with a correct speech tag. (2mks)

You’d rather play than work, ……………………………………………………?

You think you are very clever, ……………………………………………….?

Rewrite the following sentence in the negative using any. (2mks)

They only eat ugali in the evenings.

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At this rate there will be no money left to pay the children’.

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Rewrite the sentences into the passive . (2mks)

The teacher told them what to do.

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No one has ever slept in this bed.

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i. It was never her …………………………..to start the quarrel. (interest)

ii We all took ………………………..to the speakers offensive remarks.

(except )

Name: …………………………………….……………… Adm :………... Class: ……………

Index Number: _ _

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Candidate’ s Signature: ……………

Date: ………………………………..

TEST 7-TERM 3
FORM 3 EVALUATION TESTS
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Paper 2 (Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)
Time: 2½ Hours

Instructions to students
Write your name, admission number and class in the spaces provided.
Sign and write the date of the examination in the spaces provided.
Answer all questions in the spaces provided in blue ink.
All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.
This paper consists of 10 printed pages.
Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as
indicated and that no questions are missing
Candidates must answer all questions in English

Question Maximum Student’ s Examiner’ s

Score Score Initials

1 20

2 25

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3 20

4 15

TOTAL 80

Read the passage below and then answer the questions that follow. (20 marks)
Social media is inescapable in today’ s world. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and multiple other
platforms promote a constant connection with friends and family. But is there a link between social
media and drug addiction? What about alcohol addiction, especially now that Covid-19 brought
with it a proliferation of online alcohol-dispensing outlets?

It is probably not surprising that the largest group of people who use social media are those aged
13 to 17. Social media sites shape the lives of teens and young adults today. Many of them may
find themselves subjected to a new type of peer pressure around drugs and alcohol on social media.
When teens see peers in their network engaging in risky behaviour, it might persuade them to also
participate in the drug and alcohol culture.

Social media has desensitized children to drugs and alcohol at a much younger age. They see
celebrities, musicians and models glamorising or advertising certain products. They can therefore,
begin to equate substance use with having a good time. Teenagers who see their friends and family
seemingly having fun while using drugs and alcohol may also feel left out. Some may engage in
risky behaviour in an effort to fit in. Teenage drug use or alcohol use can also stem from
depression, as a way to cope.

Alcohol advertisers are especially blatant about publicising their brands on social media. They
frequently target people on social media sites, glamorising and normalising the use of alcohol. One
other way social media fuels dependence is the ease with which drug dealers can sell to their
customers. Location-based apps are being used by dealers to sell to both teenagers and adults.
While social media sites claim they do their best to prevent the sale of illegal substances, it can be
a challenge to follow through. For example, many dealers will not explicitly say they are selling
their drugs. Instead, they will use hashtags or coded language to alert buyers. The ease with which
some people can buy drugs can certainly fuel drug abuse.

Social media sites like Facebook and Instagram encourage their users to post about the best aspect
of their lives. Most people post about their vacations, job accomplishments and family,
contributing to a feeling that someone’ s friends and family are living fuller and richer lives.

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Almost every teenager is active on a social media platform. While you should be concerned about
the type of content your children are consuming, you should not panic. While social media use
increases the likelihood that teens will use alcohol, tobacco or marijuana, it does not guarantee that
they will use illicit substances. As a parent, you need to beware of the marketing messages and
risky behaviour displayed on social media.

Teens use the popular platforms to communicate with their friends, view entertaining content and
even learn. You probably do not want to ban them from going online but you need to monitor
them. You also need to talk to them openly about the brands and individuals they follow and ensure
they know the risks associated with substance abuse. Peer pressure is a real concern, but parents
still have influence.

a) What message is the writer communicating in the first paragraph? (2 marks)

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b) How do social media sites shape the lives of teens as shown in the passage? (2 marks)

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c) In about 40 words summarise how social media has desensitized children to drugs and alcohol
at a younger age. (4 marks)

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d) Explain the role alcohol advertisers play in fueling the use of alcohol. (2 marks)

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e) Why do you many sellers do not explicitly say they are selling drugs? (2 marks)

e) Describe the tone of the writer as revealed in the last two paragraphs. (3 marks)

f) Identify two ways in which adults can help teenagers make better use of social media.
(2 marks)

g) “ Peer pressure is a real concern but parents still have influence.”

(Rewrite the sentence beginning: Although….) (1 mark)

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h) Explain the meaning the following words and phrases as used in the passage. (2 marks)

proliferation...........................................................................................................................

explicitly ...............................................................................................................................

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Read the extract below and then answer the questions that follow. (25 marks)

“Sabah kher,” he began. This was Arabic for hello, but he regretted saying it. What a bad start, he
thought. Did it not make him seem to be grovelling before a junior colleague? He tried again. “Ms
Mahmood, let’s have a bowl of tomato soup one evening.” This was better, he thought. It was more
assertive, more take-charge. “Just you and I, okay?” he added.
She looked up. Her big eyes were shining like light bulbs, perhaps with fire his words had ignited
that she was trying to extinguish, or maybe with a flame lit before he came that she was trying to
kill. She did not say anything.
Believing she was lost for words, he suggested four: “How about this weekend?” It being a
Wednesday, this meant he was serving her three to four days’ notice.
She gave him one of her big smiles. Its details included big teeth, white; and big gums, purple.
Covering her head was a veil, black. It hid her hair but left out the face, which it encircled yet did
not conceal. A loose head-to-foot garment, also black, shut the rest of her from the world. Her face
was her only window.
“Saturday, perhaps?” suggested Engineer Tahir. Again, she only gave him her big smile, not his
answer. In addition, he got another reward. In moments of amusements, he noticed, her left cheek
was capable of a dimple. He added this new finding to his previous discoveries. These were more
than enough, surely. He decided to decide. “Saturday it is, then.”
This time she actually said something. “No.”
In the heat of passion, when no one reasons clearly, who has not at one time or another
misinterpreted a kind word from a friend? Who has not then reacted to it with disappointment,
though, in the light of subsequent reflection, laughter would have been the appropriate response?
Ms Mahmoud’s intention had been to conceal her eagerness to accept Engineer Tahir’s offer of
tomato soup by effusing it, believing that to accept it too enthusiastically would have been
unseemly. By burying her response under layers of coyness, she only sought to show that no one
actually meant yes. As a proper Libyan woman, she felt she had to do this thing right: by letting
him fill in the blanks that she left blank for him to fill in.
Engineer Tahir misinterpreted a sweet no as sour no and reacted to it violently. Convinced it was
a rebuff dealt to hurt him, he stormed back to his office in a fit of rage. Believing Ms Mahmoud
had said no to put him down, he felt humiliated, by a woman who, for all her big smiles, was
nevertheless his junior by many miles. Unwisely, he vowed to retaliate

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Questions
Place the excerpt in its immediate context. (6
marks)
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Identify and give illustrations of two themes evident in the excerpt. (4

marks)
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Identify, illustrate and comment on two styles used in the excerpt. (4 marks)

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Using information from this excerpt, discuss the character of Tahir and Mahmood. (4
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According to the excerpt, what does a bowl of tomato soup imply? (1

mark)
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What tone is portrayed in the excerpt by Engineer Tahir? (1
mark)
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Add a question tag to the following sentence. (1 mark)

Her face was her only window

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Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the excerpt:(4 marks)

Grovelling

Ignited

Encircled

Spurred on

Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow. (20 marks)

The masqueraders

When the crocodile crunches its prey

Is it pity or pain that moves it to tear?

When a dog crushes bones to nothingness,

Is it remorse that makes it weep?

Brides weep on their wedding days…….)

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In this unsung and songless age,

We wear masks during the day,

We wear ourselves inside out,

To avoid the prying rays of the sun

That focus our action into question marks.

On this turbulent and shoreless sea,

We huddle together like rejected spirits

Revealing our essence to the shy moon

Like night-runners that have no shame

Betraying their secrets to the virgin sky

We wear ourselves the right side out

To show the stars that we grudge the sun.

Even our relationship with our neighbours

It punctuated with calculated apologies

Our accomplises proudly quip “ Is all right”

We are not satisfied with reality

Our natural port is artificiality

In this unmourned unmorning age,

We stand at dusk with downcast eyes.

(Like bats ready for the midnight flight)

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Swallowing flatteries and condoning pretences,

Mortgaging our substance for our shadows,

Even the destitutes embrace our plight

They complete with glee to subsidize the rich

Scorning the meaningless myth of the common man.

We love shadows

they are unreal

We wear rubber teeth

they can’ t bite!

We walk at might

to mingle with the dead.

We disregard the moon because it won’ t scream

We regard our lives as an endless dream.

Richard Ntiru.

Who are the masqueraders? (2mks)

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What is the attitude of the poet towards the masqueraders? (2mks)

Pick out three stylistic devices employed in the poem and explain their effectiveness in the poem.
(6mks)

What is the meaning of the following terms in ordinary language?

Mortgaging our substance for our shadows,

Even the destitutes embrace our plight:

We huddle together like rejected spirits

Revealing our essence to the shy moon (3mks)

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Give the meaning of Stanza 6 (lines 31 to 36). (2mks)

What is the relationship between the persona and the subject of the poem.(2mks)

(a) Rewrite the following questions as instructed. (5 marks)

The photographers will be taken at the venue of the wedding. The photographers will be taken in
a reputable studio. (Combine into one sentence using ...either…or...)

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Apart from those two, everyone else is disciplined. (Rewrite beginning: Save…)

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The television comes with a full two-year warranty. (Replace the underlined word with one that
means the same)

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It is bad manners to smoke in a crowded place. (Rewrite using a gerund).

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The farmer’ s cow gives twenty kilos of milk every day. He feeds and waters it very well.
(Combine using the present participle.)

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(b) Rewrite the following sentences replacing the underlined phrase with an idiom. (2 marks)

Many people thought that Maru and Esther were very close to one another until Mary betrayed
Esther.

He was feeling unwell last week.

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The electorates……………………………. bad leaders. (do)

Dr Rank’ s plans did not ………………….. (fall)

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The US ambassadors………………………… on the governor in his office. (call)

(d) Complete the following sentences with the most appropriate complex prepositions. (2 marks)

The girl walked out………………………. Her mother’ s instructions.

…………………. what has happened, we had rather talk to the Principal.

(e) Replace the underlined word with a gender sensitive word. (2 marks)

The headman held a meeting under the larger oak tree.

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We had been summoned by the housemistress.

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(f) Rewrite the following sentences correctly. (1 mark)

If I was a surgeon, I would have treated the patient.

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NAME…………………………………………….………..ADM.
NO………….….....................………

SCHOOL………………………………………CLASS...........................
SIGN…………....................….

DATE…………………......................………

ENGLISH
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PAPER 2
TIME: 2 ½ HOURS

TEST 8-2025
FORM THREE EVALUATION TESTS
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education. (K.C.S.E)

English paper 2
(Comprehension, excerpt, poetry and grammar)

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INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

Write your name and index number in the spaces provided above

Sign and write date of examination in the space provided.

Answer ALL questions in this paper.

Candidates should check the question paper to ensure that all pages are printed as indicated
and no questions are missing.

Answer all questions in English.

QUESTION MAXIMUM SCORE CANDIDATE’S SCORE

Comprehension 20marks

Excerpt 25 marks

Poetry 20 marks

Grammar 15 marks

Total 80 marks

1. Comprehension

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:

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With every passing day, technology is overtaking our daily lives. Regardless of age, gender,
career or economic status, smartphones are fast becoming ubiquitous.

More than two million Kenyans now own smartphones. Add the computer, tablet and other high-
tech devices and your life is surrounded by a myriad gadgets which, to some, have become best
friends.

Many of us rely on the phone to do everything, from saying” I love you” to “I’m quitting”, from
checking bank balances to selling stuff on OLX, from sharing photos and videos to streaming
content on the web. We can carry out a plethora of daily tasks, right from the palms of our hands.

At the dinner table, it’s the norm to constantly check for texts, e-mails, tweets, WhatsApp and
Facebook updates. In a darkened movie hall, people are always multitasking on their phones
while watching a movie. Some people even walk with the phone to the toilet and text and take
calls from there.

Over dinner, in church, at a funeral service and even when carrying on face-to-face conversation,
the smartphone is guaranteed to keep you in tune and in touch. It is common to see careless
people texting while driving despite the fact that it is six times more dangerous to text and drive
than to drink and drive.

Because of this over-dependence on the smartphone, many people suffer from the fear of losing
it, even if only for a few minutes.

The “I must- have-my-phone-with-me-at-all-times” mindset has become such a real problem.

There’s now a name coined for the fear of being without phone: nomophobia -no-mo (bile)
phone-phobia. Nomophobia is the fear of not being able to connect to the digital world by the
means of mobile phone.

Although there is no ICD- 10 code (the required classification for any medical condition) yet for
this specific affliction, researchers into the phenomenon describe nomophobic people as
individuals who suffer from the anxiety of not having their mobile phone.

The anxiety commonly manifests itself when the person notices their smartphones has a low
battery, no internet connection or if it is missing and one is therefore out of the loop with friends,
family, work and the world. We are ever so busy with gadgets that we intrude into other people’s
space.

As our culture becomes ever more tech savvy and tech hungry, phone-free zones will become
more and more common. Just like we have smoke-free zones in public places, we are starting to
see quiet corners, where phone calls are restricted. It’s because common courtesy is often thrown
out the window when we’re on the phone.

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Some airports are now offering lounges that are cellphone free. Just like cigarettes, the mobile
phone pendulum is beginning to swing as more and more people acquire nomophobic tendencies.

Considering the Smartphone’ new abilities and capabilities they are now being used like digital
‘Swiss Army Knives’, replacing possessions like watches, cameras, books and oven laptops.
Today the smartphone is capable of being an alarm clock, digital camera, and even television,
which causes users to become heavily dependent on it.

Psychologists advise that, while nomophobia could possibly never receive a diagnosis, it is
certainly a rising trend. If you constantly find yourself using your smartphone at odd times, such
as dinner table, while diving, or even in washroom, try your best to refrain from it and use it only
when it is safe and not considered rude.

Setting limits for yourself and engaging with family and friends face-to-face can help calm the
anxiety of continuously checking your phone.

Questions

a) Why is technology said to be overtaking our daily lives?

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b) In point form, state the uses of a phone.

(4mks)

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c) What are the bad habits that result from over-dependency on the phone as seen in the passage
and how can they be managed?
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d) When does anxiety manifest itself more with the use of a phone?
(3mks)

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e) According to the passage, why is there need for cellphone free zones in public places?
(1mk)

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f) Some airports are now offering lounges that are cellphone free. Rewrite using a question tag.
(1mk)
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g) What is the author’s attitude towards smartphones?

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h) Give the meaning of the following words as used in the passage.
(3mks)

i. Myriad

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ii. Ubiquitous

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iii. Plethora

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Question 2. The excerpt

Read the following excerpt and answer the questions that follow.

“Karanja, take a seat,” he said, gesturing to a chair.

Professor kimani rejected it. “keep it!”
Fine stand there forever if you like. See if I care. Let me guess. You came to ask why I want to
marry Asiya.am I right?”
“You have a nerve you heap of….”
“Watch your tongue, Karanja. Im not going to warn you about your language again.”
“Why do you want to steal my wife?”
“The word I used was marry. You prefer steal?”
“What good is she to you?” Professor Kimani cursed himself for that wording. He had degraded
not only his wife but also himself and, in the same breath, upgraded his foe.
“What good is she to me? Is that what you asked? Because she is much older than I am? Is that
what you mean? Here is my answer: Old is gold.”
Mr. Walomus opponent had a different answer: “When a cat goes into a pigeon coop, “they
said,” it kills all the pigeons it finds there, not just those it will eat.”Mr. Walomu had already

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eaten three pigeons and now had in his paws a fourth: Asiya. Strewn along his path, lay many
others he had killed but not eaten. So who could say for sure that, months hence, Asiya would
not become one of these?
Mr Walomu continued. “ As for what you call stealing, a professor in Texas says that lots of
people do it.” he threw in a Kiswahili cliché to support his claim.” Na hivyo ndivyo ilivyo.” To
help it along, he gave an approximate English equivalent. And thats how the cookie crumbles.”

That was mockery Professor Kimani felt had to reject.” You have three beautiful wives, “he
began. This was a silly start, as even he realized. He had not sounded an envious loser? None the
less, he went on. All of them are young.”
“And young theyll still be the day I die,”Mr. Walomu added. “Karanja, you know the saying: “a
bull dies with green grass in its mouth,”
“Then why do you want to steal my wife? She is old. Not the green grass you want in your
mouth.”

“I just told you why: Old is gold. Anyway, stealing- to use your word- is not all that uncommon,
you know. My Texas guy says thirty percent of the British steal married spouses from their
partners .Repeat: thirty percent! That is a lot of spouse stealers there, wouldnt you say?

Professor Kimani refused to bite t he mans bait.

Still the man continued. Now take the Americans. Contrary to what everyone thinks, Karanja,
Americans are not great wife stealers at all. They check in at a mere seventeen percent, way
behind the British, in fact, to cut a long story short, only the Greeks know this spouse stealing
business! They came in at a whole forty percent.”

The man was now toying with professor Kimani.

QUESTIONS
a) What happens immediately before this excerpt?(2marks)
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b) Asiya leaves professor Kimani for Mr Walomu. From your knowledge of the whole text, what
might have occasioned this?(2marks)
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c) Illustrate any one character trait of the following (4marks)

Professor Kimani
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Mr Walomu
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d) Discuss two social issues brought out in the excerpt (4marks)

e) Illustrate two stylistic devices used in the excerpt (4marks)

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f) Discuss the prevailing mood in the excerpt (2marks)

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g) Why does Walomu mention the British, Americans and Greeks in his conversation with
Professor Kimani? (2marks)
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h) “Why do you want to steal my wife?” Rewrite in reported speech (1mark)

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i) What happens immediately after the excerpt? (1mark)

J) Explain the meaning of the following expressions as used in the excerpt (3marks)
Degraded______________________________________________________________________

Envious_______________________________________________________________________
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Question 3: poetry

Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow.

Ogun kills on the right and destroys on the right.

Ogun kills on the left and destroys on the left.

Ogun kills suddenly in the house and suddenly in the field.

Ogun kills the child with the iron with which it plays

Ogun kills in silence.

Ogun kills the thief and owner of the stolen goods.

Ogun kills the owner of the slave – and the slave runs away.

Ogun kills the owner of thirty Liwofa’ (pawns and his money)

Wealth and children disappear.

Ogun kills the owner of the house and paints the hearth with his blood.

Ogun is the death who pursues a child until it runs into the bush.

Ogun is the needle that pricks at both ends

Ogun has water but he washes in blood.

Ogun do not fight me. I belong only to you.

The wife of Ogun is like a tim (decorated leather cushion)

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She does not like two people to rest on her.

Ogun has many gowns. He gives them all to the beggars.

He gives on to the council – the council dyes it in camwood

He gives one to the cattle-egret the cattle-egret leaves it white.

Ogun is not like pounded yam;

Do you think you can knead him in your hand

And eat of him until you are satisfied?

Ogun is not like maize gruel

Do you think you can knead him in your hands

And eat him until you are satisfied?

Ogun is not like something you can throw in your cap

Do you think you can put on your cap and walk away with him?

Ogun scatters his enemies

When the butterflies arrive at the place where the cheetah excretes.

They scatter in all directions.

The light shinning on Oguns face is not easy to behold.

Ogun, let me not see the red of your eye.

Ogun sacrifices an elephant to his head

Master of iron, head of warriors

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Ogun, chief of robbers.

Ogun wears of bloody cap

Ogun has four hundred wives and one thousand cows and hundred chicken.

Ogun, the fire that sweeps the forest

Ogun’ s laughter is no joke.

Ogun eats two hundred earthworms and does not vomit.

Ogun is crazy Orisha (deity) who still asks questions after 780 years.

Another I can reply, or whether I cannot reply,

Ogun please don’ t ask me anything.

The lion never allows anybody to play with his cub.

Ogun will never allow his child to be punished

Ogun do not reject me!

Does the woman who spins ever reject a spindle?

Does the woman who dyes ever reject a cloth?

Does the eye that sees ever reject a sight?

Ogun, do not reject me.

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(Ogun needs his worshippers)

(Ogun – a god of iron and iron).

Questions:

Classify this song and give a reason for your answer. 2mks

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Identify four economic aspects of the community described in the song. In each case, give
evidence for your answer. 8mks

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Explain the following phrases as they are used in the song. 4mks

‘ Oguk kills the thief and the owner of the stolen goods

“ Ogun is not like poundered yam”

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Identify and explain three images used in the song. 6mks

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Question 4: Grammar

a. Rewrite the following sentences as instructed.

(3mks)

i) I have some duties. I must perform them. (Combine into one sentence using an infinitive)

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ii) He was tired of play. He sat down to rest. (Combine into one simple sentence using a
participle).

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iii) Do not be a borrower. Do not be a lender. (Combine into one sentence using a suitable
conjunction)

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b. Fill in the following blanks with the correct form of the words in brackets.
(3mks)

i) Their bodies had suffered ……………………………….as a result of malnutrition. (Contort)

ii) The manager made several……………………………… on the original invoice. (Delete)

iii) …………………………………..beliefs are discouraged in urban areas. (Sect)

c. Supply the statements below with appropriate question tags.

(2mks)

i. Nobody came-

ii. You’d rather play than work-

d. Correct the error in the following sentences.

(2mks)

i. I am not understanding what you are talking about.

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ii. Please don’t dirtify the class.

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e. Complete the following sentences with a phrasal verb starting with the word in brackets.
(3mks)

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i. She looked carefully at the document but could not………………………….. what it meant.
(make)

ii. The teacher couldn’t………………………………. the students bad behavior. (put)

iii. Please ………………………………that all the chairs are in good condition. (see)

f. Explain the meaning of the following sentences .

(2mks)

i. Peter was executed like a murderer

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ii. Peter was executed as a murderer.

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NAME:………………………………………………………

CLASS……………….:…………….

ADM NO.…………………………………………………...

DATE……………………………….….

SCHOOL:………………………………………………………..SIGN:

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ENGLISH
PAPER 2
(COMPREHENSION, LITERARY APPRECIATION AND GRAMMAR)
TIME: 2 ½ HOURS

TEST NINE-2025
TERM THREE EVALUATION TESTS
FORM 3

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

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Write your name and index number in the spaces provided.
Answer ALL the questions in this paper in the spaces provided.
This paper consists of 8 printed pages.

FOR EXAMINER’S USE ONLY

Question Maximum Score Candidate’s Score

1 20

2 25

3 20

4 25

Total 80

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Read the passage below and then answer the questions that follow.

When David Maraga gave his speech while retiring as Chief Justice, he lamented the
ever-increasing caseload in the judiciary amid a dwindling workforce. He gave shocking
statistics of the Court of Appeal, which is statutorily required to have a complement of 30 judges
but has16. He reiterated that due to a shortage of human power, the case backlog at the Court of
Appeal increased from 3,681 in 2019 to 4,982 in 2020 with the case clearance rate dropping from
51 percent to 41 percent, which made it increasingly difficult for the Judiciary. The situation is
worse in High Court Magistrates’ Courts.

Kenya might not miraculously get the requisite numbers of judicial staff overnight. It is
therefore, time we gifted Justice Maraga with what he commissioned: Court annexed mediation.
Deferred hearing and determination of cases not only delays justice for aggrieved parties but
also means higher legal costs.

Mediation is the facilitation of a negotiated agreement by a neutral third party who has no
decision-making power. One of the quickest and most cost-effective ways of resolving disputes
that are not criminal in nature, it is the most common form of alternative dispute
resolution.(ADR). It is a conflict resolution process in which a neutral mediator assists the parties
through constructive discussion and negotiation of their issues in order to reach a mutually
acceptable resolution.

Mediation encourages open communication and problem solving. It keeps the power in
the hands of the parties. The outcome of the cases ensures peaceful coexistence of neighbors and
family.

Mediation keeps the focus on the common interest of the parties and their families as the
only factor.This is unlike the courts, where lawyers, who get fees as per appearance, may slow
down the process to earn more. Cruel lawyers would wish the case to continue till eternity. With

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modern technology, parties may be mediated virtually through conference calls or video-
conferencing, reducing delays and costs brought about by distance.

The purpose of mediation is to avoid the time and expense of further litigation by settling
a lawsuit early on in the process. Usually, some cases end up in court because of ego that denies
us the humility to agree to talk to one another. There is also false perception that having or
affording a family lawyer is a sign of high social status and sophistication. Nothing could be
further from the truth.

The process involves planning. Before it begins, the mediator helps the parties to decide
where they should meet and who should be present. After the opening remarks, there is a joint
discussion in the presence of all parties and separates sessions or caucuses to help the mediator
understand the pertinent issues. After consensus, a resolution is signed.

The resolution from a mediator is not contestable in any court in Kenya.

During the tenure of justice Maraga, the Judiciary implemented court-annexed mediation
within High Courts countrywide after a pilot at the Family and Commercial Divisions, at the
Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi. It involves resolving case with the assistance of a court-
accredited trained mediator.

(Adapted from the Daily Nation; January 14 2021)

a.) According to the passage, what are the two major challenges facing the Judiciary?
(2mks)

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b.) Identify the solution given by Justice David Maraga as a remedy to challenges identified
in (a) above?
(1mk)

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c.) What are the disadvantages of postponing hearing of cases according to the passage?
(2mks)

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d.) In not more than 60 words, trace the court annexed mediation process.
(6mks)

Rough draft

Fair copy

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e.) In what way does the court annexed mediation process stand out from the normal court
process(4mks)

f.) According to the passage, what is the main role of a neutral mediator?
(2mks)

g.) Explain the meaning of each of the following as used in the passage.

i.) dwindling workforce

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ii) reiterated

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iii.) deferred hearing

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2. Fathers Of Nations by Paul B VITTA

Read the excerpt below and then answer the questions that follow.

Ms McKenzie’s taxi driver finally resurfaced. Wary and watchful, he was part of
a growing African phenomenon: taxi drivers with university degrees whom the local market had
failed to absorb in the professions that they had trained for. He located Ms McKenzie without
difficulty.

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“Ms McKenzie, let’s go!” he said, motioning her back into his taxi.
She got back in. “You were gone for two eternities,” she complained. “Did you have any
particular reason?”
“Yes, those bullies,” he said.
“I take it you’re referring to the guards. What did they do?”
“You mean what did they not do?” He drove off on screaming tyres. “Essentially, they wanted
something small.”
“Don’t you mean a bribe? Why did they want a bribe?”
“Ms McKenzie, be serious!”
“I am serious.”
“Then leave me alone.” He gave the car more petrol. It threatened to fly. He gave it less. It
slowed down. “Because my taxi has faulty brakes, they said.”
“Well, maybe it does.”
He braked to a screeching halt which nearly threw her out of her seat.
“So does it?” he asked her. “Have faulty brakes, I mean?”
“I guess not,” she conceded. “So what did you do? Give them something small anyway?”
“Leave me alone,” he said. Then he drove off again.
“Anyway, in case you bribed them, know that giving bribes is as much a crime as taking them.”
“Do you know what I’m going to do on my way back, Ms McKenzie? I’m going to ask the
guards I bribed to arrest me for bribing them.”

There is anger in that sarcastic remark, she thought. She decided to leave him alone.

Questions:

1. Outline the events leading to this excerpt. (3 marks)

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2. To what extent has the author employed the use of irony in this excerpt? (4 marks)
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3. How have the following characters been portrayed in the excerpt: (4 marks)
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b) The taxi driver

4. The taxi driver refers to the guards as bullies. From elsewhere in the novel, show how the
guards demonstrate that indeed they are bullies. (3 marks)

5. With sufficient evidence, identify any two issues brought out in the excerpt. (4 marks)

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6. “There is anger in that sarcastic remark.” Rewrite adding a suitable question tag. (1 mark)
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7. What happens immediately after this excerpt? (3 marks)

8. Give the meanings of the following words as used in the excerpt. (3 marks)
a) Wary
b) Two eternities
c) Bullies

3. Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow

THE OWL

Downhill I came, hungry, and yet not stawed

Cold, yet had heat within me that was proof

Against the North wind; tired, yet so that rest

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Had seemed the sweetest thing under a roof.

Then at the inn I had food, fire, and rest

Knowing how hungry, cold, and tired was I

All of the night was quite barred out except

An owl’ s cry, a most melancholy cry

Shaken out long and clear upon the hill,

No merry note, nor cause of merriment

But one telling me plain what I escaped

And others could not, that night, as in I went

And salted was my food, and may response,

Salted and sobered, too, by the birds voice

Speaking for all who lay under the stars,

Soldiers and poor, unable to rejoice

Edward Thomas.

The rhyme scheme of the first stanza is:

Stawed A

Proof B

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Rest C

Roof B

What is the rhyme scheme of the other stanzas? 6mks

What is the poet saying in stanzas 1 and 2? Explain in your own words. 2mks

Give any three stylistic devices used in the poem. Illustrate your answer. 6mks

What do you think is the relationship between the title and what the poet is saying?

2mks

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Who is the persona in the poem? 1mks

What is the theme of the poem? 2mks

Describe the mood of the poem. 4mks

What other title do you think would be suitable for this poem? Give reason(s) 2mks

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4. GRAMMAR

a.) Rewrite the following sentences as instructed after each. Do not change the meaning
(3mks)

i) The country will experience instability if our leaders do not preach peace (Begin
unless…)
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ii.) It started to rain immediately I arrived home (Use hardly)

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iii) The children do not have fever. John does not have fever. (Combine using neither)

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b) Rewrite the following sentence in passive voice

(2mks)

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i.) When the time is up, he will ring the bell

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ii.) We think honesty is the best policy

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c.) Use the correct form of the word in brackets to complete the sentences below
(2 mks)

i.) We must avoid a…………………………………………..of those events (recur)

ii.) His many……………………………made the work difficult to

comprehend(spelling)

d.) Complete the second sentence in each case using the missing part of the idiom. Do not
contradict the first
(3 mks)

i.) Do not harass the sick child. You will only add……………………..to injury

ii.) The athlete could not complete the race. He ran out of……………

iii) The incomplete modern hall is unfit for occupation. Nevertheless, it cost
us……………..

e.) Use appropriate prepositions to fill in the gaps below

(3mks)

i.) Anne agreed………………… me that the place was dirty

ii.) She confused the teacher………………… the storekeeper

f.) Fill in blank spaces using correct phrasal verbs formed from the word given in the
bracket (3mks)

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i) I am……………………..your visit (look)

ii.) Mary……………………the job offered to her at Kenya Airways(turn)

iii.) The school does not…………………that type of behavior (stand)

Candidates Name …………………………………….…………. ….. Index No ….……

Stream ……… Adm No……………………

TEST 10-2025

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TERM THREE EVALUATION TESTS
FORM 3-2025
ENGLISH
(COMPREHENSION, LITERARY
APPRECIATION AND GRAMMAR)
21/2 HOURS
INSTRUCTIONS
Write your name and index number in the spaces provided above.
Answer all the questions in this question paper.
All answers must be written in the spaces provided in the question paper.
Your responses must be written in English

For examiner’s use only

Question Maximum Score Candidate’s

Score

1. 20

2 25

3 20

4 15

Total 80

This paper consists of 11 printed pages.

Candidates should check the question paper to ensure that all the

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Pages are printed as indicated and that no questions are missing

Question 1: Comprehension

Read the passage below and then answer the questions that follow. (20mks)
Meat is a common component of human diet. The health benefits of red and white meat have for
long been the centre of debates. Many debaters favour white meat as a healthier option. However,
dietitians argue otherwise. The nutritional component in meat is proteins and the content in
proteins in white meat is the same as that of red meat. It is also important to note that most types
of meat are considered white when they are indeed red. Pork is mistaken to be white meat while it
is actually red.

What determines whether meat is red or white is the myoglobin concentration. Myoglobin is the
equivalent of haemoglobin in edible animals. The iron available in red meat is higher and more
readily available to the body than the kind found in white meat. If your intention is to boost your
haemoglobin levels, it is important to include red meat in your diet. Meat is very essential in your
diet, but it does not mean one cannot live without it.

Many people wonder whether meat leads to weight gain. Even though it is a source of proteins in
the diet, if you exceed your requirements by eating larger portions, the extra is converted into fat
for storage, which is what leads to weight gain. Meat consumption has also been associated with
other unhealthy lifestyle habits especially alcohol intake. This is also a catalyst for weight gain.
But for those working on losing weight, skipping meals is not an advisable strategy as it leads to
rising levels of cholesterol or having a higher body-fat percentage.

Boiled, deep fried, fried or roasted meat, which is healthier? Whether you boil, fry or roast meat,
what determines how healthy your meat is, is the leanness. Boiled meat with a lot of fat would be
unhealthier compared to roasted lean meat. It is also known that roast meat is associated with
cancer, but generally boiling would be a better option compared to frying and roasting as long as
the meat is lean. For vegans, the most prominent nutrient in meat that they will lack is vitamin
B12; in some instances, especially for strict vegetarians, they will also lack calcium which can be
compensated with supplements.

Does refrigeration of meat affect nutritional value? Any food that you take should be as close as
possible to its natural form because it always loses its nutritional value with time. Refrigeration

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does not prevent food from losing its nutrients either and, therefore, foods should be consumed
while fresh. Refrigeration or freezing only slows the process of food degradation, but does not stop
it completely.

On whether meat is carcinogenic, the World Health Organization categorizes processed meats as
carcinogenic, but excess consumption of red meat is said to be a possible cause of cancer.
Processed meat includes sausages, hams and hotdogs.
Adapted from Daily Nation, Tuesday October 27, 2020

QUESTIONS

From the first paragraph, what misconception do people have about pork? (2marks)
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Why do dieticians deny the claim that white meat is healthier than red meat? (2marks)
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Make notes to explain how meat eating is related to weight gain (3marks)
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What risk do vegans and strict vegetarians face in their diet? Briefly explain how they can
overcome this challenge.
(3marks)
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Why does the writer recommend consumption of fresh foods? (2 marks)

According to the passage, what is the main difference between red and white meat?
(2marks)
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In your opinion, can one live without eating meat? Explain your answer.
(2marks)
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How does refrigeration help in preserving food? (1mark)

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i. Give the meaning of the following words and phrases as used in the passage (3marks)
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(ii) Centre of debates

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(iii)Processed
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2. Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow. (20 marks)

On the other hand, lanes heading in the opposite direction, of course, had sparse traffic. Well then,
where was the problem? He swung into action.

Leaving the lanes for traffic going out to Lagos, he crossed over to lanes going to Lagos, in the
opposite direction, but kept on going in his initial direction. Of course, after Holy Camp, beyond
the crawling mass of worshippers headed there, he would return to the correct lanes. Until then, he
would keep going, against the flow.

He had played this trick many times before, and it had always worked. Each time, the other fellow
driving in the opposite direction had blinked first, by either braking to a stop or swerving aside to
let him pass. Now, too, all other motorists were yielding. His trick was working beautifully.
Approaching cars were either stopping or swerving out of his way like water pausing or parting to
let Moses on wheels cross the Red Sea.

Nevertheless, each wave of coming cars driving in the opposite direction always carried inside it
the possibility of a machine. That thing would not have tolerated such blatant outrage as Chineke
was asking it to tolerate. No part of it had a label saying it was a mean machine. Still, even on past
occasions when he had driven into oncoming traffic and got home in one piece, such a machine

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existed somewhere. The only difference was, on those occasions, he did not run into it. Now he
did.

a. What has happened just before the excerpt? [3 marks]

b. What does Chiamaka mean by ‘mean machine’? [2 marks]

c. How are the events in this extract connected to Chiamaka being recruited by Longway later in
the story? [5 marks]

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d. Identify and illustrate two stylistic techniques used in the excerpt. [4 marks]

e. Describe one character trait of Chiamaka as brought out in the excerpt. [2 marks]

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f. Discuss any one theme brought out in the excerpt. [2 marks]

g. “...on those occasions, he did not run into it. Now he did.” What happens immediately after this
statement? [3 marks]

h. Approaching cars were either stopping or swerving out of his way. (Rewrite to begin: Not
only...) [1 mark]

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i. Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the extract. [3 marks]

(i). Sparse traffic

(ii). Yielding

(iii). Crawling mass of worshippers

QUESTION 3: POETRY Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow
TWICE POORER

Looks of despair showed

on the gloomy faces,
as he lay on his death bed
life sneaking out of him.

His heart drew to a stop

and a stampede ensued,

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as women scramble out
to announce his departure.

You could detect

some hollow wails
in the frenzy.

They poured into the home

some drawn by deep sorrow
others propelled
by prospective feasting.

Interminable rituals
followed the three days
of heightened sorrow,
as mourners brought
famed musicians.

Days and nights

drummed and sang away,
to fascinate him
despite the earth on his
chest.

some came
to help drain the pool
of grief

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but had eyes screwed on property
to determine portability.
J.K Agunda.

Describe the poet’ s feelings towards the mourners. (3mks)

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Explain the irony of the situation presented in this poem. (3mks)

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With illustrations describe two character traits of the mourners. (4mks)

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Identify and explain how two metaphors have been used in the poem. (4mks)

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Explain the meaning of the following lines in the context of the whole poem. (6mks)

some holler wails (line 10)

to determine portability(line 30)

Interminable rituals (line 16)

4. GRAMMAR

Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given after each. Do not change
the meaning.

Immediately the guests arrived, the choirs began singing. (Begin: No sooner…)

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He was very angry. He would have resigned if I had not talked him out of it.( Begin :
So…)

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The students saw the uselessness of violence. They changed their strategy. (Rewrite as
one sentence using a participle)

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Change the following passive sentences into active. ( 3 marks)

I was called by the

teacher. ……………………………………………………………………………
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Chinese is taught in many colleges

now. ………………………………………………………………………………
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The winning team was given a trophy by the organizers

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Complete the blanks with the given adjectives in their correct order. ( 3 marks)

The house I bought has……………………………………………………….(old, leather,

brown, comfortable) furniture.

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You might have to buy the student ………………………………….……..( new, several,
covered, exercise) books.

We were hosted by …………………………………..…….( tall, Nigerian, charming,

three) gentlemen.

Complete the sentences using an auxiliary and the correct form of the verb given in
brackets.

Reports coming in indicate that a train ……………………….(derail) at Kibwezi.

I ………………………… ( lie) in bed thinking of getting up when the doorbell rang.

The students ……………………………. (watch) the last episode of the soap opera.

Give a word that means the same as the underlined phrasal verb. ( 3 marks)

I could not put up with the situation much longer

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We were nearby when the bomb blew

up. ……………………………………………………………………………
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It is time you gave up drinking

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GROUP DISCUSSION TRIAL 1-TERM 2

FORM 3

ENGLISH 101/2

Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar

May-June 2025

Time: 2 ½ hours

NAME_________________________CLASS:______________INDEX____________

FOR EXAMINERS USE ONLY

QUESTION MAXIMUM SCORE CANDIDATE’ S SCORE

1 20

2 25

3 20

4 15

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TOTAL SCORE 80

This paper consists of 11 printed pages

Candidates should check the question paper to ensure that all the printed pages are printed as
indicated and no questions are mission.

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

The statements, events and reactions of the past couple of weeks surrounding the
perennially vexed subject of corruption makes me wonder. “ Are we on the cusp of the
challenge to and confrontation against corruption?”

Certainly we have come a long way in identifying and isolating it. Let me give a small
example. Twenty-one years ago, I wrote a piece for the Sunday Nation, which was entitled
“ Why Kenya’ s looting brigade now has its eyes on public land.”

The main thrust of the article was that after the monetary excesses of 1992 and 1993, there
was a growing penchant for Kenya ‘ brigade to next move their focus and activities to
public land. The process was as simple and as was crude. A handful of politically connected
private individuals or entities would get allocated a prime piece of public land for a nominal
sum. A title would be processed and then it would be sold, in part or whole, at a much
higher price to a public institution that had the cash resources. It became known as “ land
grabbing” and most Kenyans can give countless examples of where this has taken place.
It was double plunder because not only was the land grabbed; it was often paid out of public
resources or savings that were meant for other things.

Today, we talk about this activity and make reference to it with alacrity and in most cases
without fear. Not so in 1994. When I first wrote the piece and offered it to the Sunday
Nation, it passed the relevant tests of being well researched and factually correct, but
publishing it was another matter. There was a culture of fear that shrouded the whole

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country and putting one’ s head above the parapet was regarded as dangerous and reckless.
The piece was pushed around a couple of editorial desks and the decision to publish was
differed. For a while I recall I was request to “ soften” the piece. When it did eventually
get printed, I was very much aware that I might get a backlash and braced myself
accordingly. Today, there is much less remaining of that culture of fear but as we have
been reminded several times recently, corruption at many levels continue unabated. The
dossier compelled by the Ethics and Anti-corruption Authority (EACC) is evidence
enough. The stance made by the president of Thursday is also encouraging.

So where to now? There is no doubt that the public outrage the majority of the population,
who is mere victims, as opposed to beneficiaries, is gathering the momentum of landslide
propositions. We should not underestimate that growing anger. This both unsurprising and
gratifying. For most of us, corruption just makes our lives much tougher, more fatigue and
even expensive.

The question is; how seriously will those who have been named take it? The norm in many
countries, which aspire to high integrity standards, is that when a person is named by such
a body as the EACC, then that person should step aside. The onus is on the relevant bodies
to complete investigations and prosecute as and when necessary and for the person named
to defend him or herself.

That is where we should be heading. The president should make it clear that all the people
named in the scandal should step aside, if we move down that road, then we are indeed
heading in the right direction. If we do not then this will just be another bout of public
gesturing of the bread and circuses variety.

Lastly, the EACC and in turn the Director of Public Prosecution, need to do some serious
ground work to fully support sand, where applicable, prosecute what is being alleged. We
are watching and in a number of cases rather skeptically.

What indicates that land grabbing has taken a long time to be addressed? (2 marks)

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Why is it easier today to talk about land grabbing with alacrity than before?
(2 marks)

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How does corruption affect the wider society (2 marks)

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According to the writer’ s perspective what is land grabbing? (2 marks)

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Giving your answer in note form, state the steps that should be taken when suspects
involved in corruption step aside (4 marks)

In which way can EACC help in the fight against corruption? (2 marks)

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Explain what used to happen before 1994? (2 marks)

We should not underestimate the growing anger. (Write in the passive (1 mark)

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Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the passage. (3 marks)

Brigade

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Alacrity

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“ Soften” the piece

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LITERARY EXTRACT. (25 marks)

Fathers of Nations

"What good is she to you?" Kimani cursed himself for that wording: he had degraded not only his
wife but also himself, and in the same breath, upgraded his foe.

"What good is she to me? Because she is much older than I am? — is that what you mean? Then
hear my answer. Old is gold."

Mr Walomu's opponents had a different answer: ' 'When a cat gets into a pigeon coop," they
said, "it kills all the pigeons it finds there, not just those it will eat".

Mr Walomu had already eaten three pigeons and now had in his paws a fourth: Asiya. Strewn
along his path, lay many others he had killed but not eaten. So who could say for sure
that,months hence, Asiya would not become one of these?

Mr Walomu's opponents continued. "As for what you call 'stealing', a professor in Texas saysthat
lots of people do it. He threw in a Swahili to support his claim.

"Na hivyo ndivyo ilivyo." To help it along, he gave an appropriate English equivalent. "And that's
how the cookie crumbles."

That was mockery Professor Kimani felt had to reject. "You have three beautiful wives," he
began. This was a silly start, as even he realised. Had he not sounded like an envious loser?
Nonetheless, he went on. "All of them are young."

"And young they'll still be the day I die," Walomu added.

"Karanja, you know the saying: 'A real bull dies with green grass in its mouth' ."

QUESTIONS

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Briefly explain what happens just before this excerpt. (3 marks)

Identify and illustrate two-character traits of Walomu in the excerpt. (4 marks)

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Then hear my answer. (Add a question tag) (1 mark).

Discuss two themes raised in the excerpt. (4 marks)

Identify and illustrate three stylistic devices used in the excerpt. (6 marks)

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To help it along, he gave an approximate English equivalent. (Rewrite beginning with the
main clause) (1 mark).

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POETRY (20Marks)

THE FOOLISH OLD MAN

My father began as a god

Full of heroic tales
Of days when he was young
His laws were as immutable
As if brought down from Sinai
Which indeed he thought they were
He fearlessly lifted me to heaven
By a mere swing to his shoulder

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And made me a godling
By seating me astride
Our milk cow’ s back and too,
Upon the great white gobbler
Of which others went in constant fear.

Strange then how he shrank and shrank

Until by my time of adolescence
He had become a foolish small old man
With silly and outmoded views
Of life and morality
Stranger still
That as I became older
His faults and his intolerances
Scatted away into the past
Revealing virtues
Such as honesty, generosity, intergrity.

Stranger still
That as I became older
His faults and his intolerances
Scatted away into the past
Revealing virtues
Such as honesty, generosity, integrity.

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Strangest of all
How the deeper he recedes into the grave
The more I see myself
As just one more of the little men
Who creep through life
No knee-high to this long-dead go.

(Ian Mudie)

Briefly comment on the theme of the poem (4 marks)

Comment on the suitablility of the title of the poem (3 marks)

What is the attitude of the persona towards his father? (3 marks)

Identify and explain any Three features of style used in the poem (6 marks)

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What do the following groups of people learn from the poem? (2 marks)

Parents.

Children

Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the poem. (2marks)

Immutable

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outmoded

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GRAMMAR. (15 marks)

Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions (4marks)

Lilian Gilbreth invented the step-on garbage can. Her children wrote about her

life. (Join into one sentence using ‘ whose’ )

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I wouldn’ t have preferred these criminal charges against the Journalist if you had

mentioned this to me last year. (Begin: Had…)

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Only after much persuasion did the patient agree to be operated on (Begin: It

took…)

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The principal informed form one parents that fees once paid cannot be transferred

for whatever reason. (Begin: The principal…that under …..)

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b ) Fill in the correct form of the words in brackets (4marks)

She is a very____________________________woman. (attract)

That is a _______________________________issue. (content)

Do you remember_______________________visit in Kenya? (pope)

How she landed the job remains _________________(question)

c) Complete each of the following sentences using the correct phrasal verb formed from
the word given in brackets. (3 marks)

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It was so dark that I could hardly …………………………the person lurking in the darkness.
(make)

The nurse was so………………that she threw the file onto the doctor’ s desk (work)

The number of AIDS patients in Kenya is……………………(come)

d) Choose the correct word to fill the blank spaces. (2 marks)

I came here with Don and …………………………………….(she, her)

Between you and …………………………………………..... (I, me) who is more

generous?

Punctuate the following sentences correctly. (2 marks)

(i) The frog states an old African does not jump without reason

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(ii) The principal said thank you for the information Mrs. Mulwa

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NAME………………………………………....INDEX

NO……………………………...

CANDIDATES

SIGNATURE…..............................

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DATE……………………………………………………..

FORM 3

101/2

ENGLISH

PAPER 2

COMPREHENSION, LITERARY APPRECIATION AND GRAMMAR

May -June 2025

TIME 2½ Hours

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

a) Answer all the questions in the question paper

b) All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question
paper

FOR EXAMINERS ONLY

Question Maximum Score Candidates Score

1 20

2 25

3 15

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Read the passage below and answer the question that follow (20 marks)

Africa are undoubtedly a very enduring race and have the capacit y to utilize the
available natural resources for the betterment of live. The biggest challenge
however, is to identify ways and means of creating an environment that is likel y
to encourage development in Africa.

Perhaps the greatest strategy would be to develop political structure and

government institutions that have the capacit y to formulate and implement genus
povert y alleviation strategies. Administrative arrangements that no longer serve
our needs should be overhauled or discarded altogether. Government should
foster exploitation and management of natural resources by providing an
enabling environment. Having stable governments may not be effective if we
don’t fight corruption. We should ensure that leaders and government agents
become answerable to the taxpayers. The public should be educated on the ills
of corrupt ion. Those who have stolen public funds must be made to return it or
face the full force of law. Again people known to have stashed money in
foreign banks should be forced to repatriate that money so as to improve cash
flow in our economies.

Apart from this, Africa countries must find a way of solving their internal
conflicts without involving the international communit y; after all, we are all
brother with a common cause. The need to unite and exist as unitary state should
be stressed as this overrides cla n and tribal rights or sentiments that fuel
animosit y. The African union should be strengthened to enable it to arbitrate
intra and inter -states disputes. The resulting peace will provide a suitable
environment for economic growth and set us on the road to recovery and
prosperit y.

Another solution would be to develop rural –based economies since the bulk of
our population lives in the areas. Industries that produce and those that
manufacture farm inputs, machinery and implement should be located in rural
areas. Similarl y, mining concerns should establish processing plats near mines.
Such industries will naturall y recruit manpower from the localit y involved and
consequentl y reduce the incidence of infrastructure, which will open up the
rural areas for busines s. This will further encourage agricultural expansion and
increase food production to counter perennial food shortages in Africa. For
instances, development of dairy and beef processing industry in the rural areas
will encourage development of sustainable livestock keeping and probabl y bring
to an end the loss of cattle to drought. A rural based econom y will basicall y

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raise the income of the rural people and bridge the disparity between the rich
and the poor.

We could also introduce appropriate technology i n exploitation of natural

resources and in wealth creation. Since imported technologies are expensive to
maintain, Africa should tap the local expertise to develop technologies
appropriate to our needs. Home – grown technology should enable us alleviate
Africans food insecurit y for utilizing river and lake water for irrigation and by
harvesting wind and solar energy.

Lastl y, our regional economic units such as ECOWAS, SADC and EAC should
be transformed into common markets by removing unnecessary tariffs on goods
at various entry point so as to realize the benefits of a common market.

The people of Africa should continuall y seek a better life. We have the
resources; the manpower and the capacit y to make things move.

From paragraph 1, what is the author’s opin ion of Africans? (2marks)

What should African countries do t o fight corruption? (3marks)

Explain how Africans can open up rural areas (3marks)

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We have the resource; the manpower and the capacit y to make things move.
(Rewrite adding a question tag) (1marks)

Using information in the passage, summarize the ways of fostering

development in African countries in not more than 50 words. (5marks)

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What is the tone of the last paragraph of this passage? Give reasons from the
passage to support your answer. (3marks)

Explain the meaning of each of the following expressions as in the passage.

(3marks)

Stashed

Disparit y

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Fuel animosit y

2) Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow

"Tad," said the cranky passenger as he was settling down in economy class, in a
seat next to Dr Afolabi's. "Tad Longway," he added. His voice, deep, lingered on
like the boom of a big drum. He held up a card.

Dr Afolabi took it. It said the man was a Director of Special Projects at the
Agency for Governance and Development in Africa. "Pleased to meet you, Mr
Longway," Dr Afolabi said. "My name i s Abiola Afolabi. I teach at the University
of Ibadan, Nigeria. "

"You gave an excellent keynote the other day, Dr Afolabi," said the cranky
passenger. Sparks of earnestness were crossing his eyes, both crystal -green like
toy marbles, confirming the compl iment was sincere. "Your keynote address at
the Foundation for Democratic Rule, I mean. It was brilliant."

"I'm glad you liked it, Mr Longway," Dr Afolabi said. His voice had become warm.
"You were there, then, Mr Longway?"

"Yes, but back in the last row . As a mere spectator, I did not want to be
obtrusive. Anyway, you were superb, Dr Afolabi. If you don't mind my adding
this, I was more impressed by the points that the audience raised afterwards,
during the question-and-answer period. "

Dr Afolabi felt the praise he had just heard turn into reproach. "So what were
those points, Mr Longway?" he asked. His voice was less warm.

"Remember the guy from Grassroots International: short fellow, round of body
and outspoken of manner? What was his name? It's on t he tip of my tongue."

You must mean the fire-eater who kept accusing me of looking for answers
where I should not even look," Dr Afolabi said.

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"Exactly, that's our man. Yes, I thought he was right on point, Dr Afolabi. He too
was unhappy with the present state."

"Wait, the present state of what?" "Africa."

"I don 't understand. "

"No problem. I'll spell it out for you. You see, Dr Afolabi, Africa, in its present
state, has two new arrivals: corruption and impunity. The first is a crime the
Second protects from punishment, the second is another crime the first rewards
with kickbacks. That is Africa in its presept state. Now can it change?"

"Tell me. Can it?"

"Well, let's ask the Law of Will." '"' What?"

"Unless there is will to change, there will be no change."

QUESTIONS

Briefly explain what happens before the excerpt. (3 marks)

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Discuss one-character traits of Dr Afolabi and two of Mr Longway. (6

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Highlight two themes evident in the excerpt. (4 marks)

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(i) It's on the tip of my tongue. (Add a question tag) (1 mark)

iii) Unless there is will to change, there will be no change. (Rewrite using
"if") (1mark)

Identify two stylistic devices used in the excerpt. (4 marks)

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(F) Explain the meaning of the following words and expressions used in
the excerpt. (4 marks)

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3) Read the poem below and answer the questions that follows

My grandmother

She kept an antique shop -or it kept her.

Among Apostles spoons and Bristol glasses,

The faded silks, the heavy furniture,

She watched her own reflection in the brass

Salvers and silvers bowls, as if to prove

Polish was all, there was no need fo r love.

And I remember how I once refused

To go out with her, since I was afraid.

It was perhaps a wish not to be used

Like antique objects. Though she never said

That she was hurt, I still could feel the guilt

Of that refusal, guessing how she felt.

Later, too frail to keep a shop, she put

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All her best things in one long, narrow room.

The place smelt old, of things too long kept shut,

The smell of absences where shadows come

That can’t be polished. There was nothing then

To give her own reflection back a gain.

And when she died I felt no grief at all,

Only the guilt of what I once refused.

I walked into her room among the tall

Sideboards and cupboards -things she never used

But needed: and no finger -marks were there,

Only the new dust falling through the air.

Identify the persona in the above poem (2marks)

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In note form, summarize what each stanza is talking about (4marks)

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Identify and briefly explain the use of any two images in the poem (4maks)

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What does the persona feel towar ds the subject matter? (2marks)

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What do the following lines mean in the poem? (2marks)

“too frail to keep a shop”

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“only the new dust falling through the air”

Describe the tone the persona uses in the poem above (2marks)

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Explain the paradox in the line: (2marks)

-things she never used

But needed:

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Explain the persona’s sense of guilt?

(2marks)

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Grammar 15mks

4a. Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given after
each. Do not change the meaning (3mks)

(i) Lilian Gilbreth invented the step -on garbage can. Her children wrote about
her life. (join into one sentence using ‘whose’)

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(ii) M y brother and me have been taking Piano lessons for six years (rewrite
correctl y)

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(iii) Is this the onl y blue car in your showroom? (Begin: aren’t)

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(b) Use the correct form of the word given in brackets to fill in the
gap(3mks)

(i) The accident victims were admitted in a _______ hospital. (Refer)

(ii) I did not get the question because it was _________ set. (Logic)

(iii) Felirascar ___________ in Standard One this year. (Be)

(c) Replace the following underlined expressi ons with the most appropriate
one word. Write the word below the expression (3mks)

(i) When the teacher met her outside the classroom, Erastina made up a story

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(ii) The walls of the mall cared in after the terrorists str uck.

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(iii) He always irons out people’s problems.

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(d) Choose the correct pronoun from the brackets to complete the following
sentences. (3mks)

(i) Mr. Kamau and ___________ visited us last year. (he/ him/ himself)

(ii) John offered Njoroge and _________ some biscuits. (I/ me)

(iii) Do you think that he is wiser than ___________ (I/ me)

(e) Fill in the blank spaces with the correct preposition (3mks)

(i) Every mem ber is entitled ___________ one acre of land.

(ii) John is very excited ___________ going to India.

(iii) He has been down ____________ Malaria for the last three years.

(f) They have been cooking the food since morning (rewrite in passive).

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FORM 3

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE)

101/2 - ENGLISH - Paper 2

(Comprehension, Grammar and Literary Appreciation)

2½ Hours

Name: ……………………………………………. Index No: ………………...

School: ……………………………………………………………………………

Stream: ………………Candidate’s Signature: ………..…….... Date: ………..

Instructions to candidates

Write your name, class, admission number and school in the spaces provided at the top of
this page.

Answer all questions in this question paper.

This paper consists of 11 printed pages.

Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as
indicated and that no questions are missing.

Candidates MUST answer all the questions in English.

For Examiner’s Use Only

Question Maximum Score Candidate’s Score

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1 20

2 25

3 20

4 15

Total Sore 80

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. (20 marks)

The prevailing high cost of living crisis is ruining people’s mental health status, rendering lives at
risk. Many families are finding it difficult to cope with their situation due to poverty as low-income
families fall deep into debt they cannot afford to repay. Some people end up committing suicide
in a bid to get a solution to it. The number of suicide cases among the youth had been rising rapidly
in recent years. Society is, therefore, losing important people who would have transformed our
economy because of their great minds and energetic nature in youthful age. Suicide continues to
be a major challenge globally; it should be declared an international crisis. According to World
Health Organization, more than700, 000 people die of suicide every year. And more attempt
suicide, with the cases rarely reported.

The WHO reports that some 77 per cent of suicides occur in low- and middle-income countries, a
category in which Kenya falls. The Covid-19 pandemic acted as a catalyst to suicide. The
government measures that were meant to curb the spread of the coronavirus interfered with the
global economy as more funds were invested into fighting the pandemic. Lockdowns and
movement restrictions hindered socioeconomic duties, rendering many people jobless. The
ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine increased the suffering due to the increasing cost of living.
Many families sleep hungry, unable to afford food and other essentials. The children have a
stressful home environment as such families lack access to vital infrastructure—like schools and
hospital—and life continues until the youth decide to kill themselves so that they can ‘rest’ and
stop the suffering.

Indeed, young people are taking their lives for things that we are able to fix. Is it so difficult for
the government to strategize on eradicating poverty and reducing the cost of living, which cause
almost every suicide? Yes, there are other factors that may lead to suicide, such as break-ups in

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romantic relationships and chronic diseases, but let’s first deal with the major one: Poverty and
high cost of living.

Young people go through the education system with huge expectations of being successful in life.
Bear in mind the universal advice that education is the key; that it is the requirement to avoid
poverty and lead a good life. But what is happening is contrary to their expectations and some
have, sadly, resolved to die. The high cost of living, which is increasing at a rate that we had not
experienced in decades, is pushing millions of youth to chilling depths of poverty, despair and
destruction, which greatly interferes with their mental health. Many Kenyans are squeezed into a
corner and can no longer make ends meet.

If the suicide rate is to be diminished, the authorities must take the crucial and effective steps to
fight poverty and lower the cost of living. I call upon the incoming administration to develop and
implement a safety net strategy as the basis for building strong financial and political support for
a poverty reduction agenda. A safety net based on careful analysis of the needs of Kenyans should
be introduced to ensure that regular support is rendered to the people in chronic abject poverty
and also provide assistance to vulnerable households. I assure the country that if we fix the issues
around poverty and the high cost of living, we will be able to save the beautiful souls of young
people perishing in the dark void of death by suicide.

(Adapted from The Daily Nation September 05, 2022: Letters to the Editor-Youth Suicides due to
High Cost of Living)

According to the first paragraph, how is poverty linked to suicidal deaths? (2 marks)

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Explain the importance of the use of figures in the passage. (2 marks)

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Why do you think the word ‘rest ’has been quoted? (2 marks)

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Identify some of the causes of suicide among the youth. (2 marks)

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Make notes on the effects of high cost of living. (4 marks)

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And more attempt suicide, with the cases rarely reported. (Rewrite supplying the correct
question tag) (1 mark)

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What should the government do to reduce the suicide rate? (2 marks)

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Describe the author’s tone in the last paragraph. (3 marks)

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Contextualize the meaning of the following words. (2 marks)

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2. Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow. (25 marks)
When all four were back at their seats, the Chair began to wrap up.

"Excellencies, we've come to the end of our summit." He smiled, and why not? Had The Trick not
saved the day? Had it not eliminated the need for the consensus he could not achieve? "Go back
home safely, Excellencies. As we say in my country, travel like lions, without fear of attack or
worry about supper. And, speaking about supper, the Pinnacle informs me that, to cap our
summit, it has organised a closing ceremony on the mezzanine floor. Things will start sizzling in
thirty minutes. So we'll meet there soon." Gavel hit wood. Bang. "I now declare the summit itself
formally closed." Bang. Bang.

President Dibonso sprang to hit feet at once. "Mr Chairman, don't insult our intelligence with
that rubbish." His voice was grating on all ears with tones of rage.

"What rubbish are you referring to? President Dibonso?" asked the Chair. He was rising to the
challenge.

"The Choice Matrix indeed! Do you really expect us to buy into that madness? Can't you see that
some of us are not senile? We reject the matrix, lock, stock and barrel."

"I said the summit stands closed," insisted the Chair. Bang. Bang.

"And I say it is open again," retorted President Dibonso.

"But, President Dibonso, you do not have the power to do so."

"Who says I do not have the power to do so? See this?" He pulled out a pistol, pocket-size.

The other heads of state scrambled to hide under their desks.

"President Dibonso, put that thing away!" demanded the Chair.

"Make me!" retorted President Dibonso,

The pistol clicked, It was ready to start spitting fire at the Chaire

QUESTIONS

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Briefly explain what happens just before the excerpt. (4 marks)

Identify and illustrate two-character traits of the Summit Chair and one of President
Dibonso. (6 marks)

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What two themes come out in the excerpt? (4 marks)

(i) We reject the matrix, lock, stock and barrel. (Write beginning with "Lock") (1 mark)

Discuss two stylistic devices used in the excerpt. (4 marks)

I said the summit is closed. (Rewrite using a question tag) (1 mark)

Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the excerpt. (3 marks)

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Consensus

cap

sizzling

3. Read the following oral poem and answer the questions that follow. (20 marks)

It is Well!

He is coming back to us after many years away.

We released him to you young, vibrant and eloquent.

But you've brought him back,

To the cradle, this great son of the soil
A "mganga" with a heavy tongue,
Vanguished, punctured, empty-handed
With eyes continually dripping
Could he be saddened by our predicament
Or are they tears of regret?

We gave him out as the best we could find,

One who had we known, we'd have kept around here
to look after our affairs.

He was a good Son, blessed of the clan,

That Son you people mocked, is a good Son!

But see who you have brought us back!

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Well, he is ours and we'll build him a house by the shore!

By Odhiambo Kaumah (Edited)

Questions

Who could be the ‘We’ in the poem? Explain. (2 marks)

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Mention any two changes highlighted in the poem. (2 marks)

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Illustrate the use of any two poetic devices which qualify this as an oral poem. (4 marks)
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Explain the subject matter of the poem. (3 marks)

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What is the effect of the line: ‘But see who you have brought us back!’? (2 marks)
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Explain the persona’s attitude towards the ‘good Son’ (3 marks)

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Why do you think the word ‘Son’ begins with a capital letter? (2 marks)
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Explain the meaning of the following expressions as used in the poem. (2 marks)

Heavy tongue

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Empty-handed

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a) Rewrite the following sentences as instructed. Do not change the meaning.(4 marks)

You can do better than this. (Begin: This……………)

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It was the first time the school performed well. (Begin: Never before ............)

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Neither the children nor the peasant…………………….allowed beyond the gate. (

Rewrite filling in the blank with correct form of the verb ‘be’)

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Jodelle’s handwriting is the best in this class. (Rewrite using ‘better’)

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Replace the underlined phrasal verbs with one word with the same meaning.(2 marks)

Jake, see to it that all the chairs are in good condition.

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The plane touched down at 7.00 O’clock.

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Complete the following sentences using the appropriate form of the words in brackets.
(3 marks)

She took a ………………………… (compassion) leave after the death of his brother.

The …………………… (certain) of the petition outcome has made him very nervous.

No youthful candidate won the ……………………………(governor) seat in the just

concluded elections.

Rewrite the following sentences correctly. ( 2 marks)

My brother and me have been taking Piano lessons for six years.

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If I revise well for examinations, I would score grade A.

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Rewrite the sentences using the correct order of adjectives in brackets. (2 marks)

Gimariah is a…………….(Kenyan, basketball, brilliant, short) player.

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She bought a …………………….(new, lovely) dress.

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Explain the difference in meaning between the following pair of sentences. (2 marks)

Peter was executed like a murderer.

Peter was executed as a murderer.

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(e) Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as
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1. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: ( 20 Marks)
A Kenyan woman is among TIME’s 100 Most Influential People, a prestigious annual list
published by the American news magazine that acknowledges extraordinary people changing the
world.
M/s Nice Nailantel, a 27 year old anti FGM activist from Oloitokitok, Kajiado South, is the only
Kenyan who made it to the magazine’s 2018 list. She is listed alongside media mogul Oprah
Winfrey, President of the United States Donald Trump, Prince Harry and China’s President Xi
Jinping.
She is recognized for her relentless efforts to end female genital mutilation.
M/s Nailantel’s journey began at the slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro at the age of seven when her
parents died. At this age, a Maasai girl is considered to be at the cusp of womanhood and ripe for
circumcision, and later marriage to an older man.
Nailantel’s unparalled courage – never witnessed before in her village- saved her on the eve of
her planned circumcision, she ran away with her sister, away, to avoid the cut.
When she returned home, she had clarity of thought that surprised even her grandfather, Mr.
Philip Lampat Sing’aro, a respectable village elder. She negotiated with him to give her one
more year to prepare herself for the rite of passage. When a year passed, she remained adamant
against the cut, although her sister finally gave in .M/s Nailantel would later join high school and
at 15, she became a role model and a fierce crusader against FGM.
Using diplomacy and negotiation, M/s Nailantel approached Maasai elders with information
about the ramifications of FGM on a woman, imploring them to recalibrate their thinking
around the practice.
Although her plan did not work at first, the elders warmed up gradually and the greatest sign of
respect from them came when they handed her the esiere, a powerful walking stick that
symbolizes leadership.
Now at 27, Nailantel has become a paragon of a fearless campaign against FGM that has so far
saved more than 15,000 girls. Her efforts have spawned international headlines in respectable
newspapers such as the New York Times and have afforded her an enviable seat amongst the
citadel of global icons, pioneers and world leaders.
Although the announcement was made yesterday, Nailantel received an email from the magazine
two weeks ago, but had to keep the news from her closest family members. This is because the
magazine was strict on the confidentiality of the matter.
“I am truly honored and grateful to be in the list,” she said in a phone interview with the
Saturday Nation. “It shows how important our work against FGM and child marriage is,” she
added.
M/s Nailantel is not sure how the magazine learnt about her although she suspects that it was
Jaha Dukureh, a Gambian ant-FGM crusader, who recommended her and eventually wrote a

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short story to accompany the announcement in the magazine. “I did not know she was writing
the story,” she says.
She has been closely following Jaha’s work through international media.
M/s Nailantel said her grandfather is proud of her. “I called him. He may not understand the
magnitude of this recognition but he is very proud of me and I am quite sure he is telling every
villager about this,” said a jovial Nailantel.
As she prepared to jet off to New York the following morning to receive her award at a gala
event scheduled on Tuesday/s Nailantel was mulling over what she will say during the three
minutes she will have to make a toast at the event.
(Saturday Nation April 21, 2018)

Are there other Kenyans on the 2018 Time Magazine list? Support your answer. (1 Mark)

Why was Nailantel put on the Time Magazine list? (1mark)

Using about 43 words write a summary on how Nailantel was able to avoid FGM. (6
marks)

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Explain how Nailantel was able to convince the elders about the dangers of FGM. (3marks)

5. With clear illustrations, describe any two character traits of Nailantel that are portrayed in
the passage. (4 marks)

6. Re-write the following in reported speech: “I am truly honored and grateful to be in the list,”
Says Nailantel. (1 mark)

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7. Explain the stylistic device that is brought out when the elders give Nailantel the esiere –
walking stick. (2 marks)

8. Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the passage. (2 marks)

i) Unparalled courage

ii) Recalibrate

2. Read the following extract and then answer the questions that follow. 25
marks

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FATHERS OF NATIONS;

President Wasiwasi Wesiga, an old hand who had anticipated many coups and
nipped them in the bud before they got off the ground, was first to sport brewing
trouble. He moved at once to end it. “POINT OF ORDER,” he shouted. He did not
want trouble. “MR CHAIRMAN, POINT OF ORDER!”

“Nonsense!” snapped the chair at him. “What point of order?” confused by his
own fury after his clash with president Dibonso, he thought he was snapping at that
president.

“It’s about The Trick, Mr. Chairman,” said president Wesiga. He had taken no
offence for being snapped at.

“Whose trick?” asked the chair, confused?

“Come on, Mr. Chairman. Yours.”

“Mine? Oh, yeah.” He had finally remembered. “Yes, The Trick.” The Chair’s
eyes were now shining with light from something previously forgotten but finally
remembered. “President Wesiga, you have the floor.”

“Thank you, Mr. Chairman,” began President Wesiga. “Mr. Chairman, our
nerves are starting to fray, our tempers to flare. Before we actually come to blows,
we need measures to relieve tension first. I propose two measures. One, I move
that we adjourn now. It’s getting late anyway.”

“AYE, AYE,” agreed the other heads of state together. They too did not want
to come to blows

“Motion accepted!” Declared the chair, inwardly relieved. “Go on, President
Wesiga.”

“Two, I move that we ask a small group among us, say consisting of President
Simba Ibarosa and President Yamlaza Gamlozi, both led by President Didier
Bangoura, to see how we can best proceed from this point on.”

“AYE, AYE,” agreed the other heads of state together once more.

“Again, motion accepted!” ruled the chair, even more relieved.

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A consensus on Way Omega or Path Alpha had receded beyond his reach, but
The Trick had come to his rescue. It would eliminate the very need for a consensus
to begin with.

“But let’s be clear here why we are doing this,” the chair said. First, we are
doing it because we need to choose between Way Omega and Path Alpha but lack
a method with which to do so. Second, the task of our small group, therefore, will
be to find such a method. Third, for that reason, we’ll call the group the ‘Method
Committee.’ Fourth, it will work this evening and report to us first thing tomorrow
morning.” Gavel hit wood. Bang. “This meeting is now adjournment!”

a) Briefly explain what had happened just before this excerpt. (2mks)
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b) Who is the ‘Mr. Chairman’ being referred to in this excerpt? (1mk)
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c) Explain how the ‘The Trick’ that President Wesiga refers to works in this
excerpt. (3mks)
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d) Explain the dominant theme in this excerpt (3mks)
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e) Identify and explain two character traits of President Wasiwasi Wesiga as
portrayed in this excerpt (4mks)
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f) With your knowledge of the rest of the text explain how the ‘method’ decided by
the method committee works (3mks)
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g) Identify and illustrate two stylistic devices used in this excerpt(4mks)
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h) From paragraph 1,why are the words of president Wasiwasi Wesiga been
written in capital letters ( 2MKS)

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i) Explain the mood of this excerpt. (3mks)
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3. Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow.

I SPEAK FOR THE BUSH (by Everett Standa.)

When my friend sees me

He swells and pants like a frog
Because I talk the wisdom of the bush!
He says we from the bush
Do not understand civilized ways
For we tell our women
To keep the hem of’ their dresses
Below the knee.
We from the bush, my friend insists,
Do not know how to ‘enjoy’:
When we come to the civilized city,
Like nuns, we stay away from nightclubs
Where women belong to men
And men belong to no women
And these civilized people

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Quarrel and fight like hungry lions!

But, my friend, why do men

With crippled legs, lifeless eyes,
Wooden legs, empty stomachs
Wander about the streets
Of this civilized world?
Teach me, my friend, the trick,
So that my eyes may not
See those whose houses have no walls
But emptiness all around:
Show me the wax you use
To seal your ears
To stop hearing the cry of the hungry;
Teach me the new wisdom
Which tells men
To talk about money and not love,
When they meet women:

Tell your God to convert

Me to the faith of the indifferent,
The faith of those
Who will never listen until
They are shaken with blows.

I speak for the bush:

You speak for the civilized-
Will your hear me?

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Questions
i) State the two societies mentioned in the poem. (2mks)
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ii) Identify the imagery used in the poem. (2mks)
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iii) How has the poet used the word ‘friend’ in the poem? (2mks)
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iv) What is the message of this poem? (4mks)
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v) What is persona’s attitude toward the friend? (2mks)
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vi) Explain the tone of the persona in this statement. (2mks)
“….Tell your God to convert me to the faith of the indifferent.”

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vii) Explain why the persona does not admire the civilized world. (4mks)
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viii) explain the following words as used in the poem (2mks)
i) “….the wisdom of the bush”
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ii)”They are shaken by
blows”…………………………………………………………………………….
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GRAMMAR
a) Rewrite the following sentences as instructed (3 marks)
i) Nyambura never came late to school this term. (Begin: Not……)

ii) If I had known that they would bring the book with them, I would not have brought this copy.
(Rewrite the sentence using need not instead of would not)

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iii) No ones likes to be sick. (change the infinitive into a gerund)

b) For each of the following sentences replace the underlined phrasal verbs with one word
that that has the same meaning. (3mks)
i) You need to cut down on the expenses
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ii) The visitor remarked that the little boy took after his father
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iii) They made up for the lost time
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c) Fill in the blanks with a suitable preposition (3 marks)

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d) Use the correct form of the adjective given in the brackets. (2 marks)
John is the ……………………….. (Cleverer /cleverest) of the two.
Her work is ……………………… (Perfect/most perfect/perfectest)

e) Use the correct form of the word in brackets in the sentences that follow. ( 4 marks)
i) She………………….the teachers advice in everything she did. (seek)
ii) He has……………………..across the muddy river. (swim)
iii) They………………………in amazement. (spin)
iv) The senator was popular for his…………………………….character. (conscience)
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INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

Write your name and index number in the spaces provided.

Sign and write the date of examination.
Answer all the questions in the question paper
All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.

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1 20

2 25

3 20

4 15

TOTAL 80

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SECTION A: COMPREHESION

Read the passage below and then answer the questions that follow.

As we stand, HIV/Aids pandemic is on the rampage, ravaging the young and old alike. It is time
for people to decide for themselves what is good and what is not. And the earlier they do this is
the better.

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For young people, it is important to choose friends wisely. They should determine what they will
be doing when they come together. If a friend is not building them up, or is causing them undue
pressure, they then should shun him or her. This pressure often takes the form of making those
who choose to abstain from pre-marital or illicit sex feel inadequate.

Finally, it is incumbent upon the government to put in place legislation governing what citizens,
especially the youth, are exposed to in the form of print or electronic media.

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Questions
Why is there need to make a decision soon. (2 marks)
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Which words does the author use to show displeasure with some kinds of film music? (2 marks)
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What sort of friends does the writer appear to approve. (2 marks)

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In note form, give evidence to show that every member of the society has a role to play in
enhancing morality. (4 marks)
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What is the writer’s attitude towards pornography (2 marks)

Explain the meaning of the following words and expressions as used in the passage. (4 marks)

Beckoning alluringly

(ii) Adherents

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2. Read the extract below and answer the questions that follow.

Cute as a button and sharp as a needle, he thought. Her eyes were wide and white like a pair of
moons. She continued. "My natural parents were Gambian, but I will never see them. are dead.
Oh, well." She wriggled in her chair. "Goodness me, what am I doing? Dictating my
autobiography?" She waved that idea away. "Let's talk business now, shall we?" She pulled out of
her handbag a small device then switched it on. "Mind if I start recording?"

"You're a reporter?" He had not thought she was.

"Yes, for the Gambian News."

"I see. Now, how can I help you, Ms Mckenzie?"

"I'd like to ask you a few questions, if I may."

"Yes, you may. In fact, why don't I start you off? My name is Abiola Afolabi, which you seem to
know already. But you can just call me Abiola, my first name. Take it from there."

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"I will: you studied at Harvard University in the USA. Now you teach at the University of Ibadan in
Nigeria." She smiled. "I got that from the cover of your book: Failure of States." He averted his
eyes to enjoy this fame in the correct manner— with humility, he hoped she would easily see
through. This black Scotswoman surely knew her tread, he thought.

"when I heard you were heard at The Seamount Hotel, Dr Afolabi, I decided to come and see
you. So here I am. This is also funny."

"Funny?"

"Yes. I expected to see an academic scarecrow dressed in jeans. Instead, I see a well- dressed
man who might well be a business person..."

QUESTIONS

Explain what happens immediately g) Explain the meaning of the following before this
excerpt. (4 marks)

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Identify and illustrate two aspects of style in this excerpt. (4 marks)

Discuss one theme evident in this excerpt. (2 marks)

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Discuss two-character traits of Fiona in the excerpt. (4 marks)

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Briefly explain what happens what happens after this excerpt. (2 marks)

How are Afolabi's thoughts in his book fulfilled later in the book? Briefly explain(4marks)

Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the excerpt. (5 marks)

Averted

Autobiography

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Wriggled

Tread

3. Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.

AN ELEGY
When he was here,
We planned each tomorrow.
With him in mind.
For we saw no parting.
Looming beyond the horizon.

When he was here,

We joked and laughed together.
And no fleeting shadow of a ghost.
Ever crossed out paths.

Day by day we lived.

On this side of the mist.
And there was never a sign.
That his hours were running fast.
When he was gone.
Through glazed eyes we searched.
Beyond the mist and the shadows.
For we couldn’t believe he was nowhere.
We could not believe he was dead.

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(Laban Erapu)

What is the poem about? (2 marks)

Give evidence in the poem to show that the death of the person referred to in the poem was not
expected? (3 marks)
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Explain the relationship between the persona and the person who is now dead. (2 marks)
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Rewrite the following in your own words “that his hours were running fast” (1 mark)
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Explain the image of the mist in the last stanza of the poem. (2 marks)
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What do you think is the importance of repeating the following line in stanza 1 & 2.
“When he was here” (2 marks)
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Explain the meaning of the following line as used in the poem.

i) We planned each tomorrow. (1 mark)

Through glazed eyes we searched. (1 mark)

“We joked and laughed together”, Rewrite in inverted form. (1 mark)

Give the poem another suitable title. (1 mark)

Comment on the major theme in the poem. (2 marks)

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What is the mood of the poem? (2 marks)

4. a) Complete the blank space with the correct form of the word in brackets. (3 marks)

Kimani has not yet recovered from his ……………………(dread) encounter with robbers.

Besides the men, Mau Mau also had several …………………… (hero) who fought for our
independence.
He…………………….. (often) visits his grandmother.

But for the pilot’s quick action, the plane would have crashed. (Begin: Had it ............)
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c) Replace the words in brackets with an appropriate phrasal verb. (3 marks)

The driver who was driving at a high speed was ordered by the traffic police to
………………………….(stop) the vehicle.

We hope that our plans …………………………………(succeeds)

The grandmother ……………………………..(liked) her grandchildren.

d) Complete each of the following sentences by filling in the correct prepositions.

(3 marks)
(i) My father deals ……………………………. second hand clothes.

(ii) My sister is good …………………………………swimming.

(iii)My brothers and I will share this piece of land …………………… ourselves.

e) Form an adverb from the word

(i) Presume …………………………….. (1 mark)

f)Explain two meanings of the following sentence. (2 marks)

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(i) Flying planes can be dangerous.

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QUESTION 1

Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow (20 MKS)

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Cities and towns are experiencing massive population growth the world over, receiving huge
numbers of migrants every year.

In 1950, urban population accounted for only 29 percent of the world population,
according to the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). At
the turn of the century, the figure had risen to about 45 per cent. This was enough to declare
the Twentieth Century the century of urbanization and city life. Now the figure is projected to
hit 70 percent by 2025.

In Africa, urbanization is most intense in Algeria, Tunisia and South Africa, which have
more than 50 percent of their population living in urban areas. Generally, cities in the
developing world are growing at a rate of 3.5 per cent per annum.

These figures indicate that there is a continuous massive movement of people from
rural to urban areas worldwide. Driven by the desire for better living conditions, they flock to
cities in droves in search of greener pastures. But, slowly, the illusion disappears, and is
replaced by the harsh realities of urbanism: unemployment or underemployment, crime,
poverty, hunger and life in the slums.

To cope with this fast moving wave of rural flight requires new strategies for urban
planning and the use of urban spaces. Thus urban planners, policymakers and governments
seek pragmatic and timely ways of addressing this challenge. The process of urbanization
transforms land use and farming systems, patterns of labour force participation, infrastructural
requirements, and natural resource systems. When cities grow, their population expand,
putting a strain on food production.

As a way of easing the food shortage, many urban households, particularly the poor,
have taken to growing food on small plots. Today, if you take a walk through some of the
residential estates in Nairobi such as Ngara, Eastleigh and BuruBuru, you might be forgiven for
thinking that a green revolution is under way. And on the outskirts of the city, green-houses
and ponds compete for space with small gardens planted with flowers, vegetables and fruits.
Banana plants and palm trees dwarf wrought-iron gates, their green dotting the skyline, kale,
cabbage and maize gardens sprout in the middle of urban squalor. In this unusual rare blend,
urban features and rural agrarian patterns are combined in a new form of settlement and one
might call ‘garden cities’.

Although it is often not given much attention, urban agriculture is steadily increasing.
The practice involves cultivating, processing and distributing food in and around a town or city.
It also encompasses an array of activities including horticulture, aquaculture, animal husbandry
and bee keeping.

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QUESTIONS

a)What are the challenges facing major cities and towns. (2mks)

b)What does the mention of 70% by 2025 reveal?

(1mk)

c)What do we learn about urbanization in Africa from the passage? (2mks)

d)Mention two reasons for rural to urban migration.

(2mks)

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e)How are urban households easing the problem of the food shortage?
(2mks)

f)What is meant by the term ‘garden city’ (1mk)

g)In note form, list the influences of urbanisation. (4mks)

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h)Urban populations accounted for only 29% of the world population

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i) What does urban agriculture entail?

(2mks)

j) Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the passage.

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i)illusion
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ii)Pragmatic
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QUESTION 2

Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow

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"Mathematics at a summit!" complained the other heads of state. "What next?"

The old rogue knew they were having trouble understanding his equations. Yet did he offer them
any help? No. He wanted to enjoy the moment.

When he had enjoyed it for long enough, he offered the help he had withheld.

"Here is what those equations tell to you, Excellencies. They say you I will toss this coin twice.
"He held high the coin that he was talking about. "If coin land..."He broke off again. "How you say
'pile ou face' in English?

"Heads or tails," obliged President Gamlozi.

"Senks,"acknowledged the old man. "So, if coin land heads for first toss, then first equation - in
first row, first column, of The Choice Matrix-is telling to you: Choose Way Omega for another
toss and forget all about Path Alpha. But if coin land tails, then second equation- in first row,
second column-is saying you: Choose Path Alpha and forget Way Omega instead." The old man
looked at his audience. "Questions?" he asked.

"YES!" shouted Minister Zinto, already up on his feet. "With all due respect, President Bangoura,
I think what you are suggesting now is total nonsense."

"QUOI? WHAT?

"Mr President, real summits don't decide by flipping coins."

"l see. And I suppose, Cher le Ministre, Dear Minister, you going make same protestation, with as
much vigour, when your Way Omega get win."

The summit hall rocked with laughter.

"Order!" demanded the Chair. "Order, Excellencies, order! We will have order. As for you,
Minister Zinto, you will speak only when I say so. Do you understand-yes? Then sit down!"

The minister sat down.

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Dr Afolabi rose. “Mr Chairman, I think the minister has a point," he said. "My advice here would
be.

The old man cut him off. "Your advice here would be what? That we utilise your method of “this
on one hand and that on other hand'? Ha! We would still be here next year, admiring our hands
if we were to do so.

“Again the summit hall rocked with laughter”

"Order, please! Excellencies, order!" the Chair reminded everyone. "As for you, Dr Afolabi, if I
find I need your

What happened immediately before this excerpt? (3 marks)

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What do we learn about African Heads of state in this excerpt? (4 marks)

Identify and illustrate three features of style employed in this excerpt. (6 marks)

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What does the chair mean when he asks Abiola if he wanted them to utilize his method
hand

What happens immediately after this excerpt? (3 marks)

Give the meaning of each of following words as used in this excerpt. (5 marks)

Flipping

Rogue

Protestation

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Utilize

obliged

QUESTION 3: ORAL LITERATURE (20mks)

Read the following oral poem and answer the questions that follow.

Listen

My husband

In the wisdom of Lang’o

Time is not stupidity split up

Into seconds and minutes.

It does not follow

Like beer in a pot

That is sucked

Until it is finished.

It does not resemble

A loaf of millet bread

Surrounded by hungry youths

From a hunt

It does not get finished

Like vegetable in the dish.

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A lazy youth is rebuked

A lazy girl is slapped

A lazy wife beaten

A lazy man laughed at

Not because they waste time

But because they only destroy

And do not produce.

And famine

Invades your villages

And women take their baskets

To go and beg, food,

Strangers will sleep with them.

They will have your wives

And what can you say?

QUESTIONS

a)Classify the above song.

(1mk)

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b)Who is the singer?

(1mk)

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c) Explain two economic practices by the community from which the song is derived. (4mks)

d) Contrast the Africans and Westerners in view of (4mks)

i) Time

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ii) Concept of hard work.

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e) Identify and illustrate three aspects of style found in this song. (6mks)

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f) Giving examples, state the dominant tone of this song. (2mks)

g) Identify the moral lesson in this song. (2mks)

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4. GRAMMAR

A: Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given after each. Do not
change the meaning of the original sentence. (3mks)

i)The excited funs ran into the field to congratulate their goal keeper.

(Begin: Into……)

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ii)There is no way you can solve your problem unless you are able to define its cause.

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iii)They always bring their relatives. (use a passive voice)

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iv)There are eleven players in a football team.

(Begin: A football……………)

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B:Complete the following sentences with the correct order of adjectives in brackets.
(2mks)

i)The principal sank into his ________________________________________________(leather,

new, comfortable, Kenyan) chair.

ii)I had to wear _________________________________________________(grey, wooden,

expensive) jacket.

C:Complete the following sentences using the most appropriate form of word in brackets.
(4mks)

i)The dog barked _____________________________ at the stranger. (Menance)

ii)The queens ______________________ impressed everybody. (Elegant)

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iii)The beautiful girl danced ______________________________(grace)

iv)There is little evidence of _______________________ (diligent) in his school work.

D:Provide the most appropriate preposition in the following sentences. (3mks)

i)The exercise was conducted in accordance _________________ the regulations.

ii)When you smile ________________ me like that, I’ll do anything for you.

iii)Akinyi arrived at the airport just __________time to catch the plane.

E: Explain the difference in meaning between the following pair of sentences. (2mks)

i)He stopped to smoke.

ii)He stopped smoking

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Name………………………………………………… Admission No. …………

School ………………………………………………... Date……. ….....................

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Paper 2(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)
FORM 3
GROUP DISCUSSION 7
TERM 2 2025
Time: 21/2 hours
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)

FOR EXAMINER’S USE ONLY.

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1,Read the following comprehension and answer the questions that follows.
The World Oceans Day was marked last week with a grim reminder that war on plastics is far
from far from over. More than eight million tonnes of plastic enter the seas each year, according
to the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), choking marine life and threatening
human survival. An estimated 99 percent of sea birds would have ingested plastic by mid-
century, the UNEP says on its website.
The alarming sickness of the seas should rally the most powerful world leaders to more avidly
control the production and use of plastics in their territories. At the G7 Summit in Canada, last
week, President Uhuru Kenyatta urged the leaders to lead in controlling plastics and marine life –
whose existence is at risk from plastics washed away from dumpsites to the oceans.
The President’s message is clear: the largest producers and consumers of plastics should invest
more in removing the toxic plastic waste from the global marketplace and cleaning up the seas.
The most powerful nations should lead from the front to save the world from being suffocated to
early ruin.
The world produces over 300 million tonnes of plastic yearly and most of it isn’t recycled. China
accounts for 25 percent of the global output, the rest of Asia 21 percent, Europe 23 percent and
North America 19 percent. The Middle East, Africa and Central and South America are small
producers, contributing just 12 percent combined.

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For Kenya, the greatest challenge is to fight plastics with passion to free space for sustainable
development of the Blue Economy. Developing marine resources holds great potential for
expanding output, diversifying the economy and creating jobs, particularly at the Coast.
Emerging investment opportunities in the Blue Economy would strengthen food security and
new manufacturing activities, supporting the President’s ‘Big Four’ agenda for economic
transformation.
The war involves clamping down on plastic suppliers and users, replacing them with producers
of environmentally friendly paper and other non-plastic products.
The ban on plastic carrier bags last August reduced one of the greatest threats to Kenya’s Green
and Blue economies. The production of plastics fell by 21.8 percent last year, shows the
‘Economic Survey 2018’ by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS).
It was striking how quickly the market converted and shoppers changed their attitude to embrace
the wide choice of alternative bio-degradable and re-usable carrier bags.
The proposed Blue Economy summit in November would present a great opportunity for Kenya
to showcase its progress in reducing plastics. It should also focus on practical solutions for
reducing the economy’s dependence on toxic industries and expanding opportunities for cleaner
productions.
Adopted from Daily Nation, June 14.

According to the passage, why is war on plastic far from over? (2

marks)

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What is president Kenyatta’s solution to plastic entering the sea? (2

marks)

What is the purpose of the statistics presented in paragraph 4? (3

marks)

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How will the fight against plastic bags in Kenya sustain the development of the Blue
Economy? (3
marks)

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What in the passage shows that Kenya is winning the war against plastics? (3
marks)

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How will the proposed Blue Economy in November be beneficial to Kenya? (2

marks)

‘Emerging investment opportunities in the Blue Economy would strengthen food

security.’ (Begin: Food security…….)
(1 mark)

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Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases as used in the passage? (4
marks)

Toxic …………………………………………………………………………………….

Diversifying ………………………………………………………………………………

Clamp down …………………………………………………………………………….

Environmental friendly …………………………………………………………………

2. Read the excerpt below and then answer the questions that follow.
"Good evening, Pastor" The caller was in a jovial mood. His voice was all syrup and honey. As part
of a growing informality between him and Pastor Chiamaka, he had taken to calling Pastor
Chiamaka only by title like that. "This is your guide here speaking." "

Is that right? Let me call the media," Pastor Chiamaka said sarcastically. His scheme having failed,
he was smouldering in a bad mood he was nursing on purpose, as in a self-indulgent act of slow
suicide over a fire he had set at minimum.

"Pastor, you sound angry," said his guide

"Why shouldn't l?"

"Goodness, you are angry!"

"You would be too if you were in my position."

"Enough of your self-pity! Now let me remind you..."

"Don't."

In a sermon four years earlier, Pastor Chiamaka had made statements he believed to be well
within the bounds of permissible political expression. Still, the police had picked him up the next
morning. Before he could ask them why,

"l don't need reminding," he said.

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"All right, Pastor. On to another subject now: a meeting is soon to bring together you and four
other people. Plus guess who?”

"Who?" asked Pastor Chiamaka. His tone was not any less rebellious.

“me.”

"Two days ago you said you didn't want to be seen."

"We'll meet in an hour."

"Why the long notice?"

"Room 2059, Centre Wing of The Seamount Hotel. Be there. Ciao."

"His scheme having failed,..." Explain the scheme that Pastor Chiamaka had. (5 marks)

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In not more than 70 words, summarize the statements Pastor Chiamaka made four year
earlier in his sermon. (6 marks)

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Identify and illustrate two styles used in this excerpt. (4 marks)

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Apart from pastor Chiamaka and the guide, name the other four people who were to
attend the meeting. (4 marks)

Who is staying in room 2059, center wing? (1 mark)

What happens immediately after this excerpt? (2 marks)

Explain the meaning of the following words as used in this excerpt. (3 marks)

Jovial

Smouldering

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Permissible

3. Read the Oral Poem below then answer the questions that follow.

Blood iron and trumpets

Blood iron and trumpets
Forward we march
(Clothes fall on the way)
Blood iron and trumpets
We shall hack, kill and core
Blood iron and trumpets
Singers of the Datsun blue
Forward we drive breaking the records
Blood iron and trumpets
Let bullets find their targets and earth be softened
Blood iron and trumpets
Let the dogs of war rejoice
And the Carion birds feed
We are reducing population explosion
Blood iron and trumpets
The uniformed machines are around
Put on your helmet iron and vest
Blood iron and trumpets
Only through fire can be baptized to mean business
So once again,

Blood iron and trumpets

We shall always march along

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Blood iron and trumpets
Blood iron and trumpets
Blood alone

1. Classify the oral piece above. (2 marks)

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2 .Give three functions of the oral piece above. (3 marks)

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3. Identify two features of oral poetry evident in the oral item above. (4 marks)
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4.Explain the two issues this oral poem is talking about. (2 marks)
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5.Cite one social and one economic activity of the community from which this oral poem is taken.
(4 marks)
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6.Who would be the most suitable audience for the oral poem? Give reasons for your answer.
(2 marks)
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7. Why are the soldiers likened to machines. (1 mark)
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8. Describe the mood of the poem. (2 marks)
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4. GRAMMAR
a) Rewrite the sentences according to the instructions given. (4 Marks)

i) Though you may hate him, he is still the best player in the team. (Begin: Hate …)

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ii) Fish is nutritious. It is available nearly everywhere. It is inexpensive. (Rewrite as one

sentence. Begin: Not only…)

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iii) He got into trouble with the manager. He had just joined the institution. (Rewrite Beginning:
No sooner …)

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iv) Had it not been for the driver’s prompt action, there would have been a very bad accident.
(Begin: But for …)

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b) Fill in the blank with the correct phrasal verb formed from the word in brackets. (2 Marks)
i) The game between Argentina and Croatia ……………………………. at 8:45 pm tonight.
(kick)

ii) The meeting was …………………………………… to early June instead of July. (bring)

c) Correct the following sentence. (1 Mark)

If today was Sunday, I would have gone to church

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d) Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the word in brackets. (3Marks)

i) The husband tried to restrain his…....................................... wife (aggression)

ii) We could not…………….................................. (large) the portrait any further.

iii) Due to lack of proper diet, Atieno’s child is ……………..…………………. (nourish).

e)Fill in the blanks using the most appropriate complex preposition. (2 Marks)

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Lets go for a walk ………………………………………………. staying indoors throughout the
day.

He travelled by air …………………………………………… his fear of heights.

f) Rewrite as one sentence using a present participle. (1 Mark)

The MP raised a red flag over the poor education standards in the area. He promised to work
with all the education stake holders to improve the academic performance.

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g) Give the meaning of the underlined idiomatic expressions. (2Marks)

i) Politicians must now walk the talk

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ii) They were taught by word of mouth

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Name …………………………………………………….…….. ……. Index No.
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Candidate Signature ………………....
Date …………………………….
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PAPER 2

COMPREHENSIONS, LITERARY,

APPRECIATION AND GRAMMAR

FORM THREE

GROUP DISCUSSION EIGHT

KENYA CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION (KCSE)

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ENGLISH

PAPER 2

TERM 2 2025

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

Answer ALL the questions in this paper

All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in the questions
paper.

This paper consist of 8 printed pages.

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Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that al the pages are
printed as indicated and that no questions are missing.

Candidates MUST answer the questions in English.

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Unseen passage

Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.

Another thorny issue is religion. I dearly remember what happened when I

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You now have to pay your bills and realize that you have to out costs, you
remove your bath water from the stove before boils and don’t allow milk to boil
for a second longer than necessary. And of course you switch the lights in any
room that’s not being used. Suddenly, you realize that you are /wing by the very
rules you resented in your parents home. You’re learning to use resources wisely
now that you have to take care of yourself. When you start a family, you impose
the same restrictions to your children. If there is one thing you can’t run away
from, its responsibility. And its door that things you were taught as a child
remain with you for life. What I have learnt is that when your parents are tough
with you, they are only teaching you to be responsible. As the saying goes “only
the wearer of the shoe knows where the shoe pinched.” I now understand why
my parent gave me a longue lashing whenever i misused resources.

Questions (20mks)

According to paragraph 1, why do you youngsters say living with parents is pure
hell? (3mks)

What would youngsters prefer rather that give in to their parents

dictatorship? (2mks)

According to the passage, parents are economical, validate this statement.

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In your opinion, are parents out to punish children by setting rules and
regulations in the homes. (2mks)

Explain the writers attitude towards leaving home when the time came.
(2mks)

Comment on the irony in the passage.(2mks)

Explain the meaning of the following saying as used in the passage.

“Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches” 2mks

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Mother would breathe fire about our wastefulness while reminding us of the
high cost of living (rewrite beginning: not only ……….) (1mk)

Explain the meaning of the following words as used in passage (3mks)

Stifling

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Stingy

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Resented

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Seen text

Fathers of Nations

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

President Bibo Dibonso was a forced to reckon with. Forty years of supremacy had turned power
into a habit then into a toy, and Dibonso himself into a permanent bully. On that day, a new
anger was troubling him. Its cause, also new, had come only that morning. He had slept like a log
the night before and, like a log, woken up stiff. This was not new. He woke up stiff like a log often
these days. So, that morning, he decided to loosen up, for all it was worth, by standing up then
bending down and straightening up again, once. The cause of his new anger arose from that little
workout. In a first sign of loss of self-control, something warm trickled down between his legs.
This had never happened before; it was new. A bolt on some valve inside him had gone loose,

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basically owing to old age. Old age has uncanny ways of loosening bolts even on valves best left
alone.

He showered, of course, but his self-image had already suffered a blow no shower could undo.
Since that incident, all words he uttered had a new anger, a terror he unleashed to make up for a
loss of self-worth caused by an internal valve gone haywire. That anger was in his every word
now.

"You have been quite a disgrace, Mr Chairman," he began. This language was extreme, even by
his extreme standards.

"What did you say, President Dibonso?" asked the Chair, pretending he had not heard.

"You've totally lost control of the summit, Mr Chairman."

"What exactly do you mean by that, President Dibonso?"

"This debate is supposed to be about Way Omega and path Alpha. yet didn't you just let
someone raise an imaginary issue not in either of these documents?" President Dibonso was
referring to President Ibarosa, another fire-eater, and dared not mention him by name. "And I'll
tell you something else, Mr Chairman."

"Keep it, President Dibonso," said the Chair curtly.

President Wasiwasi Wesiga, an old hand who had anticipated many coups and nipped them in
the bud before they got off the ground, was first to spot brewing trouble. He moved at once to
end it. "POINT OF ORDER," he shouted. He did not want trouble. CHAIRMAN, POINT OF ORDER!"

"Nonsense!" snapped the Chair at him. "What point of order?" Confused by his own fury after his
clash with President Dibonso, he thought he was snapping at that President.

"Its about The Trick, Mr Chairman," said President Wesiga. He had taken no offence for being
snapped at.

Place this excerpt in its immediate context. (5 marks)

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Discuss one thematic issue evident in this excerpt. (2 marks)

Explain the imaginary issue that president Ibarosa raised, that was supposedly not in
either of the documents. (2 marks)

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With clear illustrations, identify three styles used in this excerpt. (6 marks)

How has president Dibonso been portrayed in this excerpt? (4 marks)

Using information from elsewhere in the text, explain what The Trick is. (4 marks)

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Give the meaning of the following words as used in the excerpt.

Bully

Fire-eater

POETRY

Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.

SYMPATHY

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

When the sun is bright on the upland slopes

When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass.

And the river flows like a streams of glass

When the first bird sings and the first bud opens

And the faint perfume from its petals steals

I know what the caged bird feels!

I know why caged bird feels!

I know why the caged bird beats his wing

Till its blood is red on the cruel bars

For he must fly back to his perch and cling

When he rather would be on the branch a swing

And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars

And they pulse again with a keener sting

I know why the caged bird sings, ahme.

When his wings is bruised and his bosom sore

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When he beats his bars and would be free

It is not a song of joy or glee

But a prayer that he sends from his hearts deep core

But a plea, that upward to heaven he flings

I know why the caged bird sings!

By paul Lawrence dunbar

Questions

Explain briefly what the poem is about. (3mks)

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What does the poet focus on in each of the three stanza? Give your answer
in note form. (6mks)

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How would you describe the personas feeling towards the caged bird? (4mks)

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What can we infer about the persona’s own experience? (3mks)

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Identify a simile in the first stanza and explain why it is used. (2mks)

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Explain the meaning of the following lines

‘And the faint perfume from the petals steals’ (1mk)

‘And they pulse again with a keener sting’ (1mk)

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GRAMMAR (15MKS)

Rewrite the following sentences as instructed (3mks)

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It is amazing that the couple takes care of so many orphans.

(begin: that …..

My student don’t drink. My student don’t smoke. (join into one sentence using
“neither……)

Fill in the blanks with the correct form of verbs. (2mks)

A flock of birds ………………….(fly) away from this lake every week.

I wondered why they hand ……………………..(sing) that particular song.

Rewrite the sentences in direct speech. (3mks)

The tourist exclaimed that Kenya is a beautiful country.

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Hellena told jack to go where she was.

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The teacher inquired form the students why they were late for class.

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Complete the following sentences with a correct speech tag. (2mks)

You’d rather play than work, ……………………………………………………?

You think you are very clever, ……………………………………………….?

Rewrite the following sentence in the negative using any. (2mks)

They only eat ugali in the evenings.

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At this rate there will be no money left to pay the children’.

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Rewrite the sentences into the passive . (2mks)

The teacher told them what to do.

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No one has ever slept in this bed.

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i. It was never her …………………………..to start the quarrel. (interest)

ii We all took ………………………..to the speakers offensive remarks. (except )

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Paper 2
(comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)
GROUP DISCUSSION 9
TERM 2-2025
2hrs: 30min

Instructions to candidates
Answer all the questions in this question paper.
All your answer must be written in the spaces provided.
Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as
indicated and that no questions are missing.
Candidates must answer all the questions in English.

Question Maximum Score Candidate’s Score

1. 20

2. 25

3. 20

4. 15

TOTAL SCORE

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Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.
Kenya has agreed toaccelerate a health agreement it signed with Cuba last year, by importing
doctors from the Caribbean nation to fill gaps in county hospitals as president Uhuru Kenyatta
pulls all the levers to ensure success of the Health pillar of his Big Four agenda.
Health Chief Administrative Secretary Rashid Aman said Kenya had struck an agreement to
bring in a 100 medical specialists- with each county getting at least two – and Kenya would also
send 50 doctors to Cuba for specialized training shortly.
Kenya would also work with Cuba on collaborative research projects, develop training for
primary health care workers and collaborate to build capacity to undertake genetic engineering
and biotech work.
“Time lines are as soon as possible,” said Dr. Aman, who is part of the delegation with president
Kenyatta who is on his last day of a state visit to Caribbean nation globally known for its leading
role in healthcare.
Cuban doctors will need to be cleared by the Kenya Medical and Dentist Practitioners Board but
Governors Anyang Nyong’o of Kisumu, and Mohamud Ali of Marsabit, who are also in the
delegation and back the deal, said they expected no problems.
Prof. Nyong’o, who had been to Cuba twice before when he served as minister in the coalition
government, and had been party to health cooperation agreements that were never implemented,
said he wanted to see swift implementation because health was at the epicenter of growing
Kenya.
President Kenyatta has ordered Dr. Aman to stay on, in Cuba until he delivers on critical results-
an agreement with the extensive details on cooperation with Cuba.
The agreement will cover critical areas. This will include, first, the seconding by the Cuban
government of doctors to Kenya to fill crucial gaps in county hospitals; and secondment of
technical experts to operate equipment.
Second will be the participation in research and advanced trials of medicines in area that Kenya
is vulnerable; using therapeutic anti – HIV and anti-prostate cancer vaccines; to control influenza
and meningitis; and control of diabetic foot ulcers amputation.
It will also cover the vector control in the fight against malaria.
And third, Kenya will look to Cuba for vaccines against ticks, guaranteeing healthy animals and
cleaner environment due to a reduction of chemicals used in tackling ticks at the moment.
The sum total of this agreements is that Cuban experts will come into Kenya within the next few
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medical interventions that will radically change how we manage a number of life – threatening
diseases.
If the recent political handshake had the potential to change political discourse, the agreement
with Cuba will be of seismic proportions when it comes to management of our health care
systems.
The key approach for the Cubans, is simple: it is about preventive measures, with the primary
guidance being that the country must stop spread of disease before it drains the economy.

According to the passage, how has Kenya agreed to accelerate a health agreement it
signed with Cuba? (2 marks)

According to the passage, who is Rashid Aman? (1 mark)

Why do you think Prof. Nyong’o was very vital as part of the delegation to Cuba? (3
marks)

So how president Kenyatta was personally involved in ensuring that there is commitment
in the deal. (2 marks)

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What evidence shows that it is not easy for the Cuban doctors to come and work in
Kenya freely? (2 marks)

Make notes on how Kenya would benefit from its collaborative relationship with Cuba.
(5 marks)

“Time lines are as soon as possible,” said doctor Aman. (Change into reported speech) (1
mark)

Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the passage.

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Accelerate.

Coalition

Epicenter

Experts

Read the excerpt below and then answer the questions that follow.
"That's a bad idea, Mr Longway. I'm a Gambian, Sir."

"All right, so you are a Gambian. Well, I am a South African. Now how has that helped advance
world peace?"

"Sir, are you really a South African?"

"Yes, I am."

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"This is the Gambia, Sir. Since the article you dropped looks valuable, you might never see it
again, Sir. As a Gambian, I ought to know. Still, if you insist, I'll give it to the woman at the front
desk."

"No, no, no. I've changed my mind. I'm coming down for it right away."

"That's a good idea, Mr Longway. You'll find me standing near the phone booths. 11m wearing
white shoes and a red dress with white polka dots. You will not miss me, Sir. But if you do, I
won't." ()

"I'll be there in five minutes." He was there in three.

She spotted him first. "Sir, it's me you are looking for," she said.Mr Longway, I am Fiona
McKenzie, the stranger who phoned you."

"Are you? You see, the picture I had formed Of you in my mind was not black at all. Wait. That
did not come out right, did it? I meant on the phone you sounded Scottish, white anyway.
Goodness, what am I saying? Forget it. I am Tad. Tad Longway."

"I'm pleased to meet you, Sir. I am Fiona. Fiona McKenzie "She handed him something." That's
the article I was telling you about, Sir. "It was a key card to her office at the VOA.

He looked at it. Then he gave it back to her. "Not mine," he said. "The tag says VOA, and I have
no ties with the VOA."

"Then I interrupted your shower for nothing. Yet I can swear I saw you drop this very key card,
Mr Longway."

"Now, now, Ms McKenzie. Don't go burn yourself at the stake just for this, okay? In fact, since
you've gone to all this trouble for my sake, why don't you let me buy you a drink? It's time for my
evening Martini anyway. So what's your poison?"

She consulted her watch then shook her head. "It's late," she said. "Late? That must be a new
drink."

"All right, Mr Longway. Maybe a Coke, but I must be off soon."

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Place the excerpt in its immediate context. (5 marks)

"That's a bad idea, Mr. Longway. "What was Fiona referring to as a bad idea? (2 marks)

Identify and illustrate three styles used in this excerpt. (6 marks)

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Explain one instance of irony in this excerpt. (2 marks)

Using information from elsewhere in the text, explain why Ms. Mckenzie sounded
Scottish. (2 marks)

How has Ms. Mckenzie been brought out in this excerpt?

Join the following sentences into one. (begin: After...). (1 mark)

He looked at it. Then he gave it back to her.

Who is Mr. Longway and why was Fiona so interested in meeting him? (3 marks)

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3. Poetry
Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
The inmates

Huddled together,

Cold biting their bones,

Teeth chattering from the chill,

The air oppressive,

The smell offensive,

They sit and they reflect.

The room self-contained

At the corner the ‘gents’ invites

With the nice fragrance of ammonia,

And fresh human dung,

The fresh inmates sit thoughtfully.

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Vermin perform a guard of honour,

Saluting him with a bite here,

And a bite there,

‘Welcome to the world,’ they seem to say.

The steel lock of the door,

The walls insurmountable

And the one torching tortuous bulb,

Stare vacantly at him.

Slowly he reflects about the consignment

That gave birth to his confinement

Lock in for conduct refinement

The reason they put him in the prison

The clock ticks

But too slowly

Five years will be a long time

Doomed in the dungeon

In this hell of a cell

Who is the persona in the poem? (1 mark)

Briefly explain what the poem is about. (2 marks)

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Identify and illustrate three aspects of style in the poem. (6 marks)

Give evidence from the poem which indicates the inmate are suffering. (3 marks)

Why is the fresh inmate in prison? (2 marks)

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Identify and explain the mood of the new convict. (2 marks)

Explain the meaning of the following lines as used in the poem. (2 marks)

That gave birth to his confinement.

The room is self-contained.

What does the steel lock of the door and the insurmountable walls suggest? (2 marks)

4. Grammar.

Fill in the dash with the correct preposition. (3 marks)

John excels ______________ dancing.

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ii) Margaret is ignorant _______________ the dangers of drug abuse.

iii) Eating a balanced diet is beneficial ________________ one’s health.

Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions after each. (4 marks)

It was tough but we eventually finished the assignment. (Begin: Tough…)

Mercy said that she had not escorted me. (Use: …denied…)

He is busy building his house so that he can marry Jane. (Rewrite using: with a view)

The teacher will not at any cost agree with you. (Begin: At…)

Use the correct form of the words in brackets to fill in the blank space in each of the
sentences below. (3 marks)

The accident __________________________ (occur) near the hospital yesterday.

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The ________________________________ (argue) made them to quarrel at last.

The vehicle broke down due to poor _______________________ (maintain).

Explain the two different meaning in the following sentence. (2 marks)

The teacher hates cheating students.

Choose the correct pronoun for each gap from among the following: him, I, me, his, she,
hers. (3 marks)

The chief had summoned all the men except you and _________________ .

Although Peter and I disagreed over the matter, I am still a friend of

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________________________ and I are the only ones who attended the wedding.

Name …………………………………….………….. Index Number ………………….. /……..

Signature …………………………………

Date ……………………………………….

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(Comprehension, Literary
Appreciation and Grammar)
May/June 2025

FORM 3
GROUP DISCUSSION 10
TERM 2 2025
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education

Write your name and index number in the spaces provided above.
Answer all the questions in this question paper.
All answers must be written in the spaces provided in the question paper.
For examiner’s use only
Question Maximum Score

1 20

2 25

3 20

4 15

Total 80

This paper consists of 12 printed pages

Candidates should check the question paper to ensure that all the
Pages are printed as indicated and that no questions are missing

1. COMPREHENSION

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Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.
We are moving inexorably into the age of automation. Our aim is not to devise a mechanism
which can perform a thousand different actions of any individual man but, on the contrary which
could by a single action replace a thousand men.
Industrial automation has moved along three lines. First there is the conveyor belt system of
continuous production whereby separate operations are linked into a single sequence. The goods
produced by this well-established method are untouched by the worker, and the machine replaces
both unskilled and semi-skilled. Secondly, there is automation with feedback control of the
quality of the product; here mechanisms are built into the system which can compare the output
with a norm, that is, the actual product with what it is supposed to be, and then correct any
shortcomings. The entire cycle of operations dispenses with human control except in so far as
monitors are concerned. One or two examples of this type of automation will illustrate its
immense possibilities. There is a factory in the USA which makes 1,000 million electric light
bulbs a year, and the factory employs three hundred people. If the pre-automation techniques
were to be employed, the labour force required would leap to 25, 000. A motor manufacturing
company with 45,000 spare parts regulates their entire supply entirely by computer. Computers
can be entrusted with most of the supervision of industrial installations, such as chemical plants
or oil refineries. Thirdly, there is computer automation, for banks, accounting departments,
insurance companies and the like. Here the essential features are the recording, storing, sorting
and retrieval of information.
The principal merit of modern computing machines is the achievement of their vastly greater
speed of operation by comparison with unaided human effort; a task which otherwise might take
years, if attempted at all, now takes days or hours.
One of the most urgent problems of industrial societies rapidly introducing automation is how to
fill the time that will be made free by machines which will take over the tasks of the workers.
The question is not simply of filling empty time but also of utilizing the surplus human energy
that will be released. We are already seeing straws in the wind: destructive outbursts on the part
of youth whose work no longer demands muscular strength. While automation will undoubtedly
do away with a large number of tedious jobs, are we sure that it will not put others which are
equally tedious in their place? For an enormous amount of sheer monitoring will be required. A
man in an automated plant may have to sit for hours on end watching dials and taking decisive
action when some signal informs him that all is not well. What meaning will his occupation bear
for the worker? How will he devote his free time after a four or five hour stint of labour?
Moreover, what, indeed, will be the significance for him of his leisure? If industry of the future
could be purged of its monotony and meaninglessness, man would then be better equipped to use
his leisure time constructively.

a) What is the main purpose of automation, according to the passage? (1mk)

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b) Explain why less men are required for the first type of industrial automation than in a manual
system?
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c) What is more sophisticated about the second industrial automation system than
the first? (2mks)
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d) What is the main benefit of computing machines? (1 mark)

e) Comment on the biggest drawbacks of automation in industrial societies. (2mks)

f) How would the sense be changed if the phrase “a single action” (lines 2-3) were replaced by “a
thousand actions”? (2mks)

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g) What does the phrase “if attempted at all” refer to? (1mk)

h) What does the author consider as important as “filling empty time”? (1mk)

i) State the three lines of industrial automation referred to by the author. Give your answer in
note form. (3mks)

j) In a paragraph of not more than 100 words, describe the benefits and problems of increasing
industrial automation. (5mks)

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2. EXCEPT

As she was removing her head veil the next morning, readying for laboratory work that it would
have impeded, he went and slapped her. What made this assault seem "reasonable' was that it
happened during Heritage Week, a period that the leader of Libya had set aside to give his
people time to celebrate their renowned history.

Apparently, then, Engineer Tahir slapped Ms Mahmoud to administer discipline on a female

subordinate for shedding her head veil in public, in violation of Libyan culture. In truth, he did it
to take revenge against someone who, he thought, had rejected his advances. Discipline,
revenge, or whatever it in fact was, she did not take it lying down. She struck back. Had she
stopped to think of the chain of events her reaction might set off, she would have restrained
herself.

Yet, in the heat of anger, when no one thinks logically, who has not reacted by reflex and hit back
on being hit first"? Who has not so reacted even if, in the light of likely future consequences,
turning the other cheek would have been a better response? Ms Mahmoud hit back by reflex. A
letter opener, obeying her hand, sliced through a semicircle of air and found a soft target. Its tip,
sharp on the day of purchase but sharper and sharper each day from use, caught Engineer Tahir
right in his left eye and slit it open. That was 'the accident.'

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To stop her from imitating Americans by shedding the head veil in violation of Libya's culture, he
said. Then why, wondered the court, had she hit back? To defy not him but Libya, he replied.

She pleaded innocent, citing, as her defence, temporary insanity caused by extreme provocation.
The court returned a Hammurabic verdict-an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.

What happened immediately before this excerpt? (2 marks)

Discuss one theme evident in this excerpt. Give two illustrations from the excerpt. (3
marks)

"Had she stopped to think about the chain of events her reaction might set off.." explain
the events that came as a result of her action. (4 marks)

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Identify and illustrate two styles used in the excerpt. (4 marks)

Using information from this excerpt, discuss the character traits of Seif Tahir. (4 marks)

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What reason did Seif give the court for slapping Ms Mahmoud? (2 marks)

Ms Mahmoud pleaded innocent. Is she innocent? Support your answer. (2 marks)

What happens immediately after this excerpt? (2 marks)

Explain the meaning of the following statement. (2 marks)

An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.

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3. POETRY

THE TEARS OF A SLAVE

Adieu, to my native shore,

To toss on the boisterous wave;
To enjoy my kindred no more,
But to weep – the tears of a SLAVE!

By the sons of freemen I’m borne,

To the land of the free and the brave;
From my wife and children I’m torn,
To weep – the tears of a SLAVE!

When, I think on mother and friends,

And the joy their countenance gave;
Ah! How my sad bosom it rends,
While weeping – the tears of a SLAVE!

Ah! Now, I must labour for gold,

To pamper the pride of the knave;
Ah! Now, I am shackled and sold
To weep – the tears of a SLAVE!

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Keen sorrow so presses my heart,
That often I sigh for my grave;
While feeling the lash-cruel smart!
And weeping – the tears of a SLAVE!

Ye sons, of the free and wise,

Your tender compassion I crave;
Alas! can your bosoms despise
The pitiful tears of a SLAVE!

Can a land of Christians so pure!

Let demons of slavery rave!
Can the angel of mercy endure,
The pitiless – tears of a SLAVE!

Just heaven, to thee I appeal;

Hast thou not the power to save?
In mercy the power reveal,
And dry – the sad tears of a SLAVE.

By Africus-Freedom Journal.

Who is the persona in the poem?

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What is happening to the persona in the first stanza? (3 marks)

Identify the dominant two styles used in the poem and state their effectiveness? (4mks)

What is the tone of the poem? (2mks)

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Who do you think is described as ‘knave’ in the fourth stanza? Give a reason for your
answer.
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In what way does the persona question religion? (2mks)

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What solution does the poet offer that will end slavery?
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Explain the meaning of the following lines as used in the poem. (3mks)

From my wife and children I’m torn.

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Keen sorrow so presses my heart.

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Your tender compassion I crave.

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4. GRAMMAR

1. Fill in the blank with the appropriate complex preposition. (1mk)

Aoro was suspended ------------------------------- indiscipline.

2. Using a participle, combine each of the following into one sentence. (2mks)

a.) The parents talked to the students. They discovered that the students were focused on their
studies.
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b) The students were tired after the match. They went straight to the dormitory.
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3. Rewrite the sentences below replacing the underlined word with a phrasal verb. (4mks)

i) The government has abolished certain taxes.

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ii) He stole the money from the till.

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iii) Kwame was eagerly awaiting his holiday to the Bahamas.

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iv) We cannot solve problems by avoiding them.

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4. Fill the blanks in the following sentences with the missing part of the idiom whose
meaning is given in brackets. (2mks)

a) This dress cost me an arm and a ---------------------------------------. (expensive)

b) She was considered a gold -------------------------------------------- when she married the

president’s son. (opportunist)

5. Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given after each. (3mks)

a) We shall never again fall for their lies. (Begin: Never ---------------------- )

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b) It is late but you must leave. (Begin: Late ------------------------------------------ )

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6. Explain the difference in meaning between the following sentences. (2mks)

i) My brother who lives in Sidney came to see me last month.

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ii) My brother, who lives in Sidney, came to see me last month.

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Name: …………………………………….………………… Adm :………….. Class: …..

Index Number: ………………………………….. Candidate’s Signature: ……………….

Date: ……………………………

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Time: 2½ Hours

PROJECTION 2
FORM 3
101/2 ENGLISH
Paper 2
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)

Time: 2½ Hours

Instructions to students

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This paper consists of 12 printed pages.
Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as
indicated and that no questions are missing
Candidates must answer all questions in English

Question Maximum Student’s Examiner’s

Score Score Initials

1 20

2 25

3 20

4 15

TOTAL 80

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Question 1: Comprehension

Read the passage below and then answer the questions that follow. (20mks)

Two weeks before the fateful examination began; I was indiscreet enough to fight the principal’s
son. He was a fellow fifth former with whom ,up till then ,I had no quarrel at all .He was inclined
to be a little overbearing at times ;but then a flint needs contact with another flint in order to spark,
and I had been forced to develop from the start an easy-going and tolerant disposition .I suppose
as the examination drew nearer, our nerves became tauter and our tempers shorter .When, during
a discussion in our classroom about careers Samuel declared unnecessarily loudly that he believed
all persons who came from North should return to it to find employment ,I suddenly felt my anger
rising like a column of mercury. I asked him why, in as calm a voice as I could assume. He replied
with a sneer by quoting a Sagroson proverb whose meaning was roughly that even a man who does
not know where he is going to ought, at least, to know where he has come from: and the gentle
laughter, which greeted it brought my temper to boiling point. I was tall and well built, but so was
he. Three strides took me beside him and by the time the class prefect succeeded in separating us,
Sagrosan blood and Lokko blood had mingled on the floor. Moreover, as is the custom with us,
the fight was as much verbal as physical and a torrent of abuse directed mainly against the other’s
antecedents was flowing out of each battered mouth.

We were bloody, sweaty, and dusty when it was over but still only partly through our respective
stocks of abuse. Nothing more than a heighted respect each for the other might have come out of
the fight, had Samuel been a boarder. Unfortunately for both of us, however, he lived very much
under his august father’s eye and the marks I had succeeded in leaving on his face were too
distinctive to be hidden by any sort of artifice. I prepared for the worst (prepared in spirit that is,

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for physical preparations were known to be unavailing at such times.)The summons to the
principal’s office duly came after lunch the same day.

He was quite impartial, I’ll say that for him. We were both arched over his desk and inscribed
across our rumps with two dozen strokes of a bamboo four-footer .Then we were made to shake
hands with each other and sent off for walk together along the beach and back (this was the
principal’s usual way of dealing with a pair of fighters, and one which usually made bosom friends
of them.)That thrashing and the walk which followed ,gave me the moments of deepest
mortification I have experienced ,and drove home to me the utter futility and wastefulness of
making issue of tribal divisions, in a land where much else required our attentions and our
energies .Having heard from us how the fight started ,the principal might so early have wasted our
time and his reading us along patriotic sermon on the essential brotherhood of all the people of
Songhai .

Such a theme would have made him appear to me hypocrite and to Samuel a traitor –for
we both knew only too well that the difference between us were real, if not deep .Instead, we were
made to share a fellowship of misery and humiliation which linked us together more effectively
than any half-believed fiction about cultural or ethnic affinities could have succeeded in doing.

QUESTIONS:

(a) What was the cause of the fight?

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(b) Show how the statement “A flint needs contact with another flint in order to spark” is
applicable to this story? (2marks)

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(c) With illustrations show the difference in character between the narrator and his classmates?
(4marks)

(d) What is the narrator’s attitude towards the head teacher?

(3marks)

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(e) Identify three phrases in the passage to describe the fierce nature of the fight?
(3marks)

(f) Identify two images that are used to show the extent of the narrator’s anger?
(2marks)

(g) Identify a case of parenthesis in paragraph one?

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(h) Get a quotation from the passage that shows the fight did not end the tribal differences
between the two groups?

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(i) Explain the meaning of the following phrases as used in passage:

(2marks)

(i) bosom friends

(ii)Patriotic sermon

Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow (25mks)

FATHERS OF NATIONS;

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"Tad," said the cranky passenger as he was settling down in economy class, in a seat next to Dr
Afolabi's. "Tad Longway," he added. His voice, deep, lingered on like the boom of a big drum. He
held up a card.

Dr Afolabi took it. It said the man was a Director of Special Projects at the Agency for Governance
and Development in Africa. "Pleased to meet you, Mr Longway," Dr Afolabi said. "My name is
Abiola Afolabi. I teach at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. "

"You gave an excellent keynote the other day, Dr Afolabi," said the cranky passenger. Sparks of
earnestness were crossing his eyes, both crystal-green like toy marbles, confirming the
compliment was sincere. "Your keynote address at the Foundation for Democratic Rule, I mean.
It was brilliant."

"I'm glad you liked it, Mr Longway," Dr Afolabi said. His voice had become warm. "You were
there, then, Mr Longway?"

"Yes, but back in the last row. As a mere spectator, I did not want to be obtrusive. Anyway, you
were superb, Dr Afolabi. If you don't mind my adding this, I was more impressed by the points
that the audience raised afterwards, during the question-and-answer period. "

Dr Afolabi felt the praise he had just heard turn into reproach. "So what were those points, Mr
Longway?" he asked. His voice was less warm.

"Remember the guy from Grassroots International: short fellow, round of body and outspoken of
manner? What was his name? It's on the tip of my tongue."

You must mean the fire-eater who kept accusing me of looking for answers where I should not
even look," Dr Afolabi said.

"Exactly, that's our man. Yes, I thought he was right on point, Dr Afolabi. He too was unhappy
with the present state."

"Wait, the present state of what?" "Africa."

"I don 't understand. "

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"No problem. I'll spell it out for you. You see, Dr Afolabi, Africa, in its present state, has two new
arrivals: corruption and impunity. The first is a crime the Second protects from punishment, the
second is another crime the first rewards with kickbacks. That is Africa in its presept state. Now
can it change?"

"Tell me. Can it?"

"Well, let's ask the Law of Will." '"' What?"

"Unless there is will to change, there will be no change."

QUESTIONS

Briefly explain what happens before the excerpt. (3 marks)

Discuss one-character traits of Dr Afolabi and two of Mr Longway. (6 marks)

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Highlight two themes evident in the excerpt. (4 marks)

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(i) It's on the tip of my tongue. (Add a question tag) (1 mark)

iii) Unless there is will to change, there will be no change. (Rewrite using "if") (1mark)

Identify two stylistic devices used in the excerpt. (4 marks)

(F) Explain the meaning of the following words and expressions used in the excerpt. (4 marks)

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Read the following poem then answer the questions that follow (20mks)

BACK HOME

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And one day I went back home:
Back home to the old homestead
With a ring of old huts
Surrounding a wide compound:
Swept clean for children to play
And yell and laugh and cry.
I walked briskly, thinking of home
Smoke rising from the huts
Filtered through the thatched roofs:
Dripping wet after a shower of rain;
Moist ground in the compound,
Grandpa sitting on his stooland sipping from his gourd;
Birds singing in the mango tree:
And then finally I reached home:
The air heavy with silenceHuts, down in dry heaps of dilapidation
Shoots of scorched elephant grass:Growing piously in the compound:
A carpet of mango leaves
Falling on the mound of earth
Under which was buried but the tipYes,
only the tip of grandpa’s walking staff
Could be seen peeping from under the earth:
Pointing down to where the owner lay;
The lasting indication
Of his inability to talk again
Except by echoes of silence
Telling me I went back too late:
Jwani Mwaikusa.

Questions
1.Describe the setting in this poem. (2 marks)

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2.Who is the persona in the poem? (2 marks)

3.Where is grandpa? Give reasons for your answer. (2 marks)

4.What is the effect of the alliteration in line 17? (2 marks)

5.Giving two examples, show the effect of contrast as used by the poet. (4 marks)
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6.Identify and illustrate the two different moods prevailing in this poem. (4 marks)

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7.Explain the meaning of the following lines as used in the poem. (4 marks)
i. ‘A carpet of mango leaves Falling on the mound of earth”
ii. ‘Of his inability to talk again Except by echoes of silence

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GRAMMAR (15MKS)

Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given (3mks)

He will not be given a driving license. He passes the road test (Rewrite as one using ‘unless’)

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The woman left the child with a neighbor and went to the market. (Begin: leaving….)

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The boys went to play in the field (underline the adverbial)

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Supply the correct preposition to complete the sentences given. (3mks)

Property worth millions of shillings went up …………………….flames.

The three boys shared the bread ……………………………..themselves.

We should strive to live …………………………………our means.

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Use the correct form of the word in brackets to fill in the blank spaces in the sentences
below. (3mks)

The audience was offended by the ……………………….………..(sense) of the speaker.

The ………………………………………..(acquire) of a university degree is a great milestone to

a student.

Everyone should obey the law ………………………………of their position in the society.

Use the correct alternative to complete the sentences below (4mks)

Teaching ……………………………………(practice/practice) is not an easy job for teacher-

trainees.

The prophet’s ……………………………….(prophesy/prophecy) was misleading to his

audience.

He …………………………………….((insured/ensured) his car with Madison.

Mwita ………………………………..(hanged/hung) the chart on the wall.

Write the following sentences in indirect speech (1mk)

“These are juicy mangoes,” Ken said.

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You do not require to cheat to pass (1mk)

(Supply a suitable question tag).

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Name: …………………………………….………………… Adm :………….. Class: …..

Index Number: ………………………………….. Candidate’s Signature: ……………….

Date: ……………………………

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FORM 3
101/2 ENGLISH
Paper 2
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)

Time: 2½ Hours

Instructions to students

Write your name, admission number and class in the spaces provided.
Sign and write the date of the examination in the spaces provided.

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Answer all questions in the spaces provided in blue ink.
All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.
This paper consists of 9 printed pages.
Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as
indicated and that no questions are missing
Candidates must answer all questions in English

Question Maximum Student’s Examiner’s

Score Score Initials

1 20

2 25

3 20

4 15

TOTAL 80

1. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: ( 20 Marks)

When in early 1970s ultrasound confronted me with the sight of the embryo in a womb, I simply
lost my faith in abortion on demand. I did not hold onto my old convictions. The change was in
its way a clean and surgical conversion. I am by nature one that works out the conflicting data,
weighs the opposing argument with great care, decides and then acts upon it with no lingering
backward glances.

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By 1984 however, I had begun to ask myself more questions about abortion: What actually goes
on in an abortion? I had done many but abortion is a blind procedure. The doctor does not see
what he is doing. He puts an instrument into a uterus and he turns on a mortar and a suction
machine goes on and something is vacuumed out; it ends up as little pile of meat in a gauze bag.
I wanted to know what happened, so in 1984 I said to a friend of mine who was doing fifteen or
maybe twenty abortions a day:‘ Look ,do me a favour,Jay .Next Saturday when you are doing all
these abortions put an ultra sound on the mother and tape it on me.”

He did, and when he looked at the tapes with me in the editing studio, he was so affected that he
never did another abortion. Although I had not performed an abortion in five years, I was shaken
to the very roots of my soul by what I saw. The tapes were shockingly amazing. Some of the
tapes weren’t of very good quality but I selected one that was of better quality than the others
and began to show it at pro- life gatherings around the country.(I had my first contact with pro-
life movement in 1981 when the then president of the National Right to Life Committee,
Carolyn Gerster, had gotten in touch with me).

At the time, I was speaking at a pro-life meetings around the country in weekends, and the
response to the tape was so intense and dramatic that finally I was approached by a man named
Don Smith, who wanted to make my tape into a film. I agreed that it would be good idea. That is
how The Silent Scream, which was to generate so many furore, came to be made. We showed it
for the first time in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on January3, 1985. The reaction was instantaneous.
Everybody was up in arms because The Silent Scream represented an enormous threat to the
abortion forces, and because it escalated the war (it is not really a debate- we don’t debate with
each, we scream at one another). For the first time, we had the technology, and they had nothing.

The Silent Scream depicted a twelve- week- foetus being torn to pieces in the uterus by the
combination of suction and crushing instrumentation by the abortionist. It was so powerful that
pro choicers trotted out their heaviest hitters to denounce the tape. They very cleverly deflected
the impact of the film into an academic cul- de- suc: a dispute regarding whether the foetus feels
pain during an abortion. The impetus for the debate came from an on – the- record musing by the
then President, Ronald Reagan, as to how much pain the foetus feels during an abortion.

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( Source: The hand of God: A journey from death to life by the Abortion doctor who changed his
mind- Bernard N. Nathanson, MD)

a) Based on your understanding of the entire passage, comment on the nature of the writer’s
‘old convictions’. (2 marks)

b) Explain why it was easy for doctors such as the writer to carry out abortions prior to
introduction of ultrasound technology? (2 marks)

c) What are the names that are commonly used to refer to the two opposing groups
mentioned in the passage( 2 marks)

d) Briefly describe, in your own words, how those who supported abortion tried to
undermine the impact of ‘ The Silent Scream’. (2 marks)

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e) “ I was shaken to the very roots of my soul by what I saw’’. Rewrite this sentence
beginning: (What…)(1 mark)

f) Make notes on the way abortion is carried out according to this passage( 4 marks)

g) Identify and illustrate the use of parenthesis in the passage, give two examples. (2 marks)

h) Provide one example from the passage to illustrate the need for leaders to weigh their words
carefully. ( 2 marks)

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i) Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the passage.( 3 marks)

i)convictions

ii)escalate

iii)impetus

2. Read the excerpt below and then answer the questions that follow. (25 marks)

"Believe me, officer," he told the youth. "Without this medicine, I couldn't live a day."

"Is that right?" The youth yawned, making even more obvious his indifference to what he had
just heard.

"I wouldn't know, sir," he added, meaning he could not be any less interested, his interest being
zero already. Then, suddenly, he snapped to alert. He had remembered something. "Hey! You
could hurt other people with that."

"With this needle?"

"Yes, with that needle."

"And what would I use for my next shot?" "Just as I thought. What next shot?"

"Officer, let me ask you something. How old do you think I am? seventy?"

"Yes, plus or minus five."

"That's correct. Now, out of every one hundred people in that age range, thirty of us are
diabetic. We are unable to regulate the sugar level in our blood, and that kills most of us. This
medicine is what keeps those of us who survive alive." He brandished his cellophane pouch
again. "We shoot it into our veins with needles like that one."

"That may be so, sir. But you cannot take that stuff in. Leave it here with me."

"I'll do no such thing if I have to wait here until the cows come home."

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"What cows? Sir, you are holding up the line." "This needle is my life, officer."

QUESTIONS

Place the excerpt in its immediate 4mks

Discuss three major issues in this excerpt 6mks

Discuss two-character traits of Comrade Melusi in this excerpt. (4 marks)

"I wouldn't know, sir." Add a question tag. (1 mark)

Discuss any three aspects of style in this excerpt. (6 marks)

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Explain the meaning of the following expressions from the excerpt. (4 marks)

Yearned

Brandished

Holding up

Indifference

3. Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow. (20 marks)

“The face of hunger.”

I counted ribs on his concertina chest

Bones protruding as if chiseled
By sculptor’s hand of famine.
He looked with glazed pupils
Seeing only a bun on some sky-high shelf.

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The skin was pale and taut
Like a glove on a doctor’s hand
His tongue darted in and out
Like a chameleon’s Snatching a confetti of lies
Oh! Child Your stomach is a den of lions
Roaring day and night
(By Mbuyiseni Mstshali)
Questions
Identify the persona in the above poem. (2mks)

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What is the poem about? (4mks)

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Identify and illustrate instances of imagery in the poem. (4mks)

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Using illustration identify the dominant theme in the above poem. (2mks)

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What tone do you get in the above poem. (3mks)

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Your stomach is a den of lion.(negate the statement.) (1mk)

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Give the contextual meaning of the following words and phrase (4mks)
Protruding
Pale
Darted
A den of lions

4(a) Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions. Do not alter the meaning.(3
marks)

(i) Muli could have passed the examination. Muli was regularly absent from school. (Join
into one sentence beginning: Were it not......)

(iii)The nurses agreed to work after signing an agreement with the government. (Begin: Only…)

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(ii) This is the boy. His father is a generous man. (Join into one sentence using a relative
pronoun).

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(b)Replace the phrasal verbs underlined in the sentences below with one word that means the
same. (3marks)

i)It is wrong to look down on students from other schools.

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(ii)Teachers should not give into their students’ unreasonable demands.

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(iii)The delegates came up with ten rules to guide our response to globalization.

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(c)Complete the following passage with the most appropriate forms of the words in brackets.
(3marks)

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The Tsunami …………………………(cruel) destroyed lots of lives and property. For
days, the survivors …………………….. (agony) searched for their missing
relatives. The whole experience was ……………………………. (horrible) traumatizing.

(d)Fill in the blanks with the appropriate prepositions. ( 2 marks)

(i) He was charged ……………….forging property inheritance document.

(ii) Kamau deals…………….groceries

(e)Fill the blank spaces with the correct article( 2 marks)

i) The students said they wanted…………union.

ii) What is ……. Ewe?

( f)Explain the meaning of the following sentences (2marks)

i. Lydia found the empty room.

ii. Lydia found the room empty.

Name: …………………………………….………………… Adm :………….. Class: …..

Index Number: ………………………………….. Candidate’s Signature: ……………….

Date: ……………………………

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Time: 2½ Hours

PROJECTION 4
FORM 3
101/2 ENGLISH
Paper 2
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)

Time: 2½ Hours

Instructions to students

Write your name, admission number and class in the spaces provided.
Sign and write the date of the examination in the spaces provided.
Answer all questions in the spaces provided in blue ink.
All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.
This paper consists of 10 printed pages.
Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as
indicated and that no questions are missing
Candidates must answer all questions in English

Question Maximum Student’s Examiner’s

Score Score Initials

1 20

321
2 25

3 20

4 15

TOTAL 80

1. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: ( 20 Marks)

The question is at least as old as Socrates: If we know what the right thing to do is, why do we
not do it? It is an especially acute question when applied to global warming. The science
showing that carbon dioxide emissions are already changing the planet’s climate, and are likely
to have severe effects (melting ice caps, sea-level rise, and species extinction), is compelling and
now barely disputed. Almost 90% of Europeans say they recognize climate change as a major
issue, and 75% identify fossil fuel emissions as a major cause.

And yet, as was widely discussed at a conference of environmentalists, geologists and writers in
May 2006 in Ankelohe, Germany, public understanding has not translated into even the simplest
of public actions. Less than 1% of Britons, for example, have switched their home electricity to
renewable sources, even though it requires little more than a phone call to one’s existing

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provider. Proportions on the continent are slightly higher, but there is clearly no rush to go green
or — shudder — stop driving cars.

Why such a disconnect between information and action? Part of the problem is that
environmental advocates emit mixed messages. In mid-May 2006, Britain’s Guardian published
a front-page story showing that five companies in Britain produce more CO2 pollution in a year
than all the country’s motorists combined. That is a strong argument for targeting industries, but
the average reader could hardly be blamed for thinking, “Why should I bother to cut down my
driving?”

Similarly, not enough thought has been devoted to the best role for government. Climate change
is too vast a problem for individuals to solve alone, and some big businesses have an incentive
not to solve it. That leaves government to take the lead, which is tricky, because over-reliance on
government can allow individuals to fob off their own responsibilities. What is worse,
government power seems to tickle autocratic fantasies. In my experience, environmentalists
spend far too much energy advocating hard-line government ‘solutions’ that do not stand a
chance of being enacted. Sure, it might be good for the planet if governments banned the use of
sports-utility vehicles or, for that matter, of all fossil fuels. Yet not only is it hard to sell outright
prohibitions to voters, but the sad truth is that governments have a woeful record in even the
mildest interventions. One of the most significant innovations in the last decade has been
Europe’s carbon-emission trading scheme: some 12 000 companies, responsible for more than
half of the EU’s emissions, have been assigned quotas. Companies with unused allowances can
sell them; the higher the price, the greater the incentive for firms to cut their use of fossil fuels.
The system seemed to work for about a year — but now it turns out that Europe’s governments
allocated far too many credits, which will likely hinder the program’s effectiveness for years.

Perhaps the real reason that well-intentioned consumers do not change is that they do not see any
benefit. Climate change may be a frightening, irreversible calamity, but its worst effects will not

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be felt next week or next year. The planet looks the same regardless of whether we use
environmentally friendly technology or we do not care how much CO2 we emit. But sure as the
sun rises and sets every day, if we do not cut down on carbon emissions, then we may not have a
planet to hand over to the next generation.

(Adapted from Times, June 5, 2006)

According to the passage, what are the effects of global warming? (4 marks)

What, according to the passage, is the main cause of global warming?(2 marks)

How does Britain encourage people to use renewable electricity? (3 marks)

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Paraphrase the following sentence: That is a strong argument for targeting industries, but the
average reader could hardly be blamed for thinking, ‘Why should I bother to cut down my
driving?’ (4 marks)

What message does the writer communicate in this passage? (4 marks)

Explain the meaning of the following words and expression as used in the passage.(4 marks)

fob off

incentive

calamity

vast

2. Read the extract below and answer the questions that follow. (25 marks)

The door to the bathroom opened. Fiona emerged and started walking but stopped. Her eyes
had not adjusted to the darkness in the living room. "Where are you?" she asked.

"Over here" he said. "I have taken a couch in the living room. Go take the bed in the bedroom."

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"You're acting as if you might have a wife," she said, "Do you?"

"No, she divorced me last year." "Did she?"

"Yes"

"Let's see now. You studied in America at a marriageable age."

"So let me guess." "Go ahead.

"She is American."

"Who? Pamela?"

"Yes, it is. And, yes, she is American. Enough about me now. Let's turn to you. Shouldn't your
name still be Fiona McKenzie?"

"Who told you it might hye changed?" She started walking to khe bedroom. Her eyes had
adjusted to the only light.

"Why was the Liberian Mauler calling you Joy instead?"

"It's local slang for a streetwalker."

"He was calling you a streetwalker?"

"Yes. Do you want me to draw a picture for you? Where are you from anyway? Mars?

"No: Nigeria. Married?" "Me?"

The phone rang. He rose and answered the landline by the couch. When he ended the call, his
mood had darkened.

"What's the matter?" she asked him. "You seem upset all of a sudden. Who was on the phone?"

"One Chineke Chiamaka," he said. "The man was claiming that I chided him for being drunk,when
all he had had was a"Péisi." He wriggled in his improvised bed to protest his innocence against
that claim. "It beats me how he got my suite phone number in the first place," he added.
"Anyway, I did not chide him. Why do people like to tell lies?"

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QUESTIONS

Place the excerpt to its immediate context. (4 marks)

Discuss two-character traits of Abiola and one character trait of Fiona McKenzie. (6 marks)

(i) Why do people like to tell lies? (Report) (1 mark)

(ii) The phone rang. (Add a question tag) (1 mark) iii) No, she divorced me last year. (Rewrite in
the passive) (1 mark)

Highlight two themes raised in the excerpt. (4 marks)

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Identify and illustrate two features of style used in the excerpt. (4 marks)

Explain the meaning of the following words and phrase as used in the excerpt. (3 marks)
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3. Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow. (20 marks)

No coffin, no grave by Jared Angira

He was buried without a coffin

Without a grave
The scavengers performed the post-mortem
In the open mortuary
Without sterilized knives

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In front of the night club

Stuttering rifles put up

The gun salute of the day
That was a state burial anyway
The car knelt
The red plate wept, wrapped itself in blood its
master’s

The diary revealed to the sea

The rain anchored there at last
Isn’t our flag red, black and white?
So he wrapped himself well

Who could signal yellow

When we had to leave politics to the experts
And brood on books
Brood on hunger
And schoolgirls
Grumble under the black pot
Sleep under torn mosquito net
And let lice lick our intestines
The lord of the bar, money speaks madam
Woman magnet, money speaks madam
We only cover the stinking darkness of the cave of our mouths
And ask our father who is in hell to judge him
The quick and the good.

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Well, his diary, submarine of the Third World
War
Showed he wished
To be buried in a gold-laden coffin
Like a VIP
Under the jacaranda tree beside his palace
A shelter for his grave
And much beer for the funeral party

Anyway one noisy pupil suggested we bring

Tractors and plough the land.

(From Poems from East Africa, D. Cook andD. Rubadiri (Eds,): East African
EducationalPublishers)

Briefly explain what this poem is about. (3 marks)

Explain the use of onomatopoeia in the poem. (2 marks)

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Identify and explain the tone of the poem. (4
marks)

Comment on the central theme of the poem. (3 marks)

Explain the meaning of the following lines:

who could signal yellow(2 marks)

submarine of the Third World War

How else can people bring change in society without assassinating politicians? (2mks)

Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the poem

i) Anchored
(1mk)

ii) Brood
(1mk)

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4. Grammar (15 Marks)

Complete the following sentences by choosing the appropriate expressions tofill the gaps.
(3marks)

i) Although Nduati is a great friend of mine, I ………………………………………..him on a

few important issues. (differ to, differ with)

ii) As good citizens, we must all pay our taxes ………………………………………..the policy.
(in accordance to, in accordance with)

iii) She chose her career ………………………………………………..(independent of,

independent to )her father’s influence.

Rewrite the sentences below according to the instructions given after each.
(3marks)

i) My father would not allow us to attend night parties under any circumstances.

(Begin: Under no circumstances ……………………………….)

ii) Strangers should not be allowed into the compound without the security officer’s permission.
(Begin: On no account……..……………………..)

Iii) The plane had just taken off when one of the passengers began to scream.

(Begin: Scarcely ……………..….)

Rewrite the following sentences avoiding repetition. (2

marks)

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i) Always be frank and open with your friends. When you are frank and open to your friends, you
willwin your friends trust and confidence.

ii)Help yourself to some oranges. These oranges are sweet but those oranges are sweeter.

Combine each of the following pairs of sentences by making one of them a relative clause.
(2 marks)

i) Kasoha joined our school this term. She is very good at grammar.

ii) The generator had been on the whole night. It broke down in the morning.

Add an appropriate question tag to each of the following statements.(3marks)

i) They aren’t serious.

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ii) He bought a new house last month.

iii) Let us go.

Fill in the gapsusing the present perfect form of the verbs in brackets. (2 marks)

i) I ………………………………………………………… (visit) many places.

ii) My wife ……………………………………………………….. (join) me in most of

these trips.

Name: …………………………………….………………… Adm :………….. Class: …..

Index Number: ………………………………….. Candidate’s Signature: ……………….

Date: ……………………………

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Time: 2½ Hours

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PROJECTION 5
FORM 3
101/2 ENGLISH
Paper 2
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)

Time: 2½ Hours

Instructions to students

Write your name, admission number and class in the spaces provided.
Sign and write the date of the examination in the spaces provided.
Answer all questions in the spaces provided in blue ink.
All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.
This paper consists of 11 printed pages.
Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as
indicated and that no questions are missing
Candidates must answer all questions in English

Question Maximum Student’s Examiner’s

Score Score Initials

1 20

2 25

3 20

4 15

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TOTAL 80

1. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: ( 20 Marks)

Substance Abuse has emerged in recent decades as a major concern both on and off the job.
Although reasons vary, substance abuse can be a way that some people try to manage or reduce
distress.
But it is important to be clear on what is generally meant by a drinking problem. In all cases
related to alcohol abuse, a common factor is the unfavorable effect alcohol has on the health or
well-being of the drinker and his or her associates. Common signs and symptoms that
frequently indicate a drinking problem include being constantly absent from work, causing on-
the-job accidents and expressing grievances most of the time.
Alcoholic employees can sometimes go undetected for years. Coworkers cover up for those
unable to perform their jobs because of drunkenness. Even managers may be adept at concealing
their alcohol abuse problems. Their secretaries or loyal associates may cover up for them.
Alcoholics can be clever at inventing “credible” excuses when detected: “I must have a drink or
two when I’m entertaining customers, of course.”
Drug abuse, or drug addiction, exists when the taking of drugs, whether prescribed or non-
prescribed, legal or illegal, causes difficulties in any area of an individual’s life. Years ago, the

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stereotype of the drug user was either of a glazed-eyed musician frantically beating his sticks on
a tight skin or a person who dwelt in a slum. Mass publicity on drug abuse has long since caused
that stereotype to fade from view.
Complicating the ongoing war on drugs are changes in public attitudes and drug-use patterns. It
sometimes seems that no sooner is progress made in combating one illegal drug than a different
kind of substance abuse comes into vogue. Ethyl alcohol was the social drug during prohibition
(1920 – 1933), marijuana became the social drug of the 1960s and 1970s, and some observers
believe that crack cocaine and possibly ectasy – another so-called upper – became the social
drugs of the 1980s and 1990s. the drugs of choice and people’s attitude toward them may
change, but the problem of drug abuse appears to be continuing unabated.
Pinpointing the specific symptoms of alcohol and drug abuse problems is not a simple task. A
supervisor’s main responsibility, therefore should not necessarily be uncovering evidence of
dependency on alcohol and drugs but instead being observant for declining job performance.
Yet there are certain behavioural patterns that some excessive users of alcohol and drugs display.
These patterns can sometimes be spotted through simple observation. Increasingly though,
employers are taking more aggressive steps to ferret out substance abuse among their
workforces. A growing number of companies, especially large ones with many employees and
those in business with potential to effect public health or safety, are adopting drug-testing
programmes.
The signs of alcohol dependency, unfortunately, do not always become manifest until the middle
of the late stages of the problem. No wonder some managers have mistaken an employee’s
euphoric appearance for the “look of love”. The earlier treatment begins, naturally, the earlier
treatment begins, naturally, the easier it will be. A person could experience some isolated
incidents of such drinking problems without necessarily being a alcoholic. However, alcohol
abuse usually results in declining job performance.
Because there are many symptoms of drug abuse, no one person would exhibit all of them and a
supervisor should guard against assuming that the presence of one or more symptoms is
conclusive of alcohol or drug abuse.

Questions
What is the main reason given for substance abuse? (2 mks)

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From paragraph two, state three ways in which alcohol abuse can unfavourably affect the
workmates of a drunker? (3mks)

According to the passage, what is drug abuse? (2mks)

What was the common misconception about who a drug user was? (2mks)

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Rewrite the following sentences using “as soon as”
It sometimes seems that no sooner is progress made in combating one illegal drug than a
different kind of substance abuse comes into vogue. (1mk)

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What can we infer about “prohibition”? (2mks)

In not more than 55 words, summarize the reasons that make it difficult to effectively deal with
substance abuse. (4mks)

Why do you think the author of the passage cautions supervisors against hastily concluding that
one is a drug abuser? (2mks)

Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the passage. (2mks)

Credible

Stereotype –

EXCERPT

"Mother thinks that's big-big enough. Are you ready for tomorrow?"

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"As ready as I ever will be, I guess, mother." He went and sat beside her.

"And do you still think the summit will adopt Way Omega?"

"Only twelve hours to go before we find out."

"Sorry. Is it just me or has it actually got colder over the past two days? You don't sound so
upbeat today as you did two days ago."

"Only twelve hours. We can wait."

"By the way, guess who I ran into downstairs? Someone by the name of Longway. I was tracking
down a man they call their guide and thought this fellow might be him. Do you know him?"

Dr Abiola did not answer.

"Well, do you know Mr Longway or not?"

"Yes, Ms McKenzie, I do. You might as well knqw this now: I am their guide."

What

"Promise you will keep that to yourself, okay?"

"I promise."

"Apart from Mr Longway, whom you know, there are four other people I'm working with on the
periphery. Instead of adopting Way Omega, this group wants the summit to adopt Path Alpha.

"It wants the summit to adopt what instead?"

"Path Alpha - it's a rival to Way Omega. The trouble there is that Path Alpha isn't even on the
summit's agenda."

"So, Mr Longway and company want me to help them put it there."

"Wait a minute. Only two days ago you said you were to help heads of state adopt Way Omega.
Now you ay other people want you to help them adopt Path Alpha, a rival to Way Omega. What's
going on here?"

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"Here is what's going on. I came to advocate for Way Omega, and I will.

"In doing that I'll draw on other alternatives, including Path Alpha."

"You will? Then remind me: /AVfiy did I promise to keep your identity to myself?"

"Because I'm hiding from Way Omega my links to Path Alpha. Look. Some heads of state — not
all, but some — believe I should be focusing exclusively on Way Omega. If they heard about my
links to Path Alpha, they would demand my scalp.

QUESTIONS

Place this excerpt to its immediate context. (4 marks)

Identify and illustrate two-character traits of Abiola and one character trait of Fiona McKenzie in
the excerpt. (6 marks)

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Discuss two themes evident in the excerpt. (4 marks)

(i) Instead of adopting Way Omega, the group wants the summit to adopt Path Alpha.(Replace
"instead" with a complex preposition). (1 mark)

(ii) Wait a minute. (Add a suitable question tag)

iii) So, Mr Longway and company want me to help them put it there.(Report)

Pick and illustrate two stylistic devices used by the author in the excerpt. (4 marks)

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Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases used in the excerpt. (4marks)

Read the following oral poem and answer the questions that follow.

Oh beautiful bride, don’t cry,

Your marriage will be happy,
Console yourself, your husband will be good.

And like your mother and your aunt,

You will have many children in your life,
Two children, three children, four……………..

Resign yourself do like all other,

A man is not a leopard,

A husband is not a thunderstruck,

Your mother was your father’s wife,
It will not kill you to work.

It will not kill you to grind the grain

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Nor will it kill you to wash the pots
Nobody dies from gathering firewood
Nor from washing clothes.

We did not do it for you,

We did not want to see you go,
We love you too much for that

Its your beauty that did it

Because you are so gorgeous
Ah, we see you laugh beneath your tears!

Goodbye, your husband is here

And already you don’t seem
To need our consolations.

Questions
With evidence, classify the oral poem. (2mks)

Who do you think are the singers of the song? Illustrate. (2mks)

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How do the singers make the situation bearable for the lady? (2mks)

What is the attitude of the society from which the song is derived towards women? (2mks

Illustrate and explain the use of the following stylistic devices in this oral poem. (4mks)

Repetition –

Ellipses –

State in note form the duties of a wife according to the song. (2mks)

Explain any social aspect and one economic activity carried out in the commodity from which
the oral poem is taken (4mks)

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Explain the irony in the 7th stanza. (2mks)

GRAMMAR
Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given.

If he comes he will not be punished.

Begin: Unless…………………………

The snail reached the ark only by perseverance

Begin: Only……………

They had just walked out of the building when the bomb went off.

(Begin: No sooner …………………

John told the principal that he needed to go and see the nurse because he was feeling unwell.

(Rewrite as direct speech)………………

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These books belong to the daughters of our teacher.

(Begin: These are ………………..

Replace the underlined words with phrasal verbs that begin with the words given in
brackets. (3mks)

Parents should not yield to their children’s unreasonable demands. (give

The officials cancelled the match because of the heavy rain (call

Disagreeing with his parents was his worst mistake. (fall)

Explain the difference in meaning of the following pair of sentence.

I only heard the news in brief.

I only heard the news briefly.

Change the following sentences into passive.

Njoroge wrote the best composition.

Sue bought the beautiful house on the hill.

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Complete the following sentences using the appropriate form of the word given in brackets.

Sophie’s mother …………………………………….of Sophie wearing very tight clothes to

church (approve

His ………………………………………..cost him his job (efficient)

The ……………………………………………of the traveler’s was hindered by the poor roads

(mobile)

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Name: …………………………………….………………… Adm :………….. Class: …..

Index Number: ………………………………….. Candidate’s Signature: ……………….

Date: ……………………………

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Time: 2½ Hours

PROJECTION 6
FORM 3
101/2 ENGLISH
Paper 2
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)

Time: 2½ Hours

Instructions to students

Write your name, admission number and class in the spaces provided.
Sign and write the date of the examination in the spaces provided.
Answer all questions in the spaces provided in blue ink.
All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.
Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as
indicated and that no questions are missing

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Candidates must answer all questions in English

Question Maximum Student’s Examiner’s

Score Score Initials

1 20

2 25

3 20

4 15

TOTAL 80

1. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: ( 20 Marks)

A lot of students think that learning is only in class. If students use two extra steps, most students
will not forget what they learned in class. To achieve effective learning, students needed to follow
two extra steps in the three strategic learning processes.

The key to success is by following these three strategies. Review is essential to student success.
Unless content is reviewed by students shortly after it is learned, it will soon be forgotten. To avoid
forgetting what you learned, it is recommended to review daily.

It is also recommended to reduce large volumes of notes into point form and to paraphrase what
you have learned. Other helpful tips include creating concept maps and diagrams; creating fact,
concept or vocabulary cards and using visualization to better connect to what you learned. These
are all important tools to helping students better understand and memorize lesson content.

The key to achieving academic success cannot be directly correlated to one specific area. Rather
it requires students to be overall rounded in many different aspects. This includes attending class
regularly to keep pace with the class. Falling behind in studies or homework can be detrimental
to academic success and can induce stress onto students. Participating in class activities and

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discussions are also vital parts of learning and applying concepts learned. On the other hand,
taking good, concise notes will always help in the long run when reviewing for tests and exams.
To sum it all up, strategic learning is the password for many academic achievements. Being
exposed to knowledge is the first step in the journey, the fact that young scholars can learn and
be a part of history is a phenomenal step in furthering their search to success. Reviewing notes,
in the way the young individual wishes, by him/herself, or with a good friend, this will help
him/her to understand what has been learned in a way s/he understands. Lastly practice is a great
way to memorise what has been learned, when practice achieves its full potential, the individual
won’t only be entitled for a good mark, but also a way to view, under and think of things. Those
three attributes will help scholars become more successful, but it’s important to one as it is to the
other, and each and every person should find the learning strategies effectual for him/herself,
and in extremely exceptional occasions even invent or innovate new strategies.

Questions
What does the writer faults in the students thinking according to the first paragraph?(2 marks)

Explain the three strategies that are key to success.

(6marks)

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Unless content is reviewed by students shortly after it is learned, it will soon be forgotten..
(1 mark)

Begin: if………

The key to achieving academic success cannot be directly correlated to one specific area..
(1mark)

Add a question tag.

Discuss the tone of the passage. (3 marks)

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How, according to the passage, does practice help memorise what has been learned?(3marks)

Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases are used in the passage.
(4marks)

Detrimental
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Correlated …………
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Effectual
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Exceptional
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Read the excerpt below and then answer the questions that follow.

"Mathematics at a summit!" complained the other heads of state. "What next?"

The old rogue knew they were having trouble understanding his equations. Yet did he offer them
any help? No. He wanted to enjoy the moment.

When he had enjoyed it for long enough, he offered the help he had withheld.

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"Here is what those equations tell to you, Excellencies. They say you I will toss this coin twice.
"He held high the coin that he was talking about. "If coin land..."He broke off again. "How you say
'pile ou face' in English?

"Heads or tails," obliged President Gamlozi.

"YES!" shouted Minister Zinto, already up on his feet. "With all due respect, President Bangoura,
I think what you are suggesting now is total nonsense."

"QUOI? WHAT?

"Mr President, real summits don't decide by flipping coins."

"l see. And I suppose, Cher le Ministre, Dear Minister, you going make same protestation, with as
much vigour, when your Way Omega get win."

The summit hall rocked with laughter.

"Order!" demanded the Chair. "Order, Excellencies, order! We will have order. As for you,
Minister Zinto, you will speak only when I say so. Do you understand-yes? Then sit down!"

The minister sat down.

Dr Afolabi rose. “Mr Chairman, I think the minister has a point," he said. "My advice here would
be.

“Again the summit hall rocked with laughter”

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"Order, please! Excellencies, order!" the Chair reminded everyone. "As for you, Dr Afolabi, if I
find I need your

What happened immediately before this excerpt? (3 marks)

What do we learn about African Heads of state in this excerpt? (4 marks)

Identify and illustrate three features of style employed in this excerpt. (6 marks)

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What does the chair mean when he asks Abiola if he wanted them to utilize his method hand

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What happens immediately after this excerpt? (3 marks)

Give the meaning of each of following words as used in this excerpt. (5 marks)

Flipping

Rogue

Protestation

Utilize

obliged

Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow.

HE PROMISED ME HEAVEN
He promised me heaven
As side by side walked we down the aisle
As the chime of the wedding bell brightened the day

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As sweet – sounding songs soothed our souls
As he held my hand and inserted this ring into my finger I knew that my heaven had
come
For then he promised me heaven.
As we sat close and cherished our moon of honey
As he whispered cream icing into my ears
Dramatically conjuring metaphor after metaphor
Humming lullaby after lullaby
How elated I felt for being so much elevated
For here he was, my guardian angel
To take me to heaven
For he promised me heaven
As one year later he slapped me again and again
I quickly forgave and forgot
For he was my idol Who had promised me heaven
Even as the floodgate of blow after blow Kick after kick
O pened from its cage of disaster
Defacing and eroding the beauty he so much praised
Converting me into a shell of torture
How patiently I clung to him
Anticipating the heaven he had promised me
Now as I lie in the hospital bed
Unable to rise from his violent battery
Waiting for the Angel of Death
I realize he kept his promise
For I am soon going to heaven to
Because he promised me heaven,
Questions
Identify the persona? (2 marks)

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Explain the main theme of the poem
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Using the plot of the poem, explain the major changes in the subject matter. (4marks)
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What is speakers mood in the last six lines of the poem?. (2marks)
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Give one character trait of the persona (2 marks)
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Explain the irony in the poem (2marks)
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Apart from irony, identify and illustrate one style used in the poem. (2marks)
What is the tone in stanzas 1 and 2 of this poem (2marks)
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Explain the meaning of the following line: (2marks)
As he whispered cream icing into my ears.
For he was my idol
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GRAMMAR

Use the most suitable form of the word in brackets to fill in the blank space.(3marks)

My lawn ……………………………………..(cut) once a week.

We …………………………………………………(ask) by the teacher tomorrow.

The fire brigade …………………………………………………….(phone) by neighbours soon

after fire had broken out.

Rewrite the sentence according to the instruction given without changing its meaning.
(3marks)

The girl said, "I have done my homework."

Rewrite without using the speech marks(“..”)

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She told him, "Don't drive so fast!"

Write in a reported speech

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I think Muna is funnier than Amos.

End: …Muna.

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Choose the more appropriate pronoun to fill in the blank space.

(3marks)

I can’t believe that they never found out about Emilly and ……………………...(he, him)

You can’t do this work without Joel or …………………………..! (them, they)

………………………. Kenyans have a dark skin. (us, we)

Fill in the most suitable preposition. (3marks)

Jomo Kenyatta was exempted ………………………. doing hard labour during his term in jail.

I shouted atJoseph who was engrossed ……………… watching TV.

They acquainted Phoebe ………………….. French cuisine.

Explain the difference in meaning between the sentences that follow.

(2marks)

I bought three pens for thirty shillings.

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I bought three pens at thirty shillings.

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Name: …………………………………….………………… Adm :………….. Class: …..

Index Number: ………………………………….. Candidate’s Signature: ……………….

Date: ……………………………

101/2
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END TERM 2-2025

Time: 2½ Hours

PROJECTION 7
FORM 3
101/2 ENGLISH
Paper 2
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)

Time: 2½ Hours

Instructions to students

Write your name, admission number and class in the spaces provided.
Sign and write the date of the examination in the spaces provided.
Answer all questions in the spaces provided in blue ink.
All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.
Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as
indicated and that no questions are missing
Candidates must answer all questions in English

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Question Maximum Student’s Examiner’s
Score Score Initials

1 20

2 25

3 20

4 15

TOTAL 80

1. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: ( 20 Marks)

The act of giving and helping people in need is fast dying. Occasionally, we talk about a Good
Samaritan having come out of the blue and helped us in our hour of need. It is not clear whether
it is because people have become more egocentric or it is because of the diminishing culture of
communal living.

If we found someone dying beside the road, we are unlikely to help because we first of all
think of how helping them would make us late. We would walk away hoping that the next person
will not be as busy as we are, and will therefore rescue the person. Whether it is modern life that
has made us busier than before is really debatable.

Have you ever noticed that people are always running around, immersed in deep thought
with drooping shoulders and with premature wrinkles etched on their foreheads? The common
explanation for this is that we are so busy that we do not have time for ourselves, let alone
others.

One writer said that people, who claim to be busy, are not really busy. Being busy he
said, was a euphemism for an insatiable craving for money, power, status and overwhelming

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desire to have more and more material possessions. What this culture of being busy does is that it
makes us lose some of the essential human values such as loving others, taking care of the sick
and meeting other people’s needs through generosity.

Let us take the example of hunger and starvation. The two kill many people, especially
children and the elderly. It is easy to say that hunger and starvation are as a result of a fall in the
supply of rain. We can say that this is all an issue of climate. This is true to an extent. When rains
fail, people’s crops fail and they lose their sole source of food. For those who depend on
livestock, their livestock die or become too famished to fetch enough money in the market to
enable them buy food. The spiraling cost of foodstuffs does not lessen the pain and suffering of
those faced with starvation.

However, the culture of being good Samaritans need not die. If we stopped being too
busy and set aside time for our children, we would have time to watch them grow and understand
their value system. We can then inculcate the culture of generosity; starting highlighting small
ways in which children can be generous. For example, a child can be encouraged to share food
with another who does not have or who has come to school without. They can also be
encouraged to donate clothes and shoes to a children’s home. This gesture will go a long way in
clothing another less fortunate child. Later in life, they can find bigger ways of reaching out to
those in need. Through small ways, we would have taught generosity to our children, created the
good Samaritans that we all wish for when in need and ensured the act of giving lives on
generations.

QUESTIONS

According to the author, why is the act of giving dying? (2marks)

What is the main consequence of being too busy? (2marks)

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Why does the writer believe that people die of hunger due to our selfishness? (2marks)
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In what two ways can generosity be inculcated among children? (2marks)

The writer of passage is a parent; support this (2marks)

What are the benefits of teaching children to share? (3marks)

In note form, state the characteristics of busy people (4marks)

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Write an appropriate title for this passage (1mark)

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Explain the meaning of the following phrases as used in the passage (2marks)

i) Out of the blue

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ii)Reaching out
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FATHERS OF NATIONS– 25 MARKS

Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow. (25 marks)

"Why do you want to steal my wife?"

"The word I used is 'marry'. You prefer 'steal'?"

"What good is she to you?" Kimani cursed himself for that wording: he had degraded not
only his wife but also himself, and in the same breath, upgraded his foe.

"What good is she to me? Because she is much older than I am? — is that what you
mean? Then hear my answer. Old is gold."

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Mr Walomu's opponents had a different answer: ' 'When a cat gets into a pigeon coop,"
they said, "it kills all the pigeons it finds there, not just those it will eat".

Mr Walomu had already eaten three pigeons and now had in his paws a fourth: Asiya.
Strewn along his path, lay many others he had killed but not eaten. So who could say for
sure that,months hence, Asiya would not become one of these?

Mr Walomu's opponents continued. "As for what you call 'stealing', a professor in Texas
saysthat lots of people do it. He threw in a Swahili to support his claim.

"Na hivyo ndivyo ilivyo." To help it along, he gave an appropriate English equivalent.
"And that's how the cookie crumbles."

That was mockery Professor Kimani felt had to reject. "You have three beautiful wives,"
he began. This was a silly start, as even he realised. Had he not sounded like an envious
loser? Nonetheless, he went on. "All of them are young."

"And young they'll still be the day I die," Walomu added.

"Karanja, you know the saying: 'A real bull dies with green grass in its mouth' ."

QUESTIONS

Briefly explain what happens just before this excerpt. (3 marks)

Identify and illustrate two-character traits of Walomu in the excerpt. (4 marks)

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Then hear my answer. (Add a question tag) (1 mark).

Discuss two themes raised in the excerpt. (4 marks)

Identify and illustrate three stylistic devices used in the excerpt. (6 marks)

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To help it along, he gave an approximate English equivalent. (Rewrite beginning with the main
clause) (1 mark).

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Read the story below and then answer the questions that follows

WEDDING EVE
Should I
Or should I not
Take the oath to loveForever
This person I know little about?
Does she love me
Or my car Or my future
Which I know little about?
Will she continue to love me?
When the future she saw in me
Crumbles and fades into nothing
Leaving the naked me To love without hope?

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Will that smile she wears
Last through the hazards to come
When fate strikes
Across the dreams of tomorrow?
Or will she
Like the clever passenger in a faulty plane
Wear her life jacket
And jump out to save her life
Leaving me to crash into the unknown
What magic can I use
To see what lies beneath Her angel face and well-knit hair
To see her hopes and dreams
Before I take the oath
To love forever?
We are both wise chess players
She makes a moveI make a move
And we trap each other in our secret dreams
Hoping to win against each other
Questions
Briefly explain what the poem is about (3 marks)
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Identify and describe the persona in the poem (2 marks)
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Highlight three features of style used in the poem and show their effectiveness (6
marks)
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persona towards the 'she' in the poem (3 marks)
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Comment on the tone of the persona (2 marks)
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We are both wise chess players. Add a question tag (1 mark)
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Explain the meaning of the following lines as used in the poem (3 marks)
Will that smile she wears last through the hazards to come
Leaving the naked me
the clever passenger in a faulty plane...
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GRAMMAR – 15MARKS

Rewrite the following sentences following the instructions given without changing the meaning
(2marks) i) Joshua would not fail his exams under any circumstances. Begin: Under no …….
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. ii) The students had hardly got out of class when the rain started. Begin: Hardly ……….
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.

Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences with appropriate prepositions(2marks) i) We
prohibited …………………….. parking our bicycles at the gate.
ii) The carcass weighed …………………. five hundred kilograms.

Rewrite the following sentences supplying appropriate question tags (2marks) i) Let
us go away
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ii) You can’t be serious about going to the party this late
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Complete the following sentences using the appropriate form of the words in brackets

(2marks)

i) The ………………………………. (clear) of the speech was appreciated by all

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ii) The police said it was a strange ……………………………… (occur)

Rewrite the following sentences as directed (2marks) i)

The teacher told us that studying is necessary before we achieve success. (Change into direct
speech)
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ii) This is the boy. His father is a generous man. (Join the two sentences using a relative
pronoun)
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Join the following sentences into the passive voice (2marks) i)

The farmer breeds such many animals
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ii) The police are seeking the criminals

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Arrange the adjectives given in brackets in the correct order in the space provided (1mk)

We are proud to launch a ………………………………...……………… drink. (refreshing

sparkling new)

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Name: …………………………………….………………… Adm :………….. Class: …..

Index Number: ………………………………….. Candidate’s Signature: ……………….

Date: ……………………………

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END TERM 2-2025

Time: 2½ Hours

PROJECTION 8
FORM 3
101/2 ENGLISH
Paper 2
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)

Time: 2½ Hours

Instructions to students

Write your name, admission number and class in the spaces provided.
Sign and write the date of the examination in the spaces provided.
Answer all questions in the spaces provided in blue ink.

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All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.
Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as
indicated and that no questions are missing
Candidates must answer all questions in English

Question Maximum Student’s Examiner’s

Score Score Initials

1 20

2 25

3 20

4 15

TOTAL 80

1. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: ( 20 Marks)

Over the years man has cultivated to exhaustion the better soils in the plains. This has led to
progressive destruction of land to the point where some of the steeper hill slopes are cultivated so
that widespread erosion has been initiated. Meanwhile, the livestock are continuously being forced
on to smaller areas of poorer land and further up the hill slopes where they have to compete with
foresters. As a result the quantities of animal proteins, so necessary to human health, have steadily
declined. Surprisingly, instead of accepting the responsibility for all his destruction, man blames
livestock and in particular the goat.

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Man has repeatedly failed to do anything to restore the fertility of the soils he has ravaged. After
the last miserable crop has been harvested the land has been left to weeds. No attempt has been
made to plant grass or to under plant the last agricultural crop with fodder species. Had this been
done rehabilitation would have been quicker and sure and erosion would have been reduced. Thus
the gradually worsening situation would be arrested.

If man would shoulder the responsibility for his own greedy misuse of the land, the goat could
easily carry the blame for its own much smaller share in this degradation. Unfortunately, because
human nature is what it is, man will find something to blame for his won carelessness. The goat
has been chosen to carry this blame largely because it is often the last animal to be seen wresting
a precarious living from the areas where man has done his worst and from which cattle and sheep
have long since been forced to move.

Conservation of land depends on proper planning. Livestock numbers therefore, irrespective of

species, should be strictly limited to a density which will permit pasture renewal instead of causing
its degeneration. This adjustment of numbers should help man to have a balanced mixture of
livestock.

Many writers in recent years have tried to show that there has been considerable improvement in
mountain grazing areas after the banishment of the goat. Most, however, fail to indicate to what
extent this has been due solely to the removal of the goat or to a reduction in other livestock
densities or other measures such as erosion control, terracing, the building of gabions and grass
plan planting. It is essential to ensure that results which are obtained in one environment are not
automatically applied to different one. (Adapted from observation on the
goat)

(a) According to paragraph one of the passage, who has man used as a scapegoat? (2
marks)

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(b) In paragraph two, what two words show that land has not been very productive.
(2 marks)

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_________

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Rewrite the following sentences according to instructions given.
Unfortunately, because human nature is what it is, man will find something to
blame for his own carelessness.
(Begin: The author stated that …………….)
(2 marks)

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_________

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Thus, the gradually worsening situation would be arrested.

(Add a question tag).
(2 marks)

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(e) What could have been done to ensure quicker rehabilitation and reduce erosion.
(2 marks)

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(f) What other words could be used in place of those given without changing the
meaning.
(
4
marks)

Initiated _____________________________________________________________

Miserable ____________________________________________________________

Degradation __________________________________________________________

Banishment __________________________________________________________

Rewrite in the active voice.

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(i) The goat has been chosen for this blame.
(2 marks)

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(ii) Livestock are continually being forced onto poorer areas.

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(h) How would you sum up the author’s argument in 1 or 2 sentences?
(2 marks)

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2. Read the excerpt below from fathers of nations and answer the questions that follow.

"Excellent. Keep that mobile phone on at all times, day and night, rain or shine. From now on, I
will be calling you often, even unexpectedly, but only through this number. So always have the
mobile phone on. Unlike your hotel phone, it is completely secure, which means I can talk to you
on it freely."
"So you will tell me your real name now? "Pastor Chiamaka asked.
"My real name, my real name-why? "shouted the caller, angry all of a sudden.
"Well, 'why' yourself, "Pastor Chiamaka shouted back, also angrily, answering fire with fire. "If I
don't have your real name, how can I even begin to ask for you were a need to do so to arise?"
'Were a need to do so to arise, I would contact you," the caller told him.
"Ah, you can contact me, but I can't contact you? What is the matter? Are you afraid I might
surprise you?"
"Shut your mouth!" snapped the caller.
"What did you say?" Pastor Chiamaka asked.
"You heard me. Now get this: I want you to obey me, not to argue with me. You will not talk
back to me like this
"R-r-right, "Pastor Chiamaka stammered, suddenly tamed. "Y-y-yes, I do."
"Splendid. So, Pastor Chiamaka, let me say what I was going to say if you had let me." Pleased
by his quick victory the caller was inching back towards polite speech. "What I was going to say
is..."He stopped. Pastor Chiamaka waited.

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Questions:

Place this excerpt in its immediate context. (4 marks)

Using your knowledge of the rest of the text, explain one instance of irony evident in this
excerpt. (3 marks)
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Apart from irony, identify and illustrate another style used in the excerpt. (2 MARKS)
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Identify and illustrate two-character traits common to both Pastor Chiamaka and the caller. (4
marks)
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List the content of the briefcase left by the caller for Pastor Chiamaka. (4 marks)
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Which name did the caller identify himself with to Pastor Chiamaka? (1 mark)

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Rewrite the following sentence in reported speech. (1 mark)
“so you will tell me your real name now?" Pastor Chiamaka asked.

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Who is Pastor Chiamaka? (2 marks)
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Give the meaning of the following words as used in the excerpt. (4 marks)
Unexpectedly
Snapped
Tamed
Inching :

3. Read the poem below carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Pedestrian to passing Benz-man

You man, lifted gently

Out of the poverty and suffering

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We so recently shared; I say
Why splash the muddy puddle onto
My bare legs as if, still unsatisfied
With your seated opulence
You must sully the unwashed
With your diesel-smoke and mud-water
and force him buy, beyond his mean
A bar of soap from your shop?
A few years back we shared a master
Today you have none, while I have
Exchanged a parasite for something worse
But maybe a few years is too long a time.

(a) Briefly explain what is happening in the poem. (3 marks)

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(b) With two illustrations from the poem, describe the economic condition of the
persona.
(4 marks)

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(c) Explain the significance of the following images in the poem.

(6 marks)

(i) Muddy puddle/mud-water.

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(ii) Diesel smoke.

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Parasite. _____________________________________________________________

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(d) What is the importance of the last line in relation to the rest of the poem.
(4 marks)

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(e) Explain the tone of the poem.

(3 marks)

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4. GRAMMAR

(a) Use the comparative form of the word in brackets at the end of each sentence to
fill the
blank space correctly.
(3 marks)

(i) Grace could not have been _________________ about our plans. (happy)

(ii) The cake has a ______________ flavour than the one you made last week.
(rich)

(iii) Last July, I had the ____________ of my life. (bad)

(b) Choose the correct form of words in brackets to complete each of the sentences
below.

(2 marks)
(i) Who broke the handle (off, of) this cup?

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Choose (among, between) these sick.

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(c) Rewrite the following sentences using the words in brackets.

(2 marks)

(i) We will give the winner a prize. (whoever)

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(ii) “Goodness always conquers evil,” is my favourite life saying. (me)

_____________________________________________________________________

(d) In the following sentences, insert the word in brackets into the correct position.
(2 marks)

(i) They had a political argument. (absurd)

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(ii) She sold her house. (comfortable, wooden)

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For each of the following sentences, write the tense of the verb in brackets according

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to the instruction given.
(3 marks)

The canoe ends (taper) to make the craft glide through the marsh.
(Present continuous).

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The plants, called blushes, (provide) both new and replacement coverings for summer
lodges. (Future tense)

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The Kalispel women (follow) this way of life for many years. (Past tense)

_____________________________________________________________________

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(f) Add question tags to the following statements.
(3 marks)

(i) William is such a talented

guitarist.________________________________________

Mwombe dared the mob to attack him. _____________________________________

(iii) Let’s respond to the distress call.

Name: …………………………………….………………… Adm :………….. Class: …..

Index Number: ………………………………….. Candidate’s Signature: ……………….

Date: ……………………………

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Paper 2
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)
END TERM 2-2025
Time: 2½ Hours

PROJECTION 9
FORM 3
101/2 ENGLISH
Paper 2
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)
Time: 2½ Hours

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Instructions to students

Write your name, admission number and class in the spaces provided.
Sign and write the date of the examination in the spaces provided.
Answer all questions in the spaces provided in blue ink.
All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.
Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as
indicated and that no questions are missing
Candidates must answer all questions in English

Question Maximum Student’s Examiner’s

Score Score Initials

1 20

2 25

3 20

4 15

TOTAL 80

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1. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: ( 20 Marks)

One of the oldest forms of recreation known to human kind, sports are the one arena in which
many of the society’s traditional strictures about masculinity are often loosened ,allowing boys to
experience parts of themselves they reared experience elsewhere. At their best, sports provide
boys with an opportunity for play in a free atmosphere so that they can be themselves and
express a full range of emotions-from the exhilaration of a last minute goal to the acute
disappointment of being defeated by the opposing team, from the joy of being the one to pull of
unexpected play to the embarrassment of fumbling the ball in the last quarter of the game

Sports provide boys with the theater for the unfettered expressions of their feelings, a place
where it is OK to be spirited, a motive and passionate. As twelve- year- old Max told me,”During
school we have to be quiet, and raise our hands to talk. It is boring and sometimes I feel like
there is nobody to talk to. I love doing sports after school because we can all be together. We to
run fast, shout out things, scream, whatever. It lets me be me.”

For many boys, sports can be a form of intimacy and a way to be honest. By temporarily freeing
boys from the Boy Code — especially from the rules that say boys shouldn’t express feelings,
show, and affection or expose their yarning for connection -sports can become one of the most
important activities through which our sons, as their genuine selves, can relate closely with girls
and other boys.

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But just as much as they can offer a break from the Boy Code, a chance for openness,
expressions and intimacy, sports can also push back loneliness, shame and vicious competition.
“It’s rough out there” one high school football player recently told me. “Some guys play hard
just the way they should. But other guys just seem like they are out to get you-you know, they try
to demolish you”. Thus sports can also be a place where boys show unbridled aggression, let out
inappropriate feelings of anger and frustrations, and actually hurt other boys.

And then sports can thrust boys into a cult of competition, the goal of winning at any cost, a
quest for narcissistic glory at the expense of others. They cause some boys- especially those who
are not interested in sports or who are not skilled at playing them —to feel left out unworthy, a
shamed.

I firmly believe that the positive benefits to boys dim when sports cease to be play. D.W.
Winnicott, to distinguished English pyschoanalist observed that for children, play is at the heart
of health integrated development. His words were especially pertinent to boys whole inner selves
are too often suppressed. “Playing shows that the child is capable of developing a personal way
of life and eventually becoming a whole being... welcomed by the world at large.”

Sheer competition among ooysreareiyouna character and does little to bring boys closer to one
another.

But sports, when they are played, can be a tremendously good thing for boys. The late
commissioner of baseball and Renaissance scholar Giamatti A.BatletGiamati spoke of sports as,
“that aspiration out of the self-for a moment in touch-with a joy free of all constraints. It is a
sensation not of winning, but of fully playing “. When sports are kept in proper perspective —
when we see sports primarily as a chance for boys come together for joyful, spirited high energy
play-they can help boys discover new competencies, buttress their feelings of self-worth and
reunite them with their authentic voices, enabling them to express the deepest stirrings of
emotions in their hearts, widening their cycles of connection.

QUESTIONS.

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1. In your own words, write the point that the author makes in the first sentence of this
passage.
(2mks

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2. What is Max’s attitude towards school?

(3mks)

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3. Re write the following sentences following the instructions given after each. Do not
change the

meaning.
(2mks)

(a) Some guys play hard just the way they should,” said the student. (Rewrite in
reported speech)

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(b) During school we have to be quiet .(Add a question tag)

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4. When do sports cease to be play according to the author?
(2mks)

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5. What do you think the author means by Boy Code? (2mks)

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6. In not more than sixty words, summarize the disadvantages of sports as portrayed in the
passage
(6mks)
Rough Copy
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Fair Copy
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7. Give the meaning of the following words as used in the passage

(a) Unfettered
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(b)
Pertinent…………………………………………………………………………………………

3.Read the following excerpt and answer the questions that follows .

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I'm not sure. Perhaps it's fun," she said.

"Lying is fun?"

"l said I'm not sure. Now you did a good turn for me downstairs. They say one good turn
deserves another. So, in retum, can I tell you something I'm not yet sure I should tell you?"

'Sure. Go ahead."

"They have this youth at the VOA. His name is Nick Sentinel. What does he do? He snoops on
wireless transmissions, with a machine he calls-wait for it-the "Silent Listener'. While I was there
this moming...'

"While you were where? At the VOA? Yesterday you said you work for the Gambian News. Were
you lying? After all, you've just said lying might be fun."

"Will you let me finish?"

"Look. I really do work for the Gambian News. "

"Skip the lies! You're a CIA agent, aren't you?"

"l won't answer that."

"Because you are or because you can't?"

"Neither." "Isn't that exactly what you would say if you were?"

"All right, I will answer it."

"Believe me. I am a reporter for the Gambian News. Normally, that is. But, since right after our
interview yesterday, I am on loan to the VOA. If you must know, the VOA pays much better than
the Gambian News. Will the VOA take me for keeps? No. When the loan ends, it will be thank
you very much, Ms. McKenzie, but please go back to the Gambian News tomorrow and start
eating boiled dirt for breakfast, lunch and supper again• Are you happy now, Dr Afolabi?"

He did not answer.

Place this excerpt in its immediate context. (4 marks)

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They say one good tum deserves another". What good tum did Dr. Afolabi do for Ms Mckenzie?
(2 marks)

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Discuss one thematic concem brought out in the excerpt. (3 marks)

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Identify and illustrate two styles used in the excerpt, (4 marks)

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What does a reporter-on-loan mean? (3 marks)

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What does VOA stand for? (2 marks)

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From the information in this excerpt, describe the character traits of Dr. Abiola. (4 marks)

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Rewrite the sentence below beginning: ( It... )

When the loan ends, it will be thank you very much.

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Give the meaning of the following words as used in the excerpt. (2 marks)

Snoops

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QUESTION 3.

LITERARY APPRECIATION.

Read the poem below then answer the questions that follow.

RESPECT.

What you don’t understand, sister.

Is that women are respected in Africa

Oh yes

We call a woman the light of the house

She is the one who fetches water

She is the one who cooks the food

She is the one who gives milk and brings wood

She is the one we come to

When we need satisfaction

We know where the light comes from

We are respected

Is that so, brother?

Is that why she is the last to drink from the gourd?

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Is that why she is the last to eat from the bowl?

Is that why she is the last to sleep and first to rise?

Is that why she is the one for whom the only satisfaction

Is another mouth to feed?

And tell me, brother

If the woman is the light of the house

Where does darkness come from?

And tell me, brother

What Will happen if the light fades

Or simply refuses to shine?

Then, sister

It must be made to shine again

Or cast out

A light that does not shine is of no use to any one

Isee

Good, I knew you would understand

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In Africa, my sister, women are respected

By Jeanette Cross

Questions
1. Who is the persona in this poem?
(3mks)
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2. What is the tone of this poem? Explain.

(3mks)
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3. What is the attitude of the “brother” towards women?

(4mks)

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4. What does “sister” mean by 1 see”?

(2mks)
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5. Discuss the message in this poem.

(5mks)
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6. Explain the meaning of the following expressions as used in the poem.

(3mks)
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a. ….is another mouth to feed

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b. ... we come to when we need satisfaction

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C. ...Women are respected

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GRAMMAR (15 MARKS)

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1. a. He understood why people had been laughing after he realized the ugliness of his
headgear. (Rewrite using present participle)

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c. Malenge did not bother to campaign .1-le was convinced that he was the students’
favorite for the post of a school captain. (Rewrite using Past Participle)

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d. I have been studying in this school complained the student but I have never scored a
hundred percent in any subject. (Punctuate correctly)

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e. The watchman spotted the student sneaking from schooL(Rewrite to remove the
gender bias

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2. Fill in the blank with the most suitable prepositions.

a. John is fond __________________________________ his daughter.

b. He is very bossy. He loves ordering people_______________________________

c. She inherited the house — her grandmother.

3. Fill in the spaces with the correct form of word in the brackets.

a. No single female candidate won the ___________________________ seat in the

conduded

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election (governor)

b. _______ has not returned to the country yet.(normal)

4. Replace the underlined words with the correct phrasal verb formed from the word in
bracket.

a. Form two students always bully the form one students when they are new in school
(pick)

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b. The shrewd businessman tried to take advantage of his ignorant customers by hiking
the prices. (Rip )

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5. Add a question tag to the following statements

a. Let us help the sick ________________________

b. You wall wait for them here _________________________

6. Explain the difference in meaning between the following sentences.

a. The tutor gives Peter little attention.

b. The tutor gives Peter a little attention.

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Name: …………………………………….………………… Adm :………….. Class: …..

Index Number: ………………………………….. Candidate’s Signature: ……………….

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Date: ……………………………

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101/2 ENGLISH
Paper 2
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)

Time: 2½ Hours

Instructions to students

Write your name, admission number and class in the spaces provided.
Sign and write the date of the examination in the spaces provided.
Answer all questions in the spaces provided in blue ink.
All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.
Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as
indicated and that no questions are missing
Candidates must answer all questions in English

Question Maximum Student’s Examiner’s

Score Score Initials

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1 20

2 25

3 20

4 15

TOTAL 80

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1. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: ( 20 Marks)

The career market is full of opportunities. Gone are the days when we had ‘either…. or’ career
choices. The time when women, for example, choose between only nursing, teaching and
secretarial work are long gone. The explosion in communication technology, and the
liberalization and globalization of the world economy has ensured that there is no longer a
dearth of career choice. Today, colleges and universities offer a wide range of training
opportunities to high school graduates. This has made choosing a care an involving process. It
has also given rise to the need for career counseling.

When choosing a career, whether you have the help of a career counsellor or not, there are
several factors that you should consider. These include your abilities or talents, your interests,
your priorities, and the available opportunities in the job market.

The skills required in a particular career and the ability to gain them through education must
be considered when choosing careers. Becoming a doctor, for instance, requires extensive
education and training, and many years of educational commitment. In addition to the
compulsory subjects, the academic background required for this career is good grades in
Chemistry and Biology at secondary school level. If your ability in these subjects is just
average, you would be overstretching your luck to enroll for a Bachelor of Medicine degree
course. In the past, students have chosen to pursue training in engineering, even when their
ability to handle Physics and Mathematics was low. This, in many cases, has made them drop
out of the class mid-course. The waste of time and resources would have been avoided if they
had considered a career that did not require the ability to handle Mathematics and Physics well.

There are times when people have been driven to choose a particular career because of the
salary and prestige associated with jobs in that field. At times, the desire to take certain courses
comes from within the individual, but most times, individuals feel pressured by peers or family
to take certain courses. Joining a career in which you have no interest is a recipe for a dull life
since you will spend most of your working hours doing something you do not like. Your career
does not necessarily have to be your passion, but it should not bore you to death either. You
can work out your interests by identifying the subjects you enjoy most at school, or the topics
that are of interest to you and for which you take the initiative to read on your own.

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It is true that many young people are attracted move by the social mobility that the job might
provide than by their interest in the career. However, big role in job satisfaction as many people
think. Of course we all have to make a living, but if you do not like your job, it does not matter
how much you get paid to do it. What does matter is how well a career choice matches your
values. If you value variety, collaboration, and creativity, for example, you would not find job
satisfaction in a career where you are working alone and doing the same thing every day.

The availability of jobs in a particular field should also be a factor in choosing a career. This
should be considered alongside the skills and education sought in a given field. Most times,
highly competitive field require more education but may not pay well. When there are more
applicants for a particular position, unique personality traits become an added benefit.
However, in fields where there are fewer applicants than the positions available, the pay may
be more and the job may require less education.

Nevertheless, one should be discouraged by the scarcity of employment positions because

institutions of higher learning now emphasize that they are not simply training people to get
out and look for jobs. They are training people to get out and create jobs. Therefore, the
availability of job opportunities is not necessarily limited to presence of employers. It also
encompasses opportunities for self-employment which everyone is free to explore.

1. What has ensured that there is no longer a dearth of career choice.

(3 marks)

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2. What has created the necessity for career counseling?

(1 mark)

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3. Why is one’s ability an important factor in career choice.
(1 mark)

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4. According to the passage, which career should a person who values variety choose?
( 1mark)

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5. Make notes on factors to consider when choosing a career?

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6. What drives people to choose a particular career?

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7. What evidence is given in the passage to support the statement ‘money does not play as a big
role in job

satisfaction’?

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8. Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the passage?

(4 marks)

(a) Dearth ………………………………………….…………

(b) Social mobility ……………………………………………

(c) Liberalization …………………………………..…………

(d) Collaboration ………………………………..……………

9. Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given after each.
(2 marks)

(a) The career market is full of many opportunities. (Begin: There ……………..)

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……………

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(b) The waste of time and resources would have been avoided if they had considered a career
that did not

require the ability to handle Mathematics and Physics well. (Begin: If …….)

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……………

Read the extract below from Fathers of Nations and answer the questions that follow.

The visitor reached for his coffee and took a sip. "More like it!" he said. "Nice and hot," he
added. Then he turned to Comrade Melusi. "Your new business, how did it do?"

"l can't say it did well. Inflation was eroding incomes faster than they could grow. But I survived. I
didnt five and work in as clean a suburb as I did before. I just could not afford the rent there
anymore. No, I had relocated to a slum in a poor part of Harare. But, hey, I was alive" He
laughed, falsely. Sorrow was in his eyes. "Then tiere came Murambatsvina."

"Then there came what?" asked the visitor.

"Murambatsvinå. It is Shona, meaning expelling the trash."

"Please go on."

"Bulldozers went from slum-to-slum evicting residents by tearing their homes to the ground.
Murambatsvina expelled us, the trash, all right. We got no advance warning before or altemative
accommodation after. Nobody cared whether we lived or died. We had to go. It did not matter
where. Just go!"

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"Did anyone explain why you had to leave? The

"The bomber tried to. Murambatsvina's real aim, he said, was to prevent disease and curb
crime."

"Was that its aim?"

Comrade Melusi belched. "Disease and crime increased instead. No, Murambatsvina had nothing
to do with curbing of disease or crime. Its true aim was to punish us, the urban poor, for
supporting opposition

What happened immediately before this excerpt? (2 Marks)

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Discuss two thematic concerns evident in the excerpt. (6 marks)

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Explain one instance of irony in the excerpt. (2 marks)

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Apart from irony, identify and illustrate three styles used in this excerpt. (6 marks)

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Describe the mood in the excerpt. (3 marks)

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Who is comrade Melusi? (2 marks)

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What happens immediately after this excerpt? (2 marks)

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Give the meaning of the following words as used in the excerpt. (2 marks)

Inflation

Curb :

Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow
I laugh at Amin

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I laugh with all the skulls
Amin holds in his hands
With those perched on his shoulder
and the ones in an infinite queue
behind his back

I laugh with the victims of

the 1976 firing squad.
They were dead long before
the gunmen fired
I laugh at bullets wasted

I chuckle with the heads of school

across the nation.
It tickles to extract money
From an army of tortured widows

I remember in our school

only one child had a father
we were curious about her
we laughed to discover
she was Amin’s daughter.

I laugh with the ghost of Kay Amin

Remembering Amin astride
her dismembered body

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calling her “wicked woman”
before her bereaved children.

But mainly I laugh

that seventeen years after
the man was forced to retire
Ugandans still sob at the mention of his name
surely my people lack
a good sense of humour.
(Susan
NalugwaKiguli)
(a) What are we told about Amin in this poem?
(3marks)

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(b) Identify and illustrate the main stylistic feature in the first stanza?
(2marks)

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sense of humour.
(1 mark)

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(d) Describe the tone of this poem.

(2 marks)

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(e) Give two lessons that we learn from this poem.

(4 marks)

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(f) Identify and illustrate other two stylistic devices used in this poem.
(4 marks)

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(g) With illustrations from the poem, say who the persona is
(2 marks)

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(h) Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the poem.
(2 marks)

(i) Chuckle …………………………………

(ii) Dismembered ………………………………………….

4 . GRAMMAR

(a) Use the correct form of the word in brackets to fill in the blanks.
(3marks)

(i) His __________ (deceive) cost him his life.

(ii) The dog barked __________ to the stranger. (menace)

(iii) The ______ between Kameno and Makuyu is damaging. (enemy)

(b) Use phrasal verbs to replace the underlined words.

(2 marks)

(i) Heavy traffic jam delayed our visitors for an hold. (hold)

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(ii) He regained consciousness before the doctor arrived. (come)

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(c) Use the correct preposition to fill the blanks.

(2marks)

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(i) I am indebted ______________ him for the help he gave me.

(ii) She has always confided ______ him.

(d) Fill the blank spaces using the correct form of the verb in brackets.
(2 marks)

(i) If I had money, I ______ (buy) a computer.

(ii) If he _______ (be) obedient, I would stay with him.

(e) Correct the error in the following sentences.

(2 marks)

(i) Something is smelling awful

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(ii) This brilliance is utter.

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(f) In the sentences below, underline the nouns that are used as adjectives.
(2 marks)

(i) Mr. Charo amused the children by reciting nursery rhyms.

(ii) When we camped in the Maasai Plains, we felt like strangers in the new environment.

(g) Add question tags to the following statements.

(2 marks)

(i) We need to buy a radio.

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(ii) He dares to stroke the lion.

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Name: …………………………………….………………… Adm :………….. Class: …..

Index Number: ………………………………….. Candidate’s Signature: ……………….

Date: ……………………………

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Time: 2½ Hours

PROJECTION 11
FORM 3
101/2 ENGLISH
Paper 2
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)

Time: 2½ Hours

Instructions to students

Write your name, admission number and class in the spaces provided.
Sign and write the date of the examination in the spaces provided.
Answer all questions in the spaces provided in blue ink.
All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.
Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as
indicated and that no questions are missing

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Candidates must answer all questions in English

Question Maximum Student’s Examiner’s

Score Score Initials

1 20

2 25

3 20

4 15

TOTAL 80

1. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: ( 20 Marks)

Society has the obligation to provide young people with the right knowledge and skills to become
productive workers, good parents and responsible citizens, according a World Bank Report,
Development and the Next Generation. And it is through education that the young develops their
ability to be productive workers, good parents and responsible citizens, World Development
Report, 2007, authored by World Bank notes.

The report says that effective investments need to happen during childhood and adolescence for it
to bear fruits. Investments in adolescence are needed to make earlier investments during childhood
pay off a hundred fold. The report underscores the need to establish a strong secondary education
that will further strengthen the capabilities that primary education established.

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It stresses the need to improve the relevance and quality of post primary education by teaching
students the practical knowledge, thinking and behavioral skills demanded by the labour market.
To achieve this, the education system must promote a teaching method that leads to high learning
achievement and blends the academic and vocational curricular. It should link what happens in
school to local economy.

To improve the relevance of education to the learners, the report says, education must produce
peep with strong thinking and interpersonal skills because job tasks are increasingly requiring
problem solving, and communciaiton skills. Entrepreneurs are also increasingly demanding
thinking skills and problem and behavioral skills such as self-confidence and leadership.

In a nutshell, what are the types of skills that a topnotch education system requires? It requires two
basic types of skills: thinking skills and behavioral skills. Thinking skills include conceptual,
critical and creative skills. High quality education develops learners with superior conceptual,
analytical and critical skills – skills that condition the learner to be curious,. Inquisitive and always
posing and seeking answers to problem situations or processes. Behavioral skills include such traits
as perseverance, self-discipline, teamwork, the ability to negotiate risks.

The report also still highlights the enduring role of what it terms basic skills which is literacy and
numeracy-ability to read, write and count. These basic skills are needed for further learning, work
and life. The report also identifies what it terms post basic skills-the higher order thinking skills,
and higher order behavioural skills such as decision-making skills, team work, the ability to
negotiate conflict and manage risks and specific knowledge applied to real-life situations, and
vocational skills. The foregoing demonstrates the integral role of Early Childhood and Primary
and Secondary cycle plays in crating the foundation for higher education in tertiary and
Universality education. The quality of higher education is as good as the primary and secondary
education.

(Adapted FromElimu News. A Newsletter of Ministry of Education. Issue No. 7 Dec. 2012)

According to the passage what is the role of the society in the development of an individual?
(2 marks)
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In what ways can an education system attain the demands of the job market?
(3 marks)
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Contrast thinking and behavourial skills (4 marks)

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In not more than 40 words, summarize what is expected of a person who has attained post basic
skills (5 marks)

Explain the relationship between primary and secondary education (2 marks)

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The report says that effective investments need to happen during childhood and adolescence for it
to bear fruits, (Rewrite using a conditional) (1 mark)

How does post secondary education benefit from lower levels of education?
(1 mark)

Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the passage (3 marks)

Underscores…………………………………………………………………………..

Blends…………………………………………………………………………………

Topnotch……………………………………………………………………………….

Read the extract below from Fathers of Nations and answer all the questions that follow

"And young they'll still be the day I die,"Mr Walomu added. "Karanja, you know the saying:
'A real bull dies with green grass in its mouth."

Then why do you want to steal my wife? She is old. Not the green grass you want in your
mouth.'

"l just told you why: Old is gold. Anyway, 'stealing' - to use your word - is not all that
uncommon, you know. My Texas guy says thirty percent of the British 'steal' married
spouses from their partners. Repeat: thirty percent! That is a lot of spouse stealers there,
wouldn't you say?"

Professor Kimani refused to bite the man's bait. Still, the man continued. "Now take the
Americans. Contrary to what everyone thinks, Karanja, Americans are not great spouse
stealers at all. They check in at a mere seventeen percent, way behind the British. In fact, to

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cut a long story short, only the Greeks are greater spouse stealers than the British. Boy, do
the Greeks know this spouse stealing business! They come in at a whole forty percent."

The man was now toying with Professor Kimani.

Unable to tolerate it anymore, Professor Kimani moved to end it. "You, you, you greedy fat
baboon!" he shouted, closing in.

The man stood up. "Stop where you are, Karanja!" he said.

Professor Kimani kept coming. When he was near enough, he swung a fist. He missed. "First
you steal my wife," he said. He swung another. He missed again. "Now you mock me as
well. "He swung yet another. This time, he lost his balance and fell.

Mr Walomu pounced at once. "Now you die, Karanja!" he said.

A clumsy scuffle, as between bull elephants, followed. It ended only when the police came
and arrested the two angry men.

Professor Kimani was charged with assaulting a Member of Parliament. His university
followed suit by demoting him from his current rank as full professor back to his starting
rank as senior lecturer. This, it said, was his 'due punishment for disgracing the university in
the eye of the Public. Six months of jail followed. Then he was set free. As he walked back to
his house, dejectedly Putting foot ahead of foot, his career was all he could see. And it was

What happened immediately before this excerpt. (2 marks)

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"And young they will be the day I die," who was walomu referring to? (2 marks)

Discuss two themes evident in this excerpt. (4 marks)

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Identify and illustrate three styles used in this excerpt. (6 marks)

Explain how each of the following character has been brought out in this excerpt. (4 marks)

Newborn

Karanja

Rewrite the following sentence in reported speech. (1 mark)

"Stop where you are, Karanja!" he said.

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What happens immediately after this excerpt. (2 marks)

Give the meaning of the following words as used in the excerpt.

Tolerate

Scuffle

Pounced

Doomed

Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow

AN ELEGY

When he was here

We planned each tomorrow

With him in mind

For we saw no parting

Looming in the horizon

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When he was here,

We joke and laughed together

And no fleeting shadow of a ghost

Ever crossed our paths

Day by day we lived

On this side of the mist

And there was never a sign

That his hours were running fast

When he was gone,

Through glazed eyes we searched

Beyond the mist and shadows

For we couldn’t believe he was nowhere

We couldn’t believe he was dead

(Laban Erapu)

What is the message of this poem? (4 marks)

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Comment on the use of repetition in line 1 of stanza 1 and 2 (2 marks)

What is the significance of the last line of poem? (2 marks)

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What would the persona miss in his friend’s absence? (2 marks)

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Describe the mood of this poem (3 marks)

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Paraphrase the following line: Through glazed eyes we searched (2 marks)

Which two lines in the poem show that the persona has nostaligic tone? (2 marks)

Explain the meaning of the following lines as used in the poem.

Ghost (1 mark) ……………………………………………………………………..

And there was never a sign: that his hours were running fast (2 marks)

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4. (a) Rewrite the following sentences according to instruction given in brackets
(4 marks)

i. John never reported late to work last year. (Not once…)

……………………………………………………………………………………………

ii. His excuse was flimsy. He ended up in jail. (Combine the two sentences beginning: so…)

iii. If I had not missed the plane last night, I……………………………….(give) my first
lecture now. (Use the correct tense of the verb in brackets)

iv. As soon as the sun rose, they set out. (Begin: no sooner)

……………………………………………………………………………………………

(b) Fill in the blanks with the correct word chosen from the ones given brackets after each
sentences (2 marks)

i. The bride was looking forward to walking down the………………….on her wedding day
(aisle/isle)

ii. We cannot accommodate another person there is ……………………. Space left (little/a
little).

i. The modern world today has many ………………………….forms of communication

(sophistication)

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ii. The gas was stored in a …………………………………..container (pressure)

(d) Fill in using appropriate prepositions (3 marks)

Many people claim that girls are good …………………… arts subjects

Unemployed youths often subscribe ………………………. Illegal groups.

They attended the party dressed ……………………….smart casuals

(e) Explain the meaning of the following idiomatic expressions (2 marks)

i. Face the music……………………………………………………………………………

…………………………………………………………………………………………..

From the horse’s mouth ………………………………………………………………..

……………………………………………………………………………………………

(f) Replace the underlined word(s) with a phrasal verb that has the same meaning as the
underlined (2 marks)

i. The nurse couldn’t tolerate the noise

ii. The mayor assumed that the problem had been got rid of.

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Name: …………………………………….………………… Adm :………….. Class: …..

Index Number: ………………………………….. Candidate’s Signature: ……………….

Date: ……………………………

101/2
ENGLISH
Paper 2
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)

END TERM 2-2025

Time: 2½ Hours

PROJECTION 12
FORM 3
101/2 ENGLISH
Paper 2
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)

Time: 2½ Hours

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Instructions to students

Write your name, admission number and class in the spaces provided.
Sign and write the date of the examination in the spaces provided.
Answer all questions in the spaces provided in blue ink.
All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.
Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as
indicated and that no questions are missing
Candidates must answer all questions in English

Question Maximum Student’s Examiner’s

Score Score Initials

1 20

2 25

3 20

4 15

TOTAL 80

1. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: ( 20 Marks)

The recent claim by scientists at Egerton University that the water table in the South Rift is
dropping is alarming. The researchers have noted with great concern that several boreholes in
the region have dried up and water volume in several rivers has rapidly reduced as a result of

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clearing of trees in the Mau forest. This significantly affects Lake Nakuru as its shoreline has
noticeably been receding over time. We are being told this at a time when the Ministry of
Natural Resources has already laid down plans to clear gazetted forests saying it to settle
landless people. We cannot allow this to happen. In the past, we have watched influential
people plunderKarura, Aberdares and Mt. Kenya forests. Marmanet forest in Laikipia is no
more after several farmers were allocated the public land. We cannot afford to interfere with
the water catchment areas of the great rivers of this country because they are our lifeline. Not
so long ago, this country suffered crippling power rationing regime for more than six months,
seriously hampering economic growth. Industries ground to a halt, laying off a number of
employees; complicating an already worse unemployment crisis. This should have woken us
up from the deep slumber that “all is well.”

Ours is a tale of unfettered impunity. Throughout the country, we read of owners of large
flower farmers who have diverted the river course into their farms to irrigate their crops,
denying those living downstream a source of water. Others are busy clearing wetlands,
seriously interfering with nature’s ecological balance. We hear of industries shamelessly
emptying their waste into rivers. Apart from that, influential transporters ferry truckloads of
charcoal and the precious sandalwood under the noses of the police. More often than not, apart
from empty rhetoric, we never get to hear that those responsible have been punished.

When the government kicked off the drive to reclaim the Mau forest, there was a flurry of
activities from all and sundry. All came together in a massive tree planting exercise. However,
the politicization of the compensation claims put forward by large estate owners with the Mau
Complex, brought things to a halt. The enthusiasm has since died and no one knows when the
matter will be brought to a conclusion.

We depend too much on our rivers to allow any selfish individual to interfere with their
watershed. Needless to say, our complacent attitude towards environmental issues has made
environmental problems uncontrollable. It is the high time we came together and took care of
our environment.

The government through National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) , NGO’s and
environmental lobby groups should step up efforts to sensitize people of all walks of life on
the need to conserve our natural heritage for the future generations. This should be coupled
with replanting of trees on all deforested government land and intensified practice in agro-

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forestry. The ban on cultivation along river banks and indiscriminate felling of trees for
charcoal burning must be enforced.

Apart from that, steps should be put in place towards revocation of all irregular allocation of
government forests to individuals. Government officers suspected of abetting land grabbing
must face the full force of the law. Industries that dispose off toxic or untreated waste into the
environment should also be dealt with firmly.

It’s time we took a step towards safeguarding our environment. There is need to develop a
sense of collective responsibility. Considering the fact that the United States rejected the Kyoto
Protocol of 1997, we should be even more vigilant and jealously safeguard what nature has
provided. It’s our environment, our country, our heritage. We need it to pass it on to our
descendants.

(a) What evidence is given in paragraph 1 to show that the water table in the South Rift is falling?(2
mks)

___________________________________________________________________________
________

(b) What excuse is the government giving for its plans to clear gazetted forests?
(1mk)

___________________________________________________________________________
________

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___________________________________________________________________________
________

degradation.
(4 mks)

___________________________________________________________________________
________

(d) How does power rationing affect economic growth?

(2 mks)

___________________________________________________________________________
________

(e) What halted the reclaiming of the Mau Complex?

(2 mks)

___________________________________________________________________________
________

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___________________________________________________________________________
________

___________________________________________________________________________
________

(f) Why is the shoreline of Lake Nakuru receding?

(1mk)

___________________________________________________________________________
________

(g) What should the government do to address the environmental problems? Write your answer in
note

Form
(4mks)

___________________________________________________________________________
________

(h) Explain the following words as used in the passage.

(4 mks)

(i) Rapidly __________________________________________

(ii) Plunder __________________________________________

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(iii) Intensified __________________________________________

(iv) Safeguard __________________________________________

2. Read the extract below and then answer the questions that follow:

As she was removing her head veil the next morning, readying for laboratory work that it would
have , he went and slapped her. What made this assault seem "reasonable' was that it happened
during Heritage Week, a period that the leader of Libya had set aside to give his people time to
celebrate their renowned history.

Apparently, then, Engineer Tahir slapped Ms Mahmoud to administer discipline on a female

subordinate for shedding her head veil in public, in violation of Libyan culture. In truth, he did it
to take revenge against someone who, he thought, had rejected his advances. Discipline, revenge,
or whatever it in fact was, she did not take it lying down. She struck back. Had she stopped to
think of the chain of events her reaction might set off, she would have restrained herself.

A month later, he came out of hospital. His left eye, cut open by a mundane office instrument, was
gone. Turned bitter and vengeful now, Engineer Tahir took Ms Mahmoud to court the day he came
out of hospital. Why, the court enquired of him, had he slapped her in the first place? To stop her
from imitating Americans by shedding the head veil in violation of Libya's culture, he said. Then
why, wondered the court, had she hit back? To defy not him but Libya, he replied.

She pleaded innocent, citing, as her defence, temporary insanity caused by extreme provocation.
The court returned a Hammurabic verdict-an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.

What happened immediately before this excerpt? (2 marks)

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______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
____

Discuss one theme evident in this excerpt. Give two illustrations from the excerpt. (3 marks)

______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
____

"Had she stopped to think about the chain of events her reaction might set off.." explain the events
that came as a result of her action. (4 marks)

______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
____

Identify and illustrate two styles used in the excerpt. (4 marks)

______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
____

Using information from this excerpt, discuss the character traits of Seif Tahir. (4 marks)

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______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________

________________________________

What reason did Seif give the court for slapping Ms Mahmoud? (2 marks)

______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
____

Ms Mahmoud pleaded innocent. Is she innocent? Support your answer. (2 marks)

______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
____

What happens immediately after this excerpt? (2 marks)

______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
____

Explain the meaning of the following statement. (2 marks)

An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.

______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
____

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3. POETRY

I AM TIRED OF TALKING IN METAPHORS

I will talk plainly

Because I am moved to abandon riddles

I will tell you of how

We held our heads in our hands

Because the owl hooted all night

And the dogs howled as if mourning

We awaited the bad news

We received it:

Our mother blinded in one eye

Crippled in the right leg

Because she did not vote

For her husband’s candidate

I will remind you

Of when the peeled plantains

Stood upright in the cooking pot:

We slaughtered a cock,

Anticipating an important visitor

We got her:

Our daughter – pieces of flesh in a sack

Our present from her husband.

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No! I will not use metaphors

I will just talk to you:

I do not fight to take your place

Or to constantly wave my fist in your face

I refuse to argue about

Your “manly pact”

With my father

You’re buying me for a bag of potatoes

And pepper

All I want

Is for you to stop denying me

My presence needs no metaphors

I am here

Just as you are

I am not a machine

To dismantle whenever you whim

I demand my human dignity

Questions

(a) Who is the persona in this poem?

(2 mks)

___________________________________________________________________________
_____

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___________________________________________________________________________
_____

___________________________________________________________________________
_____

(b) What is the message of this poem?

(4 mks)

___________________________________________________________________________
_____

(c) Explain the speaker’s attitude towards the subject matter.

(2mks)

___________________________________________________________________________
_____

(d) Give one character trait of the speaker.

(2 mks)

___________________________________________________________________________
_____

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___________________________________________________________________________
_____

___________________________________________________________________________
_____

(e) Discuss two elements of tradition highlighted in the poem.

(4 mks)

___________________________________________________________________________
_____

(f) Identify two poetic features of style used in the poem.

(4 mks)

___________________________________________________________________________
_____

(g) I am not a machine. (Rewrite adding a question tag.)

(1mk)

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___________________________________________________________________________
_____

4. GRAMMAR

(a) Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given after each.
(3 mks)

(i) The young man was very hungry. He swallowed the food without chewing it. (Begin:
So……..)

___________________________________________________________________________
_____

(ii) The oil company has established petrol station here. (Rewrite beginning: A petrol station
…………)

___________________________________________________________________________
_____

(iii) The principal advised the students to consider the consequences of their behavior. (Rewrite
in direct

speech.

___________________________________________________________________________
_____

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(b) Fill the blanks with suitable prepositions.
(3 mks)

(i) Mwende is indebted ______ him for the help he gave me.

(ii) The thief who snatched my bag walked __________ a limp.

(iii) Harambee stars won because the spectators cheered them ______________________
(c) Replace the underlined phrasal verb with word of the same meaning.
(3 mks)

(i) The student kept breaking in on our conversation.

________________________________________________________________________
________

(ii) We stood up for what they believed.

________________________________________________________________________
________

(iii) We must pull together to make sure our team wins

(d) Explain the meanings of the following sentences.

(i) Only Mutungispoke to him.

___________________________________________________________________________
_____

(ii) Mutungi spoke to him only.

___________________________________________________________________________
_____

(iii) Mutungi only spoke to him.

___________________________________________________________________________
_____

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(e) Rewrite the following sentence replacing the underlined words with a gender word.
(3 mks)

(i) Our maid stole money from my mother’s purse.

___________________________________________________________________________
_____

(ii) The firemen took a long time to arrive at the scene of the accident.

___________________________________________________________________________
_____

(iii) Mankind thrives on cooperation.

___________________________________________________________________________
_____

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Name: …………………………………….………………… Adm :………….. Class: …..

Index Number: ………………………………….. Candidate’s Signature: ……………….

Date: ……………………………

101/2
ENGLISH
Paper 2
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)

END TERM 2-2025

Time: 2½ Hours

PROJECTION 13
FORM 3
101/2 ENGLISH
Paper 2
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)

Time: 2½ Hours

Instructions to students

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Write your name, admission number and class in the spaces provided.
Sign and write the date of the examination in the spaces provided.
Answer all questions in the spaces provided in blue ink.
All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.
Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as
indicated and that no questions are missing
Candidates must answer all questions in English

Question Maximum Student’s Examiner’s

Score Score Initials

1 20

2 25

3 20

4 15

TOTAL 80

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1. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: ( 20 Marks)

As amatter of courtesy, we had decided we would not eat until he arrived. Although he
was expected at six o’clock in the evening, it was not until two hours later that he showed up.
Not only had we grown impatient andirritated, but our attitude towards him was also
becoming hostile. We had looked forward to his coming because those among us who knew
him had spoken highly of him.but doubtful thoughts now crept into our minds and we
resented his apparent lack of consideration. The aroma of freshly cooked dishes gradually
disappeared as our keen appetites intensified our restlessness.

A screech of brakes, a sudden buzz of activity and a group of solemn looking officials
walking briskly into the hall announced his arrival. He was dressed in full uniform which was
awe-inspiring, with his tall, well-proportioned figure, he was quite imposing. We
immediately settled down to the now cold meal which we ate sparingly and in silence. Then
the ceremony began.

The chairman made a brief introductory speech and then invited the guest speaker to
address us. We clapped politely. He stood up, looked around the room and before he began to
speak, glanced and smiled at each person in turn. His warm and sincere manner disarmed us
and dissolved our hostility. The reasons for his lateness were so genuine that we felt ashamed
of our ill- feelings towards him. We accepted his apology gladly.

No sooner had he begun his address than we realized that we had an interesting and
thought -provoking evening ahead of us. Instead of the usual state pronouncements of
administrators like himself, he spoke about real issues that face our generation and which few
people have the courage or the conviction to discuss. But he warned that we should not be
completely satisfied because there were areas where we had done very little. He said that we
needed a sense of discipline in our national affairs. His talk was illustrated with descriptions
of our disregard for traffic regulations. My colleagues nodded in agreement.

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My mind began wandering. I thought of many drunken drivers I had seen and the
numerous grisly accidents I had witnessed. The speaker was right. I remembered the scenes
at bus stations and ‘matatu’

stands at peak hours and at the end of the month. I recalled the pushing, jostling and
scrambling crowds

struggling for a place .It then dawned on me that we often thought only of our comfort and
convenience. We ignored the desperate, beseeching eyes of the children, the weak and the
handicapped.

I woke from my day dream. The speaker was now expressing his concern about poor use
of leisure time. After work, bars were full to overflowing while in homes wives remained
without husbands and children without fathers. Free time was used unproductively. In
conclusion he stressed the dangers of behaving irresponsibly and deplored the bad use of
public facilities. He cited the examples of careless garbage disposal and thoughtless use of
public toilets. Wasn’t it ironical to hear people complaining when the outcome of their own
misdeeds inconvenienced them or posed danger to their health? He sat amidst hearty
applause. We scrambled to shake his hands and assured him that his talk had inspired and
encouraged us to exercise discipline in our own lives.

Why were the people disappointed and angry?

(2 marks)

…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………

Why do you think the food was eaten sparingly and in silence?
(2marks)

…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………

Explain the reason for the change of attitude towards the guest speaker. (3
marks)

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…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………

On what lines did the narrator’s mind wander in the course of the speech? (2 marks)

…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………

What factors was the speaker highlighting when the narrator came out of his reverie?
( 1mark)

…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………

According to the passage, lack of discipline in different areas leads to undesirable results. What
are the results of the following?
Disregard for traffic regulations.
(2marks)
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………

Concern only for personal convenience. (

2marks)

…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………

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Poor use of leisure time. (2
marks)

…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………

Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases as used in the passage.
i) had spoken highly of him.
(1mark)
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………

ii) disarmed
(1mark)

…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………

iii) beseeching.
(1 mark)

…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………

dawned on me.
(1 mark)

…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………

SET TEXT: FATHERS OF NATIONS

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Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow.
(20marks)

"That's a bad idea, Mr Longway. I'm a Gambian, Sir."

"All right, so you are a Gambian. Well, I am a South African. Now how has that helped
advance world peace?"

"Sir, are you really a South African?"

"Yes, I am."

"This is the Gambia, Sir. Since the article you dropped looks valuable, you might never
see it again, Sir. As a Gambian, I ought to know. Still, if you insist, I'll give it to the
woman at the front desk."

"No, no, no. I've changed my mind. I'm coming down for it right away."

"That's a good idea, Mr Longway. You'll find me standing near the phone booths. 11m
wearing white shoes and a red dress with white polka dots. You will not miss me, Sir. But
if you do, I won't." ()

"I'll be there in five minutes." He was there in three.

She spotted him first. "Sir, it's me you are looking for," she said.Mr Longway, I am Fiona
McKenzie, the stranger who phoned you."

"Are you? You see, the picture I had formed Of you in my mind was not black at all.
Wait. That did not come out right, did it? I meant on the phone you sounded Scottish,
white anyway. Goodness, what am I saying? Forget it. I am Tad. Tad Longway."

"I'm pleased to meet you, Sir. I am Fiona. Fiona McKenzie "She handed him something."
That's the article I was telling you about, Sir. "It was a key card to her office at the VOA.

He looked at it. Then he gave it back to her. "Not mine," he said. "The tag says VOA, and
I have no ties with the VOA."

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"Then I interrupted your shower for nothing. Yet I can swear I saw you drop this very
key card, Mr Longway."

"Now, now, Ms McKenzie. Don't go burn yourself at the stake just for this, okay? In fact,
since you've gone to all this trouble for my sake, why don't you let me buy you a drink?
It's time for my evening Martini anyway. So what's your poison?"

She consulted her watch then shook her head. "It's late," she said. "Late? That must be a
new drink."

"All right, Mr Longway. Maybe a Coke, but I must be off soon."

Place the excerpt in its immediate context. (5 marks)

"That's a bad idea, Mr. Longway. "What was Fiona referring to as a bad idea? (2 marks)

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………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………

Identify and illustrate three styles used in this excerpt. (6 marks)

Explain one instance of irony in this excerpt. (2 marks)

………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………

Using information from elsewhere in the text, explain why Ms. Mckenzie sounded
Scottish. (2 marks)

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………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………

How has Ms. Mckenzie been brought out in this excerpt?

………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………

Join the following sentences into one. (begin: After...). (1 mark)

He looked at it. Then he gave it back to her.

………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………

Who is Mr. Longway and why was Fiona so interested in meeting him? (3 marks)

………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………

Read the poem bellow and answer the questions that follow;

I fear the workers: they writhe in bristling grass

And wormy mud: out with dawn, back with dusk.

Depart with seed, and return with fat- bursting fruits.

And I ate the fruit.

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And still they toil at boiling point,

in head – splitting noise and threatening saws:

They suck their energy from slimy cassava

And age – rusty water taps: till they make a Benz

And I ride in the benz: festooned with

stripped rags and python copper coiling monsters

While the workers clap their blistered hands

And I overrun their kids.

They build their hives: often out

of broken bones of fallen mates

And I drone in them – “state house”

Them,“collegize” them, officialize them.

And I……. I whore their daughters

Raised in litter – rotting hovels

And desiring a quickquickhighhighlifelife

To break the bond.

And I tell the workers to unite:

knowing well that they can’t see, hear or understand:

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what with sweat and grim sealing their ears

And eyes already blasted with welding sparks,

And me speaking a colourless tongue

But one day a rainstorm shall flood

The litter rotten hovels and

wash the workers’ ears and eyes clean,

Refresh the tattered muscles for a long – delayed blow

Describe the working conditions of the workers as depicted in stanza 1 and 2.

( 4 marks)

The persona assumes different roles in stanza 3, 4 and 6.With illustrations explain these roles. (6
marks)

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…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………

Identify and explain 2 images from the poem

(4marks)

Which bond do the girls want to break in stanza 5 and how do they do it. (2marks)

…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………

What reasons are given for the workers’ inability to understand the persona? (2
marks)

…………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………..………………………………………………………..………
…………………………

What is the poem suggesting in the last stanza? (2

marks)

…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………

GRAMMAR 15 MARKS

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Rewrite the following sentences as instructed without changing the meaning.

Is she the only entrant for the 100-metre race? (Begin: aren’t…)

…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………

The second meal she cooked was even less successful than the first.

(Rewrite using ………….. as ………………..as……….)

…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………iii) I expect you to do well in this exam if you follow
the instructions (Rewrite using unless instead of if)

…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………………………

Fill the blanks with the correct form of the words in brackets (2
marks)

The chief (shrink) ………..………………from taking the

(decide)………….………………. step.

Replace the underlined words with gender - friendly words. (2

marks)

The spokesman of the government was at the function.

………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………
……………………

The Musyokis have a very hard - working housegirl.

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………………………………………………………………………………………………
…………..

………………………………………………………………………………………………
……..………………………………………………………………………………………
………………….…….

Replace the underlined words with one word that means the same as the underlined phrase.
(
2marks)

The city council pulled down all the structures on road reserves.

He passed out during his grandmother’s funeral.

Choose the correct pronoun to fill in the blanks (

2marks)

He was asked to choose between John and ………………………… (I /me )

I have forgotten ……………………… I gave my book. ( who/whom)

Fill the blanks with the most suitable prepositions (

2marks)

Can you complete the teacher’s assignment ……………………….tomorrow.

We have lived in this village …………………………… independence.

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Add the appropriate question tag (
2marks)

i) I am early ……………………………

ii) Go and get me a cup of coffee ………………………………..

Name: …………………………………….………………… Adm :………….. Class: …..

Index Number: ………………………………….. Candidate’s Signature: ……………….

Date: ……………………………

101/2
ENGLISH
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(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)

END TERM 2-2025

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Time: 2½ Hours

PROJECTION 14
FORM 3
101/2 ENGLISH
Paper 2
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)

Time: 2½ Hours

Instructions to students

Write your name, admission number and class in the spaces provided.
Sign and write the date of the examination in the spaces provided.
Answer all questions in the spaces provided in blue ink.
All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.
Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as
indicated and that no questions are missing
Candidates must answer all questions in English

Question Maximum Student’s Examiner’s

Score Score Initials

1 20

2 25

3 20

468
4 15

TOTAL 80

469
1. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: ( 20 Marks)

Africa are undoubtedly a very enduring race and have the capacity to utilize the available natural
resources for the betterment of life. The biggest challenge, however, is to identify ways and
means of creating an environment that is likely to encourage development in Africa. Perhaps the
greatest strategy would be to develop political structures and government institutions that have
the capacity to formulate and implement ‘genuine poverty alleviation strategies’. Administrative
arrangements that no longer serve our needs should be overhauled or discarded altogether.
Government should foster exploitation and management of natural resources by providing an
enabling environment. Having stable government may not be effective if we don’t fight
corruption. We should ensure that leaders and government agents become answerable to the tax
payer. The public should be educated on the ills of corruption.Those who have stolen public
funds must be made to return them and face the full force of the law. Again, people known to
have stashed money in foreign banks should be forced to repatriate that money so as to improve
cash flow in our economies.

Apart from this, Africa must find a way of solving their internal conflicts without involving the
international community. After all, we are all brothers with a common cause .The need to unite
and exist as unitary state should be stressed as this overrides clan and tribal rights or sentiments
that fuel animosity. The Africa union should be strengthened to enable it to arbitrate intra and
inter-state disputes .The resulting peace will provide a suitable environment for economic growth
and set us on the road to recovery and prosperity. Another solution would be to develop rural-
based economies, since the bulk of our population live in the rural areas. Industries that process
farm produce and those that manufacture farm inputs, machinery and implements should be
located in the rural areas .Similarly mining concerns should establish processing plants near the
mines. Such industries will naturally recruit manpower from the locality involved and
consequently reduce the incidence of rural-urban migration. Setting up industries in the rural
areas will necessitate development of infrastructures which will open up rural areas for business
This will further encourage expansion and increase food production to counter perennial food
shortage in Africa .For instances development of dairy and beef processing industry in the rural
areas will encourage sustainable livestock keeping and probably bring to an end loss of cattle to
drought. A rural based economy will basically raise the income of the rural people and bridge the
disparity between the rich and the poor.

We should also introduce appropriate technology in exploitation of natural resources and in

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expertise to develop technologies appropriate to our needs. Home grown technology should
enable us alleviate Africa’s food security by utilizing river and lake water for irrigation and by
harnessing wind and solar energy.

Lastly our economic units such as ECOWAS, SADC, and EAC should be transformed into
common markets by removing unnecessary tariffs on goods at various entry points so as to realize
the benefits of a common market. The people of Africa should continually seek a better life. We
have the resources; we have the manpower, and the capacity to make things move.

Questions

a) What should African countries do to fight corruption?

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b) Explain how Africans can open up rural areas.

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c) What do you understand by the term ‘genuine poverty alleviation strategies’?

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d) How can we reduce the incidence of rural –urban migration?

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e) Why is appropriate technology useful?

(1Mark)

f) How can African government improve cash flow in their economies

(2Marks)

g) In not more than fifty words write a summary on the various ways of fostering development
in African

countries.
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h) What is the tone of the last paragraph of this passage concerning the future of Africa?
(2Marks)

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i) The public should be educated on the ills of corruption. (Add a question tag)
(1Mark)

j) Explain the meaning of the following words and phrase as used in the passage.
(2Marks)

i) Stashed

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ii) Disparity

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2. Read the excerpt below and then answer the question that follow.
President Bibo Dibonso was a forced to reckon with. Forty years of supremacy had turned power
into a habit then into a toy, and Dibonso himself into a permanent bully. On that day, a new
anger was troubling him. Its cause, also new, had come only that morning. He had slept like a
log the night before and, like a log, woken up stiff. This was not new. He woke up stiff like a
log often these days. So, that morning, he decided to loosen up, for all it was worth, by standing
up then bending down and straightening up again, once. The cause of his new anger arose from
that little workout. In a first sign of loss of self-control, something warm trickled down between
his legs. This had never happened before; it was new. A bolt on some valve inside him had
gone loose, basically owing to old age. Old age has uncanny ways of loosening bolts even on
valves best left alone.

He showered, of course, but his self-image had already suffered a blow no shower could undo.
Since that incident, all words he uttered had a new anger, a terror he unleashed to make up for
a loss of self-worth caused by an internal valve gone haywire. That anger was in his every
word now.

"You have been quite a disgrace, Mr Chairman," he began. This language was extreme, even by
his extreme standards.

"What did you say, President Dibonso?" asked the Chair, pretending he had not heard.

"You've totally lost control of the summit, Mr Chairman."

"What exactly do you mean by that, President Dibonso?"

"This debate is supposed to be about Way Omega and path Alpha. yet didn't you just let someone
raise an imaginary issue not in either of these documents?" President Dibonso was referring to
President Ibarosa, another fire-eater, and dared not mention him by name. "And I'll tell you
something else, Mr Chairman."

"Keep it, President Dibonso," said the Chair curtly.

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President Wasiwasi Wesiga, an old hand who had anticipated many coups and nipped them in the
bud before they got off the ground, was first to spot brewing trouble. He moved at once to end
it. "POINT OF ORDER," he shouted. He did not want trouble. CHAIRMAN, POINT OF
ORDER!"

"Nonsense!" snapped the Chair at him. "What point of order?" Confused by his own fury after his
clash with President Dibonso, he thought he was snapping at that President.

"Its about The Trick, Mr Chairman," said President Wesiga. He had taken no offence for being
snapped at.

Questions;

Place this excerpt in its immediate context. (5 marks)

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Discuss one thematic issue evident in this excerpt. (2 marks)

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Explain the imaginary issue that president Ibarosa raised, that was supposedly not in either of the
documents. (2 marks)

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With clear illustrations, identify three styles used in this excerpt. (6 marks)

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How has president Dibonso been portrayed in this excerpt? (4 marks)

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Using information from elsewhere in the text, explain what The Trick is. (4 marks)

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Give the meaning of the following words as used in the excerpt.

Bully

Fire-eater

3. Read the narrative below and then answer the question that follow.
THE DEATH OF MY FATHER BY Henry Indangasi
His sunken cheeks, his inward-looking eyes,
The sarcastic, scornful smile on his lips,
The unkempt, matted, grey hair,
The hard, coarse sand-paper hands,
Spoke eloquently of the life he had lived.
But I did not mourn for him.
The hammer, the saw and the plane,
These were his tools and his damnation,
His sweat was his ointment and his perfume,
He fashioned dining tables, chairs, wardrobes,
And all the wooden loves of colonial life.
No, I did not mourn for him.
He built mansions,Huge, unwieldy, arrogant constructions;
But he squatted in a sickly mad-house,
With his children huddled stuntedly
Under the bed-bug bed he shared with mother.
I could not mourn for him.I had already inheritedHis premature old-age look,
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But his dreams of freedom and happiness
Had become my song, my love.
So, I could not mourn for him.
No, I did not shed any tears;
My father’s dead life still lives in me,
He lives in my son,I am my father and my son,I will awaken his sleepy hopes and
yearnings,
But I will not mourn for him,I will not mourn for me.
Questions
What kind of life had the persona’s father lived? (3 marks)
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Pick out and explain two examples of personification used in the poem. (4 marks)
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Explain the contrast in second and third stanza. (3 marks)
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Cite one other stylistic device used in the poem and explain its usefulness. (2 marks)

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Explain the meaning of the last two lines of the poem in relation to the rest of the poem.
(3 marks)
Briefly discuss the tone of this poem. (2 marks)
Explain the meaning of the following phrase/lines as used in the poem.
Bed-bug bed (1 mark)
I had already inherited his premature old-age look (1 mark)

4. Grammar
(a) Write the following sentences according to the instructions given. Do not change their
meaning.
(3Marks)
(i) We had just alighted from the car when it began raining.
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(ii) Mothers should not abandon their babies under any circumstances.
(Begin: under……………………………)
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(iii)My title deed was released only after I cleared the outstanding balance.
(Begin: Not until …………………………………..)

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(b) Fill the blanks with the correct form of the verb in brackets.
(3Marks)

(i) Majority of the________________________are yet to receive their pension. (retire).

(ii) Client ______________________________is crucial in solving issues (confidence)

(iii) The items on the agenda were not___________________discussed (exhaust)

(c) Fill the blanks with the appropriate prepositions.

(3Marks)

(i) The disgruntled members could not agree___________________a common stand.

(ii) My son’s preference________________________toy cars is alarming.

(iii) It is advisable to pay_______________________cheque to avoid fraud.

(d) Fill in the blanks with the correct word from the brackets.
(3Marks)

(i) All the guests will be___________________ (dining/dinning) with the queen tonight.

(ii) The people of Kameno shunned Chege’s ____________________ (prophecy/prophesy)

about the

coming of the white men.

(iii)Children should always listen to their parents pieces of_______________ (advise/advice)

(e) Punctuate the following sentences appropriately.

(3Marks)

(i) Certainly said Mayo I will see the manuscript next week.

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(ii) Do you live in Kitale asked msafiri.

(iii)In case of any misunderstanding the teacher said consult the head boy.

Name: …………………………………….………………… Adm :………….. Class: …..

Index Number: ………………………………….. Candidate’s Signature: ……………….

Date: ……………………………

101/2
ENGLISH
Paper 2
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)

END TERM 2-2025

Time: 2½ Hours

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PROJECTION 15
FORM 3
101/2 ENGLISH
Paper 2
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)

Time: 2½ Hours

Instructions to students

Write your name, admission number and class in the spaces provided.
Sign and write the date of the examination in the spaces provided.
Answer all questions in the spaces provided in blue ink.
All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.
Candidates should check the question paper to ascertain that all the pages are printed as
indicated and that no questions are missing
Candidates must answer all questions in English

Question Maximum Student’s Examiner’s

Score Score Initials

1 20

2 25

3 20

4 15

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TOTAL 80

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1. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: ( 20 Marks)

With every passing day, technology is overtaking our daily lives. Regardless of age, gender,
career or economic status, smartphones are fast becoming ubiquitous.

More than two million Kenyans now own smartphones. Add the computer, tablet and other
high tech devices and your life is surrounded by a myriad gadgets which, to some, have
become best friends.

Many of us rely on the phone to do everything, from saying “ I love you” to “I’m quitting”,
from checking bank balances to selling stuff on OLX, from sharing photos and videos to
streaming content on the web. We can carry out a plethora of daily tasks, right from the
palms of our hands.

At the dinner table, it’s the norm to constantly check for texts, e-mails, tweets, WhatsApp
and Face book updates. In a darkened movie hall, people are always multi task on their
phones while watching a movie. Some people even walk with the phone to the toilet and text
and take calls from there.

Over dinner, in church, at a funeral service and even when carrying on face-to-face
conversation, the smartphone is guaranteed to keep you in tune and in touch. It is common to
see careless people texting while driving despite the fact that it is six times more dangerous
to text and drive than to drink and drive.

Because of this over-dependence on the smartphone, many people suffer from the fear of
losing it, even if only for a few minutes.

The “I must- have-my-phone-with-me-at-all-times” mindset has become such a real problem.

There’s now a name coined for the fear of being without phone: nomophobia -no-mo(bile)
phone-phobia. Nomophobia is the fear of not being able to connect to the digital world by the
means of mobile phone.

Although there is no ICD-10 code (the required classification for any medical condition) yet
for this specific affliction, researchers into the phenomenon describe nomophobic people as
individuals who suffer from the anxiety of not having their mobile phone.

The anxiety commonly manifests itself when the person notices their smartphones has a low
battery, no internet connection or if it is missing and one is therefore out of the loop with
friends, family, work and the world. We are ever so busy with gadgets that we intrude into
other people’s space.

As our culture becomes ever more tech savvy and tech hungry, phone-free zones will become
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to see quiet corners, where phone calls are restricted. It’s because common courtesy is often
thrown out the window when we’re on the phone.

Some airports are now offering lounges that are cell phone free. Just like cigarettes, the
mobile phone pendulum is beginning to swing as more and more people acquire monophonic
tendencies.

Considering the Smartphone’s new abilities and capabilities, they are now being used like
digital ‘Swiss Army Knives’, replacing possessions like watches, cameras, books and even
laptops. Today the Smartphone is capable of being an alarm clock, digital camera, and even
television, which causes users to become heavily dependent on it.

Psychologists advise that, while monophobia could possibly never receive a diagnosis, it is
certainly a rising trend. If you constantly find yourself using your Smartphone at odd times,
such as dinner table, while driving, or even in washroom, try your best to refrain from it and
use it only when it is safe and not considered rude.

Setting limits for yourself and engaging with family and friends face-to-face can help calm
the anxiety of continuously checking your phone.

(Adapted from Sunday Nation May

25, 2014)

Questions

Why is technology said to be overtaking our daily lives? (2marks)

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In point form, state the uses of a phone. (4marks)

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What are the bad habits that result from over-dependency on the phone as seen in the passage
and how can they be managed?
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When does anxiety manifest itself more with the use of a phone? (3marks)

According to the passage, why is there need for free zones in public places.
(1mark)

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‘Some airports are now offering lounges that are cellphone free.’ Rewrite using a question tag.
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What is the author’s attitude towards smartphones? (2marks)

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Give the meaning of the following words as used in the passage: (3marks)

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FATHERS OF NATIONS

Read the excerpt below then answer the questions that follow:

"Then, answer my question."

"l see I had totally misjudged you, Ms. McKenzie." He had seen a Iamb: vulnerable. Now he saw
a lioness: dangerous. "l thought you were a proper good-mannered journalist. Instead, I just see
one of those fire eaters who confuse journalism with bad manners."

"Dr. Afolabi, you haven't answered my..."

"What joy do you get out of being rude to those you interview? You like watching them explode
from anger and then bleed, is that it? Fine, but we have just met? What did I do that offended
you?"

"Let me put my question another way, Dr. Afolabi; Why did you come to this summit?

"Correction: I didn't come; I was invited. That means presidents wanted me here, Repeat:
presidents. They saw merit in the book you dismiss as pessimistic and wanted me to assure them
that Way Omega agrees with it. So who cares what you think? What do you know about books,
anyway? Let me tell you something else, Ms.

McKenzie..." He changed his mind-a voice inside him was saying he had become too defensive.
"On further thought, let me not. I don't think I have to defend my book before anyone, least of all
before a third-rate reporter for the Zambian News:

"Gambian, she said.

'Whatever!"

"All right, Dr. Afolabi. Now can you think through your book and give me an example, a
specific example, on which Way Omega agrees with your book?"

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'Yes, I can."

'Then answer my question.' Which question has Ms. McKenzie asked Dr. Afolabi? (2 marks)

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Dr. Afolabi says that he does not think he has to defend his book before anyone. What is the title
of his book? (1 mark)

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From the information in this excerpt, describe the character of Dr. Afolabi. (6 marks)

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Using clear illustrations, identify two styles used in the excerpt. (4 marks)

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What is Dr. Afolabi's role during the heads of state summit? (2 marks)

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From what Dr. Afolabi explains to Ms. McKenzie, describe what Way Omega entails. (3 marks)

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What happens immediately after this excerpt? (3 marks)

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Give the meaning of the following words as used in the excerpt. (4 marks)

Vulnerable

Pessimistic

Defensive

Third-rate

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Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:
(20marks)

WHAT’S IMPORTANT IN LIFE?

The Years have passed by,In the blink of an eye,

Moments of sadness,

And joy have flown by.People I loved,

Have come and have gone,

But the world never stopped,

And we all carried on.

Life wasn't easy,

And the struggles were there,

Filled with times that it mattered,

Times I just didn't care.I stood on my own,

And I still found my way,

Through some nights filled with tears,

And the dawn of new days.

And now with old age,It's become very clear,

Things I once found important,

Were not why I was here.

And how many things,

That I managed to buy,

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Were never what made me,

Feel better inside.And the worries and fears,

That plagued me each day,In the end of it all,

Would just fade away.

But how much I reached out,

To others when needed,Would be the true measure,

Of how I succeeded.And how much I shared,

Of my soul and my heart,

Would ultimately be,What set me apart.

And what's really importantIs my opinion of me,

And whether or not,I'm the best I can be.

And how much more kindness,

And love I can show,Before the Lord tells me,

It's my time to go.

(By Pat Fleming)

Who is the persona in the poem above? ( 2 marks)

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What subject matter is addressed in the poem? ( 3 marks)

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Give evidence from the poem suggesting that time has elapsed so quickly. ( 3 marks)

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Paraphrase verse 6 of the poem. ( 2 marks)

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Describe the attitude of the persona toward the subject matter. ( 3 marks)

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Identify and explain the stylistic device employed in the last verse of the poem. ( 2 marks)

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With old age, it’s become very clear. Rewrite ending with: old age) (1 mark)

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Explain the meaning of the following as used in the poem. ( 4 marks)

Plagued

I stood on my own, through some nights filled with tears

True measure

GRAMMER (15marks):

Give the plurals of the following words (3marks)

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Combine each pair of sentences using appropriate relative pronouns: (2marks)

Here is the man. He stole my blanket.

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She bought the books at a fair. They were all by the same author.

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Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets:
(3marks)

Money cannot…………………………………(buy) friends.

The painting……………………………………. (steal) from the museum.

We are……………………………………………..(dine) with you tonight.

Fill in the blanks with the correct phrasal verb formed from the word in brackets:
(2marks)

Don’t……………………………………….(put) what you can do now.

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You should ………………………………… (stand) your ideals.

Use the correct form of the verb in the brackets to complete each of the following sentences:

(2marks)
More than one key……………………………. (has/have) been found.

A number of points…………………………… (was/were) raised during the consultation.

Rewrite the sentence below in direct speech: (1mark)

The Governor said that he was always ready to assist in development projects in his county.

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Punctuate the sentences below correctly: (2marks)

Peter said Alice is a very lazy boy.

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We have invited Shawn the guitarist Alfred the saxophonist Mutunga the poet and
Kalekye the actress.

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