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CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL

CARIBBEAN ADVANCED PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION@
LITERATURES IN ENGLISH

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23 MAY 2016 (a.m.)

READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY.

I This paper consists of FIFTEEN questions.

2. Answer ALL questions.

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

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I DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO.

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SECTION A
MODULB 1 DRAMA
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QUESTTONS l-s
Read the extract below and answer Questions l-5.
AMan of Science

[Diable Papa enters from an inner room. He extracts a money-box from the trunk and puts it on the
table beside the throne chair. Only then does he unbolt the window and door, then he returns to sit in
the chair and calls in a loud voice.J

DIABLE PAPA: Man, beast or devil! Enter the abode of your master, Diable Papa!

5 (BRISCOE enters cautiously carrying his poui stick. He looks about nervously trying to accustom his
eyes to the semi-darlcness of the room.)

BRISCOE Morning, morning, Diable Papa. I come seeking your kind favour. Hey, where you
be? I can't too well see you in the dark. You and the shadows make one.

DIABLE PAPA You too impatient. Three time you assault my door. Knit yourself together, man,
10 and name your name.

BRISCOE I is Tim Briscoe, blade for blade. Old Peloo point me here. He say of all science-men
it have today, you alone is lord and master.

DIABLE PAPA: You come singly?

BRISCOE: Me one.

l5 DIABLE PAPA: Then gather your courage and declare your story.

BRISCOE: Papa,I beg you help me out.

DIABLE PAPA: State systematically in exact terminology what business you come about.

BRISCOE: Yes. I going tell you from the start -

DIABLE PAPA: Take time, boy, take time. No cart before horse in this establishment. You walk with
20 money?

BRISCOE: I ain't so ignorant! Peloo say, 'Put coin in your pocket', so I bring you every penny
I got.

(He hands Diable Papa a bag of money.)

DIABLE PAPA: How much here?

25 BRISCOE: TWenty-three dollars plus.

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DIABLE PAPA Is all? Huh. Some presumptuous body want to make me a mookr, or you ain't half
as smart as you look.

BRISCOE: The money ain't enough, Diable Papa?

DIABLE PAPA: As you trade word with me, no matter is two minutes or twenty, your purse got to
30 be much fatter.

BRISCOE How much more so?

DIABLE PAPA A cool fifty.

BRISCOE Fifty dollars?

DIABLE PAPA Flat.

35 BRISCOE: Alas! Since I born and bred I never see that size of money yet. You can't give me
an ease-up, Diable Papa?

DIABLE PAPA My fee is my fee, pardner. Don't fret with me. Easing-up is dead against my policy.
(Speaking past Briscoe) Who next outside?

BRISCOE Papa, you can't send me away empty. I in the grip of adversity. Help me, I beg you.
40 Help me, do. I will make good recompense to you.

DIABLE PAPA I see you on the verge of desperation. Unload your trouble and, promising nothing,
I will consider some concession.
rmook-afool
Adaptedfrom Errol Hill,"Man Better Mon". In Plalts For Today.
Longman Caribbean, 1 985, pp. I 6 1-l 62.

I Identify the setting of this extract and state ONE activity that is taking place in lines 1-5.
[2 marksl

2. (a) Identify TWO props in the opening stage directions. [2 marksl

(b) Explain TWO ways in which the bag of money (line 23) is dramatically significant.
[4 marksl

3. State THREE inferences that can be made about Briscoe's personality Support your answer
with evidence from the extract. [6 marksl

4. Identify TWO examples of irony in the passage and comment on the significance of EACH.
[6 marks]

5. Explain TWO ways in which the title of the extract is dramatically significant. [4 marks]

Total24 marks

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SECTION B

MODULE 2 POETRY
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QUBSTTONS 6-10

Read the poem below and answer Questions 6-10.

Storm on the Island

We are prepared: we build our houses squat,

Sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate.
This wizened earth has never troubled us
With hay, so, as you see, there are no stacks
5 Or stooks' that can be lost. Nor are there trees
Which might prove company when it blows full
Blast: you know what I mean leaves and branches
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Can raise a tragic chorus in a gale
So that you listen to the thing you fear
l[ Forgetting that it pummels your house too.
But there are no trees, no natural shelter.
You might think that the sea is company,
Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs
But no: when it begins, the flung spray hits
15 The very windows, spits like a tame cat
Turned savage. We just sit tight while wind dives
And strafes2 invisibly. Space is a salvo3,
We are bombarded with the empty air.
Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.

Seamus Heaney, "Storm on the Island". In Death of a Naturalist.

Oxford University Press, 1966, p. 51.

rstooks pyramid-shaped bundles of hay set out in fields

2strafes - attacks aggressively
3salvo - the release all at one time of a rack of bombs or rockets (as from an airplane)
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6. (a) From lines I to 2, identify TWO ways in which the islanders prepare for storms.
[2 marks]

(b) From lines 3 to 5, identify TWO ways in which the earth prepares for storms. [2 marksl

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7 Comment on the significance of the poet's choice of words in EACH of the following lines:

(i) "squat" (line l) [2 marks]

(ii) "wizened" (line 3) [2 marks]

(iii) "pummels" (line l0) [2 marks]

8. Identify the literary device used in EACH of the following phrases and comment on the
effectiveness of EACH device.

(i) "Exploding comfortably" (line I3) [3 marks]

(ii) "spits like a tame cat / Turned savage" (lines l5-16) [3 marksl

9. (a) Identify TWO military images in lines 16-18 [2 marks]

(b) Comment on the effectiveness of the poet's use of military imagery in conveying
atmosphere. 12 marksl

10. Explain ONE way in which "it is a huge nothing that we fear" (line 19) functions as an
effective ending to the poem. [4 marksl

Total24 marks

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SECTION C

MODULE3-PROSEFICTION

QUESTTONS rl-ls
Read the extract below and answer Questions f1-15.

The Kiss

It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending
out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows. Brantain sat in one of these shadows;
it had overtaken him and he did not mind. The obscurity lent him courage to keep his eyes fastened
as ardently as he liked upon the girl who sat in the firelight. She was very handsome. She was quite
5 composed and occasionally sent a slow glance into the shadow where her companion sat. She knew
that he loved her a fellow without guile enough to conceal his feelings, and no desire to do so. For
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two weeks past he had sought her society eagerly and persistently. She was confidently waiting for him
to declare himself and she meant to accept him. The rather insignificant and unattractive Brantain was
enormously rich; and she liked and required the entourage which wealth could give her. During one
10 of the pauses in their conversation, the door opened and a young man entered whom Brantain knew
quite well. The girl turned her face toward the young man. A stride or two brought him to her side, and
bending over her chair before she could suspect his intention, for she did not realize that he had not
seen her visitor
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he pressed an ardent, lingering kiss upon her lips.
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Brantain slowly arose; so did the girl arise, but quickly, and the newcomer stood between them. "I
15 believe," stammered Brantain, "l see that I have stayed too long. I I had no idea that is, I must
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wish you good-bye." She did not trust herself to speak.

At the next tea party, she approached Brantain with a delicious frankness of manner when she saw him
there. ..Will you let me splak to you a moment or two, Mr Brantain?" she asked with an engaging but
perturbed smile. He seemed extremely unhappy; but when she took his arm and walked away with
20 irim, seeking a retired corner, a ray of hope mingled with the almost comical misery of his expression'
She was apparently very outspoken. "Perhaps I should not have sought this interview,
Mr Brantain;
but but, oh, I have blen very uncomfortable, almost miserable since that little encounter the other
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afternoon. When I thought how you might have misinterpreted it, and believed things" -
hope was
plainly gaining the ascendancy over misery in Brantain's round, guileless face. "Of course, I know
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25 it i, nott ing to you, but for my own sake I do want you to understand that the young man, Mr Harvy,
he is entitled to
is a close friend of long standing. He is my brother's best friend and often fancies that
this," almost weeping,
the same privileges ur1h" famiiy. Oh, I know it is absurd to tell you she was
..but it makes so much difference to me what you think of of me." Her voice had grown very low
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had all disappeared from Brantain's face. "Then you do really care what
and agitated. The misery -Irday
30 I thinf, Miss Nathalie? I call you Miss Nathalie?" They turned into a long, dim corridor. They
walked slowly to the very of it. When they turned to retrace their steps Brantain's face was radiant
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and hers was triumPhant.

Adaptedfrom Kate chopin, "The Kiss". Retrieved 12 March 2014 from

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11 Identify the context ofthe extract. [2 marks]

t2 Identify THREE traits that are revealed in EACH of the following characters:

(i) Mr Brantain [3 marks]

(ii) Miss Nathalie [3 marks]

13. (a) Comment on ONE way in which setting contributes to atmosphere in paragraph l.
[2 marks]

(b) Explain TWO ways in which characters' actions contribute to atmosphere in

paragraph l. [4 marks]

14. Explain TWo ways in which Mr Harvy's entrance is significant. [4 marks]

15 (a) Explain the meaning of the phrase "hope was plainly gaining the ascendancy over
misery" (lines 23-24). [2 marksl
(b) Explain ONE way in which the last three sentences (lines 3G-32) function as aneffective
ending to the extract.
[4 marks]

Total24 marks

END OF TEST

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