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CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL

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CAPTAIN: fLooks uP dullY]. Me?

BERTHA: Do you know what you've done? Do you know you threw a lamp at Mother?
CAPTAIN: Did I?

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

CAPTAIN: What difference would that make?

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

CAPTAIN: What's that you say? I'm not your father? How do you know? Who told you
l0 that? Who is your father, then? Who?

BERTHA: Well, not you, anYwaY!

CAPTAIN: Still not me! Who then? Who? You seem well informed. Who have you been
talking to? That I should Iive to hear my own child tell me to my face I'm not her
father! Don't you realize you're insulting your mother when you say that? Don't
l5 you understand that if it's true, it's to her shame?

BERTHA: Don't say anything bad about my motheq do you hear?

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

BERTHA: Father!

CAPTAIN: Don't use that word again!

BERTHA: Father, Father!

you're my child! Yes,

CAPTAIN: fPulls her to him]. Bertha, my dear, dear child, of course
yes, it can't be otherwise. It must be so!

BERTHA: No, no! | want to be mYself!

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

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25 BERTHA: lTries to get away'1. Help, Mother, help! He's going to kill me!

NURSE: fEntersl. MasterAdolf, what's the matter?

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

30 fBertha steals out to the leftl.

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

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

NURSE: All right, but you listen carefully, then. Do you remember the times you had to
get dressed, and didn't want to? And then I took your little undershirt and said: .ln
with your arrns no% both of them.' And then I said: .Sit still now and be a good
boy while I button up the back.' fshe has got the stroitjacket on him). And then
40 I said: 'Get up now, and walk nicely across the floor so I can see how it fits'...
[she leads him over to the sofa). Andthen I said: 'Now it's time to go to bed.,

CAPTAIN: what did you say? Go to bed when he'd just got dressed? what
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have you done to me? frries tofree himselfl. oh, you damned cunning woman!
who'd have thought you were so clever? [Lies down on the sofa]. caught, ctipped
45 and double-crossed.

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

Adapted from August Str indberg,,, The Father,'

In Michael Robinson, Miss Julie and Other plays.
Oxford University Press, New york, pp. 47-49.

(a) Briefly describe what happens in lines l - 10.

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(b) How does Bertha feel about her father, the Captain? Support your answer with evidence
from the extract.

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(c) Explain what the stage directions in lines l, 3 and 27-29 reveal about the Captain.

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(d) (i) Comment on the dramatic significance of the Nurse reminding the Captain about
his childhood in lines 31- 4l .

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(ii) Explain what the Nurse's actions in lines 3l- 4l reveal about her attitude towards
the CaPtain.

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i-lltt.'. (e) ldentity ONE prop used in the extract and explain its effect on the conflict.
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(f) Comment on the effect of the Captain's statement "Caught, clipped, and double-crossed,,
(lines 44-45).

(2 marks)

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

(3 marks)

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2. Read the poem below carefully and answerALL the questions that follow.

Curanderar

They think she lives alone

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

She wakes early, lights candles before

her sacred statues , brews tea of yerbabuena.
She moves down her porch steps' rubs
t0 cool morning sand into her hands, into her arms
like a large black bird, she feeds on
the desert, gathering herbs for her basket.

Her days are slow, daYs of grinding

dried snake into powdeq of crushing
l5 wild bees to mix with white wine.
And the townspeoPle come, hoPing
to be touched bY her ointments'
her hands, her praYers, her eYes.
She listens to their stories, and she listens
20 to the desert, alwaYs, to the desert.

By sunset she is tired. The wind

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

Pat Mora,
Re trieved from h t tp : //www.poe tryfoundation. org/poe m/ 2 4 3 2 9

I Atraditional native healer in Mexico and other parts ofthe Spanish-speaking

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State THREE things we learn about the curandera in stanza l.

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(b) What does "she lives alone / On the edge of town" (lines | -2) suggest about the curandera?

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(c) Identify the figurative device used in ONE of the following and comment on its effectiveness:

. "like a large black bird, she feeds on / the desert" (lines I l-l2)
. "The wind / strokes the strands of long gray hair" (lines 2l-22)

(3 marks)

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Comment on the poet's use of imagery in stanza 3.

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

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

(3 marks)

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

(3 marks)

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

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

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

Instead of making his escape, Fishcake headed for the kitchen. Resting his heavy knap
sack on the counter, he opened the fridge door and took out a bottle of water. He was about to
l5 close the door when something else caught his eye a cling wrap covered bowl, filled to the
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brim with fishcake batter. The kitchen was soon filled with the delicious aroma of fishcakes, and
the little ball of batter danced merrily in the oil accompanied by the usual frying noises.

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

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

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

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

Adapted from Shirnelle Blackman, " Ma's House. "

In The Hole and Other Barbadian Poems and Short Stories:
A llinning Words Anthologt, National Cultural Foundation, 2004, pp. 119-123.

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

(3 marks)

(b) Comment on the effectiveness of "dressed in all black (in broad daylight, mind you) and
wearing dark sunglasses" (line | 0).

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(c) (i) Why did Fishcake remain in the house after he took the items?

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

(2 marks)

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police") make the extract humorous?

(3 marks)

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

(3 marks)

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

(2 marks)

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

(2 marks)

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

(2 marks)

Total20 marks

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