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ENGLISH SEMESTER II EXAMS

YEAR 2021-2022

Subject : ENGLISH LITERATURE

Grade : 9 A-B

Day / Date : 2021-2022

Directions:
1) Read the questions carefully.
2) You have 90 minutes to do the exams so use your time carefully.
3) Before submitting your work, please check your Name, Class and Student Number.

Part 1 (20 Marks)

(Each Question carries 2 Marks)
Answer the following short questions:
1. Why didn’t Jan want to go to the New Year’s Eve party?
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2. How much was Donald’s ferry fare? What did he do to the three drovers?

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3. At the cave, what secret thing did Sigrid have to tell Trovald?

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4. What was Eddie Hart business? What did he do? (the confession)

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5. What did Marina bring to Mr Connery while he was in the make-up room?

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6.What is the theme of the short story the pigeon?

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7.What do you think is the reason for Ian to narrate a false robbery to the detective?

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8.Who is Adriana and how does he connect to Captain Trovald?

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9.Why didn’t Veronica and Anges not believe in the narrative of Mariana’s meeting with Sean Connery?

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10.What lesson do we get from the legend of Donald and the drovers?

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Part 2
(20 marks)
choose the best answer
1 Ella is _____ woman.
a A worried and quiet
b A strange, but friendly
c An unkind and angry
d A kind and motherly

2 Jan is now Ella’s _____.

a Neighbor
b Husband
c Visitor
d Cleaner

3 Donald has two jobs. He is a ferryman and a_____.

a Shoemaker
b Farmer
c Doctor
d Teacher

4 The three drovers are very _____ men.

a Generous
b Mean
c Kind
d Ill

5 Captain Torvald now has a _____ life.

a Quiet, but very happy
b Busy and interesting
c Rich and exciting
d Hard and lonely

6 Andrina is _____.
a Torvald’s grandmother
b The postmistress from the village
c A pretty girl of twenty
d An older Australian woman

7 Ian is a man who likes to _____.

a Ask questions
b Sit quietly
c Talk a lot
d Write things down

8 The detective at the police station _____.

a Doesn’t listen to Ian
b Listens carefully to Ian
c Puts Ian in prison
d Pushes Ian
9 Sean Connery is Marina’s _____.
a Close neighbor
b Distant cousin
c Dream person
d Important boss

10 When Marina first meets Sean Connery, she finds he is very _____ and looks great.
a Tall
b Small
c Young
d Thin

11 Jan finds a pigeon which is very _____.

a Fat
b Excited
c Ill
d Hungry

12 Jan doesn’t want to _____.

a Talk to Ella
b Find Ella’s blouse
c Look after the pigeon
d Go out and celebrate

13 The three drovers want to pay Donald _____pence.

a Two
b three
c Six
d Twenty

14 Donald leaves the drovers _____.

a On a small island
b In a big hut
c Near a cattle market
d Under some tall trees

15 Captain Torvald _____ a girl called Sigrid when he was younger.

a Ran away from
b Killed
c Married
d Worked with

16 In a letter, Sigrid says that Andriana _____.

a Went to Australia
b Sailed to Scotland
c Married a sailor
d Died suddenly
17 Ian explains that he stole some washing machines, but one of them had _____ in it.
a Money
b Drugs
c Gold
d Silver

18 In the end, the detective thinks that Ian’s story is _____.

a untrue
b True
c Very frightening
d Very funny

19 Marina takes a tray of tea and some _____ to Sean Connery’s room.
a Sandwich
b Crisps
c Shortbread
d Chocolate

20 Sean Connery is _____ Marina when he learns that she’s not the real tea lady.
a Unkind to
b Nice to
c Cold to
d Angry with

Part 3 (10 marks)

Write the Scottish names to these definitions from the stories. choose from the words below:
SHORT BREAD, GAELIC , WEE, LOCH, FIRST -FOOTING, HOGMANAY, OCH, YE , CELTIC.

1. A rich biscuit (cookie) made with a lot of butter. _________________________________

2. In Scotland, a lake or a small bit of sea almost surrounded by land. ____________________

3. Very small. _____________________

4. Being the first person to enter somebody’s house in the new year. ________________________

5. The Celtic language of Scotland. _____________

6. In Scotland, New Year’s Eve (31 December). __________________

7. What is “you” spoken as in Scottish language? __________________

8.An expression of surprise in Scottish English. __________________

9. Heroes of Ancient Scottish and Irish stories. __________________

10.Language of Scotland is. __________________

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(20 marks)

Who said so in the stories? Write their names and the stories name (2 marks each)

1. “Phew! It’s airless in here, Captain. You want to get some fresh air…”
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2. “BBC coffee is always terrible” ______________________________

3. “There’s a price on my head now. You’ve got to help me!” ___________________________________

4. “Yes, it is dead. Poor thing. I think it had a hard time before it came here”.
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5. “Keep your crúns, you like them so much” __________________________

6. “My boy’s so good to me. He saved his money and bought me this as s surprise.”
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7. ‘Don’t you remember a child? A small girl? Fair hair, soft smooth hair, blue eyes always
laughing.’ __________________

8. ‘I wish I knew that grandfather of mine. Gran, do you think he’s lonely? __________________

9. ‘Tony’s my brother, two years younger than me, but he was always the clever one .
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10. ‘We’ll miss the best cattle. They’re always sold first.’ _________________

Part 5
Choose the correct answer. (5 marks)
1. Marina went to the BBC bookshop in Glasgow to buy a present / a documentary for her mum.
2. Malc’s mother had just fitted her new dishwasher / new washing machine.
3. I collected my pension / my letters and a basket full of food in the village shop.
4. Ella and her family were celebrating New Year’s Day / New Year’s Eve.
5. They put the drugs in one of the rubbish skips in the front door / at the back of the club.

Part 6

Match the following A With B ( 5 MARKS)

A
1 ___ ‘You’ll know now that me and the boat are old but honest ...’

2 ___ ‘You should take good care of yourself,

you all alone up there. There’s still grayness in your face ...’
3 ___ ‘I’m in terrible danger. I mean, there’s a price on my head now.’
4 ___ ‘Ah, tea.’
5 ___ ‘No, it belongs to me. I am not taking it to any other person.
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a Ian in The Confession

b Donald in Donald and the Drovers

c Jan in The Pigeon

d Miss Stewart in Andriana

e Sean Connery in The Day I Met Sean Connery

PART 7
(5 MARKS)
Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?

a ___ Jan once had a wife and a daughter, but they died in a prison camp.

b ___ Ella is angry about the pigeon and she shouts at Jan.

c ___ The drovers have come to the islands to buy cattle.

d ___ Donald only takes the drovers away when they give him a lot of money.

Part 8
(7 marks)
Here is Ella, telling her son about Jan´s past. Complete the conversation with the words from
the box.

Wife / was killed / looked for them / happened to him

died /dreams about her /his daughter
“You see, Robert, terrible things have _____________________________ . He had a family
before, a
__________________ and a daughter. In the war they were put into different prison camps,
and
when Jan came out, he __________________________ . He learnt that his wife
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and he looked for ____________________. At last he found a girl who told him she
______________________. The poor, poor things. He still _________________________, you
know”.
Part 9
(3 marks)
A. Which famous person would you like to meet, and why? Imagine you are, like
Marina, in a lift with this person. How will you begin a conversation? Think of the
best two questions to ask.

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B. Here are short poems (haiku) about one of the stories. Which of the five stories is it
about?
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Old year, new year, still

The pain of a distant death
Breaks his heart in two.

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His eyebrows go up.

He is trying not to laugh
Nice girl. Nice shortbread.
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C. Write your own one haiku on any of the short story you have read in the book A
Cup of Kindness. Remember to keep to three lines of 5, 7,5 syllables. Write the
name of the short story you choose to write Haiku on.

(3 marks)

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