ty, COLOMBO INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL YEAR 9 ENGLISH LITERATURE November 2012 (1% HOURS) Instructions to Candidates Do not turn over the paper until you are told to do so. Read all the questions thoroughly before beginning. There are two sections to be completed. You have 45 minutes to complete each section. Remember to allow time for reading, planning, and proof reading. Read the instructions for each section carefully. Complete each section on separate sheets of paper. Make sure you write your name and the name of your English teacher on every sheet of paper. Staple each section (A and B) separately.Section A: Seen Short Stories and Poetry ‘Answer one question from the three choices given below. 1. How does Jamila Gavin present the relationship between Nasreen and her parents in the short story ‘Forbidden Clothes’? 2. Teenagers succumb to peer pressure, yet eventually make the right decision in the end. Choose a short story that you have studied and shaw how this idea is presented. Nature should be appreciated, not destroyed. Discuss how Charlotte Mew presents this view in her poem ‘The Trees are Down’ Remember to Organise your answer using an introduction, body paragraphs and a conclusion Provide examples, quotations and explanation to support your answer. You will be assessed an the | quality of your ideas and how effectively you present them, Check your work carefully for errors ~ | your spelling, punctuation and grammar will be assessed. Total marks for this section: 20Section B: Unseen Poetry Carefuily read che following pucim and answer the questions that toliow, Take care to cece ine number of marks allocated to each question and to answer accordingly. | Seasoned | Hecannt end ite ie shoe, | [stoop to make the knot j that takee me ack to when he carried fully grown men | down stairs in the middle of the night 5 i found them in flocds or snowdrifts hauled them up cliffs on stretchers pulled them out of sheughs and bogs allina day's work | he held mother’s hands in ambulances 10 | gave the kiss of life i in porches, on roadsides, delivered babies in toilets of country bars long after closing. At home he bathed us on a Saturday night iS bent over the tub, sleeves rolled up arms covered in suds told stories of him as a boy | when once he cycied twenty miles to runa race and won, then cycled twenty home. 20 His back, a solid Irish oak, i bent, moved, straightened to each particular need. Now its knots tell the years ofa thousand people who leant on him 25 shoulders that carried other people's lives i as well as his own, i He cannot bend to lace his shoe | and | have learned to make the loop by Elaine Gaston Word Bank sheughs (line 8): a ditchQuestions (Begin your answers on a new sheet of paper} 1. The poet's father was a doctor. Pick three quotations thee ney you ures cond this, (3 marks} 2. identity the technique used in “that takes me back’. (Line 3) (1 mari 3. Explain what you understand about how the doctor did his job in line 9: “all in a day’s work". (1 mark} 4, What observations can be made about her father’s character? Your answer must identify techniques, examples and explain the effect You may use the same technique more than once, with a different example and effect. (6 marks} 5, How has the father changed? Use a quotation to support your answer. {2 marks) 6. Explain what the paet means by “and | have learned to make the loop’, (Line 29} (2 marks) 7. What do we learn about the poet's feelings for her father? Use quotations to support your answer. (4 marks) 8. Explain the significance of the title with reference to the poem. (1 mar) Total marks for this section: 20