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A) Read the following passage from Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel

Defoe, and answer the questions that follow.
“It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised
with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in
the sand. I stood like one thunder- struck, or as if I had seen an apparition. I listened, I
looked round me, I could hear nothing, nor see anything. I went up to a rising ground,
to look farther. I went up the shore, and down the shore, but it was all one; I could see
no other impression but that one, I went to it again to see if there were any more, and
to observe if it might not be my fancy; but there was no room for that, for there was
exactly the very print of a foot -- toes, heel, and every part of a foot. How it came
thither I knew not, nor could in the least imagine. But after innumerable fluttering
thoughts, like a man perfectly confused and out of myself, I came home to my
fortification, not feeling, as we say, the ground I went on, but terrified to the last
degree, looking behind me at every two or three steps, mistaking every bush and tree,
and fancying every stump at a distance to be a man; nor is it possible to describe how
many various shapes affrighted imagination represented things to me in, how many
wild ideas were found every moment in my fancy, and what strange unaccountable
whimsies came into my thoughts by the way.

When I came to my castle, for so I think I called it ever after this, I fled into it like one
pursued. Whether I went over by the ladder, as first contrived, or went in at the hole in
the rock, which I called a door, I cannot remember; no, nor could I remember the next
morning, for never frighted hare fled to cover, or fox to earth, with more terror of
mind than I to this retreat.

I slept none that night. The farther I was from the occasion of my fright, the greater my
apprehensions were; which is something contrary to the nature of such things, and
especially to the usual practice of all creatures in fear. But I was so embarrassed with
my own frightful ideas of the thing, that I formed nothing but dismal imaginations to
myself, even though I was now a great way off it.

While these reflections were rolling upon my mind, I was very thankful in my thoughts
that I was so happy as not to be thereabouts at that time, or that they did not see my
boat, by which they would have concluded that some inhabitants had been in the
place, and perhaps have searched farther for me. Then terrible thoughts racked my
imagination about their having found my boat, and that there were people here; and
that if so, I should certainly have them come again in greater numbers, and devour me;
that if it should happen so that they should not find me, yet they would find my
enclosure, destroy all my corn, carry away all my flock of tame goats, and I should
perish at last for mere want.”

Match the following words from the text and their definitions:

a. Stranded 1. Eat hungrily

b. Barley 2. Heavy steps
c. Exceedingly 3. Kind of wild rabbit
d. Stood like thunderstruck 4. Unhappiness
e. Apparition 5. Left without the possibility of
f. Fancy moving
g. Thither 6. Ghost
h. Fortification 7. Military fort
i. Stump 8. A type of cereal
j. Affrighted 9. Too much
k. Whimsies 10. Shocked
l. Hare 11. Group of animals
m. Fled 12. Imagination
n. Retreat 13. Escaped
o. Dismal 14. A place to hide
p. Thereabouts 15. Strange ideas
q. Devour 16. Frightened
r. Flock 17. To that place
s. Apprehensions 18. Artificial
t. Inhabitants 19. Fears, concerns
20. People who live in a place
 B) Read the following extract from Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe, and answer the
following questions with one paragraph in each case. Remember to use the PEE
structure (point of view, evidence, explain):

“SEPTEMBER 30, 1659. - I, poor miserable Robinson Crusoe, being shipwrecked during a dreadful storm in
the offing, came on shore on this dismal, unfortunate island, which I called "The Island of Despair"; all the
rest of the ship's company being drowned, and myself almost dead.

All the rest of the day I spent in afflicting myself at the dismal circumstances I was brought to - viz. I had
neither food, house, clothes, weapon, nor place to fly to; and in despair of any relief, saw nothing but
death before me - either that I should be devoured by wild beasts, murdered by savages, or starved to
death for want of food. At the approach of night I slept in a tree, for fear of wild creatures; but slept
soundly, though it rained all night.”

1) Analyse the setting- (5 marks) Describe the setting as seen through the character’s
point of view.
2) Explore the mood in the passage. (5 marks) How does the author use diction to affect
the mood on the reader?
3) Point of view (5 marks)- What is the point of view in this passage? Does it have any
effect on the reader?
4) Robinson Crusoe is considered part of a genre called Realistic Fiction. Why? (5 marks)
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