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ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE GRADE 9

Examiner: H. van JUNE EXAMINATION Time: 1½
Moderator Heerden PAPER 4: RESPONSE HOURS
H. SWART TO LITERATURE Marks: 100

Instructions:
1. Read your questions carefully and highlight important words.
2. Answer all of the questions in full sentences.
3. Check your spelling after writing the test.
4. Use the vocabulary that you have learnt in the English class.
5. Write in a formal tone.
6. If you do not understand a question go back to it later on.
7. Number your questions correctly.
8. Rule off after each question.
9. Write neatly.

10. Write your full name, class, and admission number on the top of
your answer paper.
11. Each section counts 20 marks, answer all the questions form all the
sections.

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SECTION A :POETRY
UNSEEN POEM: MAMAS HANDS
Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow

Mama's Hands

I saw you hide your hands in line,

behind that lady fair,
I noticed too, hers soft and white--
immaculate from care.
But Ma, I say, it's no disgrace
to have workin' hands like you,
and had she lived the life you have,
she'd have hands just like it too.

But her hands have never hauled in wood,

or worked in God's good earth.
They've never felt the bitter cold,
or chopped ice for waitin' stock,
they've never doctored sick ones,
or dressed a horse's hock.
They've never pulled a hip-locked calf,
or packed water to the barn
They've probably never patched blue jeans,
or had worn ol' socks to darn.

They've never touched a young’n,

or caressed a fevered head,
with hands so gently folded,
all night beside his bed.

They've never scrubbed a kitchen floor,

or done dishes every day.
They've never guided with those hands
a child who's lost the way.

They've never made a Christmas gift,

shaped by a lovin' hand.
They've never peeled apples,
nor vegetables they've canned.
They've never worn a blister,
or had calluses to show,
for all they've done for others,
and the kindnesses I know.

So you see, my dearest Mama--

yours are hands of love.
And I bet the Lord will notice
when he greets you from above.

Tommi Jo Casteel

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QUESTION 1: MAMAS HANDS /10

1.1 In your opinion, why did the mother hide her hands? (1)
1.2 Describe her hands.Refer to the different types of imagery in your
answer. (2)
1.3 Contrast the hands of the mother and the fair lady. (2)

1.4 Infer where the characters in the poem live, quote from the text to
Substantiate your answer. (2)
1.5 Is there anything interesting about the rhyme scheme. (1)

1.6 In the last stanza, the poet mentions how the Lord will view
his mother’s hands. Why does the poet say the Lord will greet his
mother this way? (2)

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SEEN POEM: MENDING WALL

Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow.

Mending Wall
BY ROBERT FROST
1. Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
2. That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
3. And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
4. And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
5. The work of hunters is another thing:
6. I have come after them and made repair
7. Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
8. But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
9. To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
10. No one has seen them made or heard them made,
11. But at spring mending-time we find them there.
12. I let my neighbour know beyond the hill;
13. And on a day we meet to walk the line
14. And set the wall between us once again.
15. We keep the wall between us as we go.
16. To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
17. And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
18. We have to use a spell to make them balance:
19. "Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"
20. We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
21. Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
22. One on a side. It comes to little more:
23. There where it is we do not need the wall:
24. He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
25. My apple trees will never get across
26. And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
27. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours."
28. Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder

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 29. If I could put a notion in his head:
30. "Why do they make good neighbours? Isn't it
31. Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
32. Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
33. What I was walling in or walling out,
34. And to whom I was like to give offence.
35. Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
36. That wants it down." I could say "Elves" to him,
37. But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
38. He said it for himself. I see him there
39. Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
40. In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
41. He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
42. Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
43. He will not go behind his father's saying,
44. And he likes having thought of it so well
45. He says again, "Good fences make good neighbours."

QUESTION 2: MENDING WALL

1.1 Comment on the form of the poem, referring in your answer to the
structure, (2)
1.2 Briefly state the central theme/message of the poem. (2)
1.3 Quote the explanation that the pine farmer gives for needing the
wall. In your answers explain what this old adage/saying means. (2)
1.4 What explanation does the speaker give for not needing
a wall. (1)
1.5 Analyze the figurative language in the following quote from the poem.
Identify, and define the figure of speech and explain its effectiveness.

‘Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top

In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me…’
(3)

TOTAL SECTION A: /20

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SECTION B: FOLKLORE

QUESTION 3: THE MAGIC OF LITTLE HONEYGUIDE

Suddenly, after walking for hours, they came across a row of red clay
pots. There was something strange about these pots: they were all
standing upside down.
‘What do you think this means?’ asked the younger brother. ‘Who do
you think would leave pots in a wild and deserted place such as this?’
‘Do not touch them,’ said the elder brother, concerned. ‘I do not like
the look of these pots.’ He explained to his younger brother why he was
nervous about the pots in the middle of nowhere. ‘I sense that there is
magic about them and I think that we had better leave them alone.’
But the younger brother, who had always been the braver and more
adventurous of the two, was intrigued by the red clay pots and he did
not want to pass them by. He wanted to have a closer look and see if
there was any clue as to whom these pots belonged, and what they were
doing upside down in the middle of nowhere.

3.1 Identify why the two brothers are out in the wilderness. (2)
3.2 Folklore often focusses on stereotypes, explain the stereotypes of
the younger and older brother. (2)
3.3 This story is based on a Biblical story, which story does it replicate? (2)
3.4 What happened when the younger brother followed the old woman? (2)
3.5 Explain why the story is called ‘ The magic of little honeyguide’ (1)
3.6 Why could one characterise the older brother as being greedy? What did
he do that merited this description. (2)
3.7 Relate what the older brother told his parents when his younger brother
did not return from the wilderness with him. (2)
3.8 Explain what a precipice is according to the story. Along with your answer
give a synonym for precipice. (2)
3.9 Who is the real hero of the story? Justify your answer by referring to
the story. (2)
3.10 When the younger brother was rescued , what did the older brother do? (1)
3.11 Give the moral or lesson learned from the story. (2)

TOTAL SECTION B: FOLKLORE /20

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SECTION C: SHORT STORY
SHORT STORY: THE QUARRY

Read the extract from the short story The Quarry and answer the questions that
follow.

These thoughts and speculations took him some minutes, so that the crowd below knew that he
was facing some kind of crisis. He was nearly fifty feet up, about one-third of the height of the
quarry face. There were now a hundred people watching him, talking to each other, but not loudly,
because they were subdued by contemplation of the dangers that lay ahead. The boys were filled
with admiration and awe, and the women were tender feeling and care. It was a white boy, it was
true, but there in the danger and excitement of his journey up the quarry face he had become one
of their own. The boys wished him luck and the women shook their heads, unable to be indifferent
to either his naughtiness or his plight.
Johnny lifted his right foot to make the first step of the ascent, and this action put the big Indian
man into a panic.
"Sonny," he cried, "Don't go up any more. You'll die, sonny, and no one here wants you to die.
Sonny, I ask you to come down." He went down on his knees on the quarry floor, and said, "I pray
God to make you come down. I pray God not to be angry with you." The women there, both Indian
and African, seeing him kneeling there, cried out, "Shame," but not because they thought his action
was shameful, they were merely saying how sad the whole thing was.

QUESTION 4: THE QUARRY

4.1 Explain why Johnny was attempting to climb the quarry face. (2)
4.2 What was the racial make-up of the crowd of onlookers? (2)
Examine the following quote:
‘It was a white boy, it was true."
4.3 Identify the point that the narrator attempting to make by
this statement. (2)
4.4 Comment on the role that "the big Indian man" plays in this story. (1)
4.5 Given the setting, is there a point to the story? What is it? (2)
4.6 Did Johnny succeed in climbing the quarry face? Explain. (2)
Examine the following quote:
"The policeman cleared a way through the mob of congratulators, and
there, under the eyes of authority, Johnny Day put out his hand and
thanked Thomas Ndhlovu again for the act which, for all we know, saved
his life."

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 4.7 Comment on these lines as a conclusion to this short story.
Explain the significance of race in this conclusion. (3)
Match the following idioms and proverbs in Column A with their
meanings in Column B by only giving the corresponding letters:

COLUMN A COLUMN B
4.8To turn your back on someone A.Money isn’t always available, so don’t
waste it.
4.9Money doesn’t grow on trees B.To go out of your way to help someone.

4.10 It’s no use crying over spilled milk. C.Give up on someone.

4.11To bend over backwards D.Take steps to prevent something from
getting worse sooner rather than later.
4.12 A stitch in time saves nine E.You can’t undo what has already
happened, rather deal with it.
(5)
4.13 Identify and write down one proverb from the above table. (1)

TOTAL SECTION C: SHORT STORY /20

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SECTION D: NOVEL
NOVEL: BEAUTIFUL HOPE:
QUESTION 5
Read the extract from Beautiful Hope below and answer the questions that
follow:

“When boys start turning into men, they seem to become impossible.
It is as if a river has suddenly burst its banks.
Dukuza’s parents could not understand the change that had come
over their son, he was like another person to them. He spent his
money thoughtlessly; he neglected his schoolwork and was hardly to
be seen at home except at bedtime.
Dukuza himself was surprised at the change. He looked through his
school books as one looks at old photographs of forgotten times.
Had he been asked to recount what he had learned he could not
have given an answer because, as he now realised, he had never
listened in the first place.”

5.1 What theme does this extract focus on, quote to sustain your opinion. (2)
5.2 Analyse the figure of speech in the following quote by identifying it,
defining it, and explaining its effectiveness.
‘When boys start turning into men, they seem to become impossible.
It is as if a river has suddenly burst its banks.’ (3)
5.3 Depict the legend of Modjadji: The rain queen, in one paragraph (3)
5.4 Which character died in Chapter 3? What connection did this character
have with Dukuza (2)
5.5 Define a sub-plot and give an example from the novel. (2)
5.6 Name the two lead characters in the play. (2)
5.7 What is Renuad’s job? Be specific. (1)
5.8 Compare Dukuza’s character in the beginning, to how he is acting in
this stage of the novel. (2)
5.9 In your opinion, will Dukuza move to the city? Explain your reasoning. (2)
5.10 Which character did Nomona work for as a domestic? (1)

TOTAL SECTION D: NOVEL / 20

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SECTION E: DRAMA
DRAMA: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
Read the extract from The Merchant of Venice and answer the
questions that follow:

ACT 1: SCENE 1

Antonio: I really don’t know why I am feeling so sad. I am tired of this miserable
feeling, just as much as you are tired of seeing me miserable. I just can’t
understand what put me in this mood. I can hardly recognise myself.
Salerio: Your thoughts are about your ships at sea. You must be worried about
their safe return.
Solanio: Believe me ,sir, if my forune was out at sea, I would also be preoccupied
by thoughts of it. Every time the wind blew, I would worry that such a
wind would affect my ships. I would spend days worrying that my
ventures are endangered.
Salerio: I would get nervous when I cool my soup with my breath, thinking how
my ship could be rocked by a gale. The sight of the sand sunning through
an hourglass would make me think of my ships wrecked on the beach.
Antonio, you are sad because you are concerned about your ships.
Antonio: That’s definitely not the reason. I am not at all worried about my fortune. I
have made sure that my ventures are not aboard only one ship and that my
financial situation does not depend on this year’s trading alone. I’m certain
this is not the reason for my sadness.

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QUESTION 6: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
6.1 Identify what Antonio works as. (2)
Examine the following quote:
‘I would get nervous when I cool my soup with my breath, thinking how my ship could
be rocked by a gale. The sight of the sand sunning through an hourglass would make
me think of my ships wrecked on the beach.’
6.2 Salerio is being sarcastic, explain why we say so and refer to the definition
of sarcasm in your answer. (2)
6.3 Complete the following sentence:
Nerissa works as… for… (2)
6.4 Name the antagonist of the story and explain why you say so. (2)
6.5 Antonio’s feeling of sorrow is an example of foreshadowing, explain
why it is foreshadowing and provide a definition of foreshadowing
in your answer. (2)
6.6 Stage directions are used in dramas, explain what a stage
direction is. (1)
6.7 Identify who Jessica fled with and why she felt she had to flee. (2)
6.8 Dramatic irony s where the audience know more than the characters do, towards the
end of the play there is dramatic irony, explain the incident
where the audience knows more than some of the characters (2)

Column A has a list of quotes, match the characters who said the quotes in Column B to
Column A. Match column A to column B by writing down the number and the
corresponding letter.
COLUMN A COLUMN B
6.9)Oh, Nerissa, my body is so tired of this A)Shylock
world. I now have to deal with the lottery
that my father has devised in order for me to
choose a husband.
6.10)At Dinner this evening you will see B) Bassanio
Lorenzo, a guest of your new master. Give
him this letter in private.
6.11)You Knew! You knew about my C) Portia
daughter’s flight.
6.12)Thank you, my wife. Welcome my D) Antonio
friend. This is Antonio, to whom I am forever
bound
6.13)Sweet lady, you have saved my life and E)Jessica
given me the means to live it. This letter says
that my ships have retuned safely
(5)

TOTAL SECTION C /20

GRAND TOTAL: 100

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