(CANDIDATE PLEASE NOTE! RINT Yourmncee ar cowandreurn foumayratindugulieaiee | TEST CODE 02114010 FORM TP 2020199 MAYI/TUNE 2020 t CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL CARIBBEAN ADVANCED PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION*® COMMUNICATION STUDIES Paper 01 T hour 30 minutes 03 JUNE 2020 (a.m) READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY. 165 1 This test consists of 45 items divided into two sections, A and B. rey Section A, based on a poem, consists of 7 questions. The poem, which is NOT included in the question booklet, will be read to you twice but you will be allowed two minutes to look at the questions before the poem is read to you. 3. Section B consists of 38 questions. Answer each question based on the information given. 4. In addition to the test booklet, you should have an answer sheet. 5. Bach item in this test has four suggested answers lettered (A), (B), (C), (D). Read each item you are about to answer and decide which choice is best. 6. Onyour answer sheet, find the number which corresponds to your item and shade the space having the same letter as the answer you have chosen. Look at the sample item below. 5 Sample Item : Which of the following is an advantage of the questionnaire as a data collection method? (A) Ease of administration Sample Answer { Opemesssfaicustion 0500 (D) Opportunity for clarification The best answer to this item is “Ease of administration”, so (A) has been shaded. 7. Wfyou want to change your answer, erase it completely before you fill in your new choice. 8 When you are told to begin, turn the page and work as quickly and as carefully as you can. If you cannot answer an item, go on to the next one. You may return to that item later, DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO. Copyright © 2018 Caribbean Examinations Council All rights reserved. 0211401 0/MJ/CAPE 2020 . tect2 SECTION A Instructions: Listen carefully to the poem as the teacher reads it and then answer tems 1-7 Ttems 1-7. 1. Which of the following describe the tone used in the poem? (A) Bitterness and rage (B) Hope and excitement (C)__Disgust and resentment (D) Affirmation and triumph 2. The MAIN purpose of the poem is to (A) affirm the progress that was made during slavery (B) inspire courage among the descend- ants of the enslaved (©) encourage readers to show much respect for their ancestors (D) encourage readers to face life fiercely ‘and courageously 3. The use ofthe word “daybreak” inthe poem BEST conveys a sense of 1. optimism TI expectancy TI. clarity of purpose (A) Land I only (B) —_Tand Il only (©) Wand iif only (D) 1, Wand 02114010/MJ/CAPE 2020 4. Which of the following devices are evident inthe lines “Leaving behind nights of terror and fear / I rise / Into a daylight that's wondrously cleat”? (A) Metaphor, contrast and rhyme Be Metaphor, repetition and rhyme (©) _Juxtaposition, imagery and rhythm @) _Juxtaposition, elliteration and rhythm ‘The rhetorical questions, “ seeme broken? Head bowed with lowers: exes?” are used in the poem to (A) suggest the persona’s defiance ®) convey the persona’s depression {© __ evoke confidence and determination {D) _=ppeal to the oppressor’s sense of sympathy ‘Which of the following BEST captures the mood of the poem? (A) Aversion ®) Inspiration (© Acceptance @) indifference “The change from the use of the second person at the start of the poem to the use of first person at the end is effective in conveying the speaker's {A)___bittemess about slavery eB) attitude towards her ancestors (©) shift in foous from past to present @) freedom as a descendant of the enslaved pO NOT WAIT FOR THE EXAMINER TO TELL YOU TO GO TO THE NEXT PAGE. GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE ——"___—_—___—_ eeSECTION B tems 8-10 Instructions: Read the following scenario carefully and then answer Items 8-10. A news report indicates that citizens have been buying used cars rather than new ones. Your sixth-form class has decided to conduct research to find dut which cars people prefer and why. Which of the following would be the MAIN advantage, to the researcher, if precoded questions were used as the method of data collection? (A) Cost savings (B) Obtaining confidential data (©) Easy analysis of the findings (D) Ability to probe for further details 0211401 0/M/CAPE 2020 10. Which of the following does NOT reflect how an interview might be administered for this research? (A) Sending an email to a manager (B) Taking note of certified vehicles (C) Talking with a contact over the phone @) Discussing preferences with consumers Which of the following could be a DISADVANTAGE, to the researcher, if interviews were used as the method of data collection? (A) Low rate of data return (B) __ Difficulty making inferences (©) Subjectivity of the researcher (D) Limited scope to explore variables GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGEiL 12. 13. le = Instructions: Read the following scenario carefully and then answer Items 11-15, ‘At 2 recent meeting with the principal of Mansfield High School, the Ministry of Education revealed that a check of the most recent census documents showed that some senior students of the schoo! have been irregularly attending classes. The Ministry decides to hire a research company to investigate the likely reasons for students’ irregular attendance. Which of the following sources could provide the MOST useful information to help the researchers to identify the sample? (A) Form teachers (B) Class registers (©) Class monitors (D) Students’ report cards Which of the following must the research company consider when selecting = sample? (A) Accuracy of the census documents (B) The average number of respondents (©) How well the population is repre- sented (D) _ Howknowledgeable therespondents are If the research company used observation asa method of collecting data. whieh of the following could be an advantage? (A) Predicting the behaviour to be observed (B) Directly witnessing the behaviour of participants (© Spending an extended period of time collecting data Participants changing their behaviour while being observed @) (0211401 0/MI/CAPE 2020 14. 1s If the research company only collected data in the morning, which of the following could adversely affect the validity of the results. 1 Adequacy of the data Ul. Reliability of the data TI _Representativeness of the sample @ Tonly @®) only (© and Hlonly @) 1 Wand ‘Which of the following is the MOST likely population for tis study? (A) Stodents cf Mansfield High School ‘who attend classes irregularly (B) Senior students of Mansfield ‘High Schoo! who attend classes irregularly (©) Students of secondary schools in the country who attend classes irregularly (D) Senior students of secondary schools in the country who attend classes iegularly GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE,10 16. 17. Items 16-18 Instructions: Read the following dialogue carefully and then answer Items 16-18. Paul: Samantha: Bryan: mi no like it. Paul: Good moming everyone. How are you today? ‘Mi good Paul, although mi foot bottam a hat mi Mino feel good because Paul eva a try chat hoity toity, speaky spokey to wi an Bryan, I donot understand. We are all educated so we should be speaking Caribbean ‘Standard English and not some broken language. Samantha: ‘Yes mi educated but when mi a chat to mi fren dem mi no afi use Caribbean Standard English, aftaraw! mi nza do interview. Bryan: Creole English. When Bryan accuses Paul of specking “hoity toity” in line 5, Bryan is suggesting that Paul is using language to (A) assert authority (B) show sophistication (©) make social commentary (D) discriminate against others Which of the following factors would affect the dialectal varieties used by the various speakers? (A) Social class (B) Job opportunity (©) Religious affiliation (D) Intellectual eapacity 0211401 0/MJ/CAPE 2020 18. Tru Samantha, plus mi nea speak no broken language. I am speaking Caribbean Which of the speakers advocate using language as a form of identification? (A) Paul and Bryan (B) Paul and Samantha (©) Samantha and Bryan (®) Paul, Samantha and Bryan GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGEInstructions: Select the most appropriate answer for Items 19-20. 19. Ifa speaker changes his language use between Caribbean Standard English and Creole English during a conversation. he would be engaging in (A) code mixing (8) code switching (C) semantic substitution (D) semantic differentiation 0211401 0/MA/CAPE 2020 20. Which of the following Creole features is evident in the structure “tangle up with his words and his feelings?” “@ Repetition Serial verbs Reduplication Unmarked tense GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGEIt » Instructions: Read the following dialogue carefully and then answer Items 21-23. Mother: Robbie, since yuh come back home from college all yuh doin is sittin in front ah dat chupid computer talkin to dem foreign friens ah yours in dat highfalutin language dat only yu end dem understan. Lissen, yuh home now and yuh have to behave as if yuh home. So you's comin to de market wit me in de morning. s Robbie: Motherrr, I'm proud of how I speak but do I really have to do this? I do not even remember anyone around here anymore. * 21. What feature of Creole English is reflected 23. Which of the following words describes in the expression “Lissen yuh home now ... the mother’s attitude towards her son’s home” (lines 34)? “highfalutin language” (line 2)? (A) Auxiliary (A) Scom @B) Reduplication (B) Proud (C)__ Front focusing (©) Gloomy (D) — Subject-adjective structure D) Interest 22. Which of the following quotes from the Gialogue is NOT an example of Creole syntax? (A) “sittin in front ah dat chupid computer” (lines 12) (B) “... in dat highfalutin language” (ine 2) (© “So you's comin to de market wit me in de morning.” (line 4) (D) — “Motherrr,... do I really have to do this? (line 5) GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE 0211401 0/MJ/CAPE 202024, 25. items 24-26 Instructions: Read the foliowing extract carefully and then answer Items 24-26, “But sce here Miss Mary you no think Cherry buck up the devil own self when she carrying her? Plenty time that happen you know, Remember that woman over Aliside that born the pickney with two head. Praise Jesus it did born dead. But see here you did know one day she was going down river to wash clothes and is the devil own self she meet, Yes’m. Standing right there in her way. She pop one big bawling before she faint weh and when everybody run come not a soul see him. Is gone he gone. But you no know where he did gone? No right inside that gal. Right inna she belly, And Miss Mary, | telling you the living truth, just as the baby borning the midwife no see a shadow fly out of the mother and go right cross the room. She frighten so till she close her two eye tight and is so the devil escape.” “Well I don’t know about that. Beccka certainly don’t born with no two head or nothing wrong her. is just hard ears she hard ears.” “Den no so me saying?” Adapted from Olive Senior, “Do Angels Wear Brassieres”. 1n Summer Lightning and Other Stories. ‘Longman Caribbean Writers, 1986, p. 68. ‘The speaker's question at the end of the 26. Which of the following points on the post- extract indicates that Creole language continuum are represented in the speech of the characters? (A) Miss Mary did not understand the speaker (A) Basilect and acrolect only (B) the speaker did not understand Miss (B) _ Basilect and mesolect only ‘Mary's statement (C) Mesolect and acrolect only (C) the speaker and Miss Mary are {D) —_Basilect, mesolect and acrolect saying the same thing (D) the speaker and Miss Mary are in ‘complete disagreement ‘The sentences “Well I don't know about that. Beccke certainly don’t born with no two head or nothing wrong with her. (line 9) present examples of (A) registers and code mixing (B) code switching and zero copula (©) code mixing and double negatives (D) dialectal variation and code switching GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE 021 1401 0/MJ/CAPE 202027. Which of the following expressions BEST explains the meaning of the france’? 7 (A) A language which is derived fom French and used ican slaves (B) Any language which is native to African peoples ‘been ‘transplanted (C) A common langu: in dialogue by p with different native l (D) Any language which is foreign to a speaker who anew speech community S 28. A Caribbean English Creole may bedefined ase language (A) with limited linguistic fanetions (B) used by the poorest people in the society (©) understood only by some persons in the society (D) developed from coniact between European and A frican languages 021 14010/MJ/CAPE 2020 29, - 30. In which of the process of (A) St @®) Ey (C) Awaag ) Chak Which of the g are regarded es official languages of the Netherlendie territories of ean’? L Duich I. Frencl TH. Porn (A) Tand @®) landt (C) Wand @) Lu + GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE,31. 32. Items 31-33 Instructions: Read the following extract carefully and then answer Items 31-33. Ten students from Melntosh High in Jamaica are visiting Cuba to improve their knowledge of Cuban culture. They are being hosted by students from José Marti High. When the students return 10 school in Jamaica, they will be required to write a report on their experience. Which of the following contexts of communication BEST describes the interaction between the two groups of students? (A) Public @) Intercultural (C) Interpersonal @) — Organizational In which of the following genres will the report MOST likely be written? 1 Argument I, Exposition MM. Narrative (A) Land Ionly ®) Land Ill only (©) Mand Il only @) 1. Mandi 02114010/MJ/CAPE 2020 33. ‘While in Cuba the students attended a seminar, The guest speaker noticed that many of the visitors seemed restless during his presentation, even though he was speaking audibly. Which of the following was LEAST likely to be responsible for their restlessness? (A) He was speaking too fast. (B) He was speaking in a monotone. (© He was using many unfamiliar words. (D) He complemented his speech with projected slides. GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGEthe most appro er for Items 34-35. toraise awa In which of the following forms of Students’ Rights 2 communication is the communicator among the student both the source and the destination of the il decided that it was: message? ication campaign to ‘was decided that each = (A)_—-~Public council would speak to @) Small group lined up awaiting their — (C)_ Interpersonal — (D)__Inwrapersonal bn format would be MOST eudent council president ng with the students? Yeous delivery * ' = fee he ead the following scenario carefully and then answer Items 36-37. = id has habit of talking directly im fais face and touching his hands when she s decided 1o have # conversation with her about it but finds himself stuttering and such as “Ah ... Imean”... and “Yousee “before he can share his discomfort 37. Benjamin is concemed about his friend’s (A) voralics (B) artifacts (©) proxemics 2 contradiction ©) chronemics their relationship GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE38. -12- Items 38-39 Instruction: Read the following scenario carefully and then answer Items 38-39. ‘Your friend, Sandra, has 10 deliver a persuasive speech in class but she is unsure about how to effectively organize her presentation. She is nervous about making a confident delivery. Which of the following organizational methods would be MOST effective in enhancing Sandra’s speech? (A) Summary points and examples (B) Researched examples and in-text citation (©) Repeating key ideas at strategic points (D) Clearly stated claimsend supporting details ‘Items 40-41 39. Which of the following techniques could Sandra use to boost her confidence when delivering the speech? (A) Drawing support from the audience (B) Pacing the room and avoiding eye contact (©) Reading directly from her prepared speech (D) Looking periodically atthe teacher who is grading her Instructions: Select the most appropriate answer for Items 40-41. Which of the following features of non- verbal communication are candidates LEAST likely to display when making an effective presentation at an election rally? (A) Waving hands in the air (B) Shouting at the audience (© Embracing a close family member (D) Smiling at the women in the audience 02114010/MI/CAPE 2020 AL. Which of the following verbal communication elements can help candidates at an election rally to effectively get their message to the voting population? (A) Statistics and sarcasm (B) Rhetorical questions and party symbols (C) _ Party slogans and emotive Tanguage (D) Public service announcements and flyers GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGElly and then answer Items 42-43. should typically use in essays? (A) Narration (B) Classification {C) Chronological (D) Comparison and. : Read the following extract nd then answer Ite one Restaurant is found in the on Hall. It is nestled a traditional Caribbean dishes are onable prices. ot worth the long arduous drive. ‘first sign that this dining experieme ading fora disaster . lit walkway that inevitably through to their tables. Honestly, the seating and ordering o a fairly smooth er, the writer's purpose, given the type g used in the extract? inform and persuade ‘create sensory impression by amusing © create a sensory impression and to enlighten