TEST CODE 01219010

FORM TP 2013009 JANUARY 2013

CAR I B B EAN E X A M I N A T IO N S C O U N CIL

CARIBBEAN SECONDARY EDUCATION CER TIFICAT E®

EXAMINATION

ENGLISHB

Paper 01- General Proficiency

1 hour 45 minutes

(11 JANUARY2013 (p.m.))

READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY.

1. This paper consists of THREE questions.

2. Answer ALL questions.

3. Begin EACH question on a new page.

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4. Each question is worth 20 marks.

5. You are advised to take some time to read through the paper and plan your answers.

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ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS IN THIS PAPER.

SECTION A - DRAMA

1. Read the following extract carefully and answer ALL the questions that follow.

[Joe and Briscoe are in the 'El Toro'bar. SWIFTY and INEZ enter quickly. SWJFTY is a precocious
youth of 17, inclined to be excitable, but well-meaning. INEZ, 19, already has the air ofa mature
coquette 1 • She is attractively dressed in a gay coloured cotton with a low neck and frilled skirt
over stiffpetticoats.

5 T he background music is now a victory chorus as the stick-fighting crowd make their way to 'El
Toro' to celebrate.]

SWIFTY: They coming! Singing the victory chorus!

Everything ready?

JOE: You have plenty brass.

10 SWIFTY: It was battle royal!

JOE: Now look here, you-.

INEZ: Joe, don't get upset.

SWIFTY: What the hell I do?

JOE: You walk off the job. Leave the shop wide open.

15 SWIFTY: But I leave you relaxing inside!

JOE: Jesu-Marie!

INEZ: Remember your pressure!

JOE: The boy talk as ifhe owning the store!

BRISCOE: Who win the fight?

20 INEZ: Tiny Satan.

SWIFTY: With a blow

So swift you only hear when it pass
Like a breeze. He is stickman of class!

[He takes up a poui-stick to demonstrate. JOE snatches it away.]

25 JOE: Go busy yourself out in the back.

From tomorrow you could take all day to slack.

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SWIFTY: Oh,Mr Joe! Miss Inez, please!

INEZ: Give him a chance,Joe. He didn't mean

To aggravate you. Swifty,see and clean
30 Up the place. Come on,make yourself handy.

SWIFTY: Yes,mum!

JOE: [to BRISCOEJ She take over the business already.

Just like I say. Is only the key
To the strong-box I still call my own.

35 INEZ: P ortagee Joe,when you use that tone

I must be on guard. Like a born creole
You know all the tricks to fool-up a girl.

[She gives him a gentle hug.]

SWIFTY: The female fans mob Tiny with kisses,

40 First to besiege him was Miss Inez!

INEZ: If you can't keep quiet,bite on your tongue.

You have too much lip for one so young.

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A coquette is a flirt
Adapted from Errol Hill,"Man Better Man".
In Plays for Today, Longman, 1985,pp. 150-151.

(a) Briefly describe what is happening in lines 1-8. (3 marks)

(b) Inez is described as a "mature coquette" (lines 2-3) in the opening stage directions.
Identify TWO pieces of evidence from the extract to support this description of her.
, (2 marks)

(c) When Joe says,"You have plenty brass." (line 9),this indicates that he is annoyed.
Explain why he is annoyed. (3 marks)

(d) State T WO roles that Inez plays in the encounter between Joe and Swifty. Support your
answer with evidence from the extract. (4 marks)

(e) Explain the dramatic function of Briscoe's question,"Who win the fight?" (line 19).
(2 marks)

(f) (i) Identify the figurative device in "So swift you only hear when it pass/Like a breeze"
(lines 22-23).

(ii) Comment on its effectiveness. (3 marks)

(g) Suggest a title for this scene and justify your choice. (3 marks)

Total 20 marks
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SECTION B - POETRY

2. Read the following poem carefully and answer ALL the questions that follow.

Concert

Brother Kingsley had the swiftest legs,

they would move like sharpened blades
cutting through finishing line tapes
on sports days when we would receive
5 for prizes, dictionaries and holy Bibles.

He was a dancer, could split, snap-fall,

boogie, gallows, and shuffle better
than any other boy who called himself dancer.
As soon as his heels touched ground
10 they would lift up again, pushing against
slow air, seeking to align themselves
with the fastest moving currents in the atmosphere.

At the talent show, we were sure he'd win.

The entire school was behind him, cheering
15 his every tum, split and spin, he was winning
till he affected a clutching movement he had seen
the older men practice.

Miss Stirling judged that move

too adult and dangerous to youth.
20 She awarded the prize to a girl
who rattled out, with nervous pebbles
in her mouth, a dull unbumished memory gem 1•

Dressed as she was in a drooping slipper-satin

christian-quattie2 dress, we booed the results
25 of this unfair contest and spoke for years
of how they robbed him.

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A memory gem is a short quotation (usually from the Bible or a famous person)
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Quattie means of little or no value

Lorna Goodison, "Concert".

In To Us, All Flowers Are Roses.
University ofIllinois Press, 1995, p. 26.

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(a) (i ) What is the MAIN event in this poem?

(ii) Where is the event taking place? (2 marks)

(b ) Select a line or phrase in the first stanza of the poem which describes Brother Kingsley's
outstanding quality and comment on its effectiveness. (3 marks)

(c ) Using evidence from lines 9-12, briefly describe the speaker's attitude to Brother Kingsley.
(3 marks)

(d ) Identify ONE example of contrast in the poem and comment on its effectiveness.
(3 marks)

(e) Comment on the poet's use of ONE of the following:

• "he affected a clutching movement" (line 16)
• "dull unburnished memory gem" (line 22)
• "a drooping slipper-satin/christian-quattie dress" (lines 23-24) (3 marks)

(f) (i ) Identify the line where the persona's tone changes.

(ii) Explain how the tone changes. (3 marks)

(g) Comment on the appropriateness of the title of the poem. (3 marks)

Total 20 marks

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SECTION C - PROSE FICTION

3. Read the following passage carefully and answer ALL the questions that follow.

Michael went back inside for two more bottles and they drank them. Then, in the twilight, they
fell asleep, slumped up against each other. In the distance the sun slipped unobserved and lonely
into the cold sea.

Leila, the taller and lighter of the two girls, obediently followed her friend as they walked
5 purposefully to the end of the street and around the corner by Jumbies rum bar. There they both
faltered and listened to the smoky noises leaking through the closed shutters and underneath the
crooked door.

Even from this distance it was clear that the men were both asleep. They approached, Leila feeling
much the more foolish for having encouraged Millie to spend a hopeful, wasted hour outside
10 Government House while knowing in her heart that neither Bradeth nor Michael would come.
She lagged behind a little.

Millie pushed Bradeth's shoulder and he shook himself away from Michael. Then Michael's somnolent
head fell quickly, but he woke before it made contact with the ground.

'You both have a nice sleep, then?' asked Millie, her hands firmly on her hips.

15 The men rubbed their eyes and stretched. Bradeth explained, 'We just decided to take a nap and
check out what a bit of peace and quiet feel like, but it's not looking like we going finish the test.'

'I see,' said Millie. 'Well, now that the testing done maybe you don't mind testing your backside
up to Sandy Bay with me where my aunt wants to have a word with you about something.'

Bradeth moved to get up. 'Toosie?'

20 'It's only one aunt I has in Sandy Bay, or maybe you hear of a next one.'

'I just checking, that's all,' Bradeth stood, hind legs first, and reached up to hold his head straight.

'So you get hangover as well?' asked Millie.

'It's just a little headache that I had for a long time now,' said Bradeth. 'A long time now.'

Adapted from Caryl Phillips, The Final Passage.

Faber and Faber, 1985, pp. 28-29.

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(a ) Describe the setting of this passage. (3 marks)

(b) Using evidence from paragraphs 2 and 3, describe the relationship between Leila and
Millie. (3 marks)

(c) Comment on the effectiveness of ONE of the following:

• "In the distance the sun slipped unobserved and lonely into the cold sea" (lines 2-3).

• "the smoky noises leaking through the closed shutters" (line 6). (2 marks)

(d) (i ) Identify ONE instance in which EITHER Millie OR Bradeth is sarcastic.

(ii) Explain how the example shows sarcasm. (3 marks)

(e ) Suggest TWO impressions of the men that the writer creates. Use evidence from the
passage to support your answer. (4 marks)

(f) Suggest ONE reason why Aunt Toosie may want to talk to Bradeth. Justify your answer.
(2 marks)

(g) Trace how the tension mounts in this episode. (3 marks)

Total 20 marks

END OF TEST

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