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Grade 4

Paper 2 Fiction 2022

Quarter 2 Assessment Paper 2

Name: _________________________________________

Class: ____________________ Date: ___________

1 hour

Additional materials: Insert

INSTRUCTIONS

• Answer all questions.

• Write your answer to each question in the space provided.
• You should pay attention to punctuation, spelling and handwriting.

INFORMATION

• The total mark for this paper is 50.

• The number of marks for each question or part question is shown in [ ].
• Suggestions for how long to spend on each section are given in the booklet.
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Section A: Reading

Spend 30 minutes of this section.

Read Text A, part 1, in the insert, and answer questions 1–8.

1 Look at the first two paragraphs (lines 1–11).

(a) Which two statements about The Academy for Witches are true?
Tick (v) two boxes.

It is a school for girls and boys.

It has an outside area.

It is situated in a valley.

It has more than one floor.

It is painted in dark colours. [2]

(b) Give two quotations from the first two paragraphs to show that the writer
thinks the Academy looked like a very sad place.

• ………………………………………………………………………………………………

[2]
• ………………………………………………………………………………………………

2 Look at lines 3–6.

‘Sometimes you could see the pupils on their broomsticks flitting like bats ...’

(a) What is flitting like bats an example of? Tick (v) one box.

alliteration

metaphor

rhyme

simile [1]

(b) Explain in your own words what flitting like bats means.

[1]
……………………………………………………………………………………….
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3 What are the two main colours of the Academy’s uniform?

…………………………………………………………………………………………………… [2]

4 Look at lines 12–17.

(a) What does the phrase ‘didn’t exactly mean’ tell us about Mildred’s
behaviour?

………………………………………………………………………………………
[1]
……………………………………………………………………………………….

(b) Give one phrase that shows Mildred’s untidiness.

……………………………………………………………………………………… [1]

5 Why was Mildred given a black kitten?

……………………………………………………………………………………………….

………………………………………………………………………………………………. [1]

6 Look at paragraph 3. What do you think this shows about the relationship
between Maud and Mildred?

……………………………………………………………………………………………….
[1]
……………………………………………………………………………………………….
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7 Look at lines 18–20.

They made a funny pair because Mildred was tall and thin with long plaits while
Maud was very short and tubby, had round glasses and wore her hair in bunches.

(a) What does her replace in this sentence?

……………………………………………………………………………………… [1]

(b) What does the word ‘tubby’ tell you about Maud?

……………………………………………………………………………………. [1]

(c) What type of sentence is this? Tick (Ö) one box.

simple

complex

compound

conditional
[1]

(d) Give one adverb from this sentence.

………………………………………………………………………………………. [1]

8 Look at this sentence:

After only two days at the Academy, Mildred crashed her crooked broomstick into
the yard wall, breaking the broomstick in half and bending her hat.

Give one example of:

a proper noun ………………………………………………

a simple past tense verb ………………………………………………

an adjective ……………………………………………… [3]

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Now read Text A, part 2, in the insert, and answer questions 9–12.

9 At the end of Text A, part 1, Mildred picked up her kitten and gave it a shake.
Why is this important?

……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. [1]

10 One character says, ‘I think I shall have to call you Clumsy. You don’t even try to
hold on. Everyone else is all right. Look at all your friends.’ Who says it?

……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. [1]

11 How do you think Mildred feel after she called her kitten Clumsy?
Give one quotation form the text to support your answer.

Feeling: …………………………………………………………………………………

Quotation: ……………………………………………………………………….…………

……………………………………………………………………….………… [2]

12 What genre of text is Text A? Tick (Ö) two boxes.

fantasy

adventure

real-life story

traditional tale

historical fiction
[2]
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Section B: Writing

Spend 30 minutes in this section.

13 Read the final paragraph of the extract again. Now continue the story to explain
what happened next to Mildred and Maud and the adventure that follows.

Ideas to help you:

Plot • Were the girls able to get their kittens to stay with them on the
broomsticks?
• What happened when they fly with the kittens?
• What happened that was so surprising?

Characters • Mildred
• Maud
• the kittens
• anyone else?

Setting • the Academy?

• Did they fly somewhere else?

Space for your plan:

Write your continuation of the story on the next page. [25 marks]
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Grade 4
Paper 2 Fiction 2022

Quarter 2 Assessment Paper 2

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TEXT A, part 1

Extract from ‘The Worst Witch’ by Jill Murphy

Miss Cackle’s Academy for Witches stood at the top of a high mountain surrounded by
a pine forest. It looked more like a prison than a school, with its gloomy grey walls and
turrets. Sometimes you could see the pupils on their broomsticks flitting like bats above
the playground wall, but usually the place was half hidden in mist, so that if you had
glanced up at the mountain you would probably not have noticed the building was there 5
at all.

Everything about the school was dark and shadowy. There were long, narrow corridors
and winding staircases – and of course there were the girls themselves, dressed in black
gymslips, black stockings, black boots, grey shirts and black-and-grey ties. The only
touches of colour were the sashes round their gymslips – a different colour for each 10
house – and the school badge, which was a black cat sitting on a yellow moon.

Mildred Hubble was in her first year at the school. She was one of those people who
always seem to be in trouble. She didn’t exactly mean to break rules and annoy the
teachers, but things just seemed to happen whenever she was around. You could rely
on Mildred to have her hat on back-to-front or her bootlaces trailing along the floor. She 15
couldn’t walk from one end of a corridor to the other without someone yelling at her, and
nearly every night she was writing lines. Her best friend, Maud, stayed loyally by her
through everything. They made a funny pair because Mildred was tall and thin with long
plaits while Maud was very short and tubby, had round glasses and wore her hair in
bunches. 20

On her first day at the Academy, each pupil was given a broomstick and taught to ride it,
which takes quite a long time and isn’t nearly as easy as it looks. Half-way through the
first term they were each presented with a black kitten which they trained to ride the
broomsticks. At the end of the first year, each pupil received a copy of The Popular Book
of Spells. After only two days at the Academy, Mildred crashed her crooked broomstick 25
into the yard wall, breaking the broomstick in half and bending her hat.

It had taken Mildred several weeks of falling off and crashing before she could ride the
broomstick reasonably well, and it looked as though her kitten was going to have the
same trouble. When she put it on the end of the stick, it just fell off without even trying to
hold on. After many attempts, Mildred picked up her kitten and gave it a shake. 30

Glossary

turrets: small towers that are taller than the rest of the building
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TEXT A, part 2

‘Listen!’ she said. ‘I think I shall have to call you Clumsy. You don’t even try to hold on.
Everyone else is all right. Look at all your friends.’

The kitten gazed at her sadly and licked her nose with its rough tongue. ‘Oh, come on,’
said Mildred, softening her voice. ‘I’m not really angry with you. Let’s try again.’ And she
put the kitten back on the broomstick, from which it fell with a thud. 35

Maud was having better luck. Her kitten was hanging on grimly upside down. ‘Oh, well,’
laughed Maud. ‘It’s a start.’

‘Mine’s useless,’ said Mildred, sitting on the broomstick for a rest.

‘Never mind,’ Maud said. ‘Think how hard it must be for them to hang on by their claws.’

An idea flashed into Mildred’s head, and she dived into the school, leaving her kitten 40
chasing a leaf along the ground and the broomstick still patiently hovering. She came
out carrying her satchel, which she hooked over the end of the broom and then bundled
the kitten into it. The kitten’s astounded face peeped out of the bag as Mildred flew
delightedly round the yard. ‘Look, Maud!’ she called from ten feet up in the air.

‘That’s cheating!’ said Maud, looking at the satchel. 45

Glossary

grimly: in a very serious, gloomy, or depressing manner

hovering: remaining in one place in the air

satchel: a rectangular leather bag with a long strap, used especially in the past by children for
carrying books to school
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