CHATCXc.COM ews Li Inuiruction: Read the follwing extract carefully and thea answer Items 1-10, Moses is in We ferloo Station, London. There is « confused milling mob uf West Indians waiting for the bout-train, Moses is sitting on a Bench when a Jamaican friend, Totroy, cones up. POLROY: Aye, Moses. [ didn’t expect to meet you in Waterloo for arrivals MOSES ‘The next time will be my departure, please God. The boat-train lute. 5 TOLROY: Who you meeting? MOSES: Some fellar name Henry. TOLROY: Boy, T expecting my mother. MOSES:, AlL-you fellars really have guts, yes, Tolroy. Where you going to put she, ia that byo-be-four you have in Harrow Road? , 1 TOLROY: Lhave to look for a bigger pluce. You know any’? MOSES: Look, one of your Jamaican countrymen over there waiting like a hawk for tenants. He have a lot of houses in Brixton. ‘POLROY: You know what that set-up like, a chair, a table, and he hitting you anything from three to five guineas 13, MOSES: You ty down by Ladbroke Grove? Since they kill Kelso, English people been evacuating like Dunkirk from the area, You bound to get « room, TOLROY: Down there too grim. MOSES: What you want, Belgravia? Park Lane?! Maybe you could put she up at the Dorehtester* tll you fing a place 20 The station loudspeaker amounces the arrival of dhe boat-train. n English seporter comes up to thein. i. REPORTER: 2 [English] Excuse me sir, have you just arrived from Jamaica? MOSES: Am... er, yes REPORTER: Tm fiom the Echo .., Would you like to tell me what conditions are like? 23 TOLROY: {Enjoying the situation] Yes, Moses, go on and tell him. GO ON TO THE NiMOSES: REPORTER: MOSES: 30 REPORTER: MOSES: 35. REPORTER: Well, the situation is desperate as usual. You know tha big hurricane Wha a few weeks ago? Yes? Well ] was in that hurricane. You could ask my friend fete if you dink I fie. t Was sitting down in my mansion when suddenly {Jook up ancl see the sky. What you think happen? What? Huricane blow the roof clean off, banana plantation lay down as if dey goue asleep ‘Tell me, sir, why are so many Jamaicans coming to England’? Do you believe the streets are paved with gold? 1 don’t koow about all of them, but sometimes in the night 1 see as if the Bayswater Road sparkling with diamonds. But then you look: in truth you see is only stones and gravel that mix-up with the asphalt. You know of any London 40 street what pave with gold? REPORTER: Thank you for that statement. 1’ll just talk to a few others MOSES: [Chuckling] Watch him! Like he going to tackle that family what coming off the train. POLROY: [in consternation] That look like my mother! And ... and, Tanty! And Agnes 5 and Lewis!... and the two children! ‘Mal! Look me over herel... [4s he gets near them, panting} What is this all? MA: ‘Tolrwy boy! You don’t remember your own mother? TOLROY: [Un a dace] But what Tanty doing here, Ma? And Agues and Lewis and the children? s Adapted from Samuel Selven, Eldorado West One, i Peepal Tree Press, 1998, pp. 19-20. + !Adluent neighbourh sods ‘ 2A luxurious hotel in “-ondon, England - setting is MOST likely 2... Moses’ description of Tolroy’s dwelling Seg aa r asa “two-be-four” (ine 9) indicates to the (A) an aisport . audience that it is a train station (C) an old boat-train af WE a snail, confined space (D) — ahous London (B) —abig tenement dwelling (C)_—_ anold, wooden structure (D) a dirty squatter settlement GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGEChe BEST explanation of the dramatic effect of the loudspeaker mentioned in the Second stage direction (lines 20-21) is that it (A) __ increases the feeling ofexpectaney {B) encourages the characters to be quiet (€) announces the arrivals and departures () _winforees the hustle and busde of the setting, Which of the following MOSTLY contributes to humour in the extract? (A) “Thenext time will bemy departure, please God” (line 4) (B) “a chair, a table, and be bitting ‘you anything from three to five guineas” (lines 13-14) (©) “What you want, Belgravia? Park Lane? Maybe you could put she up at. ve Dorchester” (lines 18~ 19) (D) “Do you believe the streets are paved with gold?” (line 36) ‘The expression “waiting like a hawk for tenants” (lines 11-12) is effective in (A) highlighting the fear of the ramigrants (B) pointing out the birds that flock the venue (©) emphasizing birds of prey as # metaphor (D) _seinforcing the aggressive nature of the busitiess 10. Which of tie that the experien flowing are used to indicate { poruuys 6 Curibbeun (a) —_ Language and diction (B) Dress and names of phces (Cc) Toneandil {B)_—_Ketereuce % a banana plantation and gold cet ahusticane One of the themes in this extract is (A) _ travelling by ait (B)__ dependent covatries (cy searching for a better fife (D) _ overpopulation and exploitation Moses’ response to the reporter suggests that he (A) _ isignorant (B)__ is being sarcastic (©) misunderstood the question asked (D) __ fears the reporter might emburrass him 1g reaction 1o his family’s arrival is described as (A) shock and reli (B) _joyfulness aud longing (C) anxiety and anticipation (O) amazement and confusion How do the stage directions in fines 42, (Chuckling), andline +4, (te sonsiernation), function as an effective guide to the action on stage? (A) They present aa indifferent emotional response. (B) They shift the mood fom carefiee to anticipation. (©) They beighten the suspense about ‘Tolroy’s family (D) They provide a sense of the local ‘community in London. GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGEjan: Read the following exact carefully and then answer tems 11-20. Peaketiae market atmosphere and crowd MAMA TAIYE: TAIYE MAMA TALYE: TAIE MAMA TALYE: TAIYE MAMA TALYE: TAWE: 15 MAMA TAIYE: TALYE MAMA TALY (Un a fow voice): Shi Taye, here he comes, Please, don’t look, Who? Th 10 amneless one, The rat that feeds in full view of houscholer. He has passed us 1 think he spots a vietim nearby. That small boy, ma? Small boy! ['ve seen him steal a machine with heavy iron stand, while everyone but the owner was looking. His master is not around yet. Keep your eyes open. "4e Jaguda boys! 1 ay “Shut up"! Look! 1 think that tall man is with the boy. He is a stanger. Bul he must be one too. (Pause) They are both going for Mama Adisa. You'll see something you've never seen before today. Just watch, ‘The ral has squatted behind her, Mother, shall I go for the police then? Shut up! Bu’ ‘t's Mama Adisal Shu’ up! I say —we can do nothing! Market sights and sounds JOSIAH, 20 MAMA ADISA: JOSIAH: MAMA ADISA: JOSIAH: Have you Sasorabia perfume? ‘Yes, by the dozen. J also have all kinds of perfume infact. And they are the cheapest is the whole market. Here, the Sasorabia — pure undiluted —smell. (pens'one for Josiah who scents it) Very, very good. This is exactly whai I want. How much for one? 1 sell them for twenty-five shillings each, but since it’s you, well my first-born is a boy. Lleave it for you for twenty shillings. Fifieen shillings? GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.MAMA ADISA: 30 JOSIAH MAMA ADISA: JOSIAH: MAMA ADISA: JOSIAH: 40 MAMA ADISA, 45 JOSIAH: MAMA ADISA: Please don't be like that. You men never know hows shillings off just like that, eht . well take ii, us a spe you ure my first customer this morning. VI weap it tor you, (dukes 2 wrup it Not yet! I can only pay thirteen shillings. th, listen, handsome young man! J ean guess what you want it fie You want 10 prepare a love charm with it, so you ean charm any woman, Don’t | know .. well Teil you, itis more potent than anything { know. Bui, in buying the ingredients for love charm, one must not be too tight-fisted. (Gives a phony Langit) Well, bless you ‘ny mun, Take it for thirteen shillings, but don’t sprcuad the news. ‘Thank you. But want more than one. { am a petty trader trom a far away village inyself. Well pick as many as you want and I'll make the addition. want two dozen. But it will have to be at the rate of ten shillings exch. [will pay now if that’s agreed. L can’t catch that very well. Do you come here to buy periume, or are you just wandering about the market? Ten shillings, he says! You realise that you are the frst ‘one to deal with me today? And that this is going to set the patiern of sales for me for the whole day? Please don’t spoil my day, May the spirit of wealth abide with you... Take it at uwelve shillings, and I will sell only @ dozen (o you because itis at loss. No, Lean’t. You don't want to do business with me. J must go. 1 have other things to buy. Go? Go where? You call yourself a trader, and you behave like the first-born of poverty itself, Barly in the morning! You wretch, with ncok like a giraffe... You never intended to buy anything in the first place ... you bastard, Profits and prosperity shall never come your way! (Pause ~10 herself) Oh my Creator, what have 1 done to deserve this! I performed all the rites before leaving home. L hope this trend of evil influence will not continue today. (Pause) I better sort out the loose change. It is always dangerous to open one’s money bag in front of customers. (Feels her waist, pause) Where is it? .. my dioney-bag! i agos, Yes, Lagos”. In Nine African Pluss for Radio, Adapted from Yemi Ajibade, : ‘Heinemann Educational Books, 1979, pp. H11-113. GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGEae B. 14, ‘The dramatic sijnificanc: conversation between Mama Taiye and her son in lines 2-17 is that it (A) introduces the conflict ia the exteact (3) _ highlights the irony of the robbery (©) provides information about, the setting (b) provides relief trom the tension in the ex fact Which of the following figurative devices is used in tine 4 (“The rat that feeds in full ‘view of householder”)? (A) Simile (8) Metaphor {C)__ Onomatopocia (D) _Personifir~tion From fines 6-13 (“Phat small boy ... behind her”) the audience can infer that Mama Taiye (A) _ isnot interested in calling the police (8) has had prior experience with the Jagudla boys (©) had beer -obbed before and did not call the police () _isconcen 2d-about what the Jaguda boys are doing Which of the following words BEST describe the tone used by Mama Taiye when she says “Sniall boy! I’ve seen him steal a machine with heavy iron stand, Awhile everyone but the owner was Looking” (ines 7-8)? (A) ~ Tronie and resigned (B) _Inslent and indifferent © {C)__ Admiring and apprehensive (D) Sarcastic and contemptuous ESS ‘The state Mama Adisa” (line 11) si " tall man and the stall bey sts thut the (A) are selated 1 Mama Adisa (B)__ will confront Mama Adis together {C)__ have chosen Mama Adis as their target (D) are going, to purchase items from ‘Mama Adis 46. ‘The purpose of Josiah’s esteusive haggling with Matna Adisa is MAINLY to (A) prove to Mama Adisa that he is a trader (8) distract Mama Adisa so that she could be robbed (©) __ highlight his exceptional skill m price negotiation (D) allow him to get the best possible price for the perfume 17. Which of the following words BEST describe Mama Taiye and her son, Palys? (A) __ Pleased and fearful (B) — Sunprised and careful (C) Alarmed and uninterested (D) _ Indifferent and unconcemed 48, The irony used in lines 53-55 (“hope this trend .,, customers”) is effective because it (A) explains how the confiiet of the extract is resolved (B) gives background information about the action in the extract (©) assumes that the evil influence would not affect the rest of her day (D) foreshadows Mama Adise’s discovery that she has been robbed GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE19. 8. ‘The playwright reveals Mama Adisa’s character mainly through (A) dialogue and action (B) props and stage directions (C) characterization and setting {D) _suspe vse and foreshadowing 20. Which of the follow the extract? ing, ereates humour in (A) Taiye’s ussumprions hat the smal boy cannot be & thief (B) Mama Adisa’s tawient that she experienced evil intluence that morning © ‘Yaiye’s refusal to call dhe police although she suspects what pen (D) _Josiah’s attempt to purchase the ‘perfume for less than half of the al pricejuems 21230 asiraction: Read the fotlowing poem ‘carefully and then answer lies 21 19 as =10- jephaat Memory claims that in a jungle once ‘great mother elephant, crazed with grief for her lost son, ‘rapped her trunk around baobab! wes vad weenched it free from its upside down holt in the earth and trumpeted down the hole in the earth for her vanished ane [Slephant, the lost the cursed one amber up from under the big rees im Ques ‘Vietoria’s park. his man more pachyderm? thas matt SP draped loose, wrey, muddy as tompaulin, over swollen elephantiasis limbs. wre ves bent over, Weighed by the bag OF ese ver his shoulder, his lips drooped tubular Sraall children appear and chant, “elephant elephant, He rears back on his huge bind lexs trumpeting threats of legal surgery by broken glass bottle, vfeath to sunall children, who seatter before hhimn like antelopes sind olands, sKittering across the asphalt heading bone, Elephant, Ioneliest one in all ereation, YON friends the aight grazing mules, tethered Dy ark hills of coat in Mullings grass yard. Poor Elephant always walling hoping one day he would tum a comer and come upon ‘a clearing familiar to Jong memory, ‘wide green space and baobab trees who there his mother and tbe great herds would be, five. Lorna Goodison, “Elephant”. we In To Us, All Blowers Are Roses Giniveisity of Mlinvis Press, 199, P 9, sgn old tree with thick trunks very large, thick-skirmed mammal GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE2. ‘The poet uses the first stanza primarily to (A) prepare the reader for the elephant’s wpe fiom the jungle (B) underscore the parent-child relatio ship that exists in the jungle (C) introduce the idea of inother-toss durough the use of narrative (D) suggest metaphorically that the elephant is wild aud uncontrollable Lines 10-11, (his man more pachyderm than man, skin Jeaped loose, grey, muddy as tarpaulin, o:er swollen elephantiasis are effective because of the (A) simile which shows the eatent of tie man's loneliness and isolation (8) visual imagery which reinforces thot physically, man and elephant are alike (C) ase of all the senses which evokes sympathy in the reader for the state ¢P the man (D) image of a muddy man with swolle:. limbs which encourages the reader to be afraid What impression is created by “He rears back on his huge hind legs trumpeting” (line 15)? (&)_ Adise sed elephant whose legs are swollen (B) The image of an-elephant that roams the city (C) The image of Blephant, the man, who transforms into an elephant, E by his size and his voice (D)_ - The sound of an elephant whose - voice shatters the ears of the smaller creatures that scamper away 28. 2. Lines 17-18 antelopes aud because they (A) reinforce the motil’o and cont (B) deepen the &: about the tite of wild anim (©) appeal to the thenutie present ‘oC fatherhood and transplantation (D) solidify the animal imagery of botle the jungle and the urban setting tended metaphor Jn of the following is NOT s figurative e? and wrenehed it five” (Line 5) @) “weighed by the bag of crosses” (line 12) (©) “He rears back on his huge bind legs” (line 15) (D) “skittering across the asphalt” (line 18) Which of the following BEST describes the speaker’s attitude to Elephant? (A) Nonehalsat aud aloof (B) — Coneiliatory and hopeful (©) Reprouchfiul and reflective {D) Sympathetic and sorrowful ‘The BEST example of the poet's use of contrast in this poem is the (A)_“Shift from the baobab tee in the jungle to big trees in a park in the city (8) size of the elephant in the jungle and the swollen limbs of Elephant the loner (©) differentiation between the homeless man and the elephant ‘with elephantiasis legs (D) suggestion of the difference between the elephant in the jungle and the man the children tease GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE,2. 29. 212 Which ofthe following is usedasa symbol? Ww (By © iw) ‘slips droped tubular” (line 13) sthreats of illegal surgery BY broken glass bottle” (line 16) syethered by dark hills of coal” (ine 20) sis mother and the great herds would be, free” Cine 26) “The finsT st za functions as an effective ending to ths poem because it w (B) © @) concentrates mainly on the speaker's attitude to Elephant giver the promise of a reunion (© these who suffer Loss sagy 2sts that Elephant will 20 longer suiler from memory 1088 aud anxiety yeinforwes the idea that Blephant ‘will always be the lost son who pines for his mother 3. The titleBleplaani” is appevpriaw be A ae rd, appealing 10 1 auimal lovels (B) he sound of the word gives the poem Hilting efleet and makes it easier wo understand (€) the poem spsaks aout the valet ‘of a another elephant is uhe jungle Solan finally xejuins ber sob (p) the mother elephan beens the symbol of another Kind of 1058 and separatios-14- fnstruction: Read the followiug poem carefully and then saswer Tees 31-40. Beentiful Creatures Brief as These (FG Jay Macpherson) Like butterflies but lately come From loag cocoons of summer ‘These liltle girls start back to school ‘To swarm the sidewalks, playing-felds, 5 Ani litter air with colour. So tight they look within their clothes, ‘Their dresses looser than the Sulphar’s wings,! Itseems that even if the wind alone Were not to break them in the lofty tees, 40 They could not bear the weight of things. ‘And yet they exy into the moming alr ‘And hang from railings upside down. ‘And laugh, as though the world were theirs ‘And all its buildings, trees, and stones 15 Were toys, were gifts of a benignant® sun. D.G, Jones, Literature in Canada Volume 2, Gage ‘ducational Publishing, 1978, p. #69. ‘sulphur’s wings ~ reference to Zeus, the god of weather and atmospheric phenomena (for example, rein, lightning) 2Benignant — seemingly mild and kindly 31. What is suggested. by the opening lines’ 32. “gwarm the sidewalks” (line 4) and “Litter “Like butierflies but lately come / From. air with colour” (line 5) are examples of long cocoons of simmer”? which of the following literary devices? *(A) The butteiflics are in cocoons. (A) Simile | (By The girls aré going ba a summer (@) Contrast vacation. : (©) Metaphor (©) Thegiels were on vacation and have (D) __Personification retumed to school. (D) _Thebutterfiies have been undergoing a transformation,33. 3. 35. 36. 15 ‘Yhe effect create! by “So slight they look within their clothes” (ine 6) is (Ay ai awareness of how delicate the girls seem (B) a comparison of girls with butteriies ( (©) anemphow:s on the kindof clothes the girls wore (D) — aclearer iy iage of the girls littering the air The poet places “éhings” (line 10) initalies o (A) focus on the girls’ weight (8) emphasize the girls” frailty (©) __ highlight dhe weakness of butterflies (D) show that the lifespan of butterflies is quit short ‘The poet compares the girls with butterflies ir (A) imply that they are carefree aad full of life (B) suggest at they are colourful and god-like (©) hint that ney are high-spirited and reserved (D) indicate that they are flighty and uncontrollable Which of the following statements is an ‘example of contrast found in the poem? (A) Butorles swarm she air and bang in co ‘sons, (B) The dwsses are looser than’ “the : Sulph ic’s wings. (©). “Hie girls look fragile yet they hang com the railings. he girls swarm’the sidewalk yet they litter the air with colour. ©) 37. 38. 39, 40. “And laugh, os tb theins” (line 13) is ped somewhere. Father won't ‘ye liked it but we wouldve been married. cynthia?” “Dauling?” “I “My Old Man, my Old Man is dying right now . “are you kidding? | dia’t even know you had an Old Man.” And she laughs, [was at the almshouse today, before-the party.” _ “Ig he really in the almshouse? You must be joking!” She turned her back to me, and her face io the sea. 35 “You areat pulling my leg, eh?” And before-Feould tell her about my father, who he was, how kid be wus, shy was wa'sing fromme and we were in her father’s Jaguar and speeding away from the beach.w ah 2. =17= And the next day, Lam sitting in the Seawell Airport terminal, waiting io be callad to board the plane ‘And Lam thinking now of Cynthia who promised (“{ promise, 1 promise, I promise. Mas, you thik 1 ioing let you keave this place, leave Barbados? and 1 not going be there at te aisport") cone to whe a photograph waving goodbye {ops the terminal and to yet ler photograph tbe the the social count. The plane is weady now, And Cynthia is not coming through the ear park i her fatber"s Jaguu: She bes not come, she has wot come is she promised. And 1 am leaving the island. Adapted from Austin Clarke, “Leaving this island Place”. In Tite Oxford Book of Caribbecn Short Stories, Oxford University Press (UK3, 1999, pyr 220-227, ‘The effet of learni 1g that the narrator rarely 43.-—An this extract, the writer’s use of first visited his father even though he “played person narration BEST allows the cricket every Saturaay on the field across the world from the almshouse” (line 9) is that it (A) narrator to reveal his thoughts about himself and his society (A) ignites the exile the narrator (B) secondary characters to reves! experienc themselves through their actions (B) intensifies the narrator's internal (©) description of the physical setting conflict and the social world to be (©) weinforces the narrator’ disconnect unbiased from his father @) writer to objectively explore the () reveals that the narrator is selfish scene using precise, scientific and self-absorbed language What figurative device is used in the 44, ‘The protagonist exists in a world where he description of vfiss Brewster as “n halt is dead, dried-out ‘lying fish, wrapped in the prease-proof paper of her nurse’s uniform” (A) amisfit and part of a minority ines 10-11)? {B) an ingrate who straddles two worlds (A) Simile (©) asymbol of overwhelming success (8) Contrast atid hope (©) Metaphor (D) — a.hero who willingly challenges (D)_Pessonification’ | “boundaries48. 46. 41. -18- What does the narrator learn in. the course of the extract? (A) _ Promises easity made in Tove are just a: easily broken. (B) He enjeors writing love poems and he is very good atit (©) The wappings of success do pot exempt hisn (rom discrimination, (p) Success demands sacrifice, hard work and determination and the exclusion of all distractions. “Whateifect does the narrator achieve by the repeated references to leaving the island? 1. ‘The journey motif is reinforced Ii, His need to escape is biglighted. I, The determined finality of his decision is emphasized. (A) Land only (B) Land iil only (©) Want LLonly (D) bien \Whien of the following statements BEST express # the theme of the extract? (A) _komantic love is obsessive and often irrational. (B) Love is complex and resttieed by social barriers. (€)__Uniequited love's painful and most times unstable. {D) Love is complicated and almost ‘always ends ia betrayal. 49. 50. Which of the follows effective syambul wealth, and aspiration i (A) The moonlit beach {B) ‘The game of eticket (Cy The father’s Jaguar (D) The proposed phowgraphs ne eliman of the extract vocurs at the (A) _ beach when the loversdiseuss the future (B) _algishouse, during a visit to hs dying father (©) eetory when the canon stains He door on him () farewell party, throughout the speech and drinks “The effect of the repetition in th BEST implics that the narrator inal scene (a) allows hatred and anger (© overwhelm him (B) feels betrayed by all he lieshe had been told (©) regrets his romance with the ‘wealthy Cynthia (D) experiences cluss snobbery and social isolation-19- Jiems 51-60 Instruction: Read the following extract carefully and then answer ftems 51--o0 on the busis of what is stated oe imuplied. w ‘The Green Blazer stood out under the bright sun and blue sky. {0 all thut jostling erowd one could not help noticing 4. The babble of the marketplace was there but above it all, tie Green Bluzer seemed to ery out an invitation. Raju could not ignore it, it was not in his nature to ignore such a persistent invitation He sat on a stack of cast-oif banana stalks beside a shop awning and waiched the crowd, When he watched s crow J he did it with concentration, Coastitutionally he was an idler and bad just the amount of energy to watch in a crowd and put his hand into another person's pocket. It was a gamble ‘ofcourse, Sometimes be got nothing out ofa venture, Sometimes he picked up @ founiain pen. What Raju loved most was nice, bulging purse. If he saw one he picked it up with the greatest defines. He took the cash in it, flung i¢ far away and went home with the satisfaction that he had done his day’s job well. He bought sweets, books and slates for his children, and oceasionally a jacket-pivee for his wie, too. Raju jumped down from the banana stack and followed the Green Blazer, always keeping himself three steps behind. Raju waited patiently, pretending to be examining some rolls of rush mat, while the Green Blazer spent a considerable length of time drinking a coconut at a nearby booth, Raju saw the other take out his black purse and start a debate with the coconut-seller over the price of coconuts. He had a thick sawing voice which discoucerted Raju. It sounded like the growl of s tiger. The way the otht+ haggled didn’t appeal to Raju either; it showed a mean and petty temperament ... (90 much foncness for money. The Green Blazer stopped before a stall flying coloured balloons. He bought a ballc on afier an endless argument with the shopman — a further demonstration of his meanness. He said, “This is for a motherless boy. Ihave promised it to him. £fit bursts or gets lost before I go home, he will cry all night.” ‘Raju got his chan 2e when the other passed through a narrow stile, where people were passing to seea wax model of Ma’ ama Ghandi reading @ newspaper. Pifteen minutes later Raju was examining the contents of the purse. He went away to a secluded spot, behind a disused well. The purse contained ten rupees in coins and twenty in currency notes and a few snnas in nickel. Raju tucked the annas at his waist in his loincloth. “Must give them to some beggas,” he reflected generously. Now the purse lay limp within the hollow of his hand. It was only left for him to fling it into the well, ‘The well had a little shallow water al the bottom. ‘Lhe purse might float, and a doating purse could cause the worst troubles on earth, He opened the purse in order to fill it with pebbles before drowning it Now through the slit at ils side, he saw a balloon folded and tucked away. He remembered the other’s talk about the motherless child. “What a fool to keep this in the purse,” Raju reflected, “itis the carelessness of parents that inakes young ones suffer,” he ruminated angrily. Raju almost sobbed at the thought of the disappointed child. That motherless boy must have his balloon at any cost, Raju decided. But how?, The balloon could not be handed back. ‘The thing to do would be to put it back into the empty purse atd-slip it into the other's pocket.rT 51. 52. -20- The Green Blazer was watching the heckling going on as the Bible preacist ys ubject. Raju sidled up to the Green Blazer, The purse with the Ballo (only | BAS! MN in his palm, He'd slip it back into the other's pocket. Raju realized lis isiahs © & moment. T Green Blazer caught bold of his ann and cried, “Pickpocket!” and tured their attention to Raju, who tied to look appropriately outrs The other, without giving a clue to what he proposed, shot out his arm almost blinded him. the hechiers lost interest in the Bible | He cried, RK, Narayen, Trail of the Gi in Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World eds. Jayana Clerk and Ruth Siegel, 1995, Harper-Coltius College Publis. "pp. 220-223. ‘The fonction of the setting in this extract 53. Whatis the dominant unit used to portray isto Raju’s tail of the Green Blazer? (A) highlight that events and (A) Hunting experiences portrayed in the (B) Stealing passage are unrealistic (©) Gambling (B) reveal that mood reflects the (D) Preaching emotional tumult experienced by the Green Blazer (©) suggest that characters struggle 34. Which of the following tec! jiques is used with a hostile and deceptive by the writer in the development of the natural environment Green Blazer character? o) show that physical and social circumstances influence action, A Persona character and conflict (B) Flashback (©) Caricature (D) Pantomime ‘The BEST explanation for the inclusiow of Raju} bought sweets, books and slates peer nid en and occassionally ajacket? 58. ‘The writer uses Raju’s thoughts to reveal piece for his wite, too.” (lines 1112) is to that he is (A) create suspense and to utilize (A) | mean and imprie al f ashback (B) opportunistic and wily (By): reveal character and t0 give (©) generous and fond of money information (D) _ hypocritical and an idler by nature (©) ++ illustrate important moments in Raju’s past {D) foreshadow events to be delivered at the last minute37. 58. The Council has made every effort ro trace vopy’ overlooked, or any material has been incorrectly Which of the following eritical incidents advances the plot in this extract? (A) Purchasing the balloon for the moiherless child (B) Following the Green Blazer throughout the market (C) Stealing the purse that belongs to the Gre -n Blazee {D) —_ Rewming the purse of the Green Blazer with the balloon inside ‘The narrative point of view used in the story BEST demons'rates that the narrator is (A) character with a limited view (8) acharacter unlimited by boundaries of time and space (C) confined by the experience of a particular character (D) shifting from one viewpoint to the next conveying a many-faceted ‘The wriler’s tone can BEST be described (A) critical (B) mocking (©) judgemental 4D) dispassionate oi. END.OF TEST welter used in the ative and its outcome? (A) bony and humour (B) Bs (©) Allusio (D) Sare x and and p 1 allegory Which of the followin of this extract?” are possible themes 1 Life is simulaneously comic and sad, I Greedy people living beyond their means provoke tragedy. IL Necessity is the motherof invention and innovation. (A) Land Hi only (B) Land iil only (C) Wand Ii oniy (D) 1 Wand il Le YOU FINISH BEFORE TIME IS CALLED, CHECK YOUR WORK ON THIS TEST. the earliest opportunity yright holders. However, if any have been inadvertently acknowledged, CXC will be pleased to correct this at