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Grade 6 - Final Year Examination - English Literature-Edited
Grade 6 - Final Year Examination - English Literature-Edited
English Literature
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the eternal boxing match! In this corner, in
gleaming white, is Good! Facing off from the other corner, sporting black gloves
filled with nails, is Evil! Which will win?
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Final Year Examination- Session 2023-2024-Grade 6 Literature Page 5 of 17
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Q3. Describe Mrs. Who. What peculiar habit does she have? ( /2)
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Final Year Examination- Session 2023-2024-Grade 6 Literature Page 6 of 17
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Q4. Why is Calvin so happy to have met the Murrys, even though he is popular at
school? What do you think he means when he says that everybody likes him “for
all the most unimportant reasons”? What do you think he considers more
important than these reasons? (
/2)
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Q5. Explain the meanings of two important quotes spoken by Mrs. Who:
“Experience is the mother of knowledge” and “Small is the earth to him who looks
from heaven.” Think about how these ideas can be applied to life.
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Q6. How are Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which distinguished from one
another? Do you have a favourite? If so, who and why? ( /2)
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Q7. In your opinion, who is the most courageous character in A Wrinkle in Time?
Explain your choice. ( /2)
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Q10. When the man with red eyes tries to take over the children’s minds, whom
does Meg scream for and why? ( /2)
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Final Year Examination- Session 2023-2024-Grade 6 Literature Page 9 of 17
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Q11. Charles Wallace seems well and happy, just as the man with red eyes says he
is. How does Meg know that Charles Wallace’s mind and heart have been taken
over? ( /2)
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Q12. How important do you think love is in the world? Is it more important to love
or be loved? ( /2)
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Final Year Examination- Session 2023-2024-Grade 6 Literature Page 10 of 17
Section B: Seen Poetry /20
Directions: Read the following poems and answer the questions that follow:
The Laughing Heart
-- by Charles Bukowski
Your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.
Q1. Explain what you think the line “don’t let it be clubbed into dark submission”
means (look to the rest of the poem for context clues) ( /2)
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Q2. When the speaker says ‘the gods will offer you chances’ what sort of chances
is the speaker referring to? ( /2)
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Q3. What does the speaker mean in the line ‘you can’t beat death/ but you can beat
death in life, sometimes’? ( /2)
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Q4. In general, what do you think this poem is about? What is the point of the
poem?
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Q5. The poem ends with the lines “you are marvellous/ the gods wait to delight/ in
you.” Marvellous means beautiful, wonderful, one of a kind. In which ways are you
marvellous? In the future, what kind of marvellous things do you imagine will
happen to you? ( /2)
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Q2. Read lines 9-13 of the poem. Based on this evidence, what can you conclude
about how the bird is feeling? ( /2)
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What does the phrase "rowed him softer home" mean here? ( /2)
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Q4. How do the bird's feelings change over the course of the poem? Use evidence
from the text to support your answer. (PEEZL Technique) ( /4)
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Robert Frost (1874-1963) was one of the most popular and critically respected American
poets in history. His poems frequently employ rural scenes from the New England
countryside.
So Eden*
sank to grief,
Form:
1. How many lines?
2. How many stanzas?
3. Does it create a rhyming scheme ?
Words:
4. Is figurative language used?
5. Do any of the words create an image??
Theme:
6. What is the poet trying to tell the reader?
Q2. What does the colour “gold” most likely represent in the poem? ( /1)
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Q3. Give an example of the following poetic devices from the poem: ( /4)
Alliteration:
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Personification:
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Q4. According to this poem, should we value our youth? Why? ( /2)
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