LIBRARY Crnguanas Sia Saconesty Schoo! rest cone 04219010 FORM TP 2010067 MAYAUNE 2010 CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION ENGLISH B Paper 01 — General Proficiency 1% hours TE MAY 2010 (p.m) In addition to the 1 hours allowed forthe exam you are allowed 1S paper. io ites in order (o read through the ‘You may write during the 15-minute period. INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES. 1. This paper consists of THREE questions. 2. Each question is worth 15 masks, 3. Answer ALL. questions inthis paper DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO So. Copyright © 2009 Caribbean Examinations Council®. All sighs reserved, 121900006 2010 tngiuSECTION A= DRAMA 1. Read the following extract carefully and answer ALL the question that follow, (they march the door and brock~ SIGRID following JENNY) MAMA (opening the door to then): Jey. Sigs. Is urpise (To SIGRID.) Wheres Ole? SIGRID: Working, He's always working, I never see anything of hin at al MAMA (crosing the stove for coffee pot): s good to werk 5. SIGRID: 1's good to see your husband once in a while, 0. JENNY (ro nonsense about her) Has Trina been here? MAMA: Tine? JENNY: — She's gone somewhere. And she does’ know anyone bu yu MAMA: Thatis what yo think 10. ENN: What do-you mean by tha? MAMA: Give Lars your coat. I give you some coffee, Then we tak about Trin, SIGRID (ar PAPA helps with egts): She hasbeen ere? MAMA: Yes, se hasbeen here. (She pours coffe and passes cups.) JENNY, What did Thine wan? 18 MAMA: JENNY: What about? MAMA: Marriage SIGRID: What? MAMA. (pouring calmly): Mariage. (She poses Sigrid cup.) Trina wants to get mane. 20 JENNY: Thats no news. Ofcourse she wants wget maried, Every old maid wets to get marie MAMA: — There’ someone who wants to marry Trina JENNY: Who'd want to many Trina? GO ONTO THE NEXT PAGE niatenive 2010MAMA: Mr-Thorkelson. siGRip: 25 MAMA: Peter Thorkelson? Lite Peter? (She gestures midget) He is not so ite, SIGRID: He's hardly bigger than my Ame ~and Arne i tte ye. “MaMa: JENNY: MAMA 30 JENNY MAMA So he is hardly bigger than your Ame. Does every husband have to be big man? ‘Tina's making typ. That happens with old maids when they get to Tvine's age (Girly) No, Jenny ~ itis rue. Mr. Tarkelson wants to marry Tina (changing her tactics slightly): Mr. Thotkelson. She'd be the laughing stock (She ough.) (roving 10 her: Jenny, Trina i here, She will come in in a minute. This i serions for ber You will not laugh at ir JENNY: shall do what plese ) “ © @ © John van Bruton,‘ Remember Mana’. Two Modern Blovs, Longinon Lid, 1968, pp. 16-17, |What isthe MAIN concem among the characters in this scene? mars) ‘What does the tage direction at line 1 tll you about how Sigrid and Jenny are Feting? Support your answer, @ marks) Give ONE quotation fiom ines 39 that shows tension in the scene, Explain the tension. @marks) ‘What kind of person is Mama? Support your answer using ONE speech and ONE stage iroction Gmaris) State ONE thing thatthe andience learns about Jenny’ from fines 31-34, Support your ansier. ‘marks) "Total 18 marks GOON TO THE NEXT PAGE 012190107 2010SECTION B- POETRY 2, Read the following poet carefully and answer ALL the questions that follow: ‘Young Sea ‘The ea is nover sil Ie pounds on the shose Restless 968 young heat, Hinting. 5 Thesea spanks And only the stony hearts iknow what it says Wiehe face ‘of a rough mosh speaking, 10 The sens young, ‘One storm cleans al the hoa ‘And loosens the age oft heart aughing,rekless. “they love the sea, 15 Men who ride on it ‘And now they wil die ‘Under the salt oft Lec only the young come, Says the sea 20° Lat them kiss my fee ‘And ear me. 1am the tst word ‘And tll “Where storms and stars come from. Cari Sandburg, ‘Young Sea". Chicago Poems, ‘Dover Publicotions Ine, 1994, p. 62. "Hoar means graynoss © o © @ © ‘Wentfy THREE aspects of tis pas that ill appeal toa Caribbean person, (3 marks) Explain the image lt isthe fice! of @ rough mothe speaking"in lines 8-9. 2 marks) Stanza 4 introduces a change. In wha way i this stanza diferent Grom the ist ree stanzas? G marks) Identify ONE example of personification OR metaphor and comment om its ffetivenes Bimarks) _dentigy TWO images of sound inthe poem (ii) What impressions ofthe sea do these sound images give? Cr) “Total 15 marks GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE, 01219010/ 2010SECTION C- PROSE FICTION 3. Read the folowing extract carefully and answer ALL the questions that fallow. She filled the night cl with a powerful ananal presence, with a decisive, passionless alr that was somehow Germanic, And she was part German, one of thse Brazilians from Rio Grande do Sul are mixed German, Portuese, naive Indian and sometimes African. With her the German had hed. She was a Brunbil! without her helmet and gud of mal, without her speae. > ‘There was a rap on the drums and Miranda clutched one of her buttocks asi se had been ‘struck there; another ap, louder ths time, and she clutched the othe, feigning? shock and outrage. “Hey, lemme in, stupid” a rough male voioe called in Prtnguese behind her, and she whirled like door that had been kicked open a dark, diminotive figure burst sound ber thigh, wearing a scarlet shiet with billowing sleeves and a huge C embroidered onthe reas lke the device of royal 10 house, a pir of oversized Gghier’s tru of the same savlet which fll past his knees and 9 prize Fighter's high laced shoes He was an old man. His hair beneath the mated wig he wore had beem gray for years now and his eyes under thei crumpled lds were almort opaque with rhea and innocent with ag. Yet, 9s he turned to Miranda with motion of kicking the door shut, his movements were deft and Nuid— his body vs sil youne, it seemed ~and ase tured to the audience his fac, despite the wrinkles which like fine incisions had drain his extre into a indistinet kno, weil mobil, eloquent, subi, each ‘usc beneath the black skin under his absolute contol, Paule Marshall, “Brazil”. Soul Clap Hands and Sing Howard University Pres, 1988, pp. 132-133. "Bronbilé was Gennan warcor queen *Feigning means pretending (2) Describe what is happening in the passage 2 mart) (b) What purpose is served by the ap onthe drums in paragraph 190? mars) (© @__Mentfy ONE clement that contributes othe comic effet ofthe passage i) Inwhat way isthe element comical? @marts) (@) {density ONE setion from lines 7-14 and comment on what it eveals aout the relationship between the man and the woman. ‘(4 marks) (© Te wbidty ONE uF the following senses does the passage appeal most? ‘Sight Sound 2 Touch ‘Support your answer with evidence from the passage (mars) ‘Total 15 marks END OF TEST ‘The Council has made every effort to teace copyright holders. However, ifany have been inadvertently ‘overloaked, oF any material has been incorrectly acknowledged, CXC wil he pleased to carveet this at the earliest opportunity 012190 10/F 2010