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1 SUPERVISOR S Level 3 Classical Studies, Explain a passage or passages from a work of classical literature in translation 2.00 pm ednesday Wednesday 2 November 2011 Credits: Six Check that the National Student Number (NSN) on your admission slip is the same as the number at the top of this page. Answer TWO questions from ONE of the following topics: EITHER: Topic A: Aristophanes Comedies (pages 2 10) OR: Topic B: Virgil s Aeneid (pages 11 19) OR: Topic C: Juvenal s Satires (pages 20 28) Pull out Resource Booklet 90 11R from the centre of this booklet. If you need more room for any answer, use the extra space provided at the back of this booklet. Check that this booklet has pages 2 32 in the correct order and that none of these pages is blank. YOU MUST HAND THIS BOOKLET TO THE SUPERVISOR AT THE END OF THE EXAMINATION. Achievement Criteria Achievement Achievement with Merit Achievement with Excellence Explain literary features of the passage or passages. Analyse, with supporting evidence, literary features of the passage or passages. Overall level of performance Analyse in detail, with supporting evidence, literary features of the passage or passages. New Zealand Qualifications Authority, All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced by any means without the prior permission of the New Zealand Qualifications Authority.

2 2 You are advised to spend one hour answering your chosen questions in this booklet. EITHER: TOPIC A: ARISTOPHANES COMEDIES Answer TWO of the following three questions. Write your answer in the space provided after each question. EITHER: QUESTION ONE Refer to Extract A on page 2 of Resource Booklet 90511R to answer this question. In Extract A, the Chorus of Wasps supports Philocleon s attempt to escape from his son s house. Analyse in detail with supporting evidence: how Aristophanes uses the Chorus of Wasps to amuse his audience, with specific reference to Extract A the ways in which the characterisation of the Chorus of Wasps, in the play as a whole, allows Aristophanes to convey his concerns for Athens.

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5 5 AND / OR: QUESTION TWO Refer to Extract B on page 3 of Resource Booklet 90511R to answer this question. In Extract B, the roles of Dionysus and Xanthias are humorously reversed, introducing the theme of the god s loss of identity. Analyse in detail with supporting evidence: how Dionysus character, including his relationship with Xanthias, is portrayed in Extract B AND elsewhere in the prologue another episode in Frogs where Dionysus fails to act like a god.

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8 8 AND / OR: QUESTION THREE Refer to Extract C on page 4 of Resource Booklet 90511R to answer this question. In Extract C, the Chorus-Leader gives advice to the audience on behalf of the playwright, Aristophanes. Analyse in detail with supporting evidence: the symbolism used in Extract C to convey Aristophanes concerns about the way this city treats her soundest men today the links between the opinions expressed in Extract C and Dionysus decision to choose Aeschylus as the winner of the literary debate.

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11 11 OR: TOPIC B: VIRGIL S AENEID Answer TWO of the following three questions. Write your answer in the space provided after each question. EITHER: QUESTION ONE Refer to Extract D on page 5 of Resource Booklet 90511R to answer this question. In Extract D, Virgil prays to the Muse for inspiration to tell how the tale of arms and of a man began this man being Aeneas. Analyse in detail with supporting evidence: why Juno feels such outrage towards the Trojans, and how this interrupts Aeneas journey to Italy the extent to which other gods support or oppose Aeneas in Book 1 of the Aeneid.

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14 14 AND / OR: QUESTION TWO Refer to Extract E on page 6 of Resource Booklet 90511R to answer this question. In Extract E, Dido is confessing to her sister Anna the attraction she feels towards Aeneas, and the obligation she feels to keep her vow to Sychaeus. Analyse in detail with supporting evidence: the significance of the fire imagery used in Extract E AND elsewhere in Book 4 of the Aeneid to depict Dido s character the ways in which Dido changes between her first appearance in Book 1 and the final moments before her suicide in Book 4.

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17 17 AND / OR: QUESTION THREE Refer to Extract F on page 7 of Resource Booklet 90511R to answer this question. In Extract F, Anchises is about to reveal Aeneas whole destiny (line 9) to him. Analyse in detail with supporting evidence: some of the historical figures whom Anchises reveals to Aeneas in this line of descendants, and the reasons why these particular souls (line 1) have been chosen how hearing his destiny and journeying through the Underworld affect Aeneas attitude to his mission.

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20 20 OR: TOPIC C: JUVENAL S SATIRES Answer TWO of the following three questions. Write your answer in the space provided after each question. EITHER: QUESTION ONE Refer to Extract G on page 8 of Resource Booklet 90511R to answer this question. Juvenal s dislike of foreigners, particularly his dislike of Greeks, is very obvious in Extract G. Analyse in detail with supporting evidence: the faults of the Greeks referred to in Extract G, with particular reference to the practices that Juvenal regards as violating traditional Roman behaviour other reasons for Juvenal s consistently bitter attack on foreigners and their behaviour in Rome.

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23 23 AND / OR: QUESTION TWO Refer to Extract H on page 9 of Resource Booklet 90511R to answer this question. In Extract H, Juvenal presents a scathing attack on Crispinus, a member of the emperor s Privy Council. Analyse in detail with supporting evidence: the characteristics of Crispinus that Juvenal illustrates in Extract H, and the ways in which he persuades his audience to share his opinion of Crispinus the relationship between the emperor and his Privy Council depicted in Satire 4, explaining why individual Councillors behave as they do.

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26 26 AND / OR: QUESTION THREE Refer to Extract I on page 10 of Resource Booklet 90511R to answer this question. In Satire 10, Juvenal writes about the misguided desires of mankind. Analyse in detail with supporting evidence: Juvenal s views on mankind s desire to live to an old age, and the literary techniques he uses to make his views persuasive and / or entertaining in Extract I other prayers in Satire 10 that illustrate mankind s misguided desires.

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