ENGHIG511 NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE (NSC) GRADE 11 FINAL EXAMINATION ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE PAPER 2 (NUY-09) TIME: 09H00 11H30 TOTAL: 80 MARKS DURATION: 2½ HOURS DATE: 9 OCTOBER 2012 This question paper consists of 21 pages. ICG 1 NSC Grade 11
INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION Read the following instructions carefully before answering the questions: 1. Write your answers in your answer book, which is provided in the exam. 2. Read the instructions carefully for each question and answer only what is required. 3. Begin with the question for which you think you'll get the best marks. 4. Number the answers correctly according to the numbering system used in this question paper. 5. Except where otherwise instructed, give your answers in full sentences. 6. The mark allocation of each question will determine the length of your answer. Give enough facts to earn the marks allocated. Don't waste time by giving more information than required. 7. Please write neatly we cannot mark illegible handwriting. 8. Start the answer for each question on a NEW page, for example Question 1 new page, Question 2 new page. 9. Any student caught cheating will have his or her examination paper and notes confiscated. The College will take disciplinary measures to protect the integrity of these examinations. 10. If there is something wrong with or missing from your question paper or your answer book, please inform your invigilator immediately. If you do not inform your invigilator about a problem, the College will not be able to rectify it afterwards, and your marks cannot be adjusted to allow for the problem. 11. This question paper may be removed from the examination hall after the examination has taken place. Refer to the table below and the Table of Contents on the next page to guide you: Question Section Marks Time 1 A: PRESCRIBED POETRY 2 3 Answer TWO of the questions 4 5 A: UNSEEN POETRY 30 40min 6 Answer ONE of the questions 7 B: NOVEL 8 Answer ONE of the questions 9 C: DRAMA 10 Answer ONE of the questions 25 55min 25 55min TOTAL: 80 2½ HOURS NB!! Do not attempt to read the entire question paper. Consult the Table of Contents on the next page, and mark the numbers of the questions set on the texts that you have studied this year. Thereafter, read these questions and choose the ones you wish to answer. ICG 2 NSC Grade 11
TABLE OF CONTENTS Use this table to help you choose the questions that you wish to answer. SECTION A: POETRY PRESCRIBED POETRY: Answer TWO of the questions QUESTION NUMBER QUESTION MARKS 1 Sonnet 130 Contextual question 10 AND / OR 2 My Last Duchess Contextual question 10 AND / OR 3 Life is Fine Contextual question 10 AND / OR 4 Poem for my mother Essay question 10 AND UNSEEN POETRY: Answer ONE of the questions 5 On Aging Essay question 10 6 On Aging Contextual question 10 NB!! In SECTIONS B and C, answer ONE ESSAY QUESTION and ONE CONTEXTUAL QUESTION. If you answer an essay question in SECTION B, you must answer a contextual question in SECTION C. If you answer a contextual question in SECTION B, you must answer an essay question in SECTION C. SECTION B: NOVEL Answer ONE of the questions 7 Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter Essay question 25 8 Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter Contextual question 25 SECTION C: DRAMA Answer ONE of the questions 9 Macbeth Essay question 25 10 Macbeth Contextual question 25 OR OR OR You must answer FIVE questions. Use this checklist to ensure that you have answered the correct questions: Section Question No. No. of questions answered Tick A: Poetry Prescribed Poetry 1 4 2 A: Poetry Unseen Poem 5 6 1 B: Novel Essay or Contextual 7 8 1 C: Drama Essay or Contextual 9 10 1 ICG 3 NSC Grade 11
SECTION A (30 MARKS) ANSWER THREE QUESTIONS NOTES: 1. Questions have been set on FOUR PRESCRIBED poems and ONE UNSEEN poem. You must answer ANY TWO of the questions set on PRESCRIBED poems AND ONE question on the UNSEEN poem. 2. The unseen poem is COMPULSORY. PRESCRIBED POETRY: Answer any TWO questions QUESTION 1 CONTEXTUAL QUESTION Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare 1 My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. 5 I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know 10 That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground: And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare. 1.1 Summarise the poem in your own words. (4) 1.2 While the speaker in the poem seems to be criticising his lover, Shakespeare is, in fact, satirising something else. What is Shakespeare criticising in this apparent love poem? (2) 1.3 How would you describe the speaker's tone in this poem? Choose one of the following: A. sincere B. dismissive C. ironic D. insulting (1) 1.4 Read line 12: "My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground" What does the speaker imply about his lover in this line? (1) ICG 4 NSC Grade 11
1.5 What point is the speaker making in the closing couplet? (2) [10] AND / OR QUESTION 2 CONTEXTUAL QUESTION My Last Duchess by Robert Browning 1 That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolf's hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands. 5 Will't please you sit and look at her? I said "Fra Pandolf" by design, for never read Strangers like you that pictured countenance, The depth and passion of its earnest glance, But to myself they turned (since none puts by 10 The curtain I have drawn for you, but I) And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst, How such a glance came there; so, not the first Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir, 'twas not Her husband's presence only, called that spot 15 Of joy into the Duchess' cheek: perhaps Fra Pandolf chanced to say "Her mantle laps Over my lady's wrist too much," or "Paint Must never hope to reproduce the faint Half-flush that dies along her throat": such stuff 20 Was courtesy, she thought, and cause enough For calling up that spot of joy. She had A heart how shall I say? too soon made glad, Too easily impressed; she liked whate'er She looked on, and her looks went everywhere. 25 Sir, 'twas all one! My favour at her breast, The dropping of the daylight in the West, The bough of cherries some officious fool Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule She rode with round the terrace all and each 30 Would draw from her alike the approving speech, Or blush, at least. She thanked men, good! but thanked Somehow I know not how as if she ranked My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name With anybody's gift. Who'd stoop to blame 35 This sort of trifling? Even had you skill In speech (which I have not) to make your will Quite clear to such an one, and say, "Just this Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss, Or there exceed the mark" and if she let ICG 5 NSC Grade 11
40 Herself be lessoned so, nor plainly set Her wits to yours, forsooth, and made excuse, E'en then would be some stooping; and I choose Never to stoop. Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt, Whene'er I passed her; but who passed without 45 Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands As if alive. Will't please you rise? We'll meet The company below, then. I repeat, The Count your master's known munificence 50 Is ample warrant that no just pretence Of mine for dowry will be disallowed; Though his fair daughter's self, as I avowed At starting, is my object. Nay, we'll go Together down, sir. Notice Neptune, though, 55 Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity, Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me! 2.1 What type of poem is this? (1) 2.2 Justify your answer to question 2.1 above. (2) 2.3 What does the fact that only the Duke draws aside the curtain in front of the painting reveal about his attitude towards the Duchess? (2) 2.4 What does the Duke think caused the passionate look on the Duchess's face? (2) 2.5 What do you think the Duke did about this? (1) 2.6 What proof is there in the poem that suggests the Duke's jealousy was irrational? (2) [10] AND / OR ICG 6 NSC Grade 11
QUESTION 3 CONTEXTUAL QUESTION 1 I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank. Life is Fine by Ted Hughes 5 I came up once and hollered! I came up twice and cried! If that water hadn't a-been so cold I might've sunk and died. But it was Cold in that water! It was cold! 10 I took the elevator Sixteen floors above the ground. I thought about my baby And thought I would jump down. I stood there and I hollered! 15 I stood there and I cried! If it hadn't a-been so high I might've jumped and died. But it was High up there! It was high! So since I'm still here livin', 20 I guess I will live on. I could've died for love But for livin' I was born Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry 25 I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die. Life is fine! Fine as wine! Life is fine! 3.1 What two ways of ending his life did the speaker consider? (2) 3.2 Why, do you think, the speaker wanted to die? (2) ICG 7 NSC Grade 11
3.3 3.3.1 The speaker uses a particular kind of language, in order to be more direct and to emphasise his message to the reader. This kind of language can best be described as... A. formal. B. slang. C. colloquial. D. direct speech. Write only the letter of your choice. (1) 3.3.2 How would you rephrase the speaker's words, "Life is fine!" in more formal English? (2) 3.4 What attitude does the speaker express in lines 25 26? "I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die."' Choose one of the following options. Write only the letter of your choice: A. spite B. cynicism C. determination D. resignation (1) 3.5 What, do you think, is the theme of the poem? (2) [10] AND / OR ICG 8 NSC Grade 11
QUESTION 4 ESSAY QUESTION Poem for my mother by Jennifer Davis That isn't everything, you said on the afternoon I brought a poem to you hunched over the washtub with your hands 5 the shrivelled burnt granadilla skin of your hands covered by foam. And my words 10 slid like a ball of hard blue soap into the tub to be grabbed and used by you to rub the clothes. A poem isn't all 15 there is to life, you said with your blue-ringed gaze scanning the page once looking over my shoulder and back at the immediate 20 dirty water and my words being clenched smaller and smaller In a well-planned essay of 200 250 words (approximately 1 1½ pages), explain how the poet uses figures of speech to describe the mother's attitude to her daughter's poem effectively. Explain how the poet conveys the daughter's response as well as the unspoken reasons behind the mother's attitude. [10] AND ICG 9 NSC Grade 11
UNSEEN POETRY COMPULSORY Read the following poem and answer either QUESTION 5 (essay question) or QUESTION 6 (contextual question). On Aging by Maya Angelou 1 When you see me sitting quietly, Like a sack left on the shelf, Don't think I need your chattering, I'm listening to myself. 5 Hold! Stop! Don't pity me! Hold! Stop your sympathy! Understanding if you got it, Otherwise I'll do without it! When my bones are stiff and aching 10 And my feet won't climb the stairs, I will ask only one favor: Don't bring me no rocking chair. When you see me walking, stumbling, Don't study and get it wrong. 15 'Cause tired don't mean lazy And every goodbye aint gone. I'm the same person I was back then, A little less hair, a little less chin, A lot less lungs and much less wind, 20 But aint I lucky I can still breathe in. QUESTION 5 ESSAY QUESTION The speaker expresses some definite sentiments about his / her current situation. In an essay of 200 250 WORDS (approximately 1 1½ pages), discuss these sentiments: what they are and how the speaker uses language, imagery and punctuation to convey them to the reader. [10] OR QUESTION 6 CONTEXTUAL QUESTION 6.1 What figure of speech is used in stanza 1 to describe how the speaker in the poem feels about her situation? (1) 6.2 What is suggested by this figure of speech? (2) ICG 10 NSC Grade 11
6.3 The use of the exclamation marks in stanza 1 is intended to reflect a particular emotion. What emotion is expressed? Choose one of the following options. Write only the letter of your choice: A. surprise B. anger C. indignation D. irritation (1) 6.4 Draw ideas from the poem to justify your choice in question 6.3 above. (2) 6.5 The speaker uses a particular kind of language in order to be more direct and to emphasise his / her message to the reader. This kind of language can best be described as: A. formal. B. slang. C. colloquial. D. direct speech. (1) 6.6 What is the tone of line 7? "Understanding if you got it," (1) 6.7 What does he / she mean by "every goodbye aint gone"? (line 16) (2) [10] TOTAL SECTION A: 30 ICG 11 NSC Grade 11
SECTION B NOVEL (25 MARKS) ANSWER ONE OF THE QUESTIONS REMEMBER!! ANSWER ONE ESSAY QUESTION AND ONE CONTEXTUAL QUESTION IN SECTIONS B AND C. ANSWER EITHER QUESTION 7 AND QUESTION 10 OR QUESTION 8 AND QUESTION 9 Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter by Pamela Jooste QUESTION 7 ESSAY QUESTION Despite her mixed feelings about her mother and her family's troubled relationship with her mother, Lily says in the end that her mother 'was a woman of courage'. In an essay of 350 400 WORDS (approximately 2 2½ pages), discuss why one could argue that Gloria was a woman of courage. You may want to focus on some of the following aspects: her strength of character her sacrifices her determination her independent and defiant spirit her goodness and special qualities her gains and losses [25] OR ICG 12 NSC Grade 11
QUESTION 8 CONTEXTUAL QUESTION Read the extracts below and answer the questions that follow. Unless otherwise instructed, answer all questions in full, coherent sentences. EXTRACT A 1 10 20 30 What we heard is true. My mother is standing on the steps of the Roeland Street jail, right in the middle at the top, in her black coat with her handbag over her arm and a piece of board on a stick in her hand, 'Charge or release James Scheepers'. When we get out of the car we stand at the bottom with all the other people looking up at her and despite her high heels she looks very small from where we are. There are policemen in uniform standing behind her looking important and talking to one another but that doesn't seem to worry her. She holds her board up in front of her and looks straight ahead. There are a lot of people standing on the pavement looking at her and talking about what she's doing and when my grandmother arrives the Muslim husbands push their car forward and park it right up on the pavement and they say who my grandmother is. They say she is this woman's mother and they say what she's come for which is to talk some sense into her daughter's head before she ends up in jail as well. The people standing on the pavement with us tell us what happened. The police have tried to make my mother leave but she won't go. 'I'm not going anywhere,' she says. 'Not until my friend, James Scheepers, is released and can go with me.' The police have told her a hundred times that it isn't possible and she's listened very nicely and told them if it isn't possible then they must make it possible and that is all she has to say to them. 'Charge him or let him go.' Every time anyone even looks in her direction that's what she says and you get the idea she won't mind saying it till she's blue in the face and everyone knows they can't charge him because there's nothing to charge him with. They only took him in to give him a fright and shut him up and now they can't let him go because they'll look like fools and my mother and her banner stay right where they are, where everyone can see her and it looks as if there's nothing on this earth that can make her move. When they tell her she must move along she says: 'You say it's a free country. If that's true, then surely I can wait for my friend wherever I like.' There's nothing they can do about it and she knows that very well. 8.1 Why is Gloria standing outside the jail? (4) 8.2 "... she looks very small..." (line 6) Explain the figurative meaning of this image and what it illustrates about her actions. (2) 8.3 What point do you think Gloria is trying to make by refusing to accept the water she is offered? (2) ICG 13 NSC Grade 11
8.4 " 'You say it's a free country...' " (line 32) Recount one incident from Lily's life that contradicts this statement. (1) 8.5 Why is there "nothing they can do about it"? (lines 32 33) (1) 8.6 This incident reveals an aspect that is NOT a characteristic of Gloria's personality. Which of the following options does NOT apply to Gloria in this case? Write only the letter of your choice. She is... A. dangerous. B. unafraid. C. determined. D. a fighter. (1) [11] EXTRACT B AND 1 10 20 30 James says nothing lasts forever. Things change and that's what's happened to the Valley. He realizes now there was nothing anyone could do to stop what was happening but he and my mother felt they had to try and they'd tried their best and although I needn't understand all of it now, he wants me to know they will always go on trying. Only, now, with no hope left for the Valley, they will try in other ways. 'The terrible thing that happened to your mother wasn't for nothing,' he says. 'I want you to remember that. One day people are going to talk about these times and ask what you remember about them and then you'll have a very special story to tell.' My story will be that my mother was a woman of courage. When times were bad she stood up to be counted and didn't mind how much it cost her and we both know it cost her a very great deal, more than some other people, who were not as strong as my mother, might be willing to pay. This is what James says while we stand by the river wrapped in the cold, clean air with the smell of the wet ground all around us. 'It's going to take more than one person to put things right,' he says. 'It's going to take all the energy and all the will of an awful lot of people. It may take a very long time, longer than anyone expects and it's going to be very, very hard.' He says he and my mother, my grandmother and Stella have looked at the way things are changing and seen how different everything is these days from how it used to be. He says because I am the youngest they have been worrying about me and what will become of me. 'We've talked about it a lot,' he says. 'We don't think what's happening here should be your battle. Once upon a time your mother thought it should be, but she changed her mind and your grandmother never agreed with it in the first place. You're not responsible for what grown-ups have made of the world, Lily, and you shouldn't be made to pay for it.' He says I am the most precious thing in all the world to each and every one of them and when a person's house is burning down, it's always the most precious thing you want to save. They have a plan which he is going to tell me. ICG 14 NSC Grade 11
8.7 What do you think James is referring to when he says that "... nothing lasts forever. Things change..."? (line 1) (2) 8.8 What plan have James and Gloria thought up for Lily's future? (2) 8.9 Why did they decide on this plan? (2) 8.10 What is the terrible thing that has happened to her mother? (line 7) (2) 8.11 Explain what Lily means when she says that her mother is 'a woman of courage' (line 10). (2) 8.12 Under what condition was Lily allowed to leave? (1) 8.13 "It's going to take all the energy and all the will of an awful lot of people. It may take a very long time, longer than anyone expects and it's going to be very, very hard." (lines 16 18) In what way, do you think, did James' words prove to be prophetic? (3) [14] TOTAL SECTION B: 25 ICG 15 NSC Grade 11
SECTION C DRAMA (25 MARKS) ANSWER ONE OF THE QUESTIONS NB!! IF YOU ANSWERED QUESTION 7 IN SECTION B, YOU HAVE TO ANSWER QUESTION 10 IN SECTION C. IF YOU ANSWERED QUESTION 8 IN SECTION B, YOU HAVE TO ANSWER QUESTION 9 IN SECTION C. Macbeth by William Shakespeare QUESTION 9 ESSAY QUESTION Banquo refers to the witches as 'the instruments of darkness'. Some critics have included Lady Macbeth as an instrument of darkness. Do you agree with this assessment? In an essay of 350 400 WORDS (approximately 2 2½ pages), discuss the role and character of Lady Macbeth in the light of the description above. You may want to include some of the following aspects in your essay: Lady Macbeth before the murder Lady Macbeth's role during the murder the change in her character after the murder her inner strength of character the effect of the murder on her state of mind [25] OR ICG 16 NSC Grade 11
QUESTION 10 CONTEXTUAL QUESTION Carefully read the extracts and answer the questions that follow. Unless otherwise instructed, answer all questions in full, coherent sentences. EXTRACT A 1 5 10 15 LADY MACBETH Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy thane, You do unbend your noble strength, to think So brainsickly of things. Go get some water, And wash this filthy witness from your hand. Why did you bring these daggers from the place? They must lie there: go carry them; and smear The sleepy grooms with blood. MACBETH I'll go no more: I am afraid to think what I have done; Look on't again I dare not. LADY MACBETH Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal; For it must seem their guilt. Exit. Knocking within 20 MACBETH Whence is that knocking? How is't with me, when every noise appals me? What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas in incarnadine, Making the green one red. Re-enter LADY MACBETH 25 LADY MACBETH My hands are of your colour; but I shame To wear a heart so white. Knocking within 30 I hear a knocking At the south entry: retire we to our chamber; A little water clears us of this deed: How easy is it, then! Your constancy Hath left you unattended. ICG 17 NSC Grade 11
Knocking within Hark! more knocking. Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us, And show us to be watchers. Be not lost So poorly in your thoughts. 35 MACBETH To know my deed, 'twere best not know myself. Knocking within Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst! Exeunt 10.1 Explain what Macbeth is afraid to look on again. (1) 10.2 How does Macbeth react when his wife orders him to return the daggers to the drugged grooms and to smear them with blood? (1) 10.3 'At this point in the play, Lady Macbeth has become someone who has suppressed all sense of disgust or horror.' Give evidence from the extract for the truth of this statement. (2) 10.4 Contrast Macbeth's attitude towards blood with that of Lady Macbeth's. (2) 10.5 Explain the meaning of 'a heart so white'. (1) 10.6 'A little water clears us of this deed... ' What does this statement tell us about Lady Macbeth's nature and feelings? (2) 10.7 Why, do you think, would Macbeth be 'lost so poorly' in his thoughts? (2) 10.8 Explain what Macbeth means with: 'Wake Duncan with thy knocking: I would thou couldst!' (1) AND ICG 18 NSC Grade 11
EXTRACT B Enter LADY MACBETH, with a taper 1 Doctor How came she by that light? Gentlewoman Why, it stood by her: she has light by her continually; 'tis her command. Doctor You see, her eyes are open. 5 Gentlewoman Ay, but their sense is shut. Doctor What is it she does now? Look, how she rubs her hands. Gentlewoman It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus washing her hands: I have known her continue in this a quarter of an hour. 10 LADY MACBETH Yet here's a spot. Doctor Hark! she speaks: I will set down what comes from her, to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly. 15 LADY MACBETH Out, damned spot! out, I say!--one: two: why, then, 'tis time to do't.--hell is murky!--fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?--yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him. Doctor Do you mark that? 20 LADY MACBETH The Thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now?-- What, will these hands ne'er be clean?--no more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting. Doctor Go to, go to; you have known what you should not. ICG 19 NSC Grade 11
25 Gentlewoman She has spoke what she should not, I am sure of that: heaven knows what she has known. LADY MACBETH Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh! 30 Doctor What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged. Gentlewoman I would not have such a heart in my bosom for the dignity of the whole body. 10.9 Why is it figuratively significant that she has 'light by her continually'? (2) 10.10 'You see, her eyes are open.' 'Ay, but their sense are shut.' (lines 4 5) Explain the meaning of these words. (2) 10.11 Why is Lady Macbeth continually 'washing her hands'? (line 8) (1) 10.12 'Out, damned spot! Out, I say!' (line 13) What is preying on Lady Macbeth's mind here? (2) 10.13 What attitude to the murder of Duncan is revealed by Lady Macbeth in her remark about 'the old man'? (line 17) (1) 10.14 Explain the reference to the Thane of Fife. (line 20) (2) 10.15 How do the doctor and the gentlewoman react to Lady Macbeth's compulsive rubbing of her hands? Choose the correct option from the following. Write the letter of your answer: A. They realise what she is trying to do. B. They know what she has done. C. The do not understand the significance of this action. D. They think she is mad. (1) ICG 20 NSC Grade 11
10.16 'Here's the smell of blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.' (lines 27 29) Of what earlier image referred to by Macbeth does this remind you? (1) 10.17 How do we know that the gentlewoman has grasped the enormity of Lady Macbeth's crimes? Quote the line. (1) [25] TOTAL SECTION C: 25 GRAND TOTAL: 80 MARKS ICG 21 NSC Grade 11