HOËRSKOOL PRETORIA-NOORD ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE Task 11: Literature: Contextual questions Paper 2 Name: Grade 10 key: Date: 5 November 2015 Time: 120 minutes Examiner: Mrs G. Prins Marks: 70 Moderator: Mr J. Gouws Instructions: 1. Please write your name, date and key at the top of your question paper and answer sheet. 2. Draw a right-hand margin of 2 cm on all the pages. 3. Read the questions carefully. Answer ALL the questions and make sure that you follow all the instructions. 4. It is in your own interest to write legibly and to present your work neatly. 5. Extracts are provided; please read them where indicated. 6. Good luck! Paper 2 Page 1
Section A: The Toilet Short Stories I felt my spirits lifting as I put on my shoes outside the gate. I made sure that my notebook was in my bag. In my haste, I even forgot my lunch-box, but it didn t matter. I was walking faster and my feet were feeling lighter all the time. Then I noticed that the door had been painted and that a new window pane had replaced the old broken one. I smiled to myself as I reached the door. Before long, I was sitting on that toilet seat, writing a poem. Many more mornings saw me sitting there, writing. Sometimes it did not need to be a poem; I wrote anything that came into my head in the same way I would have done if I d had a friend to talk to. I remember some days when I felt like I was hiding something from my sister. She didn t know about my toilet in the park and she was not in the least interested in my notebook. Question 1: 1) Why did her mother think it was a waste of money educating her? (1) 2) Why was she locked in her sister s room all day? (1) 3) What was her job at the clothing factory? (2) 4) Why did she have to leave before 5:30 am? (1) 5) Why was she sitting on the step outside when the dogs barked at her? (1) 6) What figure of speech is the biting cold of the night? (1) 7) Why is The toilet a better title for this story than The park? (2) 8) Give a short character sketch for each of the following: 8.1) The narrator. (1) 8.2) Irene. (1) 8.3) The Madam. (1) 8.4) Gwendolene. (1) 9) Describe a day in the life of the narrator. Do this in point form, giving at least eight different things she did each day. (4) [17] Paper 2 Page 2
Willem Prinsloo s Peach Brandy Question 2: No (Oom Schalk Lourens said) you don't get flowers in the Groot Marico. It is not a bad district for mealies, and l once grew quite good onions in a small garden I made next to the dam. But what you can really call flowers are rare things here. Perhaps it's the heat. Or the drought. Yet whenever I talk about flowers, I think of Willem Prinsloo's farm on Abjaterskop, where the dance was, and I think of Fritz Pretorius, sitting pale and sick by the roadside, and I think of the white rose that I wore in my hat, jauntily. But most of all I think of Grieta.. If you walk over my farm to the hoogte, and look towards the northwest, you can see Abjaterskop behind the ridge of the Owarsberge. People will tell you that there are ghosts on Abjaterskop, and that it was once the home of witches. I can believe that. I was at Abjaterskop only once. That was many years ago. And I never went there again. Still, it wasn't ghosts that kept me away, nor was it the witches. Grieta Prinsloo was due to come back from the finishing school at Zeerust, where she had gone to learn English manners and dictation and other high-class subjects. Therefore William Prinsloo, her father, arranged a big dance on his farm at Abjaterskop to celebrate Grieta's return. I was invited to the party. So was Fritz Pretorius. So was every white person in the district, from Derdepoort to Ramoutsa. What was more, practically everybody went. Of course, we were all somewhat nervous about meeting Grieta. With all the superior things she had learnt at the finishing school, we wouldn't be able to talk to her in a chatty sort of way, just as though she were an ordinary Boer girl. But what fetched us all to Abjaterskop in the end was our knowledge that Willem Prinsloo made the best peach brandy. (Please note that each of these answers should be at least 60 words.) 1) Bosman is a master at the art of understatement. Explain, referring to this story, how this statement is true. (4) 2) Explain how the setting of this story adds to the humour in this story. (4) 3) Bosman implies that the men in the kitchen are very drunk. Explain how he does this. (4) Paper 2 Page 3
4) How does the author view the standard of education of the characters in the story? (4) 5) Oom Schalk Lourens says that he never returned to Abjaterskop after that night. Why do you think that was? (4) [20] Section B: Novel Quote 1: "Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself." Chapter 1, pg. 7 Quote 2: "All men are enemies. All animals are comrades." Chapter 1, pg. 9 1) How is Mr Jones portrayed? (1) 2) Why has Major called the meeting? (1) 3) What is the political statement that emerges from Major's dream? (1) 4) Why does Orwell describe "Beasts of England" as "a stirring tune, something between "Clementine" and "La Cucuracha"?" (1) 5) Which animals learn the song quickly? (1) 6) How do the animals respond to the song? (1) Quote 3: "THE SEVEN COMMANDMENTS 1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. 2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. 3. No animal shall wear clothes. 4. No animal shall sleep in a bed. 5. No animal shall drink alcohol. 6. No animal shall kill any other animal. 7. All animals are equal." Chapter 2, pg. 21 Paper 2 Page 4
7) What happens to Major and what are the effects of his speech? (2) 8) How does this mental outlook determine the smart animals' reaction? (1) 9) How do the other animals respond to the new philosophy? (1) 10) The pigs are recognized as the cleverest of all animals. What human traits are given to Snowball? Napoleon? Squealer? (3) 11) Why does Boxer discard his straw hat? 12) On the first morning, the pigs reveal they ve learned to read and write. How is this typical of their behaviour? (1) Quote 4: The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master. Chapter 3, pg. 24 Quote 5: I will work harder! Chapter 3, pg. 25 Quote 6: FOUR LEGS GOOD, TWO LEGS BAD Chapter 3, pg. 29 13) Only Benjamin does not share the self-congratulatory atmosphere of the farm. What is the significance of his cryptic remarks? (2) 14) To what extent are the following animals educated? 14.1 Benjamin. 14.2 Clover. 14.3 Boxer. 14.4 Mollie. (4) 15) What was Squealer s explanation for why the pigs must be given special food? How do the animals react? (3) Quote 7: It was given out that the animals there practiced cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said. Chapter 4, pg. 33 Quote 8: I have no wish to take life, not even human life, repeated Boxer, and his eyes were full of tears. Chapter 4, pg. 37 Paper 2 Page 5
16) How do the neighbouring humans react to the situation on Animal Farm? (2) 17) How does Snowball direct the Battle of the Cowshed? (2) 18) What typical organizational steps are taken after the victory in the Battle of the Cowshed? (2) Quote 9: No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be? Chapter 5, pp. 47-8 Quote 10: Napoleon is always right. Chapter 5, pg. 48 19) Why are the pigs accepted as the planners of farm policy? What important qualification is placed on their power? (2) 20) How does Squealer explain Napoleon s decision to build the windmill after all? (2) [33] Total: 70 Paper 2 Page 6