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Critical Reading And Response Question Paper

Critical Reading And Response

Course:Bachelor Of Arts In Literature

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2010

KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2010/2011
INSTITUTION BASED PROGRAMME (IBP) ? AUGUST SESSION
EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF EDUCATION AND BACHELOR
OF ARTS
ALT 100: CRITICAL READING AND RESPONSE

DATE: Tuesday 28th December, 2010 TIME: 11.00 a.m. ? 1.00 p.m.
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INSTRUCTIONS
Answer Three questions only. Question one is compulsory.

1.
Using appropriate examples, discuss the meaning and significance of Critical Reading and
Response.

[30 marks]
2.
Who is to blame for the suffering and tragedy in John Ruganda?s play The Burdens?

[20 marks]
3.
What makes Ngugi?s novel The River Between challenging to university level readers?

[20 marks]
4.
Deriving your answer from one short story you have studied in the Anthology Encounters from
Africa, discuss how the characters reveal the themes in the story.

[20 marks]

5.
In what ways can we say that the oral literature of your community has important lessons for the
youth today?

[20 marks]

6.
Critically respond to the following poem.

[20 marks]

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A leopard lives in a muu tree

A leopard lives in a muu tree

1
Watching my home.
My lambs are born speckled
My wives tie their skirts tight
And turn away-

5

Fearing mottled offspring.
They bathe when the moon is high
Soft and fecund
Splash cold mountain stream water on their nipples
Drop their skin skirts and call obscenities

10

I?m besieged
I shall have to cut down the muu tree
I?m besieged
I walk about stiff
Stroking my loins.

15

A leopard lives outside my homestead
Watching my women
I have called him elder, the on-from-the-same-womb
He peers at me with slit eyes
His head held high
My sword has rusted in the scabbard.

20

My wives purse their lips
When owls call for mating
I?m besieged

They fetch cold mountain water

25

They crush the sugar cane
But refuse to touch my beer horn.
My fences are broken
My medicine bags torn
The hair on my loins is singed

30

The upright post at the gate has fallen
My women are frisky
The leopard arches over my homestead
Eats my lambs
Resuscitating himself

35

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