Trans Nzoia West District English Paper 3 Question Paper

Trans Nzoia West District English Paper 3

Course:Secondary Level

Exam Year:2008

101/3
ENGLISH
(Imaginative Composition and essays based on set texts)
Paper 3
July / August 2008
2 ½ Hours
TRANS-NZOIA WEST DISTRICT MOCK EXAMINATION - 2008
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)
101/3
ENGLISH
(Imaginative Composition and essays based on set texts)
Paper 3
July / August 2008
2 ½ Hours
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:
??Answer three questions only.
??All candidates to choose the third question.
??Candidates to choose the third question on only one of the optional tests they have prepared on.
??In case of contravention of this instruction examiners will mark only the first of the options
presented by the candidates and ignore the rest.
??All answers to be written in the answer booklet provided
This paper consists of 2 printed pages

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Candidates should check the question paper to ensure that all the printed pages are printed as indicated and no
questions are missing.
Q. 1 Imaginative Composition (Compulsory) (20mks)
Either
(a) Write a story beginning or ending with the following sentence:
“Things were so tough that I decided to take the bull by its horns.
OR
b) Write a story to illustrate the saying:
“Don’t count your chicks before they are hatched.”
Q. 2 Drama: Imaginative composition on the compulsory set text. “The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare” (20mks)
“Justice must at all times be seen to be done”
Paying close action to what happens in the play “The Merchant of Venice” Show how true this
is.
Q. 3 Either
a) Short story Half a day and other stories by Macmillan:
With reference to a meeting in the Dark by Ngugi wa Thiong’o, write a composition to show
that John suffers because of his own faults.
Or
b) Drama: John Ruganda-Shreds of Tenderness
Imagine that you are a refugee at a refugee camp. Using information from John Ruganda’s
play, Shreds of Tenderness, write a composition complaining about deplorable conditions at a
refugee camp.
Or
c) The Novel: Velma Pollard: Homestretch.
With close reference to the relationship between the couples. David-Edith and Charley-Myrtle,
write an essay in which you extol the virtues of friendship.

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