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Trans-Nzoia District Mock - English Paper 2 Question Paper
Trans-Nzoia District Mock - English Paper 2
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Exam Year:2007
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101/2
ENGLISH
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)
PAPER 2
JULY / AUGUST
2 ½ HOURS
TRANS-NZOIA DISTRICT MOCK EXAMINATION-2007
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)
101/2
ENGLISH
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)
PAPER 2
JULY / AUGUST
2 ½ HOURS
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
• Answer all the questions in this question paper.
• All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.
Candidates should check the question paper to ensure that all pages are printed as indicated and no questions are missing
1. QUESTION 1
A New Detention Camp
A LARGE tough-looking officer came in and, standing with arms folded, made a speech of welcome as follows: 'You have now arrived at Manyani. This is Manyani and you will soon understand about Manyani. If you have anything like money or letters, watches, or penknives or any other muck,produce it. If anyone tries to hide; anything he will get something bad. After handing things in here,you will go to the kitchen where you will be inspected and your spare clothes put in store. You will remain with one set of clothes only. Do you understand?. We uttered an affirmative grunt and, in spite of the lessons of Langata, began busily scratching the earth to bury our treasures. One officer took the money in, another the personal articles.
The rumour rapidly circulated that they were writing 2,000 shillings down as 200 shillings, 200 shillings as 20 shillings, 20 shillings remained as 20 shillings. Now my 242 shillings was not sewn up and I had no intention of losing it. I therefore rolled up the two 100-shilling notes and stuck them deep down in the curls of my hair. Curly hair has its advantages. I gave one of the warders 2 shillings since one never knew when a friend might come in useful. I handed in the two 20-shilling notes and my watch, for neither of which did I get a receipt nor have I ever seen them again.
We then went to a place near the kitchen where we were to be inspected. Other detainees, faced with handing in their money, hid it in their, mouths (where with care it could be concealed without affecting speech). Between their toes, and even in the groin. We were ordered to remove all our clothes and all parts of our anatomy were thoroughly examined. We were also made to jump up and down like Kamba dancers in the hope that the jibbing might dislodge money or what else we had hidden. My clothes, my camera and my books were taken off me.
The books were an inconsolable loss and that night I was very miserable. To our dismay, after the inspection we were returned not to Compound 26 but 21. All the articles that had been buried were now lost. It was, however, all the same since few detainees ever saw again the money and belongings that were handed in at Manyani. This was not solely due to pilfering by warders, but also to the poor storage conditions and the system of labelling. To have preserved them all safely would have required a degree of organization and ability that was simply not available to the Prison Department at that time.
The next morning we met the 'screeners' for the first time. Their leader was a detainee called Henry.
Henry had a strange habit of calling for one detainee to lie on the ground in front of him so that he could put his foot on him. From this position of authority he seemed to gain sufficient strength to be able to call out our names. Oddly enough, since the alternative was squatting motionless in a most uncomfortable position, there was almost a stampede for the honour of becoming his footstool. We considered all screeners to be traitors. Most of those who had been brought from the Reserve ta do it had allowed their love of money to conquer their patriotism. Those who had been detainees had exchanged the life of suffering for one of relative liberty.
(From Mau Mau Detainee by Josiah Mwangi Kariuki)
QUESTIONS
1. How does the author use the word ‘welcome’ in the first sentence? Explain (1mk)
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2. Describe the tone of the tough-looking officer’s speech. (1mk)
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3. In spite of the lessons learnt at Langata we began to bury our treasures’. What does this statement mean? (1mk)
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4. What instructions does the tough-looking officer give to the ‘You’. List them.
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5. How did the detainees safe guard their money. Write your answer in a summary of about 50
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6. To have preserved them all safely would have required a degree of organization. Change this
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7. What is the author’s attitude towards his subject and what is his subject? Explain your answer.
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8. Who are the ‘screeners’? describe them. (1mk)
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9. Explain the meaning of the following words and expressions as used in the passage.
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i) Inconsolable
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ii) Pilfering
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iii) Relative liberty
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QUESTION 2
MERCHANT OF VENICE
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
Portia
Go, draw aside the curtains and discover
The several caskets to this noble prince.
Now make your choice.
Morocco
This first of gold, who this inscription bears,
5 ‘Who chooseth me, shall gain what many men desire’.
The second silver, which this promise carries,
‘ Who chooseth me, shall get as much as he deserve
This third dull lead, with warning all as blunt.
‘Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath’.
10 How shall I know if I do choose the right?
Portia
The one of them contains my picture, prince.
If you choose that, then I am yours withal.
Morocco
Some god direct my judgement! Let me see:
I will survey th’inscriptions back again
15 What says this leaden casket?
‘Who chooseth me, must give and hazard all he hath’.
Must give- for what? For what? For lead? Hazard for lead!
This casket threatens: men that hazard all
Do it in hope of fair advantages.
20 A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross;
I’ll then nor hazard aught for lead.
What says the silver with her virgin hue?
‘Who chooseth me, shall get as much as he deserves’.
As much as he deserves-pause there, Morocco,
And weight thy value with an even hand.
If thou be’st rated by thy estimation
Thou dost deserve enough; and yet enough
May not extend so far as to the lady;
And yet to be afear’d of my deserving
30 were but a weak disabling of myself.
As much as I deserve: why, that’s the lady.
I do in birth deserve her, and in fortunes,
In graces, and in qualities of breeding:
But more than these, in love I do deserve.
35 What if I stray’d no farther, but chose here?
Let’s see once more this saying grav’d in gold:
‘Who chooseth me, shall gain what many men desire’.
Why, that’s the lady; all the world desire her.
From the four corners of the earth they come
40 To kiss this shrine, this mortal breathing saint.
The Hyrcanian deserts and the vasty wilds
Of wide Arabia are as though fares now
For princes to come view fair Portia.
The watery kingdom, whose ambitious head
45 Splits in the face of heaven, is no bar
To stop the foreign spirits, but they come
As o’er a brook to see fair Portia.
One of these three contains her heavenly picture.
Is’t like that lead contains her?’Twere damnation
50 To think so base a thought; it were too gross
To rib her celecloth in the obscure grave.
Or shall I think in silver she’s immur’d,
Being ten times undervalu’d to tried gold?
O sinful thought! Never so rich a gem
55 Was set in worse than gold. They have in England
A coin that bears the figure of an angel
Stamped in gold; but that’s insculp’d upon:
But here an angel in a golden bed
Lies all within. Deliver me the key:
60 Here do I choose, and drive I as I may.
Portia
There take it, prince, and if my form lie there,
Then I am your.
Morocco unlocks the gold casket
Morocco
O hell! What have we here?
A carrion death, within whose empty eye
There is a written scroll. I’ll read the writing.
65 ‘All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold
Gilded tombs do worms infold.
70 Had you been as wise as bold,
Young in limbs, in judgement old,
Your answer had not been inscroll’d.
Fare you well, your suit is cold.’
Cold indeed, and labour lost;
75 Then farewell heat, and welcome frost.
Portia, adieu; I have too griev’d a heart
To take a tedious leave: thus losers part.
[Exit Morocco with his train]
Portia
A gentle riddance! Draw the curtains, go.
Let all of his complexion choose me so. [Exeunt]
2. Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare.
a) Give three ways in which the Morocan Prince is misled by his sense of Pride. (3mks)
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b) Identify three examples of irony used in the passage. (3mks)
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c) What is achieved by the use of rhetorical questions in the passage? (4mks)
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d) In note form state the warning given to young people, the likes of the Moroccan prince.
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e) In about 80 words summarise the Moroccan character. (8mks)
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f) One of these three contains her heavenly picture. (Rewrite this sentence beginning:
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g) Identify and illustrate any one theme in the extract. (2mks)
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h) How is Portia’s contrasting views revealed in the extract? (2mks)
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3. ORAL LITERATURE
Read the oral narrative below and answer the questions that follow.
Ondieki had two wives. The first wife was faithful and had borne him children. The second was a fickle woman, greedy and jealous. Now Ondieki had taken a third wife, who admired him as a great chief. She was so devoted to him that she praised him even while she worked. Whatever she was doing., grinding, pounding, or harvesting, she would praise his name in songs like this one:
Ondieki my husband is great like my father.
Ondieki my master, a lion in the hills.
When he is away, I scan the hill slopes.
His strength crushes me like the eagle crushing a buck’s shoulder blade
I am the field for his hoe, the soil waiting for the first rains.
I hang like a liana from the mighty branches of a forest giant.
I find shelter in his presence like the velvet monkey in the thick foliage
of the mahogany tree.
I am my Ondieki fit round his strong arm.
I am like the bats hanging from the ceiling of the caves in the rocks.
He is the rock that no spear can kill……
The second wife was annoyed with these praises for a husband who did not, she
felt , give her enough presents. What was worse, the singing pleased her husband so
much that he lavished most of his attentions on the third wife. So the second wife
decided to sing him a song of her own.
Ondieki my brother, be silent in the mountain…….
It contained many more lines one could understand. He began to sink into the ground, like a tree in a flood. At last he disappeared altogether, and earth covered him altogether, and earth covered his head.
The first and third wives began to wail loudly. Ondieki found himself in the land below. He traveled along a path until he came to a copse. He decided to build a house there, but as soon as he started cutting a tree, all the trees began to cry for help. So he walked on.
Then he came to a forest where he found hundreds of mushrooms. He collected a large number until he was suddenly surrounded by the king’s soldiers, who accused him of stealing the royal herd. He said: “I was only collecting mushrooms”. He opened his bag and found animals. He emptied his bag and the animals turned into mushroom again. He looked at the soldiers but he saw only trees.
He went on and met an old woman. She said, “guard my millet field while I am away. But do not try to catch the birds, just chase them by shouting”. She vanished and at once a flock of orange birds descended and began to eat the millet. He burnt his fingers and went away. Behind a bush he met a great lion who told him: “You please refer from the original missed information concluded a pack of friendship with lighting, who gave him a laming torch brought the torch to King Lion, who was so pleased that he gave him cows.
Suddenly, he heard the voice of his mother crying and complaining:” Oh my son who always worked for me, he used to hoe my fields! Alas for his mother! Who will now harvest my millet for me? I am
old and weak!”.
When he heard this he asked permission of the lion to return to his own country because his old mother urgently needed help with the crops. The lion agreed that was a valid reason and called his guards to guide to the door. The guards showed him a cave and drove his cattle through the narrow opening. He found himself in the bushes at the foot of the hill not far from his own village. He drove the cows to his own Kraal.
There was a great rejoicing in his compound, when the children saw him they raced out to meet him.
The hunting dogs yelped around him. The news soon spread he has come back from the underworld a rich man. His mother said: Chase away that evil woman who bewitched you”. The villagers stoned the second wife. The third wife took her nanga, a stringed instrument and sang:
My husband has come back from the land of graves.
He lives again like fire in the morning ……….
a) What do you learn from this narrative about the economic and social life of the people in the community it is drawn from. (2mks)
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b) Give a proverb from any community which reflects the message conveyed in this narrative and explain their relevance. (2mks)
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c) What are the functions of the songs in this narrative. (6mks)
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d) Imagine that you have been asked to carry out a field study to collect oral narratives in your
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(i) State the stages you would use to carry out the field work. (2mks)
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(iii) Explain three dramatic features you are likely to observe during the performance by your
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e) Charcterize by mentioning one common trait among the main characters in the story and
illustrate. Identify one dissimilar trait among the three. (2mks)
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f) Mention and illustrate the literary devices specific to oral literature evident in this narrative.
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4. GRAMMAR
Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given. Do not change the
meaning. (3mks)
(i) The judge said to him, “You have until Saturday to pay the fine or else you will go to
prison. (Begin: The judge told him that unless he…
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(ii) Korean women are very short. Very few of them are above five feet tall.
(Rewrite as one sentence using the word hardly)
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(iii) The boy is very foolish. He believes everything I tell him. (Rewrite as one sentence
using – enough to)
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b) Complete these sentences with the right form of the word in brackets. (3mks)
(i) The teacher tried to restrain his ……………………………….. pupil (aggression)
(ii) (Coward) ……………………………….. soldiers don’t fight well.
(iii) Such a policy can ………………………….. the poor. (danger)
c) Choose the correct form of the word from those in brackets. (3mks)
(i) He went to see him ………………………………….. a view ……………………………..
getting his help ( with / to, in/to, to/with, for)
(ii) All over sudden / all of a sudden / all over a sudden, there was a storm.
(iv) We …………………………………………… (reached at / reached / reached in / our
destination in the evening.
d) Replace the underlined words with one word.
(i) He is suffering from a medical condition that makes him unable to remember things
due to brain damage.
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(ii) Our principal is reputed for introducing extremely strict and severe rules in our school.
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(iii) That man likes playing a sport of shooting arrows from a bow.
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