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Alt 100: Critical Reading And Response Question Paper

Alt 100: Critical Reading And Response

Course:Bachelor Of Education English Literature

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2010

KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2009/2010
INSTITUTE OF OPEN LEARNING
EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS AND
BACHELOR OF EDUCATION
ALT 100: CRITICAL READING AND RESPONSE
DATE: WEDNESDAY 17TH FEBRUARY 2010 TIME: 11.00 A.M. - 1.00 P.M.

INSTRUCTIONS: Answer 3 questions. Question 1 is compulsory.

Choose either 1a or 1b and two other questions.

Either
1 (a)

?Literature is meant for enjoyment, not for academic speculation.? State and defend your

response to this assertion. Illustrate your answer with reference to your experience of

literature.

(24 marks)

Or
1(b)

Systematically examine the significance of theme in literary creativity and analysis.

(24 marks)
2.
Present a concise literary explication of the poem below.

(23 marks)

AIDS

Aids indeed

From a willing donor

To a willing recipient

Page 1 of 2

Aids

Aid indeed

A gift of death

Through a gift of life

Aids

Aid indeed

Aid with strings attached

From the haves

To the have-nots

Aids

A gift of death indeed

From the developed world

To the developing world

The fable of the hen

And the mother egg

What came first

Development or

The aid of Aids?

- J. K. Mungai (Boundless Voices, P.88)

3.
Support the view that a child?s point of view is most suited to present the ideas in Maya

Angelou?s ?Momma, the Dentist and Me.?

(23 marks)

4.
Discuss the relevance of the title ?His Chosen Calling? to the story in Miguel Street.

(23 marks)

5.
What is the ?tragedy? in Sophocle?s Antigone and who or what brings it about?

(23 marks)

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