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1. Mrs. Linde comments that a wife is not allowed to borrow a loan. Nora thinks if the woman is business minded it is in order to borrow. Christine does not agree. Nora conceals part of the loan transaction. Nora lies that she got the money from an admirer. Christine thinks of her as mad and imprudent.
2. Flashback. It is through flashback that Nora reveals to Mrs. Linde how she borrowed a loan from Krogstad.
Flash-forward. Nora tells the readers about a time in the future. She says she will disclose the secret to Helmer when she gets old. This reveals the character of Nora as secretive.
Irony. It is ironical that Nora borrows money to cater for expenses aimed at taking care of the health condition of Helmer yet she keeps it as a secret to Helmer himself.
3. Social. She engages Nora in a conversation that reveals Nora’s secretive nature
Critical. She thinks of Nora as imprudent for not informing her husband about the loan issue. She is all questions to Nora.
4. Sympathetic. She sympathizes with Nora who has chosen to clear the loan debt all alone…”poor Nora...”So it has all had to come out of your own necessaries of life, poor Nora?
5. She signs the bond three days after her father’s death. She forges her father’s signature. Krogstad is to use it in the court as it is an illegality. He uses the issue to mount pressure so as to keep his job. He intends to use the press to blackmail Helmer
6. A character who is not present in the lifespan of the play. Papa. His significance is in the plot development. Nora uses him to build her argument on injustices meted on women.
7., can she?
8 i) Lenient/tolerant
ii) Careless
iii) Desires
iv) Committed/dedicated
marto answered the question on April 16, 2019 at 06:27
- Answer the following questions from the extract given below.(Solved)
Krogstad:Are you sure of that?
Mrs. Linde: Quite sure, but-
Krogstad:(with a searching look at her)Is that what it all means?-that you want to save your friend at any cost? Tell me frankly. Is that it?
Mrs Linde: Nils, a woman who has once sold herself for another’s sake doesn’t do it a second time.
Krogstad:I will ask for my letter back.
Mrslinde: No, no.
Krogstad: Yes, of course I will. I will wait here until Helmer comes; I will tell him he must give me my letter back-that it only concerns my dismissal-that he is not to read it-
Mrs. Linde: No Nils, you must not recall your letter.
Krogstad: But, tell me wasn’t it for that very purpose that you asked me to meet you here?
Mrs Linde: In my first moment of fright, it was. But twenty-four hours have elapsed since then, and in that time I have witnessed incredible things in this house. Helmer must know all about it. This unhappy secret must be disclosed; they must have a complete understanding between them which is impossible with all this concealment and falsehood going on
Krogstad: Very well, if you take the responsibility. But there is one thing I can do in any case and I shall do it at once.
Mrs Linde:(listening)You must be quick and go! The dance is over; we are not safe a moment longer.
Krogstad:I will wait for you below.
Mrs Linde:Yes, do. You must see me back to my door-
Krogstad:I have never had such an amazing piece of good fortune in my life!
Questions
1. Explain what has happened before this excerpt. (4 marks)
2. Why does Krogstad say he would ask for his letter back? Explain (3 marks)
3. 'Nils, a woman who has once sold herself for another’s sake doesn’t do it a second time.'
Briefly explain what makes Mrs. Linde saythis? (3 marks)
4. Identify one character trait of Mrs. Linde in this extract (2 marks)
5. What is so surprising in this extract? Explain. ( 2 marks)
6. 'But there is one thing I can do in any case and I shall do it at once.' What is it that Krogstad does and how does it affect the rest of the play? (4 marks)
7. 'I have never had such an amazing piece of good fortune in my life!' Rewrite beginning Never: (1 mark)
8. What makes Krogstad say that he has never had such good fortune in his life? (2 marks)
9. Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases as used in the excerpt. (4 marks)
i) At any cost
ii) Recall
iii) Elapsed
iv) Incredible things
Date posted: April 16, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the extract below and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Nora:Oh, yes, that one; but this is another. I ordered it. Torvald mustn’t know about it.
Rank:Oho! Then that was the great secret.
Nora:Of course. Just go in to him; he is sitting in the inner room. Keep him as long as-
Rank:Make your mind easy; I won’t let him escape. (Goes into the HELMER’S room)
Nora:(to the MAID)And he is standing waiting in the kitchen?
Maid:Yes; he came up the back stairs.
Nora:But didn’t you tell him no one was in?
Maid:Yes, but it was no good.
Nora:He won’t go away?
Maid:No; he says he won’t until he has seen you, ma’am.
Nora: Well, let him come in-but quietly. Helen, you mustn’t say anything about it to anyone. It is a surprise to my husband.
Maid: Yes, ma’am, I quite understand. (Exit.)
Nora: This dreadful thing is going to happen! It will happen in spite of me! No, no, no, it can’t happen-it shan’t happen!
Questions.
1. Place this excerpt in its immediate context. (4 marks)
2. What does 'it' refer to and what does it reveal about the character of Nora? (3 marks)
3. Identify and explain one type of irony in this excerpt. (2 marks)
4. Who is being referred to as he and why has he come? (3 marks)
5. Torvald mustn’t know about it. Add a question tag (1 mark)
6. Describe one theme raised in this extract. (2 marks)
7. What dreadful thing does Nora fear might happen? Explain your answer. (4 marks)
8. Describe the character of the maid (2 marks)
9. Explain the meaning of the following expressions as used in the excerpt. (4 marks)
i) Make your mind easy
ii) I won’t let him escape.
iii) It was no good
iv) Dreadful
Date posted: April 16, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
SAMPLE EXTRACTS
Sample extract 1
Nora:I didn’t find it dull.
Helmer:(smilling)But there was precious little result, Nora.
Nora: Oh, you shouldn’t tease me about that again. How could I help the cat’s going in and tearing everything to pieces?
Helmer:Of course you couldn’t, poor little girl. You had the best of intentions to please us all, and that’s the main thing. But it is a good thing that our hard times are over.
Nora:Yes, it is really wonderful.
Helmer: This time I needn’t sit here and be dull all alone, and you needn’t ruin your dear eyes and your pretty little hands-
Nora: (clapping her hands) No, Tovald, I needn’t any longer, need I! It’s wonderfully lovely to hear you say so! (taking his arm) Now I will tell you how I have been thinking we ought to arrange things, Torvald. As soon as Christmas is over-(A bell rings in the hall.) There’s the bell. (She tidies the room a little.) There’s someone at the door. What a nuisance!
Helmer: If it is a caller, remember I am not at home.
Maid: (in the doorway) A lady to see you, ma’am,--a stranger.
Nora: Ask her to come in.
Maid: (to Helmer)The doctor came at the same time, sir.
Helmer: Did he go straight into my room?
Maid: Yes, sir.
Questions
1. What does Nora refer to in her opening words in this extract? (2 marks)
2. What has happened that has made the couple happy? (2 marks)
3. Discuss two themes evident in this extract. (4 marks)
4. “There’s someone at the door.” Add a question tag (1 mark)
5. A lady has come to see Nora as reported by the maid. Who is this lady and how does her coming affect the Helmers from the rest of the play. Write your answer in note form. (6 marks)
6. Discuss one aspect of style in this extract. (2 marks)
7. Briefly explain what happens after this extract. (4 marks)
8 Explain the meaning of the following expressions as used in the excerpt. (4 marks)
i) Tease
ii) Dull
iii) Nuisance
iv) A caller
Date posted: April 16, 2019. Answers (1)
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THE PAUPER.
Pauper, pauper, craning your eyes
In all directions, in no direction!
What brutal force, malignant element, Dared to forge your piteous fate? Was it worth the effort, the time?
You limply lean on a leafless tree
Nursing the jiggers that shrivel your bottom
Like baby newly born to an old woman.
What crime, what treason did you commit
That you are thus condemned to human indifference?
And when you trudge on the horny pads,
Gullied like the soles of modern shoes,
Pads that even jiggers cannot conquer;
Does He admire your sense of endurance
Or turn his head away from your imprudent presence?
You sit alone on hairless goatskins,
Your ribs and bones reflecting the light That beautiful cars reflect on you, Squashing like between your nails. And cleaning your nails with dry saliva.
And when He looks at the grimy coating
Caking off your emaciated skin,
At the rust that uproots all your teeth
Like a pick on a stony piece of land,
Does He pat his paunch at the wonderful sight?
Pauper, pauper, crouching in beautiful verandas Of beautiful cities and beautiful people, Tourists and I will take your snapshots, And your M.P. with a shining head and triple chin
Will mourn your fate in a supplementary questions at question time.
(Adapted from poems from East Africa, by Cook and Rubadiri EDS)
i) Identify the persona in the poem above. (2 marks)
ii) What evidence from the poem suggest that the subject is poor? (4 marks)
iii) Comment on the writer's use of imagery in stanza two. (3 marks)
iv) Apart from the imagery indentified in
(iii) above, discuss any two other stylistic devices employed in the poem. (4 marks)
v) What is the persona's attitude towards the M.P. (2 marks)
vi) Discuss one theme brought out in the poem. (2 marks)
vii) Explain the meaning of the following words and expression as used in the poem. (3 marks)
a) Emaciated .
b) Crouching.
c) Gullied like the soles of modern shoes.
Date posted: April 9, 2019. Answers (1)
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