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Read the following oral poem and answer the questions that follow
The Timi of Ede.
Huge fellow whose body fills an anthill
(Source: Ulli Beier(ed), African Poetry, Cambridge University Press, 1966)
(a) Classify the above poem. 1 mk
(b) What images does the poet use to build up the character of Timi? 6 mks
(c) What is the attitude of the speaker towards Timi? 2 mks
(d) Identify the themes of the poem. 4 mks
(e) Describe the mood of the poem. 2 mks
(f) Mention any three aspects of performance that can be lost if this song is written down. 3 mks
(g) State any four functions of this song. 2 mks
Date posted:
March 21, 2019
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Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow.
a) What event is the speaker describing? Illustrate. (2 mks)
b) Explain how the person gets involved in the event he describes. (4 mks)
c) What is the relationship the persona and the ‘you’? Illustrate. (4 mks)
d) Identify and illustrate any 2 stylistic features in this poem. 4 mks)
e) Explain ‘you catapulted’ 1mk
Date posted:
March 21, 2019
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Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow.
While outside
The mourners cried
Louder than the Orphan.
By Grace Birabwa Isharaza.
1. What is the poem about? (3mks)
2. Comment on the title of the poem. (2mks)
3. What is the attitude of the persona towards the mourners? Explain your answer.(4mks) 4. Paraphrase the message in the fourth stanza. (3mks)
5. Explain the following lines as used in the poem (2mks)
(i) They cried dutiful tears for the deceased.
(ii) And there was Light in the darkness of the hut
6 Comment on the tone of the poem (2mks)
7. Identify and illustrate two stylistic devices used in the poem. (4mks)
Date posted:
March 21, 2019
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Read the poem and answer the questions which follow.
THE MARKET WOMAN
The market woman
Strong sun
and the market woman in the shade
of the mulemba
- Orange, my lady
a nice little orange!
Light plays in the town
its burning game
of brightness and shade
and life plays
in worried hearts
its game of blind-man’s buff.
The market woman
who sells fruit
sells herself.
- My Lady
orange, nice little orange!
Buy sweets oranges
buy from me too the bitterness
of this torture
of life without life
buy from me the childhood of the spirit
this rosebud
that did not open
start still impelled to a beginning.
Orange, my lady!
I exhausted the smiles
with which I cried
I no longer cry.
And there goes my hopes
as did the blood of my children
mingled with the dust of roads
buried on plantations
and my sweat
soaked in the cotton threads.
As effort was offered to
the security of machines
the beauty of tarmac roads
of tall buildings
comfort or ricy gentlemen
happiness dispersed in towns
and I
became a part
of the very problems of existence.
There go the oranges
as I offered myself to alcohol
to anaesthetize myself
and stupefied myself to live.
I gave all.
Even my pain
and the poetry of my naked breasts
I gave to the poets.
Now I myself am selling me
Buy oranges!
my lady!
Take me to the markets of life
My price is only one: - Blood.
Perhaps selling myself
I posses my self
- Buy oranges!
From Scared Hope by Agostino Neto,
Tanzania Publishing House, 1974, 12 - 14
QUESTIONS
(a)Identify the three voices in this poem. 3mks
(b) What is the Poet’s attitude to the market woman? 2mks
(c)What is the theme of the poem? 3mks
d) Describe the feeling of the market woman. 3mks
e) Identify the lines spoken by the persona in his role as an observer. 3mks
f) Explain the meaning of the following lines. 6mks
(i) I exhausted the similes
With which I cried
I no longer cry
(ii) Even my pain
and the poetry of my naked breasts
I gave to the poets
……………………………………………………………………………………………My price is only one: - Blood
Date posted:
March 21, 2019
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Define the term attitude in poetry.
Date posted:
March 21, 2019
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Briefly discuss five functions of a constitution in Kenya
Date posted:
March 21, 2019
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Apart from the Atlas mountain, name other three fold mountains in Africa.
Date posted:
March 20, 2019
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Outline the problems facing wetlands in Kenya.
Date posted:
March 20, 2019
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Give the Applications of indifference curve analysis
Date posted:
March 20, 2019
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Which are the Weaknesses of the Cardinal Utility Theory?
Date posted:
March 20, 2019
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State and explain the Cardinal Utility Theory Assumptions
Date posted:
March 20, 2019
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Outline the qualities of a good counselor.
Date posted:
March 20, 2019
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Discuss the Basic Analytical Framework of Modern Economics
Date posted:
March 20, 2019
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Explain the Categories of theories of guidance and counselling.
Date posted:
March 20, 2019
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Which are the Signs of good memory?
Date posted:
March 20, 2019
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Differentiate between indigenous and exotic forest.
Date posted:
March 19, 2019
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The flow chart below shows the various stages of water treatment. Study it and answer the questions that follow.
i) What is the purpose of filtration unit I
ii) What is the name of process X
What is the purpose of
I.Process X
II.Addition of sodium hypochlorite
b) A sample of tap water was found to contain magnesium sulphate.
i) What type of hardness was present in the water?
ii) Explain how the hardness can be removed.
c)i) Describe how a solid sample of calcium carbonate can be prepared starting with magnesium oxide.
ii) State one use of calcium carbonate.
Date posted:
March 19, 2019
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a)The set up below was used during electrolysis of aqueous copper (II) sulphate using inert electrodes.
i) Name a suitable pair of electrodes for this experiment.
ii) Identify the ions and cations in the solution.
iii) On the diagram label the cathode.
iv) Write ionic equations for the reactions that took place at the anode
v) Explain the change that occurred to the Copper (II) Sulphate solution during the experiment.
vi) During the electrolysis a current of 2 amperes was passed through the solution for 4 hours. Calculate the volume of the gas produced at the anode. (1 Faraday = 96500 coulombs and volume of gas at room temperature is 24000cm3 )
b) i) Draw a diagram to show how an impure copper lump can be refined through electrolysis.
ii) State one other use of electrolysis other than the one shown in b (ii) above.
Date posted:
March 19, 2019
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Explain the areas of guidance and counseling .
Date posted:
March 19, 2019
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Outline the key elements in counselling.
Date posted:
March 19, 2019
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What factors led to the development of urban centers in Africa during the Pre-colonial period
Date posted:
March 19, 2019
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Identify 3 way in which the Industrial Revolution contributed to colonization of Africa by Europeans
Date posted:
March 19, 2019
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Show three ways in which the Industrial Revolution in Europe promoted European colonization of Africa
Date posted:
March 19, 2019
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Define Southern Humanism .
Date posted:
March 19, 2019
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Explain factors which led to the emergence of Japan as an industrial power after the Second World War.
Date posted:
March 19, 2019
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Explain factors which led to the emergence of USA as an industrial power.
Date posted:
March 19, 2019
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State ten factors which have facilitated industrialization in the third world countries
Date posted:
March 19, 2019
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(a) Below is a paper chromatogram of pure substances W, X and Y
The mixture K contains substances W and X only. Indicate on the diagram the chromatogram of K.
(b) State one application of chromatography.
Date posted:
March 19, 2019
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State seven uses of copper in pre-colonial Africa.
Date posted:
March 19, 2019
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Moist hydrogen sulphide gas was passed through a tube containing wet sulphur (IV) oxide gas as shown below.
(a) State the observation (s) made.
(b) Write an equation for the reaction above.
(c) Giving a reason, which substance undergoes reduction above.
Date posted:
March 19, 2019