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Name one parliamentary committee that monitors government expenditure in Kenya.
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April 5, 2019
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Name two organs of government that promote national unity in Kenya.
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April 5, 2019
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Identify the Christian Missionary who established a medical station at Thogoto in 1907
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April 5, 2019
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Give the main social custom the Abasuba adopted from the Luo
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April 5, 2019
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Give three symbols of national unity in Kenya
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April 5, 2019
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An electric kettle is rated 3KW, 250V. Determine the resistance of the coil
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April 5, 2019
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Given that a lamp is rated 45W 240V. Calculate the resistance of the heating element.
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April 5, 2019
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Read the following poem and respond to the questions appropriately
STILL I RISE
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells' Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns, With the certainity of tides Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like tear drops. Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you? Don‟t you take it awful hard
'cause I laugh like I've got gold mines Diggin' in my own backyard.
You m,ay shoot me with your word
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise.
Out of the hurts of history's shame I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain I raise
I‟m a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear In the tide
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise
Into a day brake that is wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my
Ancestors game,
I am the dream and the Hope of the slave I rise
I rise I rise
Adapted from: Maya Angelous STILL I RISE (1978)
1. With support from the poem, briefly explain what the poem is about. (3 marks)
2. Identify three challenges that the speaker in the poem contends with. (3 marks)
3. What is the attitude of the speaker towards these challenges? (2 marks)
4. Identify and illustrate figures of speech from the poem above. Comment on their effectiveness. (4 marks)
5. Other than the style in (4) above, identify and illustrate other two stylistic devices employed by the poet. (4 marks)
6. Explain the meaning of the following phrases as they are used in poem. (3 marks)
a) Cause I laugh I've got gold mines'
b) But still, like dust, I'll rise'.
c) I am Black Ocean, leaping and wide.
7. Supply the following sentence with the correct question tag. (1 mark)
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
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April 5, 2019
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What is the relationship between periodic time and frequency of a progressive wave?
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April 5, 2019
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The figure below shows water waves crossing a boundary between deep and shallow water
Complete the diagram to show the wave in the deep region.
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April 5, 2019
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Read the poem written below and answer the questions that follow.
The seed shop
Here in a quiet and dusty room they lie
Faded as crumbled stone or shifting sane
Forlorn as ashes, shriveled scentless dry
Meadows and gardens running through any hand
In this brown husk a dale of how throne dreams A cedar in this narrow cells in thrust That will drink deeply of a century‟s streams These lilies shall make summer on my dust Here in their safe and simple house of death Sealed in their shells, a million roses leap Here I can blow a garden with my breath And in my hand a forest lies asleep
i) Identify four pairs of rhyming words. (2 marks)
ii) Describe the tone of the voice that would be appropriate in reading this poem. (3 marks)
iii) How would you say the last two lines of the poem?
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April 5, 2019
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How many cubic centimeters make a gram?
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April 5, 2019
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The short story: Longhorn:'When the sun goes down and other stories from Africa and Beyond '.
'Desperation leads to moral degradation'. Support this statement with illustrations from Sefi Atta's short story, 'Twilight
Trek'
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April 5, 2019
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Name the first vice president of Kenya.
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April 5, 2019
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Fill in the blank spaces in the sentences below with a suitable connector (3 marks)
i) The thieves talked in whispers ………………………………….. they be overheard.
ii) My dog is small …………………………………… fierce.
iii) The old man is very sharp ……………………………. her age.
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April 5, 2019
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The figure below shows two loudspeakers L1 and L2 connected to a signal generator.
An observer walks along the line 0-01 (equidistant from L1 and L2) and another along the
Line AA1.Explain the observation made by each and give reasons to your answer
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April 5, 2019
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Replace the underlined word in each of the sentences with the most suitable phrasal verbs. (3 marks)
i) The doctor remarked that the girl resembles her father.
ii) The looters stole goods of unknown value during the city riots.(make)
iii) When the regained consciousness he was amazed to realize that he was in hospital.(come
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April 5, 2019
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Fill in the blank spaces with the correct form of the words in the brackets.
i) It took the police quite some time to …………………………… (peace) the agitated demonstrators.
ii) The criminal refused to reveal to his ………………………… (capture) how he escaped from the prison.
iii) Some Christians only think of divine ……………………………… (provide) when in need
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April 5, 2019
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state two economic effects of Seyyid Said’s rule on East African Coast
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April 5, 2019
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Give two written evidences of contact between the Kenyan coast and the outside world
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April 5, 2019
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Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow.
I WENT TO CHURCH.
I went to church today.
Yes I went and prayed for all Friends and foes a like. Dead and those alive.
I also prayed hard.
For the soul of that soldier. Who got short.
Fighting for our motherland
While I shot hot life into his wife. And I prayed to God too
That I live long
To go and pray again
Questions.
a) What is the poem about? (4 marks)
b) Identify and illustrate any two character traits of the speaker. (4 marks)
c) Identify and illustrate three poetic devices used in the poem. (6 marks)
d) What is the meaning of the following lines as used in the poem. (2 marks)
i) While I shot hot life into his wife.
ii) That I live long to go and pray again.
e) i) What is the tone of the poem (2 marks)
ii) Explain the overriding mood of the poem.
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April 5, 2019
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The diagram below represents plane wave fronts produced in a ripple tank.
Given that the distance AB is 15 cm, determine the wavelength of the wave
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April 5, 2019
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Calculate the pressure of the gas supply (Atmospheric pressure = 1.0x105Pa)
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April 5, 2019
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Water of mass 200g at temperature of 60°Cis put in a well lagged copper calorimeter of mass
80g. A piece of ice at 0° C and mass 20g is placed in the calorimeter and the mixture stirred
gently until all the ice melts. The final temperature, T, of the mixture is then measured.
Determine:
i) The heat absorbed by the melting ice at O°C
ii) The heat absorbed by the melted ice (water) to rise to temperature T (answer may be
given in terms of T)
iii) The heat lost by the warm water and the calorimeter (answer may be given in terms of T)
iv) The final temperature of the mixture
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April 5, 2019
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For each of the following sets of words, identify the odd one out according to the pronunciation of the underlined sounds.
Knot note not
Weapon weed wed
Breathe breath breadth
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April 5, 2019
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You are the president of the students' council in your school. There have been rising cases of indiscipline in the school and the principal has appointed you to lead a team of students, to investigate the cause of this problem and report back to him within two weeks. Write your report.
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April 5, 2019
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The figure below shows to light pith balls arranged as shown.
State what is observed when air is blown on the outer sides of the pith balls.
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April 5, 2019
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A person’s lung pressure as recorded by a mercury manometer is 90 mm Hg. Express this
pressure in SI units.
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April 5, 2019
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The graph below represents a graph of stopping potential Vs , V against frequency f, Hz
Use the graph to determine:
(i) The threshold frequency of the metal
(ii) Plank’s constant
(iii) Work function of the metal
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April 5, 2019
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State and explain two features of a hydrometer that make it sensitive in its function
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April 5, 2019