ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGAUGE
PAPER 2 – LITERATURE
Grade 11 - JUNE 2009
TOTAL: 70
TIME: 2 HOURS
INSTRUCTIONS
Answer ONE question on Macbeth and ONE question on Animal Farm.
Begin the answer to a NEW section on a NEW page.
Answer the questions in YOUR OWN WORDS and only QUOTE when the questions asks
you to QUOTE.
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Leave a margin open on the right hand side of the page where the marks can be written in.
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Try to spell correctly.
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Please staple the question paper to the back of your answers when you hand in.
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WARNINGS
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You will lose marks if you spell the names of characters incorrectly.
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An answer will be marked wrong if you quoted an answer when it should not have been
quoted even if the quote is correct.
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DO NOT ANSWER MORE THAN ONE MACBETH QUESTION
SECTION A – MACBETH by William Shakespeare.
QUESTION 1 – Contextual Question
WITCHES ALL
Fair is foul, and foul is fair.
Hover through the fog and filthy air.
later
MACBETH
So foul and fair a day I have not seen
a little bit later
3rd WITCH
All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!
still later
MACBETH
(Aside) The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap,
For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires!
Let not light see my black and deep desires.
They eye wink at the hand; yet let that be
Which they eye fears, when it is done, to see.
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
1.6
What is the meaning of ‘fair is foul, and foul is fair’?
(2)
The theme of ‘fair is foul, and foul is fair’ recurs throughout the play. Write down one
example of how a character was a victim of this theme. Give the name of the character (1) and
the incident (2).
(3)
What does Macbeth refer to when he talks of a ‘foul and fair’ day. Say what is foul about the
day and what is fair about the day.
(2)
How did Banquo feel about the predictions of the witches. In other words, what warning did
he give Macbeth about the predictions of witches?
(2)
Who received the title “Prince of Cumberland” and what does it mean?
(2)
The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap,
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1.6.1 How did Macbeth o’erleap this step?
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1.6.2 How did Macbeth fall down on this step?
(2)
MACBETH
Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready,
She strike upon the bell.
The servant off
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch theeI have thee not, and yet I see thee still!
1.7
What would the ringing of the bell really indicate?
A. All the servants must go to bed
B. Duncan is asleep
C. The Guards are doused
D. Lady Macbeth calls Macbeth to bed
1.8
Why is Macbeth unable to clutch the dagger?
A. He is slightly drunk
B. Banquo’s ghost is holding the dagger
C. It is a hallucination
D. The dagger is too far from him
1.9
Why does Macbeth see this dagger?
(1)
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LADY MACBETH
Had he not resembled my father
As he slept, I had done it
1.10
Who is Lady Macbeth talking about?
A. Macduff
B. Banquo
C. Duncan
D. Malcolm
1.11
What would she have done to him?
A. Lie to him
B. Greeted
C. Killed him
D. Warned him
(1)
(1)
MACBETH
To be thus is nothing,
But to be safely thus. Our fears in Banquo
Stick deep, and in his royalty of nature
Reigns that which would be feared.
1.12
“To be thus is nothing,”. What does the word “thus” refer to?
A. King
B. Rich
C. Famous
D. Powerful
1.13
Why is Macbeth afraid of Banquo?
1.14
How will Macbeth overcome his fear of Banquo?
A. He will ignore it.
B. He will visit the witches to find out if the prophecy is really true.
C. He will murder Banquo.
D. He will murder Banquo and Banquo’s children
(1)
(2)
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MACBETH
I am in blood
Stepped so far, that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o’er.
Strange things I have in head that will to hand,
Which must be acted ere they may be scanned.
1.15
Briefly list what Macbeth has done that he says “I am in blood stepped so far”?
(2)
LADY MACDUFF
Wisdom! To leave his wife, to leave his babes,
His mansion and his titles, in a place
From whence himself does fly?
1.16
Where did Lady Macduff’s husband go?
1.17
What happened to Lady Macduff and her children?
A. They were unhappy that Macduff left
B. They were unhappy that Macduff had a title
C. They were murdered by Malcolm
D. They were murdered by Macbeth
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(2)
MACDUFF
Bleed, bleed, poor country!
Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,
For goodness dare not check thee.
1.17
What does Macduff want to ask Malcolm?
A. He wants to know if Malcolm loves Scotland
B. He wants to know where Donaldbain is.
C. He wants Malcolm to attack Macbeth
D. He wants to test if Malcolm is a true King
1.18
Why doesn’t Malcolm trust Macduff at first?
A. Malcolm trust nobody
B. He thinks Macduff was send by Macbeth
C. Malcolm is a bad person
D. Malcolm checks Macduff.
1.19
How does Malcolm test Macduff?
(1)
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(2)
MESSENGER
As I did stand my watch upon the hill,
I looked toward Birnam, and anon methought
The wood began to move.
1.20
Why was Macbeth upset when he heard these words.
(2)
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QUESTION 2 – MACBETH
DOCTOR
A great perturbation in nature, to receive at ance the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!
In this slumbry agitation, besides her walking and other actual performances, what, at any time, have
you hear her say?
GENTLEWOMAN
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That, sir, which I will not report after her.
DOCTOR
You may to me, and ‘tis most meet you should.
GENTLEWOMAN
Neither to you nor any one, having no witness to confirm my speech.
Enter Lady Macbeth, with a candle.
Lo you, here she comes! This is her very guise, and upon her life fast asleep. Observe her, stand
close.
DOCTOR
How come she by that light?
GENTLEWOMAN
Why, it stood by her. She has light by her continually, ‘tis her command.
DOCTOR
You see, her eyes are open.
GENTLEWOMAN
Ay, but their sense is shut
DOCTOR
What is it she does now? Look, how she rubs her hands.
GENTLEWOMAN
It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus washing her hands. I have known her continue in
this a quarter of an hour.
3.1
Why will the Gentlewoman not report what she has heard Lady Macbeth say?
A. She does not understand what she has heard.
B. She is not a reporter
C. She is afraid she will be called a traitor
D. She does not trust the doctor.
(1)
What “great perturbation in nature” could have caused Lady Macbeth to walk in her sleep?
A. Duncan’s horses ate each other.
B. A mousing owl caught a falcon
C. The murder of the Duncan
D. The calling of everything that is evil.
(1)
2.3 Why does Lady Macbeth want light with her constantly?
(2)
2.4 What does the Gentlewoman mean when she says “Ay, but their sense is shut.”?
(2)
2.5 Why is Lady Macbeth washing her hands constantly?
(2)
LADY MACBETH
Yet, here’s a spot.
DOCTOR
Hark, she speaks! I will set down what comes from her, to satisfy my remembrance the more
strongly.
2.2
LADY MACBETH
Out, damned spot! Out, I say! One. Two. Why, then ‘tis time to do’t. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord,
fie! A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to
accompt? – Yet who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him?
DOCTOR
Do you mark that?
LADY MACBETH
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The Thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne’er be clean? No more
o’that, my lord, no more o’that. You mar all with this starting.
DOCTOR
Go to, go to; you have known what you should not.
GENTLEWOMAN
She has spoke what she should not, I am sure of that. Heaven knows what she has known.
LADY MACBETH
Here’s the smell of blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh!
Oh! Oh!
DOCTOR
What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged.
GENTLEWOMAN
I would not have such a heart in my bosom, for the dignity of the whole body.
DOCTOR
Well, well, well, GENTLEWOMAN
Pray God it be, sir.
DOCTOR
This disease is beyond my practice. Yet I have known those which have walked in their sleep who
have died holily in their beds.
LADY MACBETH
Wash your hands, put on your night-gown, look not so pale. I tell you yet again, Banquo’s buried;
he cannot come out on’s grave.
DOCTOR
Even so?
LADY MACBETH
To bed, to bed. There’s knocking at the gate. Come, come, come, come, give me your hand.
What’s done, cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed.
2.6
Who is a soldier and afraid?
A. Banquo
B. Macbeth
C. Duncan
D. Macduff
(1)
2.7
How does Lady Macbeth know the old man had a lot of blood in him?
2.8
Who is the thane of Fife?
A. Macduff
B. Banquo
C. Donaldbain
D. Ross
2.9
What happened to the wife of the Thane of Fife?
(2)
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2.10 Where did the Thane of Fife flee to?
A. Wales
B. England
C. Ireland
D. Scotland
(1)
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2.11 Why incident does Lady Macbeth refer to when she says “Banquo’s buried”?
(3)
2.12 Who was knocking at the gate?
(2)
2.13 What can not be undone?
A. Evil
B. The witches prophecies
C. Duncan’s murder
D. Macbeth’s attitude
(1)
2.14 Explain the image: “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”
(2)
2.15 Why is it ironic when Lady Macbeth says “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this
little hand.”?
(2)
2.16 Why did Macbeth murder Banquo?
(2)
2.17 Why is it ironic that Lady Macbeth should be walking in her sleep?
(2)
2.18 Lady Macbeth says “No more o’that, my lord, no more o’that.” What does Lady Macbeth
want know more of?
(2)
2.19 “You mar all this with this starting”. What is the meaning of “mar” and “starting”?
(2)
2.20 Where was Banquo buried?
A. Fife
B. Ditch
C. Scone
E. Grave
(1)
2.21 Which natural remedy has both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth lost?
(1)
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QUESTION 3 – MACBETH – LONG QUESTION
LADY MACBETH
Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be
What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature:
It is too full o’the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great,
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it.
Lady Macbeth describes a Macbeth that we do not get to know in the play. How does Macbeth
become a murderer and tyrant? Can he be blamed for his actions or is he a victim of the witches and
his wife? In an essay of 350 words agree with one of the following statements:
a) Macbeth can be blamed for his actions
OR
b) Macbeth is a victim of the witches and his wife.
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SECTION B – Animal Farm – Contextual Questions
QUESTION 4
Read the following extract from Animal Farm and answer the questions that follow:
I am twelve years old and have had over four hundred children. Such is the natural life of a pig.
But no animal escapes the cruel knife in the end. You young porkers who are sitting in front of me,
every one of you will scream your lives out at the block within a year. To that horror we all must come
– cows, pigs, hens, sheep, everyone. Even the horses and the dogs have no better fate. You, Boxer, the
very day that those great muscles of yours lose their power, Jones will sell you to the knackers, who
will cut your throat and boil you down for the foxhounds. As for the dogs, when they grow old and
toothless, Jones ties a brick around their necks and drowns them in the nearest pond.
‘Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life or ours spring from the tyranny
of human beings? Only get rid of Man, and the produce of our labour would be our own. Almost
overnight we could become rich and free. What then must we do? Why, work night and day, body and
soul, for the overthrow of the human race! That is my message to you, comrades: Rebellion! I do not
know when that rebellion will come, it might be in a week or in a hundred years, but I know, as surely
as I see this straw beneath my feet, that sooner or later justice will be done. Fix your eyes on that,
comrades, throughout the short remainder of your lives! And above all, pass on this message of mine to
those who come after you, so that future generations shall carry on the struggle until it is victorious.
‘And remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray.
Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of
the one is the prosperity of the others. It is all lies. Man serves the interest of no creatures except
himself. And among us animals let there be perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle. All men
are enemies. All animals are comrades.’
4.1
Who is talking to the animals?
A. Lenin
B. Major
C. Benjamin
D. Jones
4.2
Why is the animal talking so highly respected by the other animals?
4.3
He once said the lives of animals are ‘miserable, laborious and short’. Why did he say that?
4.4
What is the problem with man?
4.5
4.5.1
How has the following animals been oppressed by man:
cows
4.5.2
clover
4.5.3
Young porkers
4.5.4
hens
4.5.5
horses
4.5.6
dogs
4.6
What is the dream of the animals?
4.7
Write down four promises made in the song ‘Beasts of England’.
4.8
Which two lies must the animals never belief?
4.9
Animal Farm is an allegory. What is an allegory?
4.10
Who does farmer Jones symbolise in the allegory?
A. Napoleon
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B. Hitler
C. Nicholas II
D. Communism
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4.11
Which country does Manor Farm resemble in the allegory?
A. England
B. Germany
C. Russia
D. China
4.12
What system of government is portrayed by Farmer Jones?
A. Theocracy
B. Communism
C. Totalitarianism
D. Tolatimarianism
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QUESTION 5 – ESSAY QUESTION – Animal Farm
Man serves the interest of no creatures except himself.
Major – Animal Farm Chapter 1
Major may have referred to Capitalism. Take into consideration the history of capitalism and explain
how the concepts of capitalism and totalitarianism can be applied to Manor Farm that is run by Farmer
Jones.
Don’t use more than 350 words.
Total 35
Total: 70
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