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CARIBBEAN

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COUNCIL

CARIBBEAN SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE

EXAMINATION
ENGLISH B
Paper 01 General Proficiency
1 hour 45 minutes

READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY.

1.

This paper consists of THREE questions. Each question is worth 20 marks.

2.

Answer ALL questions.

3.

Write your answers in the spaces provided in this answer booklet.

4.

Do NOT write in the margins.

5.

You are advised to take some time to read through the paper and plan your answers.

6.

If you need to rewrite any answer and there is not enough space to do so on the
original page, you must use the extra lined page(s) provided at the back of this
booklet. Remember to draw a line through your original answer.

7.

If you use the extra page(s) you MUST write the question number clearly in
the box provided at the top of the extra page(s) and, where relevant, include
the question part beside the answer.

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SECTION A DRAMA
1.

Read the extract below carefully and answer ALL the questions that follow.
The CAPTAIN. BERTHA. The CAPTAIN is sitting crumpled up over the table.
BERTHA: [Going up to him]. Are you ill, Father?
CAPTAIN: [Looks up dully]. Me?

BERTHA:

Do you know what youve done? Do you know you threw a lamp at Mother?

CAPTAIN:

Did I?

BERTHA:

Yes, you did! What if shed been hurt?

CAPTAIN:

What difference would that make?

BERTHA:

Youre not my father when you talk like that!

CAPTAIN:

Whats that you say? Im not your father? How do you know? Who told you
that? Who is your father, then? Who?

BERTHA:

Well, not you, anyway!

CAPTAIN:

Still not me! Who then? Who? You seem well informed. Who have you been
talking to? That I should live to hear my own child tell me to my face Im not her
father! Dont you realize youre insulting your mother when you say that? Dont
you understand that if its true, its to her shame?

BERTHA:

Dont say anything bad about my mother, do you hear?

CAPTAIN:

No, you stick together, all of you against me. Youve done so all along.

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BERTHA: Father!

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CAPTAIN:

Dont use that word again!

BERTHA:

Father, Father!

CAPTAIN: [Pulls her to him]. Bertha, my dear, dear child, of course youre my child! Yes,
yes, it cant be otherwise. It must be so!
BERTHA:

No, no! I want to be myself!

CAPTAIN:

Dont be afraid, my darling child, I shant hurt you!

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BERTHA: [Tries to get away]. Help, Mother, help! Hes going to kill me!
NURSE: [Enters]. Master Adolf, whats the matter?
She takes the CAPTAIN by the arm and seats him on the chair, where he remains
sitting apathetically. Then she takes out the straitjacket and stations herself behind
the chair.

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[Bertha steals out to the left].

NURSE:

Do you remember, Master Adolf, when you were my dear little boy, and I tucked
you up at night, and read to you? Do you remember how I lit the candle and
told you pretty stories when you had horrid dreams and couldnt sleep? Do you
remember?

CAPTAIN:

Go on talking, Margaret, it soothes my head so. Go on talking.

NURSE:

All right, but you listen carefully, then. Do you remember the times you had to
get dressed, and didnt want to? And then I took your little undershirt and said: In
with your arms now, both of them. And then I said: Sit still now and be a good
boy while I button up the back. [She has got the straitjacket on him]. And then
I said: Get up now, and walk nicely across the floor so I can see how it fits
[She leads him over to the sofa]. And then I said: Now its time to go to bed.

CAPTAIN:

What did you say? Go to bed when hed just got dressed? Damnation! What
have you done to me? [Tries to free himself]. Oh, you damned cunning woman!
Whod have thought you were so clever? [Lies down on the sofa]. Caught, clipped
and double-crossed.

NURSE:

Forgive me, Master Adolf, forgive me, but I had to stop you.

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Adapted from August Strindberg, The Father.

In Michael Robinson, Miss Julie and Other Plays,
Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 4749.
(a)

Briefly describe what happens in lines 1 10.

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How does Bertha feel about her father, the Captain? Support your answer with evidence
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Explain what the stage directions in lines 1, 3 and 2729 reveal about the Captain.

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(d)
(i) Comment on the dramatic significance of the Nurse reminding the Captain about
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Explain what the Nurses actions in lines 31 41 reveal about her attitude towards
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Identity ONE prop used in the extract and explain its effect on the conflict.

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Comment on the effect of the Captains statement Caught, clipped, and double-crossed
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Suggest a title for the extract. Justify your answer with evidence from the extract.

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SECTION B POETRY
2.

Read the poem below carefully and answer ALL the questions that follow.
Curandera1

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They think she lives alone

On the edge of town in a two-room house
where she moved when her husband died
at thirty-five of a gunshot wound
in the bed of another woman. The curandera
and house have aged together to the rhythm of the desert.

She wakes early, lights candles before
her sacred statues , brews tea of yerbabuena.
She moves down her porch steps, rubs
cool morning sand into her hands, into her arms
like a large black bird, she feeds on
the desert, gathering herbs for her basket.
Her days are slow, days of grinding
dried snake into powder, of crushing
wild bees to mix with white wine.
And the townspeople come, hoping
to be touched by her ointments,
her hands, her prayers, her eyes.
She listens to their stories, and she listens
to the desert, always, to the desert.
By sunset she is tired. The wind
strokes the strands of long gray hair,
the smell of drying plants drifts
into her blood, the sun seeps
into her bones. She dozes
on her back porch. Rocking, rocking.
Pat Mora,
Retrieved from http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/24329

A traditional native healer in Mexico and other parts of the Spanish-speaking

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(a)

State THREE things we learn about the curandera in stanza 1.

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What does she lives alone / On the edge of town (lines 12) suggest about the curandera?

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(c)

Identify the figurative device used in ONE of the following and comment on its effectiveness:

like a large black bird, she feeds on / the desert (lines 1112)

The wind / strokes the strands of long gray hair (lines 2122)

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Comment on the poets use of imagery in stanza 3.

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(e)

Identify the speakers attitude towards the curandera. Select TWO pieces of evidence
from the poem to support your answer.

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Identify ONE example of contrast in the poem and show how the poet uses this contrast
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(g)

What impressions are created of the curanderas situation in the last stanza? Support your
answer with evidence from the last stanza.

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SECTION C PROSE FICTION

3.

Read the extract below carefully and answer ALL the questions that follow.

Everyone knew Ma; she lived just down the road next to Mr Smiths corner rum shop.
She was a small, short woman, but had a temperament some said was like a force of nature,
unconquerable. Mas house was like her in many ways. It wasnt an architectural wonder but it
had character.
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Joe Fishcake Brown (so called because of his insatiable craving for the tidbit) was
propping up against the rum shop door, pelting back a beer, declaring loudly that there was nothing
that anyone could dare him to do that he couldnt do. Mr Smith in a sly manner, belted out a
challenge. Fishcake boldly accepted. The shop went dead silent.

A week after the bet, I saw a head poke through Mas unlocked back door. It was Fishcake,
dressed in all black (in broad daylight, mind you) and wearing dark sunglasses. From a large
pocket in his pants Fishcake pulled out a folded knapsack and glanced around. He searched the
drawers and closets, dropping everything of value into his knapsack.

Instead of making his escape, Fishcake headed for the kitchen. Resting his heavy knap
sack on the counter, he opened the fridge door and took out a bottle of water. He was about to
close the door when something else caught his eye a cling wrap covered bowl, filled to the
brim with fishcake batter. The kitchen was soon filled with the delicious aroma of fishcakes, and
the little ball of batter danced merrily in the oil accompanied by the usual frying noises.

Ma sniffed the air. A frown puckered her forehead and a puzzled look settled on her brown,
aged features. Ma moved slowly and quietly towards the kitchen. Spying Fishcake, she moved
back a few steps into the hallway, and flattened herself to one side. When I saw her again she was
holding a rolling pin.

With a big smile on his face and humming a little tune, Fishcake engrossed himself in
dabbing his golden brown fishcakes with a paper towel. Grabbing the one closest to hand, he was
about to take the first bite when Ma snuck up behind him. Holding the rolling pin above her head,
Ma carried it up and brought it down.

Ma ran outside and came back with a long piece of rope. Pushing Fishcake on his stomach,
she tied his two hands together behind his back. Bending both feet at the knees so that they could
reach his hands, she secured them too. Now satisfied that he could not escape, Ma left Fishcake
trussed-up like a turkey and went to call the police.

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As you can imagine, the boys from the shop were the first to gather at the scene.
Adapted from Shirnelle Blackman, Mas House.
In The Hole and Other Barbadian Poems and Short Stories:
A Winning Words Anthology, National Cultural Foundation, 2004, pp. 119123.

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State THREE things we learn about Ma in paragraph 1.

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Comment on the effectiveness of dressed in all black (in broad daylight, mind you) and
wearing dark sunglasses (line 10).

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Why did Fishcake remain in the house after he took the items?

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What does the reason identified in (b) (i) above suggest about Fishcakes character?

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How does Mas behaviour in lines 2128 (she was holding a rolling pin . . . call the
police) make the extract humorous?

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(e)

Identify the figurative device in trussed-up like a turkey (line 29) and comment on its
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Comment on the significance of the rum shop in the extract.

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(ii)

Suggest how the boys in the shop might respond to Fishcakes predicament.

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Identify ONE theme in the extract. Support your answer with evidence from the extract.

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CANDIDATES RECEIPT
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATE:
1.

Fill in all the information requested clearly in capital letters.

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PROFICIENCY:

REGISTRATION NUMBER:

FULL NAME: ________________________________________________________________

(BLOCK LETTERS)

Signature: ____________________________________________________________________

Date: ________________________________________________________________________

2.

Ensure that this slip is detached by the Supervisor or Invigilator and given to you when you
hand in this booklet.

3.

Keep it in a safe place until you have received your results.

ENGLISH B Paper 01
GENERAL

INSTRUCTION TO SUPERVISOR/INVIGILATOR:
Sign the declaration below, detach this slip and hand it to the candidate as his/her receipt for this booklet
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I hereby acknowledge receipt of the candidates booklet for the examination stated above.

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