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LITERATURE (ENGLISH) 0486/04
Paper 4 May/June 2009
2 hours 40 minutes
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CONTENTS
Section A: Drama
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Section B: Poetry
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Section C: Prose
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SECTION A: DRAMA
Either *1 Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it.
Explore the ways in which Ayckbourn makes these last few moments of the play so
ironic.
Or 2 How do you think Ayckbourn makes Benedict Hough such a menacing figure in the play?
Support your ideas with details from the play.
Or 3 You are Samantha at the opening of the play. You have just watched your father’s return
home and have just listened to his speech. Write your thoughts.
Either *4 Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it.
Lindner: [looking around at all of them] I take it then that you have
decided to occupy.
Beneatha: That’s what the man said.
Lindner: [to Mama in her reverie] Then I would like to appeal to
you, Mrs Younger. You are older and wiser and understand 5
things better I am sure …
Mama: [rising ] I am afraid you don’t understand. My son said we
was going to move and there ain’t nothing left for me to
say. [Shaking her head with double meaning ] You know
how these young folks is nowadays, mister. Can’t do a 10
thing with ’em. Good-bye.
Lindner: [folding up his materials] Well – if you are that final about
it … There is nothing left for me to say. [He finishes. He
is almost ignored by the family, who are concentrating on
Walter Lee. At the door Lindner halts and looks around.] I 15
sure hope you people know what you’re doing. [He shakes
his head and goes.]
Ruth: [looking around and coming to life] Well, for God’s sake – if
the moving men are here – LET’S GET THE HELL OUT
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Mama: [into action ] Ain’t it the truth! Look at all this here mess.
Ruth put Travis’s good jacket on him … Walter Lee,
fix your tie and tuck your shirt in, you look just like
somebody’s hoodlum. Lord have mercy, where is my
plant? [She flies to get it amid the general bustling of 25
the family, who are deliberately trying to ignore the
nobility of the past moment.] You all start on down …
Travis child, don’t go empty-handed … Ruth, where did I
put that box with my skillets in it? I want to be in charge
of it myself … I’m going to make us the biggest dinner we 30
ever ate tonight … Beneatha, what’s the matter with them
stockings? Pull them things up, girl …
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begin to carry out the heavier pieces of furniture, bumping
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Beneatha: Mama, Asagai – asked me to marry him today and go to
Africa –
Mama: [in the middle of her getting-ready activity ] He did? You
ain’t old enough to marry nobody. [Sees the moving men
lifting one of her chairs precariously.] Darling, that ain’t no 40
bale of cotton, please handle it so we can sit in it again. I
had that chair twenty-five years …
The movers sigh with exasperation and go on with their
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conversation] To go to Africa, Mama – be a doctor in
Africa …
Mama: [distracted ] Yes, baby –
Walter: Africa! What he want you to go to Africa for?
Beneatha: To practise there … 50
Walter: Girl, if you don’t get all them silly ideas out your head! You
better marry yourself a man with some loot …
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How does Hansberry make this such a satisfying ending to the play?
Or 5 Explore the ways in which Hansberry vividly conveys the tensions between characters
in any two moments in the play. (Do not use the passage printed for Question 4 in
answering this question.)
Or 6 You are Travis. Your grandmother has just opened the envelope containing the cheque
and you have gone out to play in the yard. Write your thoughts.
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Or 8 In what ways does Keatley strikingly convey the influence of Jack Bradley and Ken
Metcalfe even though they are not seen in the play? Support your ideas with details
from the play.
Or 9 You are Rosie after having discovered who your natural mother is. Write your thoughts.
Either *10 Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it.
To what extent do you think Miller suggests in this extract that justice and common
sense may now return to Salem?
Or 11 In your opinion, how does Miller make John Proctor such a vividly dramatic character?
Support your ideas with details from the play.
Or 12 You are Hale at the end of the play. Write your thoughts.
Either *13 Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it.
How does Shakespeare make this such a dramatic moment in the play?
Or 14 How far do you find As You Like It a happy and optimistic play? Support your answer by
close reference to the play.
Or 15 You are Celia. You have just met Oliver and heard his story about Orlando and the lioness.
Write your thoughts.
Either *16 Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it.
Or 17 What do you think makes Richard such a memorable villain? Support your ideas with
details from the play.
Or 18 You are Buckingham just after Richard has refused your request for an earldom.
Write your thoughts.
SECTION B: POETRY
Either *19 Read the following poem, and then answer the question that follows it.
Caged Bird
How do the words of this poem express suffering and oppression so powerfully?
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Or 20 What do you find moving about the ways in which the poets in Muliebrity (by Sujata
Bhatt) and She dwelt among the untrodden ways (by William Wordsworth) portray the
two women?
Or 21 Explore moments in two of the following poems in which the poets manage to surprise
the reader with the unexpected. Support your ideas with details from the poems.
Either *22 Read the following extract from Ode to Psyche, and then answer the question that
follows it.
Explore how in this extract Keats shows how Psyche makes a memorable impression
on him.
Or 23 Explore the ways in which Keats makes Autumn attractive for you in his poem
To Autumn. Support your ideas with details from the poem.
Or 24 In what ways does Keats make vivid for you the feelings of the knight in La belle dame
sans merci ? Refer closely to the poem in your answer.
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SECTION C: PROSE
Either *25 Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it.
What does Achebe’s writing here make you feel about the Reverend Smith, his beliefs
and their likely result? Support your ideas with details from the extract.
Or 26 Choose one episode where Achebe causes you to feel sympathy with Okonkwo and
one where he makes you dislike him. Justify your choice by referring in detail to the way
Achebe presents the character in each episode.
Or 27 You are Obierika after Okonkwo has killed the court messenger. You are waiting for the
inevitable arrival of the District Commissioner and soldiers. Write your thoughts.
Either *28 Read the following passage, and then answer the question that follows it.
When dinner was over, she returned directly to Jane, and Miss
Bingley began abusing her as soon as she was out of the room.
Her manners were pronounced to be very bad indeed, a mixture of
pride and impertinence; and she had no conversation, no stile, no
taste, no beauty. Mrs Hurst thought the same, and added, 5
‘She has nothing, in short, to recommend her, but being an
excellent walker. I shall never forget her appearance this morning.
She really looked almost wild.’
‘She did indeed, Louisa. I could hardly keep my countenance.
Very nonsensical to come at all! Why must she be scampering about 10
the country, because her sister has a cold? Her hair so untidy, so
blowsy!’
‘Yes, and her petticoat; I hope you saw her petticoat, six inches
deep in mud, I am absolutely certain; and the gown which had been
let down to hide it, not doing its office.’ 15
‘Your picture may be very exact, Louisa,’ said Bingley; ‘but
this was all lost upon me. I thought Miss Elizabeth Bennet looked
remarkably well, when she came into the room this morning. Her
dirty petticoat quite escaped my notice.’
‘You observed it, Mr Darcy, I am sure,’ said Miss Bingley; ‘and 20
I am inclined to think that you would not wish to see your sister
make such an exhibition.’
‘Certainly not.’
‘To walk three miles, or four miles, or five miles, or whatever it
is, above her ancles in dirt, and alone, quite alone! what could she 25
mean by it? It seems to me to shew an abominable sort of conceited
independence, a most country town indifference to decorum.’
‘It shews an affection for her sister that is very pleasing,’ said
Bingley.
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‘that this adventure has rather affected your admiration of her fine
eyes.’
‘Not at all,’ he replied; ‘they were brightened by the exercise.’ –
A short pause followed this speech, and Mrs Hurst began again.
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very sweet girl, and I wish with all my heart she were well settled.
But with such a father and mother, and such low connections, I am
afraid there is no chance of it.’
‘I think I have heard you say, that their uncle is an attorney in
Meryton.’ 40
‘Yes; and they have another, who lives somewhere near
Cheapside.’
‘That is capital,’ added her sister, and they both laughed
heartily.
‘If they had uncles enough to fill all Cheapside,’ cried Bingley, ‘it 45
would not make them one jot less agreeable.’
‘But it must very materially lessen their chance of marrying
men of any consideration in the world,’ replied Darcy.
To this speech Bingley made no answer; but his sisters gave
it their hearty assent, and indulged their mirth for some time at the 50
expense of their dear friend’s vulgar relations.
With a renewal of tenderness, however, they repaired to her
room on leaving the dining-parlour, and sat with her till summoned
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Explore the ways in which Austen presents Bingley’s sisters in this extract.
Or 29 Do you think that Austen makes it possible to feel sympathy for Mrs Bennet?
Support your ideas with details from the novel.
Or 30 You are Elizabeth Bennet on the morning of your wedding day to Mr Darcy. Write your
thoughts.
Either *31 Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it.
You know, in all the rush and excitement, it wasn’t until he said
those words that I thought of my day.
‘Shut your silly mouth,’ I crabbed at him. ‘If you weren’t so darn 55
loony we wouldn’t have to stay in after school.’
I mean, what the heck had he to complain about when the
worst thing that happened to him in a day was to fall off his bike?
I was back again to the way I felt when I saw that old wharfie riding
down the street. I gave old Legs a proper telling off, and if he hadn’t 60
been so messed around by his previous experiences I daresay we
would have ended up by having a fight.
How does Cross make this such an amusing episode without ever quite allowing you to
forget Jimmy’s sad life?
Or 32 What do you think makes Mrs Sullivan such a tragic character? Support your ideas by
close reference to Cross’s writing.
Or 33 You are Mr Sullivan on the morning when you are going to give Jimmy his new bike.
Write your thoughts.
Either *34 Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it.
How does Desai vividly convey how dreadful this moment is in the life of the
accompanist?
Or 35 Explore how Desai vividly portrays a child’s disappointment in either Games at Twilight
or Pineapple Cake. Support your ideas with details from your chosen story.
Or 36 You are Rakesh after your father has refused your medicine at the end of A Devoted Son.
Write your thoughts.
Either *37 Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it.
The fire was dead. They saw that straight away; saw what they
had really known down on the beach when the smoke of home had
beckoned. The fire was right out, smokeless and dead; the watchers
were gone. A pile of unused fuel lay ready.
Ralph turned to the sea. The horizon stretched, impersonal 5
once more, barren of all but the faintest trace of smoke. Ralph ran
stumbling along the rocks, saved himself on the edge of the pink
cliff, and screamed at the ship.
‘Come back! Come back!’
He ran backwards and forwards along the cliff, his face always 10
to the sea, and his voice rose insanely.
‘Come back! Come back!’
Simon and Maurice arrived. Ralph looked at them with
unwinking eyes. Simon turned away, smearing the water from his
cheeks. Ralph reached inside himself for the worst word he knew. 15
‘They let the bloody fire out.’
He looked down the unfriendly side of the mountain. Piggy
arrived, out of breath and whimpering like a littlun. Ralph clenched
his fist and went very red. The intentness of his gaze, the bitterness
of his voice pointed for him. 20
‘There they are.’
A procession had appeared, far down among the pink screes
that lay near the water’s edge. Some of the boys wore black caps
but otherwise they were almost naked. They lifted sticks in the air
together, whenever they came to an easy patch. They were chanting, 25
something to do with the bundle that the errant twins carried so
carefully. Ralph picked out Jack easily, even at that distance, tall,
red-haired, and inevitably leading the procession.
Simon looked now, from Ralph to Jack, as he had looked
from Ralph to the horizon, and what he saw seemed to make him 30
afraid. Ralph said nothing more, but waited while the procession
came nearer. The chant was audible but at that distance still
wordless. Behind Jack walked the twins, carrying a great stake on
their shoulders. The gutted carcass of a pig swung from the stake,
swinging heavily as the twins toiled over the uneven ground. The 35
pig’s head hung down with gaping neck and seemed to search for
something on the ground. At last the words of the chant floated up
to them, across the bowl of blackened wood and ashes.
‘Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.’
Explore the ways in which Golding’s writing makes this a particularly powerful moment
in the novel.
Or 38 Which character do you find the more frightening, Jack or Roger? Support your view by
close reference to Golding’s writing.
Or 39 You are Simon on your way up the mountain just after the meeting when Ralph claims
that he and Jack have seen the beast. Write your thoughts.
Either *40 Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it.
What kind of picture of Sergeant Troy does Hardy create for you here?
Or 41 Explore one incident in this novel which you find vividly dramatic. Refer in detail to Hardy’s
writing in your answer.
Or 42 You are Farmer Boldwood just after you have again proposed marriage to Bathsheba on
the assumption that Troy is dead. Write your thoughts.
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Or 44 In what ways do you think Scout develops and matures in the course of this novel?
Support your ideas with details from Lee’s writing.
Or 45 You are Reverend Sykes just after the trial, thinking about what has taken place in the
courtroom. Write your thoughts.
Either *46 Read the following extract, and then answer the question that follows it.
‘Address?’
‘Fourteen, Windsor Lane, Luton.’
‘Show me something to prove this is your real name and address,’
the policeman said. 55
My passenger fished in his pockets and came out with a driving
licence of his own. The policeman checked the name and address and
handed it back to him. ‘What’s your job?’ he asked sharply.
‘I’m an ’od carrier.’
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‘I’m an ’od carrier.’
‘Spell it.’
‘H-O-D C-A-…’
‘That’ll do. And what’s a hod carrier, may I ask?’
‘An ’od carrier, officer, is a person ’oo carries the cement up the 65
ladder to the bricklayer. And the ’od is what ’ee carries it in. It’s got a long
’andle, and on the top you’ve got two bits of wood set at an angle …’
‘All right, all right. Who’s your employer?’
‘Don’t ’ave one. I’m unemployed.’
The policeman wrote all this down in the black notebook. Then he 70
returned the book to its pocket and did up the button.
‘When I get back to the station I’m going to do a little checking up
on you,’ he said to my passenger.
‘Me? What’ve I done wrong?’ the rat-faced man asked.
‘I don’t like your face, that’s all,’ the policeman said. ‘And we just 75
might have a picture of it somewhere in our files.’ He strolled round the
car and returned to my window.
‘I suppose you know you’re in serious trouble,’ he said to me.
‘Yes, officer.’
‘You won’t be driving this fancy car of yours again for a very long 80
time, not after we’ve finished with you. You won’t be driving any car again
come to that for several years. And a good thing, too. I hope they lock
you up for a spell into the bargain.’
‘You mean prison?’ I asked, alarmed.
‘Absolutely,’ he said, smacking his lips. ‘In the clink. Behind the bars. 85
Along with all the other criminals who break the law. And a hefty fine into
the bargain. Nobody will be more pleased about that than me. I’ll see
you in court, both of you. You’ll be getting a summons to appear.’
He turned away and walked over to his motorcycle. He flipped the
prop stand back into position with his foot and swung his leg over the 90
saddle. Then he kicked the starter and roared off up the road out of
sight.
Or 47 Explore how the writers create a vivid setting for two short stories from the collection.
Or 48 You are the mostly silent victim in The Lemon Orchard. Write your thoughts as the story
progresses.
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Copyright Acknowledgements:
Question 1 © Alan Ayckbourn; A Small Family Business ; Casarotto Ramsay & Associates Ltd.
Question 4 © Lorraine Hansberry; A Raisin in the Sun ; Methuen Publishing Ltd; 2001.
Question 7
Question 10 © The Wylie Agency; Arthur Miller ; The Crucible.
Question 19 © Maya Angelou; Caged Bird.
Question 25 © Chinua Achebe; Things Fall Apart ; Harcourt Education.
Question 31 © Ian Cross; The God Boy ; Penguin Books; 2004.
Question 34 © Anita Desai; Games at Twilight ; Vintage; 1998.
Question 37 © William Golding; Lord of the Flies ; Faber.
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Question 46 © Roald Dahl; ed. Barrie Wade; The Hitchhiker; Anthology Into the Wind: Contemporary Stories in English ; Nelson; 1988.
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