WOLMER’S TRUST HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS

ENGLISH B

Paper 01 – General Proficiency

2 hours

26 APRIL 2022 (a.m.)

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

1. This paper consists of six passages. (Two from EACH genre: DRAMA,

POETRY and PROSE)

2. Each passage is worth 10 marks.

3. Answer ALL questions.

4. For EACH question, SHADE the CORRESPONDING LETTER for the

correct answer on your ANSWER SHEET.

5. You should use 15 minutes of the time allowed to read through the

entire paper.

6. ALL ANSWERS MUST BE COMPLETED ON THE ANSWER SHEET

THAT YOU WILL BE GIVEN.

7. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO WRITE RESPONSES ON THIS

QUESTION PAPER.

DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO.

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 SECTION A – DRAMA
READ BOTH EXTRACTS BELOW AND FOR EACH, ANSWER ALL
TEN QUESTIONS WHICH FOLLOW.

EXTRACT 1

Read the following extract carefully and answer all questions

that follow.

A woodland road outside Mary’s cottage. There are rough seats in the porch and
in the front window. Bunches of leaves and herbs hang drying around door and
window. Mary is heard singing within.
MARY: (Singing) I sowed the seeds of Love,
And I sowed them in the Spring.
I gathered them up in the morning so soon.
While the sweet birds so sweetly sing,
While the sweet birds so sweetly sing.

[MARY comes out of the cottage, a bundle of enchanter's nightshade in her arms.
She hangs it by a string to the wall and then goes indoors. During the singing
LUBIN comes slowly and heavily along the road. He wears the dress of a farm
labourer and carries a scythe over his shoulder. In front of the cottage he pauses,
looks round doubtfully, and then sits stiffly and wearily down on the bench
beneath the window.]

MARY: (Coming to the doorway with more plants and singing) “For
the grass that has been oftentimes trampled underfoot, give
it time it will rise again.”

LUBIN: (Looking up gloomily) And that it wont mistress.

MARY: (Suddenly perceiving him and coming out) Oh you are fair
spent from journeying. Can I do anything for you mister?

LUBIN: You spent kindly for a stranger, but tis beyond the power of
you or anyone to do aught for me.

MARY: (Sitting down beside him and pointing to the wall of the
house.) See those leaves and flowers drying in the sun?
There’s medicine for every sort of sickness there, sir.

LUBIN: There’s not a root nor a herb that can cure the sickness I
have within me.

MARY: That must be a terrible sort of sickness, Master.

LUBIN: So tis. Tis love.

MARY: Love?

LUBIN: Yes love; wicked, unhappy love. Love that played false when

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 riches fled. Love that has given the heart that was all mine
to another.

(ISABEL has been slowly approaching. She wears a cotton handkerchief over her
head and carries a small bundle tied up in a cloth under her arm. Her
movements are languid and sad.)

MARY: I know of flowers that can heal even the pain of love.

ISABEL: (Coming forward and speaking earnestly) Oh tell me of them

quickly mistress!

MARY: Why are you sick of the same complaint?

ISABEL: (Sinking on the grass at Mary’s feet.) So bruised and

wounded in the heart that the road from Framilode up here
might have been a hundred miles more.

LUBIN: Framilode? Tis where you came from?

ISABEL: I was servant at the inn down yonder. Close upon the ferry.
Do you know the place master?

LUBIN: Ah the place and the ferryman too.

(ISABEL covers her face and is shaken by sobs. LUBIN leans his elbow on his
knee, shading his eyes with his hand.)

MARY: I have help for all torments in flowers; Such things be given
us for that.

ISABEL: (Looking up) You be gentle in your voice mistress. Tis like
a quist do sing, as you speaks.

MARY: Then do both of you tell your sorrow. Twill be strange if I do

not find sommat that will lighten your burdens for you.

LUBIN: Twas at Moat farm I was born and bred. Rose-Anna of the
Mill and I- we courted and was like to marry. But there came
misfortune and I lost all. She would not take a poor man, so
I left these parts and got to be what you do see me now
– just
a day labourer.

ISABEL: Mine tis the same tale very nigh. Robert the ferryman and
me, we loved and was to have got us wedded, only there
came a rich powerful man gentleman what used to go
fishing along of Robert. Twas he that ticed my lover off to
foreign parts.

LUBIN: (With a heavy sigh.) These things are almost more than I can
bear.

ISABEL: At first he wrote his letters very often. Then twas seldom like.
Then twas never. And then come a day. (She is interrupted
by her weeping.)

MARY: Try to get out your story- you can let tears run afterwards.

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ISABEL: There comed a day when I did meet a fisherman near Bristol.
He brought me news of Robert overseas, clothed in fine stuff
with money in the pockets of him, horse and carriage just
about to wed;

LUBIN: Did he name the maid?

ISABEL: Rose-Anna she was called of Daniel’s Mill up yonder.

LUBIN: Rose-Anna – she with whom I was to have gone to church!

MARY: Here is a tangle worse than any briar rose!

Adapted from Seeds of Love by Florence Henrietta Darwin

Reprinted by Kessinger Publishing, June 2004

Glossary

Quist – A wood pigeon

Scythe – An agricultural hand tool for mowing grass or reaping crops

Questions

1. All the lines best depict that there will be conflict in the extract EXCEPT
a) “There are rough seats in the porch and in the front window.”
b) “Mary is heard singing within”
c) “In front of the cottage he pauses, looks round doubtfully”
d) “Then sits stiffly and wearily down on the bench beneath”

2. What is the main issue/theme Mary’s song provides for the audience?
a) Love
b) Nature
c) Farming
d) Preparation

3. Mary’s comment at the beginning of the EXTRACT (For the grass that has
sometimes been underfoot give it time it will rise again) portrays
a) happiness
b) entrapment
c) resilience
d) persistence

4. Why are Isabel and Lubin inclined to tell their story to Mary?
I. She tells them that she knows of flowers that can heal the pain of
love
II. She is kind and sensitive to their needs.
III. She asks them to share their stories
IV. She offers to lighten their burdens.

a) I and III only

b) I and IV only
c) I, III and IV only
d) All of the above

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5. Mary appears to be a
a) florist
b) gardener
c) herbalist
d) witch

6. All these are the same complaints shared by Isabella and Lubin EXCEPT
a) They have both been rejected by their lovers.
b) They have both been bruised and wounded in the heart by love.
c) They were both planning to get married.
d) Both of their lovers went abroad to find new lovers.

7. Isabel’s crying and Lubin’s sighing are appropriate in

I. making the audience feel sympathy for both characters.
II. making Mary more inclined to offer a solution to their problems.
III. distracting the audience from their emotional stories.
IV. showing the similar feelings and emotions between the characters.

a) I and IV only
b) I, II and IV only
c) II, III and IV only
d) All of the above.

8. The setting of the story is MOST likely

a) Caribbean
b) American
c) African
d) European

9. Lubin’s comment at the end of the extract is an example of

a) dramatic Irony
b) situational Irony
c) foreshadowing
d) melodrama

10. Which statement contradicts Mary’s central role in the extract?

a) “Twill be strange if I do not find sommat that will lighten your
burdens for you”
b) “I have help for all torments in flowers”
c) “Here is a tangle worse than any briar rose”
d) “Try to get out your story”

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 EXTRACT 2
Read the following extract carefully and answer ALL the
questions that follow.

Gordie stands up by the gate, looking down the lane towards the village square.
All is peaceful for a long moment. A few distant country sounds, perhaps, Eden
itself. Then Gordie slowly raises his sling-shot, inserts a stone he had been
holding in his hand, takes aim towards the square, and fires. Pandemonium!
5 There are cries of excited anger off Right. Simultaneously Miss Mary swings
round and glimpses the sling-shot.

MARY: (Shouting) Gordie! What you doing? (She goes towards him.
Gordie slips through the gate, hesitates and makes off Right
down the lane.) You come back here! Gordie (Calling down
lane) Sir! Please to stop the boy there! You hear! Don’t let 10
him get away! Hold him! Hold him good! (Miss Clara, thin ,
stick of a woman, enters, from lane left, followed by Mass
Nathaniel, an old peasant and several other men and women.)

MARY: What happen? What him do this time?

15 NATHANIEL: The damn boy – him want a man flog him, that what him
want! (Calling off Right) Hold him good sir and bring him
here!

MARY: Lord, that Gordie! Him always making trouble. Him did hit
you Mass Nathaniel? You hurt?

20 CLARA: Miss Mary, you don’t hear nothing yet! Is not Mass Nathaniel
him did hit.

NATHANIEL: No, is not me.

MARY: Is not you him did hit, Miss Clara?

CLARA: Cho! (Pointing off Left) Look see there? Him shoot the nose
25 clean-clean off o’ the statue!

MARY: (In awe) Lord have mercy!

(Big Syd has awakened and slowly joins the group to gape off
left with the others.)

RATTLER: (A sharp young cobbler, coming in Left) Well, me friends, the

village monument ….(He makes ironical gesture.) He,he! 30

MARY: (Calling off Right, furiously) You come right here, Gordie
Thomas! I going flog you so hard, you see, you not going
remember how fe sit down! Hold him good sir, Him slippery.
(The Stranger, 35 or so, poorly dressed, but strong and
striking in appearance, enters holding Gordie with ease and35
transfers him to Miss Mary’s grasp.)

MARY: Come here! You worthless boy! (She shakes Gordie.)

STRANGER: What the boy do?

CLARA: You see the monument, sir, front o’ the market? Him did
shoot off the man nose, clean-clean! 40

NATHANIEL: With him sling-shot. And is the one statue we have! (To
Gordie) Is a disgrace, Gordie, what you do! Defacating the

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 village monument like that!

MARY: This boy, sir, him always into trouble. (Beginning to lead
Gordie away) Come on inside till I flog you! 45

RATTLER: Just a minute! Just a minute! (Everyone looks at him.) There

is one question I want fe ask. Long time I feel to ask it, but
now the time come. Is what we a-doing with that statue any
at all? Eh?

CLARA: What you talking Rattler? 50

RATTLER: From I born I never hear man, woman nor child say one
piece o’ good ‘bout that statue. In fact, is not you, Miss Mary
always say it block you view o’ the Chiney shop?

MARY: What that got to do with it?

RATTLER: 55
Listen to me and answer me straight. Anybody here ever ask
fe that statue?

NATHANIEL: What you mean? That statue stand up there since me

Granny was a child.

RATTLER: That a long, long time ago, Mass Nathaniel. Time fe a change
now. 60

A YOUNG MAN: (Laughing) You get your change now, Rattler with him nose
gone.

RATTLER: I asking you- you Mass Nathaniel and you Miss Mary and all
o’ you – what we been doing with that statue all this time?

BIG SYD: Me never did like the man face! 65

CLARA: You don’t always hear me always say him ugly? With him
damn coat-tails and him boot and everything!

NATHANIEL: Ugly no got nothing fe do with it, Miss Clara. Is a monument

in memory of something important.

RATTLER: In memory o’ what? Cho! Who him think him is stand up 70

there with him white-man clothes and hold up him hand
like that?

CLARA: Fe true. Ee-heh. Only good fe bird fe come pitch.

RATTLER: (Striking a politician’s attitude) Then why we don’t fortify

ourselves and haul down the statue? 75

MARY: Rattler, you mad?

RATTLER: Alright. (Counting questions off on his finger) Is we did ask for
this statue?

MARY: (Uncertainly) No.

RATTLER: Him look good? Him pretty? 80

SEVERAL: No …..Him ugly ……

RATTLER: Anybody ever come from Kingston fe clean him or anything

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 like that?

SEVERAL: No, never.

85 RATTLER: Is fe we district and is a democracy we live into?

EVERYONE: Yes is we district.

RATTLER: Well then!

MARY: What about the police Rattler?

RATTLER: Cho! You think the police going bother ‘bout a old statue? In
90 any case, we has we right, don’t it?

SEVERAL: Is true ……We has we right ….

RATTLER: Good! Then who vote fe take the statue down? Show your
hands? (One or two hands go up.) Where your courage? Don’t
we Representative tell we the other night we has rights and
95 we must have a mind o’ we own and act in we own interests?
Don’t him stand right beside the same statue and tell we so?

SEVERAL: Is true ……Is true that ….. ( A few more hands go up.)

RATTLER: (Thoroughly excited now) Well then, does we take down the
statue like we was men? Or does we leave him there like we
100 we is a mouse?

NEARLY ALL: We take him down! Haul him down! We removes him!
(General excitement)

Cicely Waite-Smith, “Africa Sling-shot”.

In Carray, Macmillan Education Limited, 1977,pp. 38-40.

Questions

11. What TWO dramatic techniques/effects are seen in the stage

directions at the beginning of the extract?
a) Situational Irony and Suspense
b) Dramatic Irony and Foreshadowing
c) Contrast and Dramatic Irony
d) Foreshadowing and Suspense

12. All of the following phrases indicate that Gordie usually gets into
trouble EXCEPT
a) “What him do this time”
b) “Him always making trouble”
c) “You worthless boy”
d) “Him always into trouble”

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13. What is the MAIN reason for Gordie not having a speaking role in
the extract?
a) The playwright wants to show Gordie’s fear of punishment as a
result of his wrongdoing.
b) The loud conversations of the other characters prevented Gordie
from getting a word in.
c) Gordie’s actions are what propelled the conflict so his words are
unnecessary.
d) Gordie was pretending to play dumb to minimise his punishment.

14. Identify the correct dramatic technique of device in the line

”Defacating the village monument like that”
a) Pun
b) Simile
c) Antithesis
d) Malapropism

15. What problems did the members of the community have with the
statue?
I. It blocked their view of the Chiney Shop
II. It was ugly.
III. It did not represent their culture and identity.
IV. It was dirty.

a) I and II only
b) I,II and III only
c) I, II and IV only
d) All of the above

16. The actions of the villagers lead the audience to believe that they
are
a) political.
b) deeply concerned about the affairs of the village
c) united in their actions against rude children.
d) easily persuaded by propaganda.

17. What aspect of the extract indicate the lower socioeconomic status
of the villagers?
a) Their language
b) The village square
c) Their attitude towards the statue.
d) Their attire

18. In the context of the entire extract, who is the hero of the play?
a) Gordie
b) Rattler
c) The Stranger
d) Mary

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 19. Another suitable title for the extract would be
a) “Blessing in disguise”
b) “Pandemonium”
c) “Gordie’s Wrongdoing”
d) “The Shortlived Statue”

20. Which line in the play would be seen as the LEAST comedic?
a) “Him ugly”
b) “Only good fi bird fi come pitch”
c) “Me neva did like the man’s face”
d) “We removes him”

SECTION B- POETRY

READ BOTH POEMS BELOW AND FOR EACH, ANSWER ALL TEN
QUESTIONS WHICH FOLLOW.

POEM 1

“Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter”

There was such speed in her little body

And such lightness in her footfall
It is no wonder her brown study,
Astonishes us all

Her wars were bruited in our high window

We looked among orchard trees and beyond
Where she took arms against her shadow
Or harried into the pond

The lazy geese like a snow cloud

Dripping their snow on the green grass
Tricking and stopping, sleepy and proud
Who cried in goose, alas!

For the tireless heart within the little

Lady with rod that made them rise
From their noon-apple dreams and
Scuffle goose fashion under the skies!

But now go the bells and we are ready

In one house we are sternly stopped
To say that we are vexed at her brown study
Lying so primly propped.

John Crowe Ransom

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21. All of the following statements suggest the little girl’s energy
EXCEPT
a) “There was such speed in her little body”
b) “She took arms against her shadow”
c) “Lying so primly propped”
d) “For the tireless heart within”

22. What were the little girl’s activity on a daily basis?

I. She would play with her shadow.
II. She would run into the pond.
III. She would torment the geese.
IV. She would show off for her neighbours.

a) I and II only
b) I, II and III only
c) I, II and IV only
d) All of the above

23. What did the little girl do to the geese in the poem?
a) She dripped snow on their bodies.
b) She chased them with a stick.
c) She pulled their feathers.
d) She pretended to sleep beside them.

24. What did the little girl prevented the geese from doing?
a) “Dripping their snow on the grass”
b) “Swimming in the pond”
c) “Having their noon-apple dreams”
d) “Scuffling on the grass”

25. The phrase “Brown study are examples of

a) Euphemism and Metaphor
b) Simile and Symbol
c) Pun and Symbol
d) Paradox and Symbol

26. Another word for “vexed” in line 9 is

a) saddened
b) anxious
c) angry
d) irritated

27. Which phrase is ironical to the outcome of John Whiteside’s

daughter?
a) “Primly Propped”
b) “Sternly stopped”
c) “But now go the bells”
d) Tireless heart”

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 28. What figure of speech is the phrase” Primly Propped?
a) Personification
b) Alliteration
c) Assonance
d) Onomatopoeia

29. The main device used in the poem is

a) metaphor
b) hyperbole
c) contrast
d) understatement.

30. What happened to the little girl in the poem?

a) She injured herself playing.
b) She became seriously ill.
c) She died suddenly.
d) She lost all her energy from playing and became withdrawn.

POEM 2

“Richard Cory”

Whenever Richard Cory went down town,

We people on the pavement looked at him
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favoured and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed

And he was always human when he talked
But still he fluttered pulses when he said
“Good Morning,” and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich – yes richer than a king

And admirably schooled in every grace.
In fine, we thought that he was everything.
To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked and waited for the light,

And went without the meat and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night
Went home and put a bullet through his head.

Edwin Robinson

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31. All of these are attributes of Richard Cory EXCEPT

a) His politeness
b) Subtle attire
c) His kindness
d) Regally slender

32. How did the people react when Richard Cory said “Good Morning”?
a) They admired the fact that he was polite.
b) They were excited and idolised him.
c) They stopped and stared at him on the pavement.
d) They felt an intimate connection to him.

33. The dominant rhyme scheme in the poem is

a) eye rhyme
b) internal Rhyme
c) alternate Rhyme
d) rhyming Couplet

34. Identify the device in the following line, “And he was rich- yes
richer than a king”.
a) Analogy and Simile
b) Analogy and Hyperbole
c) Metaphor and Personification
d) Metaphor and Analogy

35. Which statement best highlights that the people’s opinion of

Richard Cory was just an assumption?
a) “He was a gentleman from sole to crown”
b) “And he was rich – yes, richer than a king”
c) “And admirably schooled in every grace”
d) “In fine, we thought he was everything”

36. The phrase, “Went without the meat and cursed the bread” is used

a) Literally and Metaphorically

b) Allegorically and Symbolically
c) Paradoxically and Metaphorically
d) Literally and Sarcastically

37. What does “light” mean in the following line?

a) Knowledge
b) Wealth
c) Electricity
d) God’s divine intervention

38. The repetition of “He was always” BEST illustrates

a) to the reader that he was always suitably attired and spoke
eloquently
b) that Richard Cory was a perfectionist.
c) the surprise to the reader and community of Richard Cory’s decision.
d) the hero worship of the people towards Richard Cory.

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 39. The final TWO lines is a fitting example of
a) paradox
b) situational Irony
c) hyperbole
d) analogy

40. Which statement BEST shows the moral lesson of the poem?
a) People will always admire and envy others who are wealthy and seem
to have a perfect life.
b) People tend not to be satisfied with their own status and want to live
vicariously through others.
c) People must be satisfied with their status in life.
d) Although people can be extremely successful, that does not mean that
their lives are perfect.

SECTION C- PROSE

READ BOTH PASSAGES BELOW AND FOR EACH, ANSWER ALL

TEN QUESTIONS WHICH FOLLOW.

PASSAGE 1

And the women keep asking him over and over. “How is it that you come back
after all this time, and you en’t bring no wondrous thing to show we? How is it?
How is it?

‘Then he tell them that he climb up to the mist and over it ’till he did reach the
top of the mountain and suddenly the Lord send down a soft white thing like
rain, and yet it wasn’t rain ’cause it fall slow like leaf when there is no wind. It
fall and flutter and spin, and some of it settle on he head and shoulders and
into he hands, which he did not open to catch it, and when he held it, one
minute it was cold like a mountain pool and next minute it was like fire, and he
catch a handful of it and pressed it hard in his hand. He set out down the
mountain with this white and wondrous thing which sparkle jewels when sun
catch it, but the further down the mountain slope he reach, the less of it he
had in his hands, and half-way down it vanish so that he only bring the
memory of it with he. And he tell the people that it was the third gift he
brought back with he, the best gift of God that was something the eye can’t
see…and the tribe see the light of prophecy in he eye and they believe he, and
make that young man headman over them. But some of the people still
grumbled under their breath and said what the women at first had said: “How
is it you come back after all this time and you en’t bring no wondrous thing to
show me? How is it? How is it?”

Jan Carew, Black Midas, Longman, 1969, pp. 134-135.

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41. What is the purpose of the young man’s trip in the passage?
I. A spiritual journey
II. A journey of discovery
III. He was banished from the community for a while.
IV. He was sent away to gain information to modernise the people of the
village.

a) I only
b) I and II only
c) I, II and IV only
d) All of the above

42. How long was the man gone from the village?
a) A year
b) Briefly
c) A long time
d) Two weeks

43. Identify the figure of speech in the following line, “It fall slow like
leaf when there is no rain”.
a) Metaphor
b) Simile
c) Analogy
d) Pathetic Fallacy

44. Despite the lack of proof, why is the man’s story believed?
a) He told them that the best gift of God is something the eye can’t see.
b) The story was something that they never heard before and they were
intrigued by it.
c) They wanted to believe him as he was expected to return with
adventures of the outside world.
d) He had brought other gifts for them before.

45. How was the man rewarded when he returned?

a) The women presented him with gifts.
b) The tribe made him the headman.
c) He was given the power of prophecy by God.
d) He was lauded a hero by the villagers.

46. The statement, “One minute it was cold like a mountain pool and
next minute it was like fire” is effective in conveying
a) the extreme temperature.
b) the man’s exaggeration of the story told to the people.
c) the man’s honest opinion of the unusual thing that he had seen and
felt.
d) the writer’s description of the mysteriousness of the passage.

47. What is the “white and wondrous thing?

a) Snow
b) Fog
c) Hail
d) The Holy Spirit

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 48. The writer of the passage MAINLY uses
a) repetition
b) rhetorical question
c) visual imagery
d) aural imagery

49. The passage opens and closes with the same lines. What is the
MAIN effect of this repetition?
a) The curiousity of the women were unrelenting.
b) The use of repetition clearly indicates that they were upset because
they did not receive a gift.
c) The writer repeats the line to create suspense.
d) The doubts of the main character’s story were growing.

50. The style of writing can BEST be described as

a) Standard English
b) Standard English and Creole
c) Slang and Proverb
d) Colloquialism and Creole

PASSAGE 2

Albert woke up drenched with sweat, his own heart about to attack him in his
chest, the same horrible, dreadful dream again.

The dream in which he walking through his old neighbourhood, through West
Kingston, past the broken down houses and the many-roomed Government
yards, walking past the knots of criminals (everybody there looked like a
criminal to him) standing on the street corners, the leaning zinc fences that
barely concealed all manner of nameless horrors waiting to jump out and claim
him. ‘Albert, is you that star? Chuh is when you come forward…let off a
munney no. You see Delzie and the youth yet?’ The older ones would heap
blessings on him and remind him and remind him of the more embarrassing
moments of his childhood. ‘You see him there, me used to change him nappy
you know!”

This dream wouldn’t leave him, even after so many years. He was now way past
those circumstances and those people, but the dream wouldn’t leave him. Even
as a child he hated poverty and looked down on the poor people around him.
He was going to get out as soon as he could. He always knew this. He was
bright, so much more intelligent than all the other children at his school.

Albert easily moved into the tennis-playing, smart, middle-class, Benz-driving

set and his taste for fine clothes made him look like what Miss Cordy [his
grandmother] and his mother wanted him to be. He was a qualified big shot.
Life was mostly great except for the dream. Albert went back to bed soothed by
the brandy and the dream he was made a High Court Judge.

Albert’s dream continued, but with a new dimension. He now walks into the old
neighbourhood and the streets turn into a courtroom and he is the judge, and

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he calls the court to order. A young man with his face and his name is brought
before him for murder.
[Excerpt from ‘The Big Shot’ by Lorna Goodison].

51. Why does the writer repeat “And remind him” in the extract?
a) He wants to emphasise how annoyed Albert was by the stories of his
childhood.
b) He wants to show how frequently they did it when he returned to the
neighbourhood.
c) He wants to illustrate how sad the memories are for him.
d) The writer wants to show the horrific effects of the dream on Albert.

52. The writer puts (everybody looked like a criminal to him) in bracket
to
a) illustrate the numerous hordes of criminals in the community.
b) exaggerate Albert’s perceptions.
c) show Albert’s bias towards the people in his community
d) show the writer’s bias towards the neighbourhood.

53. What aspects of the neighbourhood repulsed Albert?

I. The tenement yards
II. The thieves on the street corners
III. The overly friendliness of the neighbours
IV. The broken down homes

a) II only
b) I and II only
c) I, II and IV only
d) All of the above

54. Which phrase BEST illustrates Albert’s utter dislike of the people
in his neighbourhood?
a) He was much more intelligent than the other children at school.
b) Knots of criminals
c) Those people
d) He would look down on the poor people around him.

55. Why was Albert constantly having this horrible dream?

I. He felt guilty that he had abandoned his childhood neighbourhood
II. He had unfinished business in his old neighbourhood.
III. He was fearful about returning to his old neighbourhood.
IV. His childhood experiences of living among poverty was hard to forget

a) I and II only
b) II and III only
c) II, III and IV only.
d) All of the above

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56. How did Albert try to calm his fears?
a) He tried to think about the positive aspects of his life.
b) He comforted himself by stating that he was past those circumstances
and those people.
c) He moved among the rich middle class people.
d) He drank brandy and dreamt he was a High Court judge.

57. Why does the writer change the last two sentences to the present
tense?
I. He wants to show a change in the events.
II. The dream has moved from the past to the present.
III. The horrible experience of the dream is continuous
IV. He is no longer dreaming but is in reality.

a) I only
b) I and II only
c) II and III only
d) All of the above

58. It can be inferred that Albert’s mother and his grandmother

MOSTLY
a) bred his snobbish attitude towards the people of his old
neighbourhood.
b) encouraged him to focus on his education.
c) bought his fine clothes
d) chose his upper middle class friends.

59. Dreams in the extract can represent

I. Nightmares
II. Ambitions
III. Daydreams
IV. Delusions

a) I only
b) I and II only
c) I and III only
d) All of the above

60. The last sentence, “A young man with his face and his name is
brought before him for murder” clearly depicts that the person is
a) Albert’s son
b) Albert as a child
c) a figment of his imagination
d) one of the young men from the neighbourhood.

END OF TEST

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