P310/3

LITERATURE
IN ENGLISH
(NOVELS)
Paper 3
July/August 2022
3 hours

UGANDA TEACHERS EDUCATION CONSULT

Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education

LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

NOVELS

Paper 3

3 hours

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:

This paper consists of four Sections: A, B, C and D

You are required to attempt three questions in all; Attempt one question from
Section A and any two from Sections B, C and D.

Any extra question(s) shall not be assessed.

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 SECTION A

JANE AUSTEN: Pride and Prejudice

1. Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

‘Miss Bennet,’ replied her ladyship, in an angry tone, ‘you ought to know, that I
am not to be trifled with. But however insincere you may choose to be, you shall not
find me so. My character has ever been celebrated for its sincerity and frankness, and in
a cause of such moment as this, I shall certainly not depart from it. A report of a most
alarming nature reached me two days ago. I was told that not only your sister was on the
point of being most advantageously married, but that you, that Miss Elizabeth Bennet,
would, in all likelihood, be soon afterwards united to my nephew, my own nephew, Mr.
Darcy. Tough I know it must be a scandalous falsehood, though I would not injure him
so much as to suppose the truth of it possible, I instantly resolved on setting off for this
place, that I might make my sentiments known to you.’
‘If you believed it impossible to be true,’ said Elizabeth, colouring with
astonishment and disdain, ‘I wonder you took the trouble of coming so far. What could
your ladyship propose by it?’
‘At once to insist upon having such a report universally contradicted.’
‘Your coming to Longbourn, to see me and my family,’ said Elizabeth coolly,
‘will be rather a confirmation of it; if, indeed, such a report is in existence.’
‘If! Do you then pretend to be ignorant of it? Has it not been industriously
circulated by yourselves? Do you not know that such a report is spread abroad?’
‘I never heard that it was.’
‘And can you likewise declare, that there is no foundation for it?’
‘I do not pretend to possess equal frankness with your ladyship. You may ask
questions which I shall not choose to answer.’
This is not to be borne. Miss Bennet, I insist on being satisfied. Has he, has my
nephew, made you an offer of marriage?’
‘Your ladyship has declared it to be impossible.’
‘It ought to be so; it must be so, while he retains the use of his reason. But your
arts and allurements may, in a moment of infatuation, have made him forget what he
owes to himself and to all his family. You may have drawn him in.’
‘If I have, I shall be the last person to confess it.’
‘Miss Bennet, do you know who I am? I have not been accustomed to such
language as this. I am almost the nearest relation he has in the world, and am entitled to
know all his dearest concerns.’
‘But you are not entitled to know mine; nor will such behaviour as this, ever
induce me to be explicit.’
‘Let me be rightly understood. This match, to which you have the presumption to
aspire, can never take place. No, never. Mr. Darcy is engaged to my daughter. Now
what have you to say?’
‘Only this; that if he is so, you can have no reason to suppose he will make an
offer to me.’
Lady Catherine hesitated for a moment, and then replied:

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 ‘The engagement between them is of a peculiar kind. From their infancy, they
have been intended for each other. It was the favourite wish of his mother, as well as of
hers. While in their cradles, we planned the union: and now, at the moment when the
wishes of both sisters would be accomplished in their marriage, to be prevented by a
young woman of inferior birth, of no importance in the world, and wholly unallied to
the family! Do you pay no regard to the wishes of his friends? To his tacit engagement
with Miss de Bourgh? Are you lost to every feeling of propriety and delicacy? Have you
not heard me say that from his earliest hours he was destined for his cousin?’
‘Yes, and I had heard it before. But what is that to me? If there is no other
objection to my marrying your nephew, I shall certainly not be kept from it by knowing
that his mother and aunt wished him to marry Miss de Bourgh. You both did as much as
you could in planning the marriage. Its completion depended on others. If Mr. Darcy is
neither by honour nor inclination confined to his cousin, why is not he to make another
choice? And if I am that choice, why may not I accept him?’
‘Because honour, decorum, prudence, nay, interest, forbid it. Yes, Miss Bennet,
interest; for do not expect to be noticed by his family or friends, if you wilfully act
against the inclinations of all. You will be censured, slighted, and despised, by everyone
connected with him. Your alliance will be a disgrace; your name will never even be
mentioned by any of us.’

Questions:

(a) State the events that lead to the above exchange. (06 marks)
(b) Comment on the character of Lady Catherine and Elizabeth in the passage.
(10 marks)

(c) Show how the writer has effectively created an atmosphere of conflict in the
passage. (08 marks)

(d) What is the significance of the passage to the rest of the novel? (10 marks)

THOMAS HARDY: Tess of the d’Urbervilles

2. Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

‘Nights grow chilly in September. Let me see.’ He pulled off a light overcoat that
he had worn, and put it round her tenderly. ‘That’s it—now you’ll feel warmer,’ he
continued. ‘Now, my pretty, rest there; I shall soon be back again.’
Having buttoned the overcoat round her shoulders he plunged into the webs of
vapour which by this time formed veils between the trees. She could hear the rustling of
the branches as he ascended the adjoining slope, till his movements were no louder than
the hopping of a bird, and finally died away. With the setting of the moon the pale light
lessened, and Tess became invisible as she fell into reverie upon the leaves where he
had left her.

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 In the meantime Alec d’Urberville had pushed on up the slope to clear his
genuine doubt as to the quarter of The Chase they were in. He had, in fact, ridden quite
at random for over an hour, taking any turning that came to hand in order to prolong
companionship with her, and giving far more attention to Tess’s moonlit person than to
any wayside object. A little rest for the jaded animal being desirable, he did not hasten
his search for landmarks. A clamber over the hill into the adjoining vale brought him to
the fence of a highway whose contours he recognized, which settled the question of
their whereabouts. D’Urberville thereupon turned back; but by this time the moon had
quite gone down, and partly on account of the fog The Chase was wrapped in thick
darkness, although morning was not far off. He was obliged to advance with
outstretched hands to avoid contact with the boughs, and discovered that to hit the exact
spot from which he had started was at first entirely beyond him. Roaming up and down,
round and round, he at length heard a slight movement of the horse close at hand; and
the sleeve of his overcoat unexpectedly caught his foot.
‘Tess!’ said d’Urberville.
There was no answer. The obscurity was now so great that he could see
absolutely nothing but a pale nebulousness at his feet, which represented the white
muslin figure he had left upon the dead leaves. Everything else was blackness alike.
D’Urberville stooped; and heard a gentle regular breathing. He knelt and bent lower, till
her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers. She
was sleeping soundly, and upon her eyelashes there lingered tears.
Darkness and silence ruled everywhere around. Above them rose the primeval
yews and oaks of The Chase, in which there poised gentle roosting birds in their last
nap; and about them stole the hopping rabbits and hares. But, might some say, where
was Tess’s guardian angel? Where was the providence of her simple faith? Perhaps, like
that other god of whom the ironical Tishbite spoke, he was talking, or he was pursuing,
or he was in a journey, or he was sleeping and not to be awaked.
Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and
practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as
it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong
man the woman, the wrong woman the man, many thousand years of analytical
philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order. One may, indeed, admit the
possibility of a retribution lurking in the present catastrophe. Doubtless some of Tess
d’Urberville’s mailed ancestors rollicking home from a fray had dealt the same measure
even more ruthlessly towards peasant girls of their time. But though to visit the sins of
the fathers upon the children may be a morality good enough for divinities, it is scorned
by average human nature; and it therefore does not mend the matter.
As Tess’s own people down in those retreats are never tired of saying among
each other in their fatalistic way: ‘It was to be.’ There lay the pity of it. An
immeasurable social chasm was to divide our heroine’s personality thereafter from that
previous self of hers who stepped from her mother’s door to try her fortune at
Trantridge poultry-farm.

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 Questions:

(a) Explain the events that lead to this incident. (06 marks)

(b) Identify and explain any three themes in the extract. (09 marks)

(c) Show how the writer has effectively used language to create an atmosphere of
foreboding in the passage. (9 marks)

(d) What is the contribution of this passage to the development of the novel?
(10 marks)

CHARLES DICKENS: Great Expectations

3. Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

Biddy dropped her work, and looked at me. Joe held his knees and looked at me.
I looked at both of them. After a pause, they both heartily congratulated me; but there
was a certain touch of sadness in their congratulations, that I rather resented.
I took it upon myself to impress Biddy (and through Biddy, Joe) with the grave
obligation I considered my friends under, to know nothing and say nothing about the
maker of my fortune. It would all come out in good time, I observed, and in the
meanwhile nothing was to be said, save that I had come into great expectations from a
mysterious patron. Biddy nodded her head thoughtfully at the fire as she took up her
work again, and said she would be very particular; and Joe, still detaining his knees,
said, ‘Ay, ay, I’ll be ekervally partickler, Pip;’ and then they congratulated me again,
and went on to express so much wonder at the notion of my being a gentleman, that I
didn’t half like it.
Infinite pains were then taken by Biddy to convey to my sister some idea of what
had happened. To the best of my belief, those efforts entirely failed. She laughed and
nodded her head a great many times, and even repeated after Biddy, the words ‘Pip’ and
‘Property.’ But I doubt if they had more meaning in them than an election cry, and I
cannot suggest a darker picture of her state of mind.
I never could have believed it without experience, but as Joe and Biddy became
more at their cheerful ease again, I became quite gloomy. Dissatisfied with my fortune,
of course I could not be; but it is possible that I may have been, without quite knowing
it, dissatisfied with myself.
Anyhow, I sat with my elbow on my knee and my face upon my hand, looking
into the fire, as those two talked about my going away, and about what they should do
without me, and all that. And whenever I caught one of them looking at me, though
never so pleasantly (and they often looked at me - particularly Biddy), I felt offended: as
if they were expressing some mistrust of me. Though Heaven knows they never did by
word or sign.
At those times I would get up and look out at the door; for, our kitchen door
opened at once upon the night, and stood open on summer evenings to air the room. The

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very stars to which I then raised my eyes, I am afraid I took to be but poor and humble
stars for glittering on the rustic objects among which I had passed my life.
‘Saturday night,’ said I, when we sat at our supper of bread-and-cheese and beer.
‘Five more days, and then the day before the day! They’ll soon go.’
‘Yes, Pip,’ observed Joe, whose voice sounded hollow in his beer mug. ‘They’ll
soon go.’
‘Soon, soon go,’ said Biddy.
‘I have been thinking, Joe, that when I go down town on Monday, and order my
new clothes, I shall tell the tailor that I’ll come and put them on there, or that I’ll have
them sent to Mr. Pumblechook’s. It would be very disagreeable to be stared at by all the
people here.’
‘Mr. and Mrs. Hubble might like to see you in your new genteel figure too, Pip,’
said Joe, industriously cutting his bread, with his cheese on it, in the palm of his left
hand, and glancing at my untasted supper as if he thought of the time when we used to
compare slices. ‘So might Wopsle. And the Jolly Bargemen might take it as a
compliment.’
‘That’s just what I don’t want, Joe. They would make such a business of it - such
a coarse and common business - that I couldn't bear myself.’
Questions:
(a) Explain the circumstances that lead to this conversation. (06 marks)
(b) Comment on the prevailing mood in the passage. (09 marks)
(c) What major themes has Dickens portrayed in this conversation? (9 marks)
(d) Show how this passage contributes to the development of the novel.
(10 marks)

SECTION B
MONGO BETI: The Poor Christ of Bomba
4. How is Father Superior Drumont’s tour of Tala land a turning point in his career
as a missionary? (33 marks)
5. What is the importance of the Sixa to the development of the novel, The Poor
Christ of Bomba? (33 marks)

NGUGI WA THIONG’O: Devil on the Cross

6. Examine the contribution of Wariinga’s encounter with the Devil to the
development of the novel, Devil on the Cross. (33 marks)
7. Analyse the significance of the title, Devil on the Cross to the meaning of the
novel. (33 marks)

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 IVAN S. TURGENEF: Fathers and Sons

8. Show how Turgenev has effectively portrayed the conflict of generations in the
novel, Fathers and Sons. (33 marks)

9. Analyse the character of Arkady in the novel, Fathers and Sons.

(33 marks)

SECTION C

JULIUS OCWINYO: Footprints of the Outsider

10. Examine the character of Abdu Olwit in Footprints of the Outsider. (33 marks)

11. What makes the novel Footprints of the Outsider a perfect portrayal of the socio-
political history of Uganda since independence? (33 marks)

OSI OGBU: The Moon Also Sets

12. Discuss the role of Oby’s university in the novel, The Moon Also Sets.
(33 marks)

13. To what extent is Pa Okolo’s end a result of his quest for power and privilege in
The Moon Also Sets? (33 marks)

HENRY R. OLE KULET: Vanishing Herds

14. Analyse the effectiveness of symbolism in the novel Vanishing Herds.

(33 marks)

15. Discuss the major lessons in the novel, Vanishing Herds. (33 marks)

SECTION D

CHINUA ACHEBE: The Voter

16. ‘Opposition to him was like the proverbial fly trying to climb a dunghill.’ Show
how Achebe has used irony and paradox to develop a satire of Africa’s political
democracy in The Voter. (33 marks)

17. Discuss Achebe’s portrayal of the character of Rufus Okeke in The Voter.
(33 marks)

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 ES’KIA M’PHAHLELE: In Corner B

18. What are your feelings for Talita in In Corner B? (33 marks)

19. Examine the nature and conditions of social life portrayed in In Corner B? How
does Talita go through them? (33 marks)

ALEX LA GUMA: A Walk in the Night

20. Discuss the view that the novella A Walk in the Night is a walk into the troubled
lives of various characters in the story. (33 marks)

21. What narrative techniques does Alex La Guma use to portray an effective
message of apartheid in A Walk in the Night? (33 marks)

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