UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS

Cambridge International Primary Achievement Test

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ENGLISH 0841/02
Paper 2 May/June 2009
60 minutes
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Greedy Hyena

A Shona Story from Africa

Dinner! Hyena crept forwards, poking his nose through

the tall waving grasses. Now he had a better view of the
impala doe with her impala fawn. They had wandered a
little way from the rest of the herd so they would be easy
to catch without the rest of the herd to defend them.
Hyena was so hungry he could almost taste the smell of
them. In the dry season, food was scarce and he hadn’t
eaten for several days. The short little antelopes may look
slim, but they had enough meat on them for a starving
hyena.

Hyena crept slowly round, making the most of his mottled brown camouflaged fur
against the brownish stalks of grass. He needed to be downwind so that the mother
impala wouldn’t catch his smell on the light breeze. He knew that one hint of hyena
and all he would see of his dinner would be the sharp little hooves disappearing in a
cloud of dust.

At last, Hyena was downwind and still undetected by the impala. Although it was the
thought of the young impala that made his mouth water the most, he knew that he
would have a problem with the mother. She might not have sharp teeth, but her
hooves were as sharp as knives and she would fight him for the life of her baby. That
decided him. Hyena would kill the mother first, then enjoy his meal of the baby impala.
Two dead impalas were certainly better than one!

Hyena charged at the mother impala. To his surprise, she

bounded off in one direction while the baby ran in another.
He paused for a moment, trying to decide which of the
impala to kill first. Closer up, the mother was fatter and
younger than he had thought so he would go after her first.
The baby would be easy to find after he had dealt with the
mother.

For miles, Hyena chased the impala across the endless

grassy plains. It was very frustrating. She would sometimes
stand still for a moment, as if out of breath, but when Hyena
came closer she would suddenly bound up high in the air,
before leaping off out of reach again. Hyena couldn’t
understand it. Suddenly he realised that the mother impala
was tricking him. He knew that he would never catch her
because she could run faster than he could, and keep going for longer. However, the

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baby would be easy to catch and now his mother was a long way away. Hyena trotted
happily back to the place where he had last seen the baby.

But where was it? Hyena couldn’t see any sign of the fawn. He followed its scent
hungrily until at last he stopped, defeated. When Hyena had started his chase, the
fawn had run towards his father and the herd, while its mother had led Hyena away to
give the baby a chance to escape. Hyena could see the little impala grazing on the dry
grass at his father’s side. Looking at the big buck with his short sharp horns, Hyena
knew that he had no chance now of tasting the fawn’s soft young flesh.

Hyena Haiku
Matted, mottled fur.
Crazy, cackling, carnivore.
Strong, bone-crushing jaw.

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Read the story Greedy Hyena and answer the following questions.

1 Why was Hyena chasing the impala? [1]

2 Tick (
) the reason why Hyena did not want to fight with the mother impala.

She had sharp claws.

She had sharp hooves.

She had sharp horns.

She had sharp teeth.

[1]

3 (a) When Hyena realised he could not catch the mother impala, he did not mind.
Explain why.

[1]

(b) Find and copy one word from the story that tells us that Hyena did not mind.

[1]

4 Tick (
) the point of view character in this story.

Hyena

Impala buck

Impala doe

Impala fawn

[1]

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5 At the beginning of the story, why was Hyena so hungry?

[1]

6 Do you feel sorry for Hyena in the story?

Explain your answer. Include words and phrases from the story in your
explanation.

[2]

7 Why do you think the author chose to use ‘Hyena’, rather than ‘The hyena’?

[1]

8 Do you think Hyena knew that the impala were nearby before the beginning of this
story?

Explain your answer. Include words and phrases from the story in your
explanation.

[2]

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9 Explain why the mother impala ran away from her baby. Use words and phrases
from the story.

[2]

10 Tick (
) the part of this story which you thought was most exciting.

The beginning when Hyena is preparing to kill the impala.

The part where Hyena decides which impala to chase.

The part when Hyena chases the mother impala.

The part where Hyena goes back to chase the baby.

Explain how the author made it exciting and discuss whether you think it is exciting
enough.

[2]

11 Stories like this often end with morals. Write a moral for this story.

[1]

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12 The final paragraph begins with the words But where was it?

Explain why you think the author did not use a proper sentence at the beginning
of the paragraph.

[1]

13 Read the Hyena Haiku at the end of the story.

Comment on the author’s use of the sounds in words.

[1]

14 What is the poet’s attitude towards hyenas in Hyena Haiku?

Explain your answer. Include words and phrases from the haiku in your
explanation.

[2]

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Spend 30 minutes on this section.

15 Fables - Stories with Morals

Greedy Hyena is a fable. It is a story with animal characters where good behaviour
is rewarded and bad behaviour is punished. Write your own fable.

Do not retell a story you already know.

Thinking about some of these issues may help you:

There needs to be a clear plot which develops through the fable.

Plot Good behaviour should be rewarded, bad behaviour should be
punished.

The reader needs to know enough about the character to know

Character what you, the author, think of it.

The plot is most important, but you will need to give enough
Setting information about the setting for the reader to understand where
the fable is set.

Spend up to 5 minutes making notes to plan your fable here.

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Write your fable here.

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Content [4] Audience [3]

Style [4] Text structure and organisation [4]

Vocabulary [3] Spelling [2]

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