ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE
PAPER 2 – GRADE 9 – TERM 4
TOTAL: 40
TIME: 1 HOUR
INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION
1. This paper consists out of two questions:
Section A: Novel (20)
Section B: Poetry (20)
2. Answer all the questions.
3. Begin the answers to this question paper on a new page.
4. Staple this answer paper to the back of the answers of paper 1.
5. Staple the questions to the back of your answers.
6. Answers must be neat.
7. Number your questions correctly.
SECTION A – I am David
QUESTION 1
Read the following extract from I am David and answer the questions that follow:
During the days that followed David got several lifts, and King learned to lie perfectly still across David’s feet so that no one could accuse him of being restless. People were always nervous of him at first, for he often looked as if he would bite, and he was very big. But when they saw how meekly he did everything David told him to, they would laugh and call him a sheep in wolf’s clothing, for David always spoke very quietly and politely to him in a way they obviously did not think it possible to talk to a dog. But David did not care. King had chosen to go with him, and he was not going to show ingratitude by ordering him about. David hated orders himself, and loud commanding voices, and as long as he was with him, King should remain a free dog.
He was a clever dog, too. David had heard people say a dog was “as clever as a human being”, but that, he thought, was nonsense. A dog was a dog, and a man was a man, and you could not be as clever as something quite different. But a dog could certainly be clever in a doggy sort of way, and King was clever. And good.
Everything had been fine since he gave the farmer the slip and the dog joined him. There had been times, of course, when he was hungry and felt cold; but nothing had happened to frighten him, and he had not seen anyone who looked like them, and he knew where he was going.
It was comforting to have the dog with him. He could not carry on a conversation with it, naturally, but it was good to know it was there, keeping him warm at night and always ready to protect him. David knew he could not rely too much on the dog’s protection for though it could bite, it could not get the better of a man — not one of them, at any rate: they always went armed. But it was a comfort just to know it wanted to.
David was to learn his mistake.
Perhaps it happened because he was in too much of a hurry. He was able to plan his route from the maps he found on railway stations, and he had become quite good at working out how long a particular stretch of the journey would take if he got a lift or if he had to walk. He knew that it would not take him many days now to reach Denmark. Perhaps it happened, too, because for hours at a time he could almost forget his fears now. He had had fear too well drilled into him ever to be completely free of it, but it was not so bad now. For the man really had intended him to get to Denmark. There had been no trap. And the children’s parents had not given him away either. There was only the farmer, and David thought he was too stupid to imagine David might have run away from them.
They must still be looking for him, of course: the man’s influence was limited and he would not have been able to prevent it. But no one knew where to look for him. And now Denmark was almost within reach — Denmark and the woman who was his mother.
1.1 Describe briefly how David met King.
King belonged to the farmer that captured David. King was abused as well as David and they slept together in the shed where David was locked up.
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1.2 Why does David hate orders, and loud commanding voices?
He grew up in a concentration camp. He always received orders from the guards and he hates the guards.
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1.3 Why is freedom so important to David?
Open ended answer. David has never been free in his life. This is the first time that he has a chance to do what he wants to do.
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1.4 Who is the “them” that David is afraid of?
The guards from the concentration camp.
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1.5 Where is David travelling to and why is he travelling there?
He is travelling to Denmark. He wants to find his mother there.
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1.6 Who is the “man” that intended David to get to Denmark?
The man was a guard at the concentration camp. He was in love with David’s mother and helped her escape. Now he is helping David to escape.
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1.7 How have the “children’s parents” not given him away?
They published an article in the newspaper asking David to return to them. They did not report him to the police.
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1.8 How was the farmer different from the children’s parents?
The children’s parents helped him and cared for him. They treated him with respect. The farmer did not help him but abused him. The farmer locked David up.
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1.9 In your opinion, is the story of David realistic? Is it possible for a boy to travel all this way to find his mother? Give a reason for your answer.
Open ended answer.
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SECTION B – POETRY
QUESTION 2
Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:
Futility
Move him into the sun—
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unsown.
Always it awoke him, even in France,
Until this morning and this snow.
If anything might rouse him now
The kind old sun will know.
Think how it wakes the seeds—
Woke, once, the clays of a cold star.
Are limbs so dear-achieved, are sides
Full-nerved,—still warm,—too hard to stir?
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
—O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
To break earth's sleep at all?
2.1 Who is the poem about?
A soldier who once was a farmer in England./ A dead soldier.
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2.2 Why is the sun mentioned in the first stanza?
The sun has the power to wake the dead soldier, it always has and should do so now as well.
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2.3 Give two reasons why the sun would be able to wake up the dead soldier?
The sun wakes up seeds.
The sun woke up the earth.
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2.4 Explain the following question asked in the poem: “ Are limbs so dear-achieved, are sides
Full-nerved,—still warm,—too hard to stir?”
Is it too difficult for the sun to wake up the limbs and nerves of this body that is still warm?
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2.5 Explain the following question asked in the poem: Was it for this the clay grew tall?
Was earth only created so that man should die in wars?
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2.6 Explain the following question asked in the poem: O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
To break earth's sleep at all?
Why did the sun ever give life to earth?
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2.7 Why is the title of the poem “Futility”?
All is for nothing. It seems as if everything ends in nothing.
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2.8 Why is the sun now called “fatuous”?
It is now unable to wake up the dead soldier, it has lost all its abilities. The sun is foolish.
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2.9 Where was the home of this soldier once?
England
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2.10 What was the soldier’s job at home?
Farmer
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2.11 During which war was this poem written and what was the soldier doing in France?
WW1. He was fighting the Germans.
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Total:40