ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE
PAPER 2
GRADE 9 JUNE 2009
TIME: 1 Hour TOTAL: 40
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Staple your answers to the front of your question paper when you have to hand in.
2. Answer all the questions.
3. Draw a margin of 2cm on the right hand side of your answer sheet.
4. Write neatly.
SECTION A – War Horse
QUESTION 1
Read the following extract from War Horse and answer the questions that follow:
Topthorn and I were by now seasoned campaigners, and it may well have been that that drove us on out through the roar of the shell-fire back towards the trenches each morning, but there was more to it than that. For us it was the hope that we would be back that evening in our stable and that little Emilie would be there to comfort and to love us. We had that to look forward to and to long for. Any horse has an instinctive fondness for children for they speak more softly, and their size precludes any threat; but Emilie was a special child for us, for she spent every minute she could with us and lavished us with her affection. She would be up late every evening with us rubbing us down and seeing to our feet, and be up again at dawn to see us fed properly before the orderlies led us away and hitched us up to the ambulance cart. She would climb the wall by the pond and stand there waving, although I could never turn round, I knew she would stay there until the road took us out of sight. And then she would be there when we came back in the evening, clasping her hands in excitement as she watched us being unhitched.
But one evening at the onset of winter she was not there to greet us as usual. We had been worked even harder that day than usual, for the first snows of winter had blocked the road up to the trenches to all but the horse-drawn vehicles and we had to make twice the number of trips to bring in the wounded. Exhausted, hungry and thirsty we were led into our stable by Emilie’s grandfather, who said not a word but saw to us quickly before hurrying back across the yard to the house. Topthorn and I spent that evening by the stable door watching the gentle fall of snow and the flickering light in the farmhouse. We knew something was wrong before the old man came back and told us.
1.1 Topthorn and Joey were seasoned campaigners at what?
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1.2 What made Joey and Topthorn return to the trenches every day?
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1.3 Where did Joey and Topthorn meet for the first time?
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1.4 Why do horses like children better?
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1.5 What kind of work was Joey and Topthorn doing for the orderlies?
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1.6 Were these orderlies English or German?
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1.7 How did Joey become a war horse?
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1.8 How did Topthorn die?
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1.9 Why did Emilie not greet them that night?
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1.10 How was Joey and Topthorn separated from Emilie?
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1.11 How did Emilie’s grandfather save Joey from being bought by a butcher?
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1.12 How was Albert re-united with Joey?
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SECTION B – WWI POETRY
QUESTION 2
Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow:
Dulce et Decorum Est – by Wilfred Owen
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots 5
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas shells dropping softly behind.
GAS! Gas! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time; 10
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And floundering like a man in fire or lime.--
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, 15
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; 20
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest 25
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.
2.1 How do you know the soldiers are very tired?
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2.2 With what are the tired soldiers compared?
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2.3 What is sludge?
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2.4 Why did the soldiers curse when they walked through the sludge?
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2.5 What is a flare?
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2.6 Why are the flares described as haunting?
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2.7 What is the distant rest they are marching to?
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2.8 Describe how some of the men marched.
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2.9 Describe what a foot looks like that is blood-shot?
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2.10 How tired was the soldiers?
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2.11 What happened to the man that fitted his helmet too late?
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2.12 What does the poet wish the reader would see?
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2.13 What is the meaning of Dulce et Decorum est, Pro patria mori?
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2.14 Why does he call the saying “Dulce et Decorum est, Pro patria mori”, a lie?
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