ENGLISH Paper - 2 (Prescribed Textbooks) (Three hours)

(Candidates are allowed additional 15 minutes for only reading the paper.

They must NOT start writing during this time).

Answer one question from Section A and four questionsfrom Section B.

In Section B choose questions on at least three textbooks which may include EITHER Shakespeare's Macbeth OR Bernard Shaw s Pygmalion.

!fyou answer two questions on anyone text, do not base them on the same material.

Note: You are required to select questions on one play only, EITHER Macbeth OR Pygmalion in Sections A and B

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SECTION A

(Answer one question) Macbeth - Shakespeare

Question 1

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Choose three of the passages (a) to (d) and answer briefly the questions that follow:

(a) Malcolm

(aside to Donalbain)

Why do we hold our tongues, that most may claim This argument for ours?

(aside to Malcolm)

What should be spoken here,

Where our fate hid in an auger-hole may rush,

And seize us? Let's away. Our tears are not yet brew'd. (Aside to Donalbain)

Nor our strong sorrow upon the foot of motion.

(i) Where are Malcolm and Donalbain?

(ii) What 'argument' does Malcolm seek to claim as theirs?

Donalbain

Malcolm

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(iii) Explain the line:

"Nor our strong sorrow upon the foot of motion".

(iv) Who speaks immediately after the quoted lines? What does the character say? (v) Give the meanings of the following words in the context of the passage: auger-hole; brew'd,

(b) Lady Macbeth Macbeth

You must leave this

Oh, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!

Thou know'st that Banquo and his Fleance lives.

But in them Nature's copy's not eterne, There's comfort yet, they are assailable; Then be thou jocund: ere the bat hath flown

His cloister'd flight, ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-born beetle with his drowsy hums

Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.

(i) What makes Lady Macbeth say, "You must leave this"?

Lady Macbeth

Macbeth

(ii) In an earlier scene, what reasons had Macbethgiven for fearing Banquo? (iii) Explain the line:

"There's comfort yet, they are assailable".

(iv) What does Macbeth refer to as "A deed of dreadful note"? Which arrangements had he already made for this deed?

(v) Give the meanings of the following words in the context of the passage: jocund; cloister'd.

(c) Macbeth

Saw you the weird sisters?

No, my lord.

Came they not by you?

No indeed, my lord.

Infected be the air whereon they ride,

And damn'd all those that trust them! I did hear The galloping of horse. Who was't came by?

(i) Where are Macbeth and Lennox?

Lennox

Macbeth

Lennox

Macbeth

(ii) What had Macbeth been doing before this extract?

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(iii) Explain the Jines:

"Infected be the-air whereon they ride; And damn'd all those that trust them!" (iv) What is Lennox's reply to Macbeth's question?

(v) Give the meaning of the following words in the context of the passage:

Infected; whereon.

That way the noise is. Tyrant, show thy face!

If thou be'st slain, and with no stroke of mine, My wife and children's ghosts will haunt me still. I cannot strike at wretched kerns whose arms

Are hir'd bear their staves; either thou, Macbeth, Or else my sword with an unbatter'd edge

I sheath again undeeded. There thou shouldst be; By this great clatter, one of greatest note

Seems bruited.

(i) Where is Macduff? Who is being referred to as 'Tyrant'?

(d) Macduff

(ii) Why does Macduff say "my wife and children's ghosts will haunt me still"?

(iii) Explain the line:

"Or else my sword with an unbatter'd edge I sheath again undeeded."

(iv) Who enter soon after these lines? What news do they bring?

(v) Give meanings of the following words in the context of the passage:

kerns; bruited

Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw

Question 2

Choose three of the passages (a) to (d) and answer briefly the questions that follow:

(a) Higgins Oh, pay her whatever is necessary: put it down in the housekeeping book. (Impatiently) What on earth will she want with money? She'll have her food and her clothes. She'll only drink if you give her money.

Liza (turning on him) Oh you are a brute. It's a lie: nobody ever saw the sign of liquor on me. (To Pickering) Oh, sir: youre a gentleman: dont let him speak to me like that.

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Pickering

(in good-humoured remonstrance) Does it occur to you, Higgins, that the girl has some feelings?

(looking critically at her) Oh no, I dont think so. Not any feelings that we need bother about. (Cheerily) Have you, Eliza?

I got my feelings same as anyone else.

(to Pickering, reflectively) You see the difficulty?

Higgins

Liza Higgins

(i) What difficulty is Higgins talking about?

(ii) How does Eliza respond to Higgins' opinion of the difficulty?

(iii) What concerns does Mrs. Pearce express in the lines following the extract?

(iv) In what way is Higgins' treatment of Eliza different from Pickering's?

(v) What does Higgins say they may do after they have finished with their experiment?

(b) Pickering

Am I in the way?

Not at all, sir. Mr. Higgins: will you please be very particular what you say before the girl?

(sternly) Of course. I'm always particular about what I say. Why do you say this to me?

(unmoved) No, sir: youre not at all particular when youve mislaid anything or when you get a little impatient. Now it

doesnt matter before me: ]' m used to it. But you really must not swear before the girl.

(indignantly) I swear! (Most emphatically) I never swear. I detest the habit. What the devil do you mean?

(i) Who is Mrs. Pearce? Which task had Higgins given her?

Mrs. Pearce

Higgins

Mrs. Pearce

Higgins

(ii) Why does Mrs. Pearce ask Higgins not to swear? What is amusing about Higgins' reaction?

(iii) Where else in the play do we hear Higgins swearing? Give one example.

(iv) Which other habits of Higgins does Mrs. Pearce comment upon?

(v) What does Higgins later tell Pickering about Mrs. Pearce's comments about his habits and behaviour?

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(c) Higgins

(hastily) Oh, thats the new small talk. To do a person in means to kill them.

(to Eliza, horrified) You surely dont believe that your aunt was killed?

Do I not! Them she lived with would have killed her for a hat-pin, let alone a hat.

But it cant have been right for your father to pour spirits down her throat I ike that. It might have killed her.

Not her. Gin was mother's milk to her. Besides, he'd poured so much down his own throat that he knew the good of it.

Do you mean that he drank?

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Liza

Mrs. Enysford Hill

Liza

Mrs. Enysford Hill

(i) Where are the speakers? What is the occasion of the conversation?

(ii) What has Eliza just been talking about?

(iii) Why do you think Higgins hastily labels Eliza's conversation 'the new small talk'?

(iv) What does Eliza say about her father's drinking after this extract?

(iv) What does Clara say later in the scene about the 'new small talk'?

(d) Higgins
Liza
Higgins
Liza
Higgins Whatll you teach, in heaven's name? What you taught me. I'll teach phonetics. Hal Hal Hal

]' II offer myself as an assistant to that hairyfaced Hungarian. (rising in a fury) What! That impostor! that humbug! that toadying ignoramus! Teach him my methods! My discoveries!

You take one step in his direction and ['II wring your neck. (He lays hands on her.) Do you hear?

Liza (defiantly non-resistant) Wring away. What do I care? I knew youd strike me some day ....

(i) Where are the speakers now? Why is Eliza there?

(ii) Who is the 'hairy-faced Hungarian' that Eliza refers to? Where has she met him before?

(iii) What does Eliza go on to say to Higgins after the quoted lines?

(iv) How does Higgins react to Eliza's statement, "I knew you would strike me some day ... "?

(v) With what words of Higgins does this act end?

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SECTIONB

(Answer four questions on at least three textbooks which may include EITHER Macbeth OR Pygmalion.)

Macbeth - Shakespeare

Question 3

How does Shakespeare develop the theme of guih lind remorse in the play? Discuss with specific reference to the text.

Question 4

What is the significance of the 'porter scene' in the play? Discuss at least three things that are achieved by the dramatist through the introductory lines 0 f the scene.

Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw

Question 5

Pygmalion has been described by Shaw as "A Romance in Five Acts". To what extent do you agree with this description of the play?

Question 6

Discuss how the character of Doolittle is presented as a contrast to both Higgins and Eliza in the play.

The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy

Question 7

What role does coincidence and chance play in the development of the plot in the novel?

Question 8 [20)

Referring closely to two separate incidents in the novel, show how the character of Henchard arouses your:

(a) Sympathy

(b) Annoyance.

Question 9 [20)

What picture of the rural life of Wessex do you get from the novel?

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Footprints (A Collection of Essays) - Edited by Stephen DaCosta

Question 10

"Please and Thank You are the small change with which we pave our way as social beings."

Referring closely to the essay, On Saying "Please", relate the writer's views on the importance of good manners.

Question 11

Referring closely to the essay My Struggle For An Education, relate the difficulties that the writer had to overcome before he could get admission into a Hampton Institute.

Question 12

How does Max Mueller, in his essay What India Can Teach Us, praise India as a repository of diverse fields of knowledge in the world.

Hues: An Anthology of Short Stories - Barry Antunis, Anupam Banerjee, S. Thomas & Sumana Saha

Question 13

Referring closely to the short story A Devoted Son, trace the change in Verrnaji's perception of his son Rakesh from 'a pearl among pearls' to 'a cold and heartless tyrant'. With whom do you sympathise in the story and why?

Question 14

Dr. Heldegger's Experiment, satirizes the constant and futile efforts of human beings to revive their lost youth. Describe the effect of the doctor's experiment on his guests.

Question 15

The short story Third Thought, traces the manner in which our better instincts are gradually suppressed by our self-centred motives.

Referring closely to the short story, trace the narrator's progression from generosity to

selfishness. J

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Question 16

How does W.H. Auden, in his poem, The Shield of Achilles, use the contrasting visions of Thetis and Hephaestos to talk about the evils of his time?

Question 17

Discuss how the four different scenarios in T.S. Eliot's Preludes can be read as a single picture of urban squalor and decadence.

Question 18

Anthem for Doomed Youth, is a bitter commentary on the horror and futility of war. Do you agree? How does Wilfred Owen convey his message to the reader?

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