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VICTORIA JUNIOR COLLEGE JC2 PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION 2025 HIGHER 2 LITERATURE IN ENGLISH 9539/02 Paper 2 3 hours Additional Materials: Answer Paper Set texts may be taken into the examination room. They may bear underlining, highlighting or vertical lines. Pages can be flagged with paper clips or by folding the page corners. Any other kind of folding or flagging of pages in texts (for example, use of sticky notes or tape flags) is not permitted. READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Begin each answer on a FRESH 4-PAGE BOOKLET. If you need additional answer paper ask the invigilator for a continuation booklet and label appropriately. Answer three questions: one question from Section A, one question from Section B, and one question from Section C. You are reminded of the need for good English and clear presentation in your answers. At the end of the examination, ensure your name and class is written at the beginning of each answer. All questions in this paper carry equal marks. This document consists of 7 printed pages [Turn over

2 Section A 1 Either (a) In the play Cost of Living by Martyna Majok (2018), Ani and Eddie are a couple in the midst of a divorce. She has recently been discharged from hospital after a devastating accident that has left her a paraplegic and partial use of one hand. As the divorce has yet to be finalised, Ani is still covered by Eddie's insurance plan for now. Write a critical appreciation of this extract from the play, considering in detail ways in which your response is shaped by the writer’s use of form, style and language. EDDIE: ANI: EDDIE: ANI: EDDIE: ANI: EDDIE: ANI: EDDIE: ANI: EDDIE: ANI: EDDIE: You need to get some color in here. ( The worst.) This beige?: No. Feel like I'm walkin into a paper bag. You could get some kinda yellow in here. Some baby blue, some yellow. Good for emotions. I read that. It's therapy. Colors work on yer feelings. Blue's for stress, like—relief. Red’s for passion. And yellow I dunno but it's yellow. Ask yer nurses. Watch. They'll tell you. Shit's science. (Bone dry.) I thought I'd try yoga. Fer my emotions. ...Can you //1 do–? NO. Okay. (He looks around for something helpful to do.) What're you doin // here—? (Looking for tasks.) OkayOkayOkay. Pillow! Got yer pillow here. (He tries to put it somewhere behind her head or back. Sees she’s strapped in all over...) I'ma just fluff THAT. (...fluffs and sets the pillow aside.) Okay. Blanket. Just blanket you with THAT. (He tucks a blanket around her chair.) You lose weight? … I will punch myself later for that. On yer behalf. Or—Y’know what: (He takes her paralyzed arm. She's confused at what's going on at first but has no control over it. Oh no. Is he really doing this? He is.