2025 CJC Prelims H2 ELit P3 QP

LITERATURE IN ENGLISH 9539/03 Paper 3: Reading Literature featuring the Postcolonial Literature Topic 26 August 2025 3 hours Additional Materials: Set Texts Set texts may be taken into the examination room. They may bear underlining or highlighting. Pages can be flagged with paper clips or by folding the page corners. Page numbers can be highlighted, underlined or marked out with vertical lines. Any other kind of folding or flagging of papers in texts (for example use of sticky notes or tape flags) is not permitted. READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST An answer booklet will be provided with this question paper. You should follow the instructions on the front cover of the answer booklet. If you need additional answer paper ask the invigilator for a continuation booklet. 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. All questions in this paper carry equal marks. This document consists of 7 printed pages and 1 blank page. [Turn over Instruction Catholic Junior College JC2 Preliminary Examinations Higher 2

© CJC 2025 9539/03 2 Section A Unseen Prose and Drama Answer one question from this section. 1 Either (a) The following passage is an extract from a short story “Evangelist” by Joyce Cary (1888-1957). Write a critical appreciation of the passage, considering in detail ways in which your response is shaped by the writer’s use of form, style and language. John Pratt, fifty-five, on holiday at the sea, gets up one sunny morning, looks from the window, says, 'It won't last,' and picks from his seven suits the only dark one. He dresses himself with care, and eats for breakfast one piece of dry toast. "A touch of liver," he says to himself, takes his umbrella and a bow ler1, and goes for his morning walk along the Parade2. “Why the bowler?" he asks himself. "I'm not going back to town." And suddenl y it strikes him that he is bored. "Impossible,' he says; “l’ve only been here a week and my regular time is always a fortnight." He looks about him to discover some usual source of pleasure in this charming old place; and immediately he is seized, possessed, over whelmed with boredom, with the most malignant and hopeless of all bo redoms, holiday boredom. It rises from his stomach, it falls from the lukewarm air. Ever ything in sight is instantly perceived as squalid, mercenary, debased by mean use and vulgar motives. The Regency facades 3 whose delicate taste he has so much admired, which bring him year after year to a place neither smart nor quiet, seem to leer at him with the sly, false primness of old kept women on the lookout for some city lecher, willing to set off cracked plaster against lewd dexterity. He looks at the sea for freshness. But it appear