NYGH 2014-S3MYE-ALIT HP

1 ALIT (HP) MYE 2014 SB Class Register Number Name Mid-Year Examination 2014 Secondary Three Advanced Literature (HP) 1 hour 45 minutes Monday 12 May 2014 1115hrs - 1300hrs READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST 1. Write your name on your answer script. 2. Use dark blue or black ink. 3. Do not use correction fluid / tape. INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES 1. Answer both Question 1 (Section A) and Question 2 (Section B). 2. Begin your answer to Section B on a fresh sheet of paper. 3. Number your answers clearly. 4. You are reminded of the need for good English and legible handwriting. Setters: S Birchwood This document consists of 7 printed pages, including this cover page. [Turn over]

2 ALIT (HP) MYE 2014 SB SECTION A: SET TEXT Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller Read the extract below and answer the question that follows. HAPPY: [Grabbing BIFF, shouts.] Wait a minute! I got an idea. I got a feasible idea. Come here, Biff, let’s talk this over now, let’s talk some sense here. When I was down in Florida last time, I thought of a great idea to sell sporting goods. It just came back to me. You and I, Biff—we have a line, the Loman Line. We train a couple of weeks, and put on a couple of exhibitions, see? WILLY: That’s an idea! HAPPY: Wait! We form two basketball teams, see? Two water-polo teams. We play each other. It’s a million dollars’ worth of publicity. Two brothers, see? The Loman Brothers. Displays in the Royal Palms—all the hotels. And banners over the ring and the basketball court: “Loman Brothers.” Baby, we could sell sporting goods! WILLY: That is a one-million-dollar idea! LINDA: Marvelous! BIFF: I’m in great shape as far as that’s concerned. HAPPY: And the beauty of it is, Biff, it wouldn’t be like a business. We’d be out playin’ ball again . . . BIFF: [Enthused.] Yeah, that’s... WILLY: Million-dollar... HAPPY: And you wouldn’t get fed up with it, Biff. It’d be the family again. There’d be the old honor, and comradeship, and if you wanted to go off for a swim or somethin’—well, you’d do it! Without some smart cooky gettin’ up ahead of you! WILLY: Lick the world! You guys together could absolutely lick the civilized world.

3 ALIT (HP) MYE 2014 SB BIFF: I’ll see Oliver tomorrow. Hap, if we could work that out... LINDA: Maybe things are beginning to— WILLY: [Wildly enthused, to LINDA.] Stop interrupting! [To BIFF.] But don’t wear sport jacket and slacks when you see Oliver. BIFF: No, I’ll— WILLY: A business suit, and talk as little as possible, and don’t crack any jokes. BIFF: He did like me. Always liked me. LINDA: He loved you! WILLY: [To LINDA.] Will you stop! [To BIFF.] Walk in very serious. You are not applying for a boy’s job. Money is to pass. Be quiet, fine, and serious. Every- body likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money. HAPPY: I’ll try to get some myself, Biff. I’m sure I can. WILLY: I see great things for you kids, I think your troubles are over. But remember, start big and you’ll end big. Ask for fifteen. How much you gonna ask for? BIFF: Gee, I don’t know— WILLY: And don’t say “Gee.” “Gee” is a boy’s word. A man walking in for fifteen thousand dollars does not say “Gee!” BIFF: Ten, I think, would be top though. WILLY: Don’t be so modest. You always started too low. Walk in with a big laugh. Don’t look worried. Start off with a couple of your good stories to lighten things up. It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it—because personality always wins the day. LINDA: Oliver always thought the highest of him— WILLY: Will you let me talk? BIFF: Don’t yell at her, Pop, will ya? WILLY: [Angrily.] I was talking, wasn’t I? BIFF: I don’t like you yelling at her all the time, and I’m tellin’ you, that’s all.

4 ALIT (HP) MYE 2014 SB WILLY: What’re you, takin’ over this house? LINDA: Willy— WILLY: [Turning on her.] Don’t take his side all the time, goddammit! BIFF: [Furiously.] Stop yelling at her! WILLY: [Suddenly pulling on his cheek, beaten down, guilt ridden.] Give my best to Bill Oliver—he may remember me. [He exits through the living-room doorway.] Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller (from Act One) 1. (a) What does the extract reveal about Willy’s relationship with his family ? (b) How does it contribute to your understanding of the play as a whole? [30]

5 ALIT (HP) MYE 2014 SB SECTION B: LITERARY RESPONSE Read the texts below and answer the question that follows. (i) Bright Star Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors-- No--yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever--or else swoon to death. John Keats (1884)

6 ALIT (HP) MYE 2014 SB (ii) Choose Something Like a Star O Star (the fairest one in sight), We grant your loftiness the right To some obscurity of cloud- It will not do to say of night, Since dark is what brings out your light. Some mystery becomes the proud. But to the wholly taciturn In your reserve is not allowed. Say something to us we can learn By heart and when alone repeat. Say something! And it says, 'I burn.' But say with what degree of heat. Talk Fahrenheit, talk Centigrade. Use Language we can comprehend. Tell us what elements you blend. It gives us strangely little aid, But does tell something in the end And steadfast as Keats' Eremite, Not even stooping from its sphere, It asks a little of us here. It asks of us a certain height, So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid. Robert Frost (1943) 2. Compare and contrast each speaker’s relationship with the star. Answer with reference to language, imagery and tone. [30]

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