MSS Lit P1

This document consists of 5 printed pages, including the cover page. Setter: Mdm Salwati Salim Marsiling Secondary School GCE O-Level Preliminary Examination 2020 Subject: English Literature (2274/02) [Question Booklet] Level: 4 Course: EXP Date: 26 August 2020 Duration: 1 hr 40 mins Name: Index No: Class: Additional materials provided: Writing Paper x4 String x1 READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST This paper contains Sections A and B. Write your answers on the writing paper provided. Write your name, index number and class on the Question Booklet and writing paper. Write in dark blue or black ink. Fasten your answers securely together with the string provided. Do not use paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid. Answer one question from Section A. Answer one question from Section B. Begin each question on a fresh sheet of paper. Write the question number clearly. You are reminded of the need for good English and clear presentation in your answer. At the end of the examination, submit the Question Booklet and your answers separately. For Examiner’s Use Section A 25 Section B 25 Total 50

2 SECTION A RAY BRADBURY: Fahrenheit 451 Remember to support your ideas with relevant details from the text. 1 Either (a) How does Bradbury strongly criticise censorship in the novel? Or (b) Discuss the role of nature in the novel. Or (c) Read this passage carefully, and then answer the questions that follow it: Montag walked but did not feel his feet touch the cement and then the night grasses. Beatty flicked his igniter nearby and the small orange flame drew his fascinated gaze. "What is there about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?" Beatty blew out t he flame and lit it again. "It's perpetual motion; the thing man wanted to invent but never did. Or almost perpetual motion. If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It's a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledegook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences. A problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it. Now, Montag, you're a burden. And fire will lift you off my shoulders, clean, quick, s ure; nothing to rot later. Antibiotic, aesthetic, practical." Montag stood looking in now at this queer house, made strange by the hour of the night, by murmuring neighbour voices, by littered glass, and there on the floor, their covers torn off and spille d out like swan -feathers, the incredible books that looked so silly and really not worth bothering with, for these were nothing but black type and yellowed paper, and raveled binding. Mildred, of course. She must have watched him hide the books in the garden and brought them back in. Mildred. Mildred. "I want you to do thi