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Perseverance Respect Responsibility Integrity Discipline Empathy PEICAI SECONDARY SCHOOLSECONDARY FOUR EXPRESSPRELIMINARY EXAMINATION 2020CANDIDATE NAMECLASSREGISTER NUMBERHUMANITIES (SOCIAL STUDIES, LITERATURE)2274/02Paper 2Prose and Unseen Texts1 SEPTEMBER 20201 hour 40 minutesCandidates answer in the Answer Booklet.READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRSTWrite your name, class and register number on all the work you hand in.Write in dark blue or black pen on both sides of the paper.Do not use staples, paper clips, glue or correction fluid.Answer one question from Section A and one question from Section B.You are reminded of the need for good English and clear presentation in your answers.At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together.All questions in this paper carry equal marks. This document consists of 5 printed pages and 1 blank page

2Setter: Mr Amal LuqmanSECTION AAnswer one question from this section.RAY BRADBURY: Fahrenheit 451Remember to support your ideas with relevant details from the writing.1Either(a)Discuss how Guy’s enlightenment is presented in the novel.Or(b)Explore the effective use of fire as a symbol in the novel. Or(c)Read this passage carefully, and then answer the questions that follow it:“It is,” replied Granger smiling. “We’re book burners, too. We read the books and burnt them, afraid they’d found. Micro-filming didn’t pay off; we were always traveling, we didn’t want to bury the film and come back later. Always the chance of discovery. Better to keep it in the old heads, where no one can see it or suspect it. We are all bits and pieces of history and literature and international law, Byron, Tom Paine, Machiavelli or Christ, it’s here. And the hour’s late. And the war’s begun. And we are out here, and the city is there, all wrapped up in its own coat of thousand colors. What do you think, Montag?”“I think I was blind trying to go at things my way, planting books in firemen’s houses and sending in alarms.”“You did what you had to do. Carried out on a national scale, it might have worked beautifully. But our way is simpler and, we think better. All we want to do is keep the knowledge we think we will need, intact and safe. We’re not out to incite or anger anyone yet. For if we are destroyed, the knowledge is dead, perhaps for good. We are model citizens, in our own special way; we walk the old tracks, we lie in the hills at night, and the city people let us be. We’re stopped and searched occasionally, but there’s nothing on our persons to incriminate us. The organization is flexible, very loose, and fragmentary. Some of us have had plastic surgery on our faces and fingerprints. Right now we have a horrible job; we’re waiting of the war to begin and, as quickly, end. It’s not pleasant, but then we’re not in control, we’re the old minority crying in the wilderness. When the war’s over, perhaps we can be of some use in the world.”“Do you really think they’ll listen then?”“If not, we’ll just have to wait. We’ll pass the books on to our children wait, in turn, on the other people. A lot will be lost that way, of course. But you can’t make people listen. They have to come around in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up under them. It can’t last.”“How many of you are there?”“Thousands on the roads, the abandoned railroad tracks, tonight, bums on the outside, libraries inside. It wasn’t planned, at first. Each man had a book they wanted to remember, and did. Then, over a period of twenty years or so, we met each other, traveling, and got the loose network together and set out a plan. The most important single thing we had to 5101520253035

3pound in ourselves is that we were not important, we mustn’t be pedants; we were not to feel superior to anyone else in the world. We’re nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise. Some of us live in small towns. Chapter One of Thoreau’s Walden in Green River, Chapter Two in Willow Farm, Maine. Why there’s one in Maryland, only twenty-seven people, no bomb’ll ever touch that town, almost, and flip the pages, so many pages to a person. And when the war’s over, some day, some year, the books can be written again, the people will be called in, one by one to recite what they know and we’ll set it up in type until another Dark Age, when we might have to do the whole damn thing over again. But that’s the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and worth the doing.”404550 (i)How does Bradbury effectively portray Granger’s act(s) of resistance in the excerpt above? (ii)Discuss another instance from the novel where human nature is vividly reflected.

4SECTION BAnswer either Question 2 or Question 3.Question 2Read the poem carefully, and then answer the questions that follow it. Remember to support your ideas with relevant details from the writing.Ways of Talking We used to like talking about griefOur journals and letters were packedwith losses, complaints, and sorrows.Even if there was no griefwe wouldn’t stop lamentingas though longing for the charmof a distressed face.Then we couldn’t help expressing griefSo many things descended without warning:labor wasted, loves lost, houses gone,marriages broken, friends estranged,ambitions worn away by immediate needs.Words lined up in our throatsfor a good whining.Grief seemed like an endless river—the only immortal flow of life.After losing a land and then giving up a tongue,we stopped talking of griefSmiles began to brighten our faces.We laugh a lot, at our own mess.Things become beautiful,even hailstones in the strawberry fields. (Ha Jin) 5101520(i)How does the poet explore the idea of grieving in the poem above? (ii)Discuss the use of imagery in the poem.

5Question 3Read the poem carefully, and then answer the questions that follow it. Remember to support your ideas with relevant details from the writing. Fault LinesGrandma was too small to move a mountainso they made her wash dishes instead. Her handscracked for the first time under water,again when she brushed a stray strand of hairfrom her face, again when her touchmade baby cry. But Grandma is goodat doing what she has to do. She rubsher cries into splintered hands, wipes the brokensyllable from her lips, and keeps on scrubbing.Even later when they made her carrythe laundry on a bamboo pole, the woodrubbing away at her skin, she bore it like a proudflag bearer. These earthquakes tearing up fault lineson her palms are too small, too localand no one notices that she strokes with knuckles,that she sits always with folded hands,that the fortune teller cannot tell her future. (Cheryl Julia Lee) 51015(i)What is your impression of the poet’s grandmother? (ii)Discuss how hardship is vividly conveyed in the poem.

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8PEICAI SECONDARY SCHOOL4EXP PRELIMS 2020ANSWER KEY1(a) Discuss how Guy’s enlightenment is presented in the novel.Answer requirements:Students should be able to clearly show Guy’s enlightenment, detailing the development from the start to the end of the novel. Consideration should be given to his interactions with the different characters, with emphasis on his thoughts, emotions and actions in those circumstances. Answers should highlight the contrast between Guy’s character at the start and at the end of the development, while clearly exploring the events and his efforts that lead to him becoming more aware. Answers should also explore guy’s struggle with his own identity and make connections to overarching themes of authority, and the conflict between man and society.Suggested key points:i.Guy’s general restlessness/ unease at the start of the novel, which was potentially sparked by his interactions with Clarisse. This was also seen in his interactions with Mildred as well as the reservations that he