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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