NCHS Lit P1

Name: Register Number: Class: PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION 2020 SECONDARY FOUR EXPRESS LITERATURE IN ENGLISH/ HUMANITIES 2065/01, 2274/02 Prose and Unseen Texts Additional Materials: Answer Paper 28 August 2020, Friday 1 hour 40 minutes READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your name, class and index number on 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/tape. Answer two questions: 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. All questions in this paper carry equal marks. At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together. This paper consists of 6 printed pages including the cover page. For Marker’s Use

2 SECTION A Answer one question from this section. RAY BRADBURY: Fahrenheit 451 Remember to support your ideas with relevant details from the text. 1 Either (a) In what ways does Bradbury make the transformation of Montag so striking? Or (b) In what ways does Bradbury make fire such a powerful symbol in the novel? Or (c) Read this passage carefully, and then answer the questions that follow it. Granger looked into the fire. "Phoenix." "What?" "There was a silly damn bird called a Phoenix back before Christ: every few hundred years he built a pyre and burned himself up. He must have been first cousin to Man. But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we're doing the same thing, over and over, but we've got one damn thing the Phoenix never had. We know the damn silly thing we just did. We know all the damn silly things we've done for a thousand years, and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it, some day we'll stop making the goddam funeral pyres and jumping into the middle of them. We pick up a few more people that remember, every generation." He took the pan off the fire and let the bacon cool and they ate it, slowly, thoughtfully. "Now, let's get on upstream," said Granger. "And hold on to one thought: You're not important. You're not anything. Some day the load we're carrying with us may help someone. But even when we had th e books on hand, a long time ago, we didn't use what we got out of them. We went right on insulting the dead. We went right on spitting in the graves of all the poor ones who died before us. We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And some day we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddam steam - shovel in history and dig the b