TKSS Lit P1

2 CANDIDATE NAME CLASS INDEX NUMBER LITERATURE IN ENGLISH 2065/01 Paper 1 Prose and Unseen Texts 6 August 2020 1 hour 40 minutes Additional Materials: Answer Paper 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. 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. TANJONG KATONG SECONDARY SCHOOL Preliminary Examination 2020 Secondary 4

2 TKSS_Sec 4_Prelim_2020_Lit_Paper 1 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) How does Bradbury bring out the idea of injustice? Or (b) How does Bradbury make Faber such a significant character in the novel? Or (c) Read this passage carefully, and then answer the questions that follow it: Montag opened his mouth to answer Faber and was saved this error in the presence of others when the station bell rang. The alarm voice in the ceiling chanted. There was a tacking -tacking sound as the alarm report telephone - typed out the address across the room. Captain Beatty, his poker cards in one pink hand, walked with exaggerated slowness to the phone and ripped out the address when the report was finished. He glanced perfunctorily at it, and shoved it in his pocket. He came back and sat down. The others looked at him. “It can wait exactly forty seconds while I take all the money away from you,” said Beatty, happily. Montag put his cards down. “Tired, Montag? Going out of this game?” “Yes.” “Hold on. Well, come to think of it, we can finish this hand later. Just leave your cards face down and hustle the equipment. On the double now.” And Beatty rose up again. “Montag, you don’t look well? I’d hate to think you were coming down with another fever…” “I’ll be all right.” “You’ll be fine. This is a special case. Come on, jump for it!” They leaped into the air and clutched the brass pole as if it were the last vantage point above a tidal wave passing below, and then the brass pole, to their dismay, slid them down into darkness, into the blast and cough and suction of the gaseous dragon roaring to life! “Hey!” They rounded a corner in thunder and siren with concussion of tires, with scream of rubber, with a shift o