MSHS Lit P1

Class/Index Number / Centre Number/ ‘O’ Level Index Number /Name MARIS STELLA HIGH SCHOOLPRELIMINARY EXAMINATION SECONDARY FOURLITERATURE IN ENGLISH2065/01Paper 1 Prose and Unseen Poetry 26 August 2020 1 hour 40 minutesAdditional Materials: Writing paper (5 sheets)READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRSTWrite your class, index number, Centre number, O level index number and name in the spaces at the top of this page.Write in dark blue or black pen.Do not use staples, paper clips, glue or correction fluid.Write your answers on the writing paper provided.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.The total number of marks for this paper is 50.For Examiner’s Use50This document consists of 5 printed pages, including the cover page.

2SECTION AAnswer one question from this section. RAY BRADBURY: Fahrenheit 451 Remember to support your ideas with relevant details from the text.1Either(a)What, for you, are the most disturbing aspects of Fahrenheit 451? Or(b)What does Bradbury make you feel about Faber and the part he plays in the novel? Do not use the passage printed below in answering questions (a) or (b). Or(c)Read this passage carefully, and then answer the questions that follow it:Montag held his breath, like a doubled fist, in his chest. The Mechanical Hound turned and plunged away from Faber’s house down the alley again. Montag snapped his gaze to the sky. The helicopters were closer, a great blowing of insects to a single light source. With an effort, Montag reminded himself again that this was no fictional episode to be watched on his run to the river; it was in actuality his own chess game he was witnessing, move by move. He shouted to give himself the necessary push away from this last house window, and the fascinating séance1 going on in there! Hell! and he was away and gone! The alley, a street, the alley, a street, and the smell of the river. Leg out, leg down, leg out and down. Twenty million Montags running, soon, if the cameras caught him. Twenty million Montags running, running like an ancient flickery Keystone Comedy2, cops, robbers, chasers and the chased, hunters and hunted, he had seen it a thousand times. Behind him now twenty million silently baying Hounds, ricocheted across parlors, three-cushion shooting from right war to center wall to left wall, gone, right wall, center wall, left wall, gone!Montag jammed the Seashell in his ear: “Police suggest entire population in the Elm Terrace area do as follows: Everyone in every house in every street open a front or rear door or look from the windows. The fugitive cannot escape if everyone in the next minute looks from his house. Ready!” Of course! Why hadn’t they done it before! Why, in all the years, hadn’t this game been tried! Everyone up, everyone out! He couldn’t b