WOLMARANSSTAD HIGH SCHOOL

ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE

GRADE: 9
PAPER 4: LITERATURE AND POETRY
DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2019
TIME: 1½ HOURS
MARKS: 60
EXAMINER: N. ROUX
MODERATOR: S. JACOBS

This PAPER consists of THREE SECTIONS and 13 pages.

INSTRUCTIONS:
Section A: Literature – Animal Farm (20 marks)
Section B: Poetry (20 marks)
Section C: Play (20 marks)

 Read all the questions carefully.

 Answer all the questions as numbered.

 Start each section on a NEW page.

 Rule off (draw a line) after each section.

 Number each answer exactly as the question is numbered.

 Write NEATLY and LEGIBLY, and pay special attention to SPELLING and
SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION.

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SECTION A: LITERAURE – ANIMAL FARM

Question 1: Definitions

1.1 Define the term fable. (1)

1.2 Define the term allegory. (1)

1.3 Write down ONE theme of this story. (1)

[3]

Question 2: Chapter 1

Read the following extract and then answer the questions that follow:

Chapter 1

“Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face
it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. We are born, we are
given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and
those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last
atom of our strength; and the very instant that our usefulness has
come to an end we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty. No animal
in England knows the meaning of happiness or leisure after he is a
year old. No animal in England is free. The life of an animal is misery
and slavery: that is the plain truth.”

2.1 What are the main sources of Major’s unhappiness? Use your OWN words
as far as possible and mention TWO. (2 x ½ = 1)
[1]

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Question 3: Chapter 2
Read the following extract and then answer the questions that follow:

Chapter 2

These Seven Commandments would now be inscribed on the wall; they

would form an unalterable law by which all the animals on Animal Farm
must live forever after. With some difficulty (for it is not easy for a
pig to balance himself on a ladder), Snowball climbed up and set to
work, with Squealer a few rungs below him holding the paint-pot. The
Commandments were written on the tarred wall in great white letters
that could be read thirty yards away.

3.1 List TWO of the seven commandments as they were written in this
chapter. (2 x ½ = 1)
[1]

Question 4: Chapter 3

Read the following extract and then answer the questions that follow:

Chapter 3

“Comrades!” he cried. “You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing
this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike
milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these
things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by
Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-
being of a pig. We pigs are brain-workers. The whole management and
organization of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching
over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat
those apples. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our
duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back! Surely
comrades, “cried Squealer almost pleadingly, skipping from side to side
and whisking his tail, “surely there is no one among you who wants to see
Jones come back?”
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4.1 Write down the ONE way in which Squealer manipulates the other
animals in this extract. (1)
[1]
Question 5: Chapter 4
Read the following extract and then answer the questions that follow:

Chapter 4

There was much discussion as to what the battle should be called. In

the end, it was named The Battle of the Cowshed, since that was
where the ambush had been sprung. Mr Jones’s gun had been found
lying in the mud, and it was known that there was a supply of
cartridges in the farmhouse. It was decided to set the gun up at the
foot of the flagstaff, like a piece of artillery, and to fire it twice a
year – once on October the twelfth, the anniversary of The Battle
of the Cowshed, and once on Midsummer’s Day, the anniversary of
the Rebellion.

5.1 Describe the role Snowball plays during The Battle of the Cowshed. (½)
5.2 Describe the role Napoleon plays during The Battle of the Cowshed. (½)
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Question 6: Chapter 5
Read the following extract and then answer the questions that follow:

Chapter 5

All of them came to look at Snowball’s drawings at least once a day.

Even the hens and ducks came, and were at pains not to tread on the
chalk marks. Only Napoleon held aloof. He had declared himself
against the windmill from the start. One day, he arrived
unexpectedly to examine the plans.

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6.1 How does Napoleon show his hatred of Snowball’s plans for the windmill
during this visit to the drawings? (1)
6.2 In this chapter, fierce dogs appear that chase Snowball away.
6.2.1 Explain where they come from. (1)
6.2.2 Why are they so ready to protect Napoleon and obey his every command? (1)
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Question 7: Chapter 6
Read the following extract and then answer the questions that follow:

Chapter 6

All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were happy in
their work; they grudged no effort or sacrifice, well aware that
everything they did was for the benefit of themselves and those of
their kind who would come after them, and not for a pack of idle,
thieving human beings. Throughout the spring and summer they
worked a sixty-hour week, and in August Napoleon announced that
there would be work on Sunday afternoons as well. This work was
strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it
would have his rations reduced by half.

7.1 Napoleon often gives words meanings they do not have.

7.1.1 Explain what the word “voluntary” means. (1)
7.1.2 Is the work to be done on Sunday afternoons really voluntary?
Substantiate your answer. (1)
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Question 8: Chapter 7
Read the following extract and then answer the questions that follow:

Chapter 7

One Sunday morning Squealer announced that the hens, who had just
come into lay again, must surrender their eggs. Napoleon had
accepted, through Whymper, a contract for a hundred eggs a week.
The price of these would pay for enough grain and meal to keep the
farm going ‘till summer came on and conditions were easier.
8.1 How do the hens react when they hear the news about surrendering their
eggs? (1)
8.2 Why do they react this way? (1)
[2]
Question 9: Chapter 8
Read the following extract and then answer the questions that follow:

Chapter 8

In the middle of the summer the animals were alarmed to hear that
three hens had come forward and confessed that, inspired by
Snowball, they had entered into a plot to murder Napoleon. They
were executed immediately, and fresh precautions for Napoleon’s
safety were taken.

9.1 What initial commandment is broken in this extract? (1)

9.2 Name ONE precaution that was taken for Napoleon’s safety. (1)
[2]

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Question 10: Chapter 9
Read the following extract and then answer the questions that follow:

Chapter 9

It was the first time they had ever seen Benjamin excited – indeed,
it was the first time anyone had ever seen him gallop. “Quick, quick!”
he shouted. “Come and once! They’re taking Boxer away!”

10.1 In this chapter, Boxer is injured.

10.1.1 Where does Napoleon say he is going to send Boxer? (1)
10.1.2 Where does he really send him to? (1)
[2]
Question 11: Chapter 10
Read the following extract and then answer the questions that follow:

Chapter 10

It was just after the sheep had returned, on a pleasant evening

when the animals had finished work and were making their way back
to the farm buildings, that the terrified neighing of a horse
sounded from the yard. Startled, the animals stopped dead in their
tracks. It was Clover’s voice. She neighed again, and all the animals
broke into a gallop and rushed into the yard. Then they saw what
Clover had seen. It was a pig walking on his hind legs. Yes, it was
Squealer.

11.1 Explain why the animals were horrified to see the pigs walking on two
legs. (2)
[2]
TOTAL SECTION A: [20]

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SECTION B: POETRY
Study the following SEEN poem and then answer the questions that follow:

Five Ways To Kill A Man – Edwin Brock

There are many cumbersome ways to kill a man.

You can make him carry a plank of wood
to the top of a hill and nail him to it.
To do this properly you require a crowd of people
wearing sandals, a cock that crows, a cloak
to dissect, a sponge, some vinegar and one
man to hammer the nails home.

Or you can take a length of steel,

shaped and chased in a traditional way,
and attempt to pierce the metal cage he wears.
But for this you need white horses,
English trees, men with bows and arrows,
at least two flags, a prince, and a
castle to hold your banquet in.

Dispensing with nobility, you may, if the wind

allows, blow gas at him. But then you need
a mile of mud sliced through with ditches,
not to mention black boots, bomb craters,
more mud, a plague of rats, a dozen songs
and some round hats made of steel.

In an age of aeroplanes, you may fly

miles above your victim and dispose of him by
pressing one small switch. All you then
require is an ocean to separate you, two
systems of government, a nation's scientists,
several factories, a psychopath and
land that no-one needs for several years.

These are, as I began, cumbersome ways to kill a man.

Simpler, direct, and much more neat is to see
that he is living somewhere in the middle
of the twentieth century, and leave him there.
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Question 12: Five Ways To Kill A Man

12.1 To which historical event does each stanza refer? (5 x ½ = 2½)

12.2 Quote ONE example of onomatopoeia from the poem. (1)
12.3 Write down ONE word for “length of steel”. (1 x ½ = ½)
12.4 “Dispensing with nobility…” (line 15) refer to the killing of which
important person? Write down his full title as well as his name and
surname. (1)
12.5 Briefly explain what a “ditch” is and what it was used for. (2)
12.6 QUOTE and explain the example of antithesis present in the poem. (2)
12.7 “Simpler, direct and much more neat…” (line 29) refer to ways in
which a man can kill himself in modern times. Write down TWO
of these ways. (2 x ½ = 1)

[10]

Study the following SEEN poem and then answer the questions that follow:

Death be not proud

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee

Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

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Question 13: Death be not proud
13.1 Write down the name and surname of the poet. (1)

13.2 Write the following into modern English:

13.2.1 “thou art” (line 2)
13.2.2 “Thou dost” (line 3) (2 x ½ = 1)

13.3 Refer to line 3 and 4.

13.3.1 Identify the tone in these lines. (1)

13.4 Why do you think the poet decided to personify death? (2)
13.5 Explain in what way death is a slave to “Fate, Chance, kings and
desperate men”. (2)
13.6 What is “poppy”? (1)
13.7 To which religion did the poet belong? QUOTE from the poem to prove
your answer. (2)
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TOTAL SECTION B: [20]

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SECTION C: PLAY
Read the following extract and then answer the questions that follow:

Extract from Lungile

SCENE 2

The scene is the edge of the lake. Girls arrive in twos and threes. We see the
girls talking happily together at the lake, as they get ready to jump into the
water. They shout with delight when they feel the cold water on their bodies.
They play water games and it is a fun scene to watch. We can hear birdcalls
and water sounds too.

Girl 1: Do you know what the old people say? They say that the sun is so
hot today, it chases the fish out of the water!
All the girls laugh.
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Girl 2: Me, I’m going in! You can’t keep me from the water; I’m going in
right now.
Lungile: All morning I could think of nothing but swimming. Let’s go in!
Girl 3 is nervous about undressing.
Girl 3: I don’t think I’m going to swim today.
Girl 1: Oh, come on!
Girl 3: No, you will laugh at me!
Girl 2: Oh, I know what’s wrong. She’s worrying about that scar where
she was bitten by a dog.
Lungile: You mustn’t worry about such things. Nobody cares what you look
like. Besides, we are all your friends! Come in!
The girls play in the water, forgetting about the scar. Girl 1 grabs
Girl 2 in the water and she screams.
Girl 2: What’s that? What’s that?
Girl 1: (Teasing) I think it’s a very young hippopotamus. One with no
teeth yet. I hear they don’t grow teeth until they are big.
Girl 3: (Nervously) Where is it? Do you think its mother would leave it
alone in the water? Maybe she is also somewhere near!
She quickly gets out of the water and looks around.
Lungile: (Laughing) Come on! There are no hippos in this lake! Let’s just
have fun!
Girl 1: Okay! Okay! It was only me having my kind of fun. But I have just
thought of a good game. Let’s play inam!
The girls play inam together. They chase each other and run very
fast. When they get tired, some of the girls stop playing and talk
about Lungile’s beauty.
Girl 1: (To Girl 2) Lungile is so beautiful. I wish her beauty would wash
off on me.
Girl 2: Me too!
Girl 3: Me too!
Lungile: But you are all beautiful!
Lungile puts her arms around the nearest girls and hugs them. The
girls carry on with their game. While they play, they look admiringly at
Lungile. Soon it is time to go to the forest to collect wood.
Lungile: (Looking up suddenly) Look at the mountain shadows. They are
growing longer. I didn’t notice how time is passing. We must get
wood now.

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Question 14: Extract from Lungile

14.1 Write down THREE features that identify this extract as a drama or a play. (3)

14.2 What is the function of the italic text in brackets? (1)

14.3.1 Choose the best answer:

The overall setting of this play is in:
A the city.
B a rural village.
C a classroom. (1)
14.3.2 What is the setting of the above given SCENE? (1)

14.4 Choose the best answer:

What is the atmosphere in this scene?
A serious
B frightening
C gloomy
D fun (1)

14.5.1 Why doesn’t Girl 3 want to undress in front of the other girls? (2)
14.5.2 How does the reader get to know characters in a story? Write down
THREE ways. (3)
14.5.3 What do we learn about Lungile from her reply to Girl 3 about her issue?
Write down TWO characteristics. (2)

14.6 Where else does Lungile exhibit these characteristics? (1)

14.7.1 What emotion does Girl 3 experience when Girl 1 teases her about a
hippopotamus? (1)
14.7.2 Is she stupid in experiencing this emotion? Substantiate your answer. (2)

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14.8 Draw the following table in your answering sheet and then fill in the
characteristics that match. Choose from these words:
kind ; playful ; warm ; bold
Lungile Girl 1
(4 x ½ = 2)

TOTAL SECTION C: [20]

GRAND TOTAL: [60]
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WOLMARANSSTAD HIGH SCHOOL

ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE

GRADE: 9
PAPER 4: LITERATURE AND POETRY MEMORANDUM
DATE: 11 NOVEMBER 2019
TIME: 1½ HOURS
MARKS: 60 / 6 = 10
EXAMINER: N. ROUX
MODERATOR: S. JACOBS

This MEMORANDUM consists of THREE SECTIONS and 7 pages.

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SECTION A: LITERATURE – ANIMAL FARM

Question 1: Definitions

1.1 It is a story that contains a lesson or a useful truth.√ OR

A story in which animals can speak and act as humans√. (1)

1.2 An allegory is a story with two meanings√. (1)

1.3 The ways in which propaganda an misinformation tricks others.√

The ways in which power can lead to cruelty, corruption and dictatorship.√
How people decide to revolt to make radical changes in their societies,
but also sometimes at a price.√ (ANY ONE) (1)

[3]

Question 2: Chapter 1

2.1 Animals receive barely enough food to survive.√

Animals are forced to work until they are too weak to continue.√
Animals that are no longer useful are slaughtered.√
No animal knows what it is like to relax.√
No animal is free.√
Animals are treated like slaves.√ (ANY TWO) (2 x ½ = 1)
[1]

Question 3: Chapter 2

3.1 Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.√

Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.√
No animal shall ever wear clothes.√
No animal shall sleep in a bed.√
No animal shall drink alcohol.√
No animal shall kill any other animal.√
All animals are equal.√ (ANY TWO) (2 x ½ = 1)
[1]

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Question 4: Chapter 3

4.1 Squealer manipulates the other animals into believing that the pigs get all
the best food (milk and apples), not because they want it, but because they
need it to run the farm.√
He manipulates them into thinking that if they do not surrender the milk
and apples to the pigs, Jones would come back and they would be slaves
again.√ (ANY ONE) (1)
[1]
Question 5: Chapter 4
5.1 He is the general. OR He leads the attack and gives the orders.√ (½)
5.2 He is never mentioned; therefore it is unclear where he is and what he
does.√ (½)
[1]
Question 6: Chapter 5
6.1 He urinates over the drawings.√ (1)
6.2.1 They are the puppies that were taken away from their mothers earlier and
that have been receiving private instruction from Napoleon.√ (1)
6.2.2 He has raised them as his soldiers – he is their general.√ OR
Soldiers always obey their general’s commands.√ (1)
[3]
Question 7: Chapter 6
7.1.1 The word “voluntary” means to do something out of your own, free will
you are not forced in any way.√ (1)
7.1.2 No.√ If the work on Sunday was really voluntary, the animals’ food would
not be reduced when they refused to work.√ (1)
[2]
Question 8: Chapter 7
8.1 They are very upset and raise a terrible outcry.√ (1)
8.3 The eggs are their unborn children that would die. To them, it was
murder.√ (1)
[2]

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Question 9: Chapter 8
9.1 No animal shall kill any other animal.√ (1)
9.2 He was always guarded by his dogs to ensure that he was not
attacked.√ OR
He had another animal as a food taster to make sure that his food was
not poisoned.√ (1)
[2]
Question 10: Chapter 9
10.1.1 To the hospital to be treated for his injuries.√ (1)
10.1.2 To the knackers / slaughter house.√ (1)
[2]
Question 11: Chapter 10
11.1 It was the ultimate sign that the pigs were now worse than the humans ever
were. / The pigs had become the same, if not worse, than the humans.√
Their lives, instead of becoming better, would now become unbearable.√ (2)
[2]
TOTAL SECTION A: [20]
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SECTION B: POETRY
Question 12: Five Ways To Kill A Man

12.1 Stanza 1: The crucifixion of Christ√

Stanza 2: Medieval Times (King Arthur and the knights)√

Stanza 3: World War 1√

Stanza 4: World War 2√

Stanza 5: 21st century (Present day)√ (5 x ½ = 2½)

12.2 “…a cock that crows,…”√

“…a cloak / to dissect….”√ (ANY ONE) (1)

12.3 Sword.√ (1 x ½ = ½)

12.4 Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand√ (1)

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12.5 A ditch is a narrow channel dug in the earth during war√. Soldiers
could sit or hide in it to protect them from bullets and bombs.√ (2)

12.6 “…a plague of rats, a dozen songs…”√

The words “rats” and “songs” are written in the same line and would
normally not fit together, because “rats” has a negative connotation and
“songs” has a positive connotation. In this case they do fit together, because
they refer to the dirty conditions soldiers had to face during war and the war
cries / songs they sang.√ (ANYTHING SIMILAR) (2)

12.7 Pollution√

Depletion of natural resources√

Alcohol abuse√

Drug abuse√

Suicide√

Crime√ (ANY TWO) (2 x ½ = 1)

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Question 13: Death be not proud

13.1 John Donne√ (1)

13.2.1 you are√

13.2.2 You do√ (2 x ½ = 1)

13.3.1 Challenging / Defiant√ (1)

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13.4 Humans are afraid of death, because it is unknown.√ Speaking
to death as if it were a person, makes it known and therefore less
threatening.√ (2)

13.5 When a person dies because of an accident, or he / she was killed, death
has to accompany them to the afterlife, death has no choice.√ Therefore
death is actually a slave to humans and their actions.√ (2)

13.6 Poppy is a flower, which contains opium√ and was used as a way to
make people sleep.√ (2 x ½ = 1)

13.7 Christianity.√ “One short sleep past, we wake eternally…”√ (2)

[10]

TOTAL SECTION B: [20]

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SECTION C: PLAY
Question 14: Extract from Lungile

14.1 It is written in dialogue form.√

Stage directions appear in brackets and italics.√
The name of the character is written on the left hand side of the page
followed by a colon.√
The word “SCENE”.√ (ANY THREE) (3)
14.2 These are stage directions that give the actor instructions on what to do or
how he/she should say a line.√ (1)

14.3.1 B√ (1)
14.3.2 At a lake.√ (1)

14.4 D√ (1)

14.5.1 She feels ashamed√ because of her scar from a dog bite.√ (2)

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14.5.2 What a character says and thinks about himself/herself.√
What other characters say and think about that particular character.√
What the character does (his/her actions).√ (3)

14.5.3 She is humble√ and kind.√ (2)

14.6 When she hugs the other girls and tell them that they are all beautiful.√ (1)

14.7.1 Fear.√ (1)

14.7.2 No.√ A hippopotamus is an extremely dangerous animal.√ OR

Yes.√ She lives near that lake and is supposed to know that there are no
hippopotami.√ (2)

14.8 Draw the following table in your answering sheet and then fill in the
characteristics that match. Choose from these words:
kind ; playful ; warm ; bold

Lungile Girl 1
kind√ warm√ playful√ bold√ (4 x ½ = 2)

TOTAL SECTION C: [20]

GRAND TOTAL: [60] / 6 = [10]
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