LITERATURE IN ENGLISH 2010/01

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS
General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level
READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST
If you have been given an Answer Booklet, follow the instructions on the front cover of the Booklet.
Write your Centre number, candidate number and name on all the work you hand in.
Write in dark blue or black pen.
Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid.
Answer four questions.
Your questions must be from either three or four different set books.
This question paper is divided into three sections: Drama, Poetry and Prose. Your questions must be taken
from at least two of these sections.
At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together.
All questions in this paper carry equal marks.
LITERATURE IN ENGLISH 2010/01
Paper 1 October/November 2008
2 hours 40 minutes
Additional Materials: Answer Booklet/Paper
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CONTENTS
Section A: Drama
text question
numbers page [s]
Alan Ayckbourn: A Small Family Business 1, 2, 3 pages 3–5
Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun 4, 5, 6 pages 6–7
Arthur Miller: The Crucible 7, 8, 9 pages 8–10
William Shakespeare: As You Like It 10, 11, 12 pages 12–13
William Shakespeare: Macbeth 13, 14, 15 pages 14–15
William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night 16, 17, 18 pages 16–17
Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire 19, 20, 21 pages 18–19
Section B: Poetry
text question
numbers page [s]
Songs of Ourselves: Section 3 22, 23, 24 page 20
John Keats: Poems 25, 26, 27 page 21
Section C: Prose
text question
numbers page [s]
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart 28, 29, 30 pages 22–23
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice 31, 32, 33 pages 24–25
Ian Cross: The God Boy 34, 35, 36 pages 26–27
Helen Dunmore: The Siege 37, 38, 39 pages 28–29
William Golding: Lord of the Flies 40, 41, 42 page 30
Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd 43, 44, 45 page 31
Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird 46, 47, 48 pages 32–33
Barrie Wade: Into the Wind 49, 50, 51 pages 34–35
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SECTION A: DRAMA
ALAN AYCKBOURN: A Small Family Business
1 In this extract what makes the characters’ actions and attitudes shocking and at the same time
very funny? Support your ideas with details from the passage.
SAMANTHA enters the bathroom and surveys the scene in
amazement.
Samantha: What are you doing?
Poppy: Sammy, will you please help us …
Tina: Sammy, for Christ’s sake … He’s trying to kill us.
Samantha: Oh, it’s you, is it? Sodding pukeface … (Leaps in vigorously. )
Right …
Benedict: Hey! Hey! Gladys …
Under the weight of this latest assault, BENEDICT topples
backwards into the bath and out of sight. There is a sharp
cry and a terrible thud. TINA and POPPY cease the struggle.
POPPY recoils holding the nearly empty briefcase. TINA
slides back on to the floor, exhausted. SAMANTHA continues
her onslaught.
Poppy: Sammy! Sammy! That’ll do! That’ll do!
Tina (with a yell ): Sammy!
SAMANTHA stops. Out of breath. She sits with the others on
the floor. One gathers she was in a fairly dazed state when
she started. A silence.
( panting) My God. Will you look at all this money?
Samantha: Where’s it come from?
Poppy: It’s your Dad’s …
Samantha: Did he nick it?
Poppy: No. Not your Dad. You should know better than that, Sammy.
Tina: How is he? That man …
Poppy: I don’t know, I’ll … (Examines BENEDICT.) He doesn’t seem
to be breathing. (Listens.) He’s not breathing. (stunned ) He’s
dead.
Tina (in an appalled whisper ): Oh, God.
Samantha: Good.
Poppy: Sammy! He’s got this great cut in his head from somewhere,
he’s … Look at all this blood. (appalled ) Oh, dear heaven,
what’s Jack going to say?
They all stay there in various attitudes of collapse, unable to
move due to exhaustion and varying degrees of shock. JACK
comes in the front door and closes it. The women react. JACK
goes straight to the sitting room.
Tina (softly ): It’s Dad.
Jack (seeing the sitting room is empty ): Poppy!
Poppy: What’s he going to say …
Jack (glancing into the empty kitchen): Poppy!
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He grows slightly more alarmed.
Tina (indicating BENEDICT): Perhaps we can hide him somewhere …
Poppy: No, he’ll have to know. Your Dad will have to be told.
Jack (at the foot of the stairs, calling): Poppy! Tina!
Poppy (calling back feebly ): We’re up here, Jack …
Jack (starting up the stairs): What?
Tina: In here, Dad …
JACK reaches the landing, uncertain as to where to locate
them. He looks in the near bedroom, then the bathroom. He
stops short, startled, as he sees the state of the three women.
Poppy: Hallo, Jack …
Tina: Hallo, Dad.
Samantha: Hi …
Jack: What are you doing? What are you all doing in here?
Poppy: We were …
Jack: What are you doing wit