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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS
International General Certificate of Secondary Education
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LITERATURE (ENGLISH)
Paper 5
October/November 2013
45 minutes
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MAYA ANGELOU: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
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Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it:
‘Last night, after I said my prayers, I lay down on the bed.
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I tell you I was purt’ near scared stiff.’
How does Angelou’s writing make this passage so entertaining?
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Explore two moments in the book which make you particularly angry at the way
Maya is treated. Support your ideas with details from Angelou’s writing.
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You are Bailey, after the church service where Sister Monroe has told Reverend
Thomas to “Preach it!”.
Write your thoughts.
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CAROL ANN DUFFY: Selected Poems
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Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it:
The Dolphins
World is what you swim in, or dance, it is simple.
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There is a man and our mind knows we will die here.
How do Duffy’s words convey a powerful impression of the dolphin’s feelings in this
poem?
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In what ways does Duffy powerfully convey feelings of loss in Nostalgia?
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What do you find entertaining about the portrayal of a poet’s visit to a school in
Head of English? Support your ideas with reference to Duffy’s writing.
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HELEN DUNMORE: The Siege
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Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it:
She shrinks back from him, her eyes narrowing as if he is her
enemy. ‘Oh my God, you’ve come, you’ve come –’
‘No, it’s not that. He isn’t dead, I promise you. He’s alive. He’s in
the Erisman Hospital, with a shoulder wound. He came back with me
in a hospital truck.’
‘Is it bad?’
‘It’s not good, but it isn’t dangerous. He had concussion, which
can be more of a problem, but there doesn’t seem to be a skull
fracture.’
‘You’re a doctor?’
‘Not yet. Fourth-year medic.’
‘He got himself shot!’ she bursts out. ‘I should have known it, I
should have stopped him going.’
‘You couldn’t have stopped him going.’
‘What’s that supposed to mean? He’s got a son who’s only five
years old, did he tell you that? Or did he just forget about Kolya,
the way he always does when it’s not convenient? And now on top
of everything else, he’s got hurt. People are getting hurt all over the
place who shouldn’t even be there; they’re not doing any good, they’re
just getting killed and then someone rolls them up in an old curtain if
they’re lucky and they’re left for the Germans, like logs of wood. Well,
thank God, you brought him back. And now he’s wounded and – I’m
sorry. I should be being grateful to you.’
Though she’s retreated from him as far as she can, the entrance
to the apartment is so tiny that he can still feel the sleep-warmth
coming off her body. He smells the warm, strong scent of her skin and
hair.
‘Should we . . . Can we go inside? I’ve got to get back to the
hospital in a minute, but I’d like to talk to you.’
‘Don’t go in there. Marina Petrovna’s asleep. Come in the kitchen.
Hush, we mustn’t wake Kolya – he’s been having bad dreams.’
They actually have their own apartment. He stares round. Yes,
they have their own kitchen. It’s tiny, but imagine not having to label all
your food and put it on the right shelf in case someone else swipes it.
‘It’s a nice apartment,’ he says.
‘We have two rooms. Seventy-five square metres. We’re very
lucky, although I don’t know how long we’ll be able to hold on to it.’
She flushes, as if she’s said more than she intended.
‘A man like your father needs his space.’
‘What?’
‘A writer, I mean.’ He pronounces the word ‘writer’ with a mixture
of respect and doubt which makes it clear that there are no writers in
his family. ‘Even in the dugout, he wrote pages and pages, just as if he
was sitting at his desk.’
‘What happened to it?’ she asks sharply.
‘It’s all right, I’ve got it here. That’s why I’ve come – well, part of
the reason. I didn’t want to leave it lying about in the hospital.’
‘No.’
He reaches into his breast-pocket and brings out the sheets of
closely written paper, folded, limp and warm with the warmth of his
own body.
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‘Thank you. But why don’t you sit down?’
She sits him at the little folding table, and automatically begins to
prepare tea.
‘And I don’t suppose they gave you anything to eat,’ she mutters,
taking out half a loaf of black bread which has been carefully wrapped
in muslin overnight. ‘Well, you’d better have something here.’
‘Watch that knife.’
‘What?’
‘You’ll chop your finger off if you’re not careful.’
She looks down at the loaf she’s cutting, then up at him with a
small, reluctant smile.
‘He’s really going to be all right? You’re sure about that?’
‘Sure.’
‘I’ll go back with you. There are all sorts of things he’ll need –’
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How does Dunmore make this first meeting between Anna and Andrei such a
striking moment in the novel?
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Explore two moments in the novel where Dunmore’s writing powerfully portrays the
suffering of the people of Leningrad.
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You are Marina Petrovna. Anna has just allowed you to stay in the apartment in
Leningrad.
Write your thoughts.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY: Brave New World
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10 Read this extract, and then answer the question that follows it:
‘I don’t think you ought to see things like that,’ he said, making
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She compromised
and, into her cupped palm, shook out three half-gramme tablets.
What do you find striking about Huxley’s presentation of the relationship between
John (the Savage) and Lenina here?
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11 What does Huxley’s writing make you feel about The Director? Support your ideas
with details from the novel.
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12 You are Bernard. You are on your way back to London from the reservation with
John, the Savage, and Linda.
Write your thoughts.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Titania:
Bottom:
I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again.
Mine ear is much enamoured of thy note;
So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;
And thy fair virtue’s force perforce doth move
me,
On the first view, to say, to swear, I love thee.
Methinks, mistress, you should have little
reason for that. And yet, to say the truth,
reason and love keep little company together
now-a-days. The more the pity that some
honest neighbours will not make them friends.
Nay, I can gleek upon occasion.
Titania:
Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.
Bottom:
Not so, neither; but if I had wit enough to get
out of this wood, I have enough to serve mine
own turn.
Titania:
Out of this wood do not desire to go;
Thou shalt remain here whether thou wilt or
no.
I am a spirit of no common rate;
The summer still doth tend upon my state;
And I do love thee; therefore, go with me.
I’ll give thee fairies to attend on thee;
And they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep,
And sing, while thou on pressed flowers dost
sleep;
And I will purge thy mortal grossness so
That thou shalt like an airy spirit go.
Peaseblossom!
Cobweb!
Moth!
and
Mustardseed!
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Peaseblossom:
Cobweb:
Moth:
Mustardseed:
Ready.
And I.
And I.
And I.
All:
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Where shall we go?
Be kind and courteous to this gentleman;
Hop in his walks and gambol in his eyes;
Feed him with apricocks and dewberries,
With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries;
The honey bags steal from the humble-bees,
And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs,
And light them at the fiery glow-worm’s eyes,
To have my love to bed and to arise;
And pluck the wings from painted butterflies,
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To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.
Nod to him, elves, and do him courtesies.
Explore the ways in which Shakespeare makes this such an entertaining moment in
the play.
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14 What does Shakespeare’s writing make you feel about Demetrius? Support your
ideas by close reference to the play.
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15 You are Puck. Oberon has ordered you to restore everything to the way it was.
Write your thoughts.
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from Songs of Ourselves (from Part 1)
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Song: Fear No More The Heat O’ Th’ Sun
Fear no more the heat o’ th’ sun
Nor the furious winter’s rages;
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta’en thy wages.
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
Fear no more the frown o’ th’ great;
Thou art past the tyrant’s stroke.
Care no more to clothe and eat;
To thee the reed is as the oak.
The sceptre, learning, physic, must
All follow this and come to dust.
Fear no more the lightning flash,
Nor th’ all-dreaded thunder-stone;
Fear not slander, censure rash;
Thou hast finished joy and moan.
All lovers young, all lovers must
Consign to thee and come to dust.
No exorciser harm thee!
Nor no witchcraft charm thee!
Ghost unlaid forbear thee!
Nothing ill come near thee!
Quiet consummation have,
And renownèd be thy grave!
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(by William Shakespeare)
In what ways does Shakespeare in this poem memorably convey the idea that death
is not to be feared?
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17 What does Wyatt’s writing make you feel about the speaker as you read They Flee
From Me, That Sometime Did Me Seek? Support your ideas with details from the
poem.
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18 Explore the ways in which the poet uses imagery to powerful effect in one of the
following poems:
The Procession of the Seasons (by Edmund Spenser)
Sonnet 73 (‘That time of year thou mayst in me behold’) (by William Shakespeare).
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Big Daddy:
Has someone been lying to you?
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Brick:
I’m sorry, Big Daddy.
How does Williams make this such a dramatic and significant moment in the play?
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20 In what ways does Williams make Maggie such a fascinating character? Support
your ideas by close reference to the play.
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21 You are Big Mama, at the end of the play.
Write your thoughts.
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Copyright Acknowledgements:
Question 1
Question 4
Question 7
Question 10
Question 19
© Maya Angelou; I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings; Copyright © 1969 and renewed 1997 by Maya Angelou. Published by Vintage. Reprinted
by permission of Random House Inc.
© Carol Ann Duffy; The Dolphins, in Selected Poems; Penguin Books Ltd; 1994.
© Helen Dunmore; The Siege; Penguin Books Ltd; 2001; By permission of A P Watt Ltd on behalf of Helen Dunmore.
© from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, published by Chatto & Windus. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd.
© Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams. Copyright © 1954, 1955, by The University of the South, renewed 1982, 1983 The University of
the South. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp and Georges Borchardt, Inc. for the Estate of Tennessee Williams.
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