ENGLISH â ENG4C FINAL EXAMINATION Part 2 - Sunway College
ENGLISH â ENG4C FINAL EXAMINATION Part 2 - Sunway College
ENGLISH â ENG4C FINAL EXAMINATION Part 2 - Sunway College
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Canadian International Matriculation Programme<br />
<strong>Sunway</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
<strong>ENGLISH</strong> – <strong>ENG4C</strong><br />
<strong>FINAL</strong> <strong>EXAMINATION</strong> <strong>Part</strong> 2<br />
Date: 27 November, 2012<br />
Time: 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.<br />
Length: 2 hours<br />
Lecturer: Ms. Tricia Devlin / Mr. Robert Murphy / Ms. Violet Schlender /<br />
Mr. Eric Smith / Ms. Ann-Akay Steele / Mr. Tan Meng Chwen<br />
Student Name: _________________________________ Period: 01 / 02 / 03 / 04 / 05 / 06<br />
(Circle where appropriate)<br />
Please read the following instructions carefully before you begin the examination:<br />
1. This examination paper has three (3) printed pages.<br />
2. This examination consists of 3 sections and carries a total of 90 marks.<br />
SECTION CONTENT MARKS<br />
1 Short Answer – Novel 10<br />
2 Short Answer – Play 20<br />
3 Essay 60<br />
3. The examination is worth twenty percent (20%) of your final mark.<br />
4. All work is to be done in the answer booklets provided.<br />
5. Please make sure you hand in this examination paper before leaving the hall. Make<br />
sure you have written your name and your class period in the spaces provided.<br />
6. Answers must be written in standard English format for an academic audience.<br />
7. All answers must be double-spaced<br />
8. All answers must be written in black or blue pen only.<br />
9. English dictionaries are allowed for this examination.<br />
For office use only:<br />
Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Total
SECTION 1: Short Answer – Novel Study<br />
10 Marks<br />
Answer one (1) of the following short answer questions from the novel you studied.<br />
Lord of the Flies<br />
1. Early in the novel, Ralph tells the other boys that they need rules: “We’ll<br />
have to have ‘hands up’ like at school”. On what are such rules based?<br />
2. Why do most of the boys refuse to recognize the importance of the signal<br />
fire?<br />
3. Piggy and the conch are both destroyed at the same time. What is the<br />
significance of this?<br />
4. At the end of the novel, the boys are found by the navy. What is the<br />
significance of this?<br />
SECTION 2: Short Answer – Play Study<br />
20 Marks<br />
Answer two (2) of the following short answer questions from the play you studied.<br />
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof<br />
1. Explain three ways that “mendacity” is used in the play.<br />
2. Identify the speaker and explain the significance of the following quotation:<br />
“— In this way, I destroyed him, by telling him truth that he and his<br />
world which he was born and raised in, yours and his world, had told<br />
him could not be told?”<br />
3. Identify the speaker and explain how the following quotation relates to the<br />
theme:<br />
“CHRIST — DAMN — ALL LYING SONS OF — LYING BITCHES! …<br />
Yes, all liars, all liars, all lying dying liars!”<br />
Trifles<br />
1. As Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters empathize with Minnie Wright, the reader<br />
begins to develop an understanding of Minnie’s life. Describe what you have<br />
learned about Minnie as a young girl, as an adult and in her relationship<br />
with her husband. Support your answer with references to the play.<br />
2. How does the cold temperature of the setting connect symbolically to the rest<br />
of the play?<br />
3. Explain what Mrs. Hale means when she says, “We live close together and<br />
we live far apart. We all go through the same things—it’s just a different kind<br />
of the same thing,” and expand your explanation to include references not<br />
only from the play but to include the world at large.<br />
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SECTION 3: Essay<br />
60 Marks<br />
Write a well-structured and fully developed essay with a clearly stated thesis on one<br />
of the following topics. You must include specific references to these works to<br />
support your ideas.<br />
It is recommended you make an outline. The space below is for that purpose.<br />
Topics:<br />
1. Discuss how William Golding uses at least three symbols to illustrate/convey<br />
a major theme of the novel, Lord of the Flies.<br />
OR<br />
2. How is the powerful force of nature (the natural world) used to illustrate the<br />
disintegration of the moral behaviour and ethics of the boys?<br />
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