PART C
LITERATURE
[10 marks]
Answer all the questions in this part.
SACKEY J.A and DARMANI L. (COMP): The Cockcrow
Question (a) to (c) are based on the abridged and simplified version of Charles Dicken's Oliver Twist
Read the following extract carefully and answer Questions 5(a) to 5(c).
CHARLES DICKENS: Oliver Twist
"Oliver was given a slice of bread and a simple outfit with a brown cap to wear outside. He meekly followed him outside the workhouse to his new home. Once there, he was brought before a committee of ten men"
Write the name of the one referred to as "him" in the extract.
-
One thing Oliver learns from "committee of ten men" is..........
-
How does Oliver react to the information he gets from the committee?
Read the following extract carefully and answer Questions 5(d) to 5(e).
PETER PAUL ADOLINAMA; Ripples
"Abi, which of your sons died recently or was it your business which collapsed?............ You have not been yourself these few days"
Identify the speaker in the extract.
What is Abi worried about?
Read the following extract carefully and answer Questions 5(f) to 5(h).
AMA ATA AIDOO: The Dilemma of a Ghost
1st WOMAN:
If her son gets goodly bag by the month.
Why has Esi Kom still not..........
2nd WOMAN: They never ask "Why".
Is it not the young man's wife?
1st WOMAN: What has she done now?
2nd WOMAN: Listen. I hear she swallows money
As a hen does corn.
Who is referred to "the young man's wife?
State the literary device used in "Is it not the young man's wife"?
-
What is the meaning of "she swallows money as a hen does corn"?
Read the following extract carefully and answer Questions 5(i) to 5(j).
A. A. AMOAKO: Sleep Without Wake
"You put me through my infant paces
On Gold Coast Ga ShikpƆŋ
Taa taa, tuu tuu, in your maternal steps,
Maame Tutuaa, condolences!"
Identify the main literacy device used in the title of the poem Sleep Without Wake
The words Taa taa, tuu tuu appeal to the reader's sense of.............