EXAMINATION NO: THE MALAWI NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS BOARD 2019 MALAWI SCHOOL CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION EXAMINATION ENGLISH Subject Number: M0S2/11 Time Allowed: 2 hours Thursday, 27 June 2:00-4:00 pm PAPER III (70 marks) Instructions Question [Tick if] Denot writeln | Marker’s Number | answered columns | name 1, This paper contains 11 printed i pages, Please check. + 2. This paper has two sections. z a. Section A contains two compulsory contextual questions. Therefore, you 7 are required to answer both questions in this section in the spaces provided. 4 x Section B comprises essay questions. Answer one question on each book on the lined answer sheets on pages 9 to 2. 3. You should spend the first 10 minutes reading all the questions and planning your answers to the questions you choose, 4. Fill in your Examination Number at the top of each page of the question Paper. 5. In the table provided on this page, tick against the question number you have answered. © 2019 MANEB Tum over/...2019 1 EXAMINATION NO. fags Page 2 of 11 Section A (30 marks) Answer both questions POEM ‘Sweet Brew at Chitakale The old woman squats before a clay jar of Thobwa She uncovers the basket lid from the pregnant jar and Stirs attention with a gourdful of the brew The customers have all been here; cyclists In dripping sweat have deposited their coins Like players in a poker game In the basket gulping down their share For the game that seemed so fair Pedestrians on various chores have talked Before the exchange and then cooled their Parched throats to their money's worth But this bus passenger bellows for a gourdful From the window, drinks deliberately slowly As if he is a chameleon, until The conductor presses the go-button The woman picks up the pieces of her broken Gourd and dusting her bottom, again squats > Confronting her brew with a borrowed cup (Slightly adapted from: Of Chameleon and Gods by Jack Mapanje) Continued/...2019 EXAMINATION NO.: Page 3 of 11 MOs2/iII 1. (Continued) Questions a. Who is the persona in the poem? ee (mark) Describe the character of each of the following individuals in‘the poem: (i) the old woman ane re (2 marks) (ii) the passenger in the bus Fact tie Teste cenamerseenaplllnremerst Ee nT ee eer @ marks) What figure of speech is depicted by the expression “from the pregnant jar”? (1 mark) Pick out any two similes from the poem. @ marks) (i) What is the geographical setting of the poem? (mark) (ii) Justify your answer to e (i) above. (2 marks) Describe any two themes portrayed in the poem. @ pe (2 marks) Gi) (2 marks) Continued/...2019 EXAMINATION NO. Page 4 of 11 MOsz/NT SHORT STORY Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. THE WITCH It was after several days that the gong-gong was beaten in the late afternoon and the whole town was called to assemble outside the chief's house, The crowd was large and I climbed up a very high tree and seated in the swaying branches; 1 watched the whole scene. The chief emerged. He was a middle-aged man dressed in glowing kente cloth, gold crown on his head and sandles. He was accompanied by his horn blower and interpreter bearing his staff of office and elders of the town. A small boy of my own age carried the royal stool and another walked in front of the chief, acknowledging on his behalf the greetings from the crowd. The chief and his party sat down, Then came the fetish priest, tall, naked to the waist and his assistants. Some of these were children too. Little girls in white skirts and their bodies smeared with white clay and covered with strings of white cowrie shells. The priest stationed himself by an altar that had been set up in the compound and poured a libation to the god asking that the truth might be revealed. Another group then came from the chief's house and in the center of it were three women. Their clothes were tom and they stumbled and wept. Obviously they had been roughly treated. Two were old and ugly. The other was about my mother’s age, plump and comely. They were the occupants of Tona’s coffin house Continued/...EXAMINATION NO.: Page 5 of 11 0521 2019 2. (Continued) They all denied that they had killed the girl. The crowd began to jeer them and threaten them. A few stones were thrown but the chief ordered the people to be still. Three cocks were brought and given to the priest’s assistants. The first old lady was brought before the altar and wamed to speak the truth or the god would surely kill her. She threw herself on her knees and swore that she was not a witch. The priest took the first cock and with a sharp knife cut its throat half way across. Then he threw it on the ground. Amid a breathless silence the cock struggled to its feet, ran a few steps, collapsed and died on its back, its breast uppermost. The crowd roared. The god had accepted the woman's answer. She had spoken the truth. She was innocent and free. She fell sobbing on the ground until her friends came and helped her to her feet, The second old woman was brought forward. She denied that she was a witch and the same ritual followed. Her cock too died on its back and the god acknowledged her innocence. The crowd grew restless as the third woman was brought forward. An angry muttering prevented me from hearing what the woman answered. The priest took the cock in his hand but then paused and in a loud and stern voice, which silenced the crowd, cried; “Take care woman what you do! If you are guilty, the god will surely reveal it by killing you”. The woman stood upright and looked proud and defiant. The priest took up his knife but before he had time to use it the woman fell to the ground her limbs twitching and foam coming from her mouth. The crowd roared. The priest put down the knife and let the cock flutter away. Then trembling, she confessed that she was a witch. She was strongly advised by the priest to confess all her crimes. Continued/...2019 i | EXAMINATION NO.: Page 6 of 11 052/101 2. (Continued) Questions Describe the geographical setting of the story a eee eee (2 marks) Describe the character portrayed by each of the following (the crowd eee (2 marks) (ii) the chief (2 marks) ee SS (2 marks) In what point of view is the story told? a ir Explain any two themes that are portrayed in the story. 0) i , (marks) di) (@ marks) What evidence shows that the chief is greatly respected? (marks) Discuss the poetic justice in the story. (@ marks) Continued...A EXAMINATION NO: 2019 Page 7 of 11 M0S2/IT SECTION B (40 MARKS) Answer both questions in this section on the spaces provided. Choose either question a or b in each case and not both. 3. THE PEARL by John Steinbeck EITHER (a) Discuss how the following themes are portrayed in the book “The Pear!” (i) Hope (ii) Poverty (20 marks) OR (b) Discuss eight points that show how the theme of greed is portrayed in the book ‘The Pearl’. (20 marks) 4 MACBETH by William Shakespeare EITHER | (a) To what extent are the following responsible for influencing Macbeth to do evil? (i) Lady Macbeth (discuss four points) (ii) the witches (discuss four points) | OR (b) _Theplay “ Macbeth” is about power struggle. Discuss. (20 marks) ‘Continued/...2019 EXAMINATION NO.:____———______ Page 8 of 11 MOS21TT Continued/...: EXAMINATION NO: 019 Page 9 of 1 Maoszaii Continued/..EXAMINATION NO+ 953/111 examina Mosz/int Continued/...EXAMINATION NO.: mais Page 11 of 11 052/01 END OF QUESTION PAPER NB: This paper contains 11 printed pages.