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CARIBBEAN SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATEEXAMINATION
ENGLISH B
Paper 01 General Proficiency
1 hour 45 minutes
READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY.
1. This paper consists of THREE questions. Each question is worth 20 marks.
2. Answer ALL questions.
3. Write your answers in the spaces provided in this answer booklet.
4. Do NOT write in the margins.
5. You are advised to take some time to read through the paper and plan your answers.
6. If you need to rewrite any answer and there is not enough space to do so on the original page, you must use the extra lined page(s) provided at the back of this booklet. Remember to draw a line through your original answer.
7. If you use the extra page(s) you MUST write the question number clearly in the box provided at the top of the extra page(s) and, where relevant, include the question part beside the answer.
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SECTION A DRAMA
1. Read the extract below carefully and answer ALL the questions that follow.
The CAPTAIN. BERTHA. The CAPTAIN is sitting crumpled up over the table.
BERTHA: [Going up to him]. Are you ill, Father?
CAPTAIN: [Looks up dully]. Me?
BERTHA: Do you know what youve done? Do you know you threw a lamp at Mother?
CAPTAIN: Did I?
BERTHA: Yes, you did! What if shed been hurt?
CAPTAIN: What difference would that make?
BERTHA: Youre not my father when you talk like that!
CAPTAIN: Whats that you say? Im not your father? How do you know? Who told you that? Who is your father, then? Who?
BERTHA: Well, not you, anyway!
CAPTAIN: Still not me! Who then? Who? You seem well informed. Who have you been talking to? That I should live to hear my own child tell me to my face Im not her father! Dont you realize youre insulting your mother when you say that? Dont you understand that if its true, its to her shame?
BERTHA: Dont say anything bad about my mother, do you hear?
CAPTAIN: No, you stick together, all of you against me. Youve done so all along.
BERTHA: Father!
CAPTAIN: Dont use that word again!
BERTHA: Father, Father!
CAPTAIN: [Pulls her to him]. Bertha, my dear, dear child, of course youre my child! Yes, yes, it cant be otherwise. It must be so!
BERTHA: No, no! I want to be myself!
CAPTAIN: Dont be afraid, my darling child, I shant hurt you!
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BERTHA: [Tries to get away]. Help, Mother, help! Hes going to kill me!
NURSE: [Enters]. Master Adolf, whats the matter?
She takes the CAPTAIN by the arm and seats him on the chair, where he remains sitting apathetically. Then she takes out the straitjacket and stations herself behind the chair.
[Bertha steals out to the left].
NURSE: Do you remember, Master Adolf, when you were my dear little boy, and I tucked you up at night, and read to you? Do you remember how I lit the candle and told you pretty stories when you had horrid dreams and couldnt sleep? Do you remember?
CAPTAIN: Go on talking, Margaret, it soothes my head so. Go on talking.
NURSE: All right, but you listen carefully, then. Do you remember the times you had to get dressed, and didnt want to? And then I took your little undershirt and said: In with your arms now, both of them. And then I said: Sit still now and be a good boy while I button up the back. [She has got the straitjacket on him]. And then I said: Get up now, and walk nicely across the floor so I can see how it fits [She leads him over to the sofa]. And then I said: Now its time to go to bed.
CAPTAIN: What did you say? Go to bed when hed just got dressed? Damnation! What have you done to me? [Tries to free himself]. Oh, you damned cunning woman! Whod have thought you were so clever? [Lies down on the sofa]. Caught, clipped and double-crossed.
NURSE: Forgive me, Master Adolf, forgive me, but I had to stop you.
Adapted from August Strindberg, The Father.In Michael Robinson, Miss Julie and Other Plays,
Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 4749.
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(b) How does Bertha feel about her father, the Captain? Support your answer with evidence from the extract.
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(c) Explain what the stage directions in lines 1, 3 and 2729 reveal about the Captain.
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(d) (i) Comment on the dramatic significance of the Nurse reminding the Captain about his childhood in lines 31 41.
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