English Paper 2 Questions and Answers - Momaliche Joint Pre Mock Exams 2022

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QUESTIONS

  1. COMPREHENSION
    Few in Kenya may have noticed this headline story. Last week, Cape Town municipal authorities approved a punitive tariff for high water usage in the South African city which has a population of nearly four million people. This was in response to a crippling drought that has gripped the city well known for its high tourist traffic. Cape Town is said to be suffering the worst drought in recorded history, according to climate researchers. If residents don’t save enough water, Cape Town will reach “Day Zero” on April 21, and will have to turn off the taps and risking becoming the first major city in the world to run dry.
    To prevent” Day Zero”, the city’s officials announced residents will be limited to 50 litres per person per day from February 1. The water crisis facing Cape Town is a clear pointer of climate change that continues to ravage the earth.
    Kenya is not immune from ravaging effects of climate change. It’s barely a year ago since water rationing measures were instituted in Nairobi after water levels at Ndakaini Dam, which meets 85 percent of Nairobi’s water demand, fell below the half-full mark.
    A lot has been said about what could be done to mitigate against the effects of climate change- particularly the erratic weather patterns that have affected agriculture and the management of the planets water resources. But I dare say little has been said or done to promote water recycling as a mitigation measure to consider. In Kenya, the discussion around water recycling has largely centered around manufacturers who, in any case, have to find more efficient ways of production to keep their overheads as low as possible. I think it’s time the discussion around water recycling went further out into households and businesses operating in Kenya.
    While recycling is a term that has been generally applied to plastic bottles and paper waste, water can be recycled as well.
    Water recycling is essentially all about reusing treated wastewater for beneficial purposes such as agricultural and landscape irrigation, industrial processes, toilet flushing, and replenishing a ground water basin (referred to as ground water recharge). Israel is already leading on this front, with reports indicating that almost 90% of Israel waste water is purified and used in irrigation.
    Spain comes a distant second as it recycles only 20% of its waste water, compared to Israel’s 87% .Through water conservation and reuse , Israel has been able not only to survive drought and periods of droughts ; it has also been able to thrive and use reclaimed water as a fulcrum for creating new businesses and economic opportunities. Water recycling indeed offers resources and financial savings.
    In Kenya, quite a number of entrepreneurs have already come up with solutions such as biodigesterthat recycle domestic waste water reuse. Property developers are also increasingly factoring waste water treatment and recycling into their building plans. The Karen Waterfront Mall in Nairobi, is an emerging case in point on how water resources can be recycled and sustainably put to good use. At the heart of the soon-to-be opened mall is a lake, 14,000 square metres in size, which doubles up as a wetland. , It will be the main water storage area, while the land will act as the catchment area.
    The mall has adopted a system that will see it incorporate sophicated water recycling and storage system. This way, the waterfront will considerably reduce its reliance on water supplies from public utility companies. This not only makes sense ecologically, but also makes huge financial sense, especially considering that as much as 75% of the water bill that consumers pay in Nairobi constitutes sewerage costs.
    Turning to green building solutions such as the water recycling systems adopted by the Karen Waterfront Mall can indeed curb the problem of water shortage in major urban centers such as Nairobi, whose populations are growing by leaps and bounds every year. Nairobi, whose name actually means “A place of cool waters” in the Maa language, can avoid the agony of what Cape Town is going through if it adopts water recycling as a means of enhancing sustainable use of its water resources. Let’s all remember, every drop counts. As the adage goes: waste not, want not!
    QUESTIONS
    1. What is ‘Day Zero ‘according to the writer? (2mks)
    2. What reason does the author give for the above phenomenon.(2mks)
    3. Why is it difficult to mitigate against the effect of climate change? (2mks)
    4. Water recycling indeed offers resources and financial savings.(Use not only) (1mk)
    5. In note form , give the benefits of water reuse (5mks)
    6. What is the writer’s tone towards water conservation? (2mks)
    7. How has Israel benefited by reusing its water.(2mks)
    8. Explain the meaning of the following expressions as used in the passage.
      1. Leaps and bounds
      2. Waste not want not
      3. Ravaging
      4. Mitigate
  2. Read the extract below and answer the questions that follow. (25 marks)
    She felt the weight of injustice that women have felt since time immemorial in her male dominated world. Even a half- wit like her brother-in –law could rob her of her hard earned wealth, and her grandson of his rightful position as the chief, for in all truth Otieno should have held the chief’s stool only until the infant Owuor came of age, but it was now clear he had no intention of ever giving up the chiefdom and after his death, his numerous sons would make sure that it stayed in the family. Owuor would be outnumbered practically by infinity to one. As it was, his grandmother feared for his life and watched him like a hawk. It was disquieting to have all one’s egg in this one tiny frail basket.
    After pondering over her predicament at length Akoko decided to make contact with the sirikal and seek their intervention. The first thing she did was to remove her two year old grandson and take him back to her brother, Oloo in Yimbo. His mother had meanwhile married one of the numerous cousins. In any case she was not the sort of woman to fight for her rights, leave alone her sons’s. All she wanted was a husband and some security, and who could blame her? After all not everybody could be like Akoko.
    Before she left she went to see her daughter Nyabera who was in mourning again having lost both her sons to a ferocious outbreak of measles which had raged through her village during the last harvest. She was pregnant again but so downcast and depressed that she stayed in her house, rarely going out and hardly eating. She needed help and her mother decided to spend some time with her before leaving.
    She found her daughter thin to the point of emaciation with her belly sticking out before her like an appendage. When she saw her mother still unbent and uncowed by suffering, looking like a woman half her age, she just broke down and wept in her arms as if she was a little girl again.
    “Cry my child, for one does not bury a child without burying apart of one’s soul with it. It is good to cry for who can comprehend the ways of Were? It is for us men to wash away our painful confusion with tears and then to carry on, perhaps there might be some meaning in it all that only glimmers like firefly in a dark night. Who knows but that one day,Were will give you a child that lives and grows? Yesterday is not today and today is not tomorrow for each day rises fresh from the hands of Were god of the eye of the rising sun, bringing with it gladness and sorrow, sun and darkness, the two faces of Were; for how can we appreciate light unless we understand darkness? Weep my child and do not hold pain within yourself for it will turn into a snake that devours you from the inside.”
    Questions
    1. What happens immediately before this excerpt? 3 marks
    2. Name two injustices Akoko suffer from her brother-in-law. 2 marks
    3. Akoko and her daughter can be said to be similarly ill-fated. Give reasons using evidence from the extract and elsewhere in the novel. 2 marks
    4. “After all not everybody was like Akoko”. How was Akoko different from her grandson’s mother mentioned in the excerpt? 2 marks
    5.         
      1. Akoko mentions of going to the sirikal for intervention.As brought out in the passage and elsewhere in the text, why did she want intervention? 2 marks
      2. Apart from the sirikal, name other changes that come with the white man. 4marks
    6. Comment on any one stylistic device used in the excerpt. 2 marks
    7. Akoko’s life and lineage is paralleled to the journey of a river. Justify. 6 marks
    8. ‘For how can we appreciate life unless we understand darkness?’ Identify any one character who goes through this experience. Explain. 2mark
  3. Read the oral narrative below and then answer the questions that follow. (20 marks)
    Nyasaye (God) wanted to put a stop to the rampages of death-death which claims the lives of everyone
    Young and old
    Boys and girls
    Men and women
    Strangers and kinsmen;
    Death which kills
    The innocent and the guilty
    Chiefs and their subjects
    The healthy and the sick
    The wise and the foolish.
    So one day he sent a servant to earth with a message for all his people. “send me an offering of fresh, untainted fat,” he ordered. “It should be as clean and sparkling as the moon.” Hearing this, the people slaughtered a goat, removed its pure white fat, and placed it in a clay dish overspread with fine fresh leaves.
    Now they summoned Ngo’ngruok, also known as Haniafuthe Chameleon, and ordered him to take their offering to Nyasaye. They also fashioned a long pole that reached up to heaven where Nyasaye dwells in his glory. This was the path Ng’ongruok would follow when carrying their offering.
    But Ng’onguruok accidentally soiled the fat with his clumsy feet, and on his arrival before Nyasaye, presented a dirty and unsightly offering. Nyasaye was furious and rejected it, shouting: “tell the people of earth that because of this insult they must continue to die, just as their ancestors have done!”
    Ng’ongruok descended from heaven delivered Nyasaye’s message, and returned the offering to the people. Ever since then, alas death has continued to ravage human beings. For his clumsiness, Ngo’ngruok was cursed by the people. Hence, he must always walk on all fours, and his steps must be hesitant and slow. That is why you will always see him carrying one leg raised from the ground as he tries to decide exactly where to tread.
    (Adapted from: keep my words by B. Onyange-gutu and A.A Roscoe)
    Questions (20marks)
    1. Giving illustrations,classify the above narrative. (3 marks)
    2. Identify and explain two features of oral narratives evident in the genre above. (4marks)
    3. With illustrations, explain the attitude of the community mentioned in the passage towards death. (3 marks)
    4. Describe the personality of the following. (4 marks)
      1. Ngo’ngruok
      2. Nyasaye
    5. Explain two aspects of culturepractised by the community from which the narrative is drawn. (2 marks)
    6. Explain the nature of death as brought out in the narrative. (2 marks)
    7. Explain one moral lesson learnt. (2 marks)
  4. GRAMMAR (15 marks)
    1. Complete the following sentences using the appropriate form of the word given in brackets
      1. Grace did not know that a tree had her house (strike)
      2. A solar eclipse can be an sight (awe)
      3. Don’t just sit there ;help her (idle)
    2. Rewrite the following sentences as instructed. Do not change the meaning .(3mks)
      1. Cherono’s handwriting is better than anyone else’s in this class (rewrite using a superlative)
      2. He was so generous that he was soon went bankrupt.
        Begin: such ……….
      3. It is the most beautiful painting I have ever seen.
        End ………….. beautiful painting
    3. Explain the difference in meaning (4mks)
      1.    
        1. She went and bought herself a skirt .
        2. She went and bought a skirt herself.
      2.    
        1. Peter was executed like a murderer.
        2. Peter was executed as a murderer.
        3. Add question tags to the following sentences (2mks)
          1. I don’t think anyone will volunteer…………………
          2. Don’t play with your rose………………..
  5. Supply one word to replace the underlined ones 2marks
    1. People who repair shoes usually require basic training
    2. The people gathered to listen to the preacher were very attentive last Sunday
  6. Change the following sentence into passive.1 mark
    Darren flew the plane over the Pacific

 

 

 



MARKING SCHEME

QUESTIONS

  1. What is ‘Day Zero ‘according to the writer? (2mks)
    • Turning off the taps
    • Running out of water
  2. What reason does the author give for the above phenomenon.(2mks)
    • Drought has gripped the city
    • Climate change
  3. Why is it to mitigate against the effect of climate change? (2mks)
    • Little has been done to promote recycling
    • The discussions has been centred around manufacturers and not everyone.
  4. Water recycling indeed offers resources and financial savings. (use not only ) (1mk)
    • Not only does water recycling indeed offer resource but also financial savings
    • Water recycling does not only indeed offer resources but also financial savings
  5. In note form , give the benefits of water reuse (4mks)
    • Agricultural use
    • Landscape irrigation
    • Industrial processes
    • Toilet flushing
    • Replenishing ground water basin
  6. What is the writer’s tone towards water conservation? (2mks)
    Appreciative/cautionary / advisory ‘I think it is time the debate
  7. How has Israel benefited by reusing its water.(2mks)
    • Has survived droughts
    • Has created businesses and economic opportunities
  8. Explain the meaning of the following expressions as used in the passage.
    1. Leaps and bounds
      Very fast at a very high rate
    2. Waste not want not
      Using well what one has and the individual solve a need
    3. Ravaging
      Destroying a wide area; destruction
    4. Mitigate
      To lessen the effects of something ;make less severe or less harmful

Excerpt :Answers-The River and the Source

  1. Otieno takes over the chief’s stool with glee and heavy arrogance.He dispenses the council of jadong’o
  2. The injustice that Akoko suffers from her brother-in –law Otieno.
    1. He tries to grab Akoko’s personal wealth. √1
    2. There is a clear indication that OtienoKembo had no intention of giving up the chiefdom
      when young Owour, Akoko grandson came of age. √1He appropriates his late brothers wealth and tries to grab Akoko’s personal wealth
  3.      
    1. Both Akoko and Nyabera lose their their husbands
    2. Both Akoko and Nyabera lose their children. Answers must have the phrase …both…
  4.    
    • Akoko does not remarry like her daughter-in –law after the death of her husband. √1
    • Akoko could fight for her rights, “ in any case, she was not the type to fight for her rights. √1 2marks
  5.      
    1. She wanted the serikal to force OtienoKembo to relinquish the chiefdom to young
      Owour when he came of age.
    2. The Whiteman came with Taxes, new religion, money and education. 3 marks
  6.      
    1. Metaphor√1 – she felt the weight of injustice that women…………………√1
    2. Proverb √1– it was disquieting to have all one’s eggs in this one tiny frail basket. √1 2 marks
  7.      
    1. She gives birth to Awiti. √1
    2.      
      • Awiti gives birth to children- Becky, Vera, Aoro and other children. √1
      • Becky given forth two children with new white husband. √1
      • Aoro marries Wandia and have children. √1
  8. Aoro,Wandia,Nyabera;with illustrations

ORAL NARRATIVE: ANSWERS

  1. Giving illustrations, classify the above narrative. (3 marks)
    • Myth because it explains the continuation of death
    • Has supernatural creatures
    • Inclined to religious aspects
  2. Identify and explain two features of oral narratives evident in the genre above. (4marks)
    • Dialogue between Nyasaye and Chameleon
    • Use of local dialect
    • Use of a song
    • Aspect of fantasy
    • Moral lesson (no illustration, do not award)
  3. With illustrations, explain the attitude of the community mentioned in the passage towards death. (3 marks)
    • The community is contemptuous/disdainful/ spiteful of death
    • They send Chameleon to intervene on their behalf to God in order to stop the calamity of death
  4. Describe the personality of the following. (4 marks)
    1. Ngo’ngruok- lazy, makes the fat dirty
    2. Nyasaye-temperamental, tell the people of earth that because of this insult they must continue to die
  5. Explain two aspects of culture practised by the community from which the narrative is drawn. (2 marks)
    • Religion- they believe in existence of Nyasaye
    • Offering of sacrifices- the white fat of the goat offered to Nyasaye to eliminate death
  6. Explain the nature of death as brought out in the narrative. (2 marks)
    Death is inevitable. It consumes every one ‘boys and girls’.
  7. Explain one moral lesson learnt. (2 marks)
    We should be careful with how we work. Chameleon was clumsy

GRAMMAR

  1. Complete the following sentences using the appropriate form of the word given in brackets
    1. Grace did not know that a tree had her house (strike)
      struck
    2. A solar eclipse can be an sight (awe)
      awesome
    3. Don’t just sit there ;help her (idle)
      Idly
  2. Rewrite the following sentences as instructed. Do not change the meaning .(3mks)
    1. Cherono’s handwriting is better than anyone else’s in this class (rewrite using a superlative)
      Cherono’s handwriting is the best in the class.
    2. He was so generous that he was soon went bankrupt.
      Begin: such ……….
      Such was his generosity that he was soon went bankrupt.
    3. It is the most beautiful painting I have ever seen.
      End ………….. beautiful painting
      • I have never seen such a beautiful painting
      • I have never seen a more beautiful painting.
  3. Explain the difference in meaning (4mks)
    1.     
      1. She went and bought herself a skirt .
        She bought a skirt for her own use (for her to be wearing)
      2. She went and bought a skirt herself.
        She personally bought the skirt (not any other person )
    2.    
      1. Peter was executed like a murderer.
        Like one who has murdered
      2. Peter was executed as a murderer.
        Just like a murderer that he was
    3. Add question tags to the following sentences (2mks)
      1. I don’t think anyone will volunteer. Will they?
      2. Don’t play with your rose. Will you?
  4. Fill in the blank spaces with suitable prepositions (2mks)
    1. Inspector Mwala was an expert catching criminals.
      In
    2. Please refrain smoking in the auditorium.
      From
  5. Change the following sentences into reported speech(1mk)
    Jim said, “Let’s go home now.”
    Jim suggested / said that they go home then/at that moment.

Supply one word to replace the underlined ones 2marks

  1. People who repair shoes usually require basic training
    cobbler
  2. The people gathered to listen to the preacher were very attentive last Sunday
    congregation
  3. Change the following sentence into passive.1 mark
    Darren flew the plane over the Pacific
    The plane was flown over the Pacific by Darren
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