English Paper 3 Questions and Answers - Form 4 End Term 1 Exams 2021

ENGLISH
FORM 4
END TERM EXAMS
TERM 1 2021
PAPER 3
TIME 2½ hrs

INSTRUCTIONS

• This paper consists of 3 Sections
• Answer only one question from each section. 
• The first section is compulsory. 
• Question 2 is also compulsory

1. IMAGINATIVE COMPOSITION (COMPULSORY) (20 marks)
   Either
   1. Write a composition to illustrate the proverb
      “Once bitten twice shy”
      Or
   2. Write a composition ending with the following
      ………obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal
2. THE COMPULSORY SET TEXT (20 marks)
   “Women are their own enemies. ”Write an essay exemplifying this position basing your illustrations from Blossoms of the Savannah. 
3. THE OPTIONAL SET TEXTS(20 marks)
   Either

   1. "A person who claims to love you or really concerned about you would go to any level to
      show how much they care." Write an essay using examples from the play A Doll's House
      
      OR

   2. "Whenever people find themselves in a difficult situation, they use lies to cover up for their actions." Exemplify this using the play A Doll's House

MARKING SCHEME

1. IMAGINATIVE COMPOSITION (COMPULSORY) (20 marks)
   Either
   1. Write a composition to illustrate the proverb
      “Once bitten twice shy”
      • Must be a story. If not, deduct 4 marks AD
      • The candidate should show an understanding of the proverb
      • The story must illustrate the proverb, “once bitten twice shy”
      • If it is just a discussion treat it as irrelevant and deduct 4 marks
      • Should illustrate an unpleasant experience which makes one more careful to avoid the same experience
      • Or once one is hurt, they become more cautions in future
      • Body - (12 marks)
      • Conclusion - (2 marks)
      • Language - ( 4 marks)
        
        Or
        
        
   2. Write a composition ending with the following
      ………obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal
      • Must be a story. If not, deduct 4 marks AD
      • The candidate should show an understanding of the saying.
      • If it is just a discussion treat it as irrelevant and deduct upto 4 marks AD
      • The story should illustrate one who faces difficulties/barriers/problems but overcomes them to reach their goal i.e one who never gives up.
      • Body - (12 marks)
      • Conclusion - (2 marks)
      • Language - ( 4 marks)
        
        
2. THE COMPULSORY SET TEXT (20 marks)
   ‘Our greatest enemies are those close to us.’  Support this statement with illustrations from the novel Blossoms of the Savannah
   

   Introduction- general or contextual 2mks
   Body
   Oloisudori betrays Ole Kaelo. Though they were close business friends. Oloisudori blackmails Ole Kaelo so that Ole Kaelo has no option but to marry off his daughter to Oloisudori.
   Mama Milanoi who is the mother to Taiyo betrays her by allowing her to accompany three women to take her to Resian only for her to end up being forcefully subjected to F.G.M

   Ole Kaelo, father to Taiyo refuses to allow his daughter Taiyo to travel to Mombasa with the other youth selected by an FM radio station for a music extravaganza. To him participating would be like engaging in prostitution.

   Ole Kaelo also betrays his daughter’s ambitions to join Egerton University preferring instead to marry them off to Oloisudori. This shows he is not ready to help them realize their dreams as a father should do.

   Ole Kaelo betrays Resian. He openly shows his resentment to Resian. Constantly rebuking her for even the slightest of mistake she makes. He hates because he expected a boy child not a girl child. This leaves Resian with a low self-esteem and fearful.

   Olarinkoi, who is occasionally accommodated by the Ole Kaelo’s and is even though he is not part of their family, later betrays the Ole Kaelo’s when he abducts Resian with the intention of eloping with her. This is betrayal to a family that had hosted him.

   
   
   
3. THE OPTIONAL SET TEXTS(20 marks)
   Either

   1. "A person who claims to love you or really concerned about you would go to any level to
      show how much they care." Write an essay using examples from the play A Doll's House
      
      Introduction
      In today’s society, a person who claims to love you or really concerned about you would go to any level to show how much they care. Nora and Mrs. Linde clearly brings out this in the plays, A Doll”s House. 
      
      Nora, proves her true love and concern when she risks by forging her father’s signature in order to acquire money for the sake of her husband’s health. She goes against societal expectations and provides financial support to Helmer when he fell ill and takes him to Italy to recover. This clearly portrays her love towards her husband.
      
      Nora sacrifices her comfort, a good and comfortable life and good clothes too in order to look for money and save as much as she can to pay the loan. She does odd jobs like embroidery and crocheting, she also saves some money given by Torvald and buys herself cheap and simple clothes with an aim of saving for the payment of the loan. Torvald also reminds her how she shut herself up for three weeks during the last Christmas Holiday making ornaments. This clearly portrays her love and sacrifice for her family.
      
      Mrs. Linde also sacrifices her happiness when she abandons Krogstad whom she really loved for a richer man. She did this in order to get money to take care of her sick mother and younger siblings. Later on the old man dies leaving her Childless, poor and lonely. This is real sacrifice for the sake of love.
      
      Christine Linde also sacrifices her honour and pride when she approaches Krogstad and apologies to him for her actions. She explains her reason for leaving him and asks him if they can come together as she feels empty and has no one to mourn for and no one to care for. Krogstad accept their proposal. This clearly brings Linde as a selfless person who is able to sacrifice for the sake of love and concern.
      
      Ann sacrifices her comfort in order to take of Nora and later Nora’s Children. Anne leaves her own daughter behind and moves in with Nora’s family to become Nora’s nurse. Nora had no mother and Ann fitted in the gap with lots of love. Even Nora wonders how Ann had the heart to give up raising her own child in order to work but it is clear that Anne had to make this sacrifice in order to fend for her own family.
      
      She gladly takes care of Nora’s children and contends herself with letters from her daughter on important occasions such as her wedding.
      
      In conclusion, it is clear that a person who loves and is concerned about another becomes selfless and goes to any extent to prove this as brought out in the essay.

      OR

   2. "Whenever people find themselves in a difficult situation, they use lies to cover up for their actions." Exemplify this using the play A Doll's House
      
      Whenever people find themselves in a difficult situation, they use lies to cover up for their actions. This is clearly potrayed by Henrik Ibsen in his play ‘A Doll’s House’.
      
      As the play begins, Nora behaves like an obedient and honest wife. However, this is not her real character.
      
      She does not want to reveal to her husband that she had loaned money from Krogstamnd to facilitate their trip to Italy.
      
      Krogstad deceit is exposed. He commits a forgery. This act of deceit destroys his reputation that he fins it difficult to get employed.
      
      Dr. Rank also comes out as deceitful and dishonest. He has been deceiving both Nora and Torrald for years about the depth of the depth of his feeling for Nora. Only when she attempts to seek his financial help does Nora finally see beneath the surface to the doctor’s real feelings. He has been lusting for his best friend’s wife all those years.
      
      Torrald, who has been deceived throughout most of the play, is finally revealed in the final act to be the one most guilty of deception. He has deceived Nora into believing that he loved and cherished her, while all the while he had regarded her as little more property.
      (Mark any other well illustrated point)