Edexcel GCSE English Unit 2: The Writer’s Craft Foundation Tier Additional Sample Assessment Material Paper Reference 5EH2F/01 Time: 2 hours Questions and Extracts Booklet Do not return this booklet with your Answer Booklet. Turn over S39273A *S39273A* ©2010 Edexcel Limited. 1/2/2/3/3/3 BLANK PAGE 2 S39273A You must answer THREE questions. Answer ONE question from Section A, ONE question from Section B and ONE question from Section C. Section A: Shakespeare Page Romeo and Juliet 4 Macbeth 6 The Merchant of Venice 8 Section B: Prose Anita and Me 10 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress 12 Heroes 14 Of Mice and Men 16 Rani and Sukh 18 Riding the Black Cockatoo 20 To Kill a Mockingbird 22 Section C: Writing 24 3 S39273A Turn over SECTION A: SHAKESPEARE There is one question on each text. Answer ONE question from this section. Use this extract to answer Question 1. Romeo and Juliet Extract taken from Act 3, Scene 1 Romeo: This gentleman, the Prince’s near ally, My very friend, hath got this mortal hurt In my behalf: my reputation stained: With Tybalt’s slander. - Tybalt! - that an hour Hath been my cousin. O sweet Juliet - Thy beauty hath made me effeminate, And in my temper softened valour’s steel! Re-enter BENVOLIO Benvolio: O Romeo, Romeo! Brave Mercutio is dead! That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds, Which too untimely here did scorn the earth. Romeo: This day’s black fate on more days doth depend: This but begins the woe others must end. Re-enter TYBALT Benvolio: Here comes the furious Tybalt back again. Romeo: Alive - in triumph! And Mercutio slain! Away to heaven, respective lenity, And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now! Re-enter TYBALT Now, Tybalt, take the ‘villain’ back again That late thou gavest me - for Mercutio’s soul Is but a little way above our heads, Staying for thine to keep him company. Either thou or I, or both, must go with him. Tybalt: Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here, Shalt with him hence! Romeo: (Drawing his sword) This shall determine that. They fight; ROMEO kills TYBALT Benvolio: Romeo, away, be gone! The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain. Stand not amazed! The Prince will doom thee death If thou art taken. Hence, be gone, away! Romeo: O, I am fortune’s fool! Benvolio: Why dost thou stay? Exit ROMEO 4 S39273A Romeo and Juliet 1 Answer all parts of the question. (a) From the extract, what do you learn about the character of Romeo? Use evidence from the extract to support your answer. (7) (b) Using your understanding of the extract, explain how the following lines from the extract might be performed. (7) Benvolio Romeo, away, be gone! The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain. Stand not amazed: The prince will doom thee death If thou art taken Hence, be gone, away! Romeo O, I am fortune’s fool! Benvolio Why dost thou stay? Exit ROMEO You may consider the following in your answer: • actions • positioning • movement • voice • gesture • facial expression. (c) In the extract, Romeo speaks of ‘black fate’. Comment on how fate is important in one other part of the play. (10) (Total for Question 1 = 24 marks) 5 S39273A Turn over Use this extract to answer Question 2. Macbeth Extract taken from Act 4, Scene 3 Ross: Your castle is surprised - your wife and babes Savagely slaughtered. To relate the manner Were, on the quarry of these murdered deer, To add the death of you. Malcolm: Merciful heaven! - What, man! Ne’er pull your hat upon your brows: Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak Whispers the o’er-fraught heart, and bids it break. Macduff: My children too? Ross: Wife, children, servants - all That could be found. Macduff: And I must be from thence! My wife killed too? Ross: I have said. Malcolm: Be comforted. Let’s make us medicines of our great revenge, To cure this deadly grief. Macduff: He has no children. - All my pretty ones? Did you say all? - O hell-kite! All? What, all my pretty chickens, and their dam, At one fell swoop? Malcolm: Dispute it like a man. Macduff: I shall do so. But I must also feel it as a man: I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me. - Did heaven look on, And would not take their part? Sinful Macduff! They were all struck for thee. Naught that I am, Not for their own demerits, but for mine Fell slaughter on their souls. Heaven rest them now! Malcolm: Be this the whetstone of your sword: let grief Convert to anger. Blunt not the heart, enrage it. 6 S39273A Macbeth 2 Answer all parts of the question. (a) From the extract, what do you learn about the character of Malcolm? Use evidence from the extract to support your answer. (7) (b) Using your understanding of the extract, explain how the following lines might be performed. (7) Malcolm Be comforted. Let’s make us medicines of our great revenge, To cure this deadly grief. Macduff He has no children. - All my pretty ones? Did you say all? - O hell-kite! All? What, all my pretty chickens, and their dam, At one fell swoop? Malcolm Dispute it like a man. You may consider the following in your answer: • actions • positioning • movement • voice • gesture • facial expression. (c) In the extract, Macduff has been betrayed. Comment on betrayal in one other part of the play. (10) (Total for Question 2 = 24 marks) 7 S39273A Turn over Use this extract to answer Question 3 The Merchant of Venice Extract taken from Act 4, Scene 1 Portia: You press me far, and therefore I will yield. Give me your gloves; I’ll wear them for your sake; And, for your love, I’ll take this ring from you. Do not draw back your hand; I’ll take no more, And you in love shall not deny me this! Bassanio: This ring, good sir? Alas, it is a trifle; I will not shame myself to give you this! Portia: I will have nothing else but only this, And now methinks I have a mind to it! Bassanio: There’s more depends on this than on the value. The dearest ring in Venice will I give you, And find it out by proclamation, Only for this I pray you pardon me! Portia: I see, sir, you are liberal in offers; You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered. Bassanio: Good sir, this ring was given me by my wife, And when she put it on, she made me vow That I should neither sell, nor give, nor lose it. Portia: That ‘scuse serves many men to save their gifts, And if your wife be not a mad woman, And know how well I have deserved this ring, She would not hold out enemy for ever For giving it to me. Well, peace be with you! Exeunt PORTIA and NERISSA Antonio: My lord Bassanio, let him have the ring; Let his deservings and my love withal Be valued ‘gainst your wife’s commandement. Bassanio: Go, Gratiano, run and overtake him, Give him the ring, and bring him if thou canst Unto Antonio’s house. Away, make haste. Exit GRATIANO. 8 S39273A The Merchant of Venice 3 Answer all parts of the question. (a) From the extract, what do you learn about the character of Portia? Use evidence from the extract to support your answer. (7) (b) Using your understanding of the extract, explain how the following lines might be performed. (7) Portia You press me far, and therefore I will yield. Give me your gloves; I’ll wear them for your sake; And, for your love, I’ll take this ring from you. Do not draw back your hand; I’ll take no more, And you in love shall not deny me this! You may consider the following in your answer: • actions • positioning • movement • voice • gesture • facial expression. (c) In the extract, Bassanio is being tested by Portia. Comment on how a character is tested in one other part of the play. (10) (Total for Question 3 = 24 marks) TOTAL FOR SECTION A = 24 MARKS 9 S39273A Turn over SECTION B: PROSE There is one question on each text. Answer ONE question from this section. Use this extract to answer Question 4. Anita and Me Extract taken from Chapter 8 Mama had not gone out of her way to be friendly with Anita’s mother, since discovering how she had chosen to name their piddly poodle, but trapped in such a small space, it would have been tantamount to GBH not to at least greet each other. Deirdre nodded her head curtly, ‘Alright?’ Mama smiled briefly, ‘Hello Mrs Rutter. I wonder, you have not seen my mother wandering around anywhere?’ ‘Thought yowr mam was back in Pakistan,’ she sniffed, glancing quickly behind her as if she expected someone. ‘India,’ mama said stiffly. ‘We are from India.’ The tone she used clearly said, not that you would know the difference you naughty tramp. I gulped and shifted backwards into our yard, feeling I was somehow the cause of this icy exchange. Sunil whimpered in protest and wiped his filmy hands all down the front of my school blouse. I pinched his leg and he burst into tears. Mama shot me a hard look and continued over his wails, ‘She’s visiting us for a few weeks and…’ Before she could continue, Mrs Worrall’s voice came booming from behind me, ‘Ey! Am yow back, Daljeet? I’ve got yowr mom in here with me!’ Mama relaxed visibly and shouted back, ‘Okay Mrs Worrall! Thank you so much!’ and was already on her way back to the yard when Deirdre’s sharp call stopped her in her tracks. ‘Mrs K, have yow stopped yowr Meena seeing my Anita?’ Mama turned round slowly, wearing that dangerously patient expression that always made me want to slink into a corner wearing a conical hat with a D on it. ‘Now why should I want to do that, Mrs Rutter?’ ‘Cos we ain’t good enough for yow lot, is that it?’ Mama and I both picked up Deirdre’s tone, which was one not of hostility but disbelief; she was waiting for an answer to the question that obviously deeply puzzled her and upset her, how could we possibly think ourselves better than her? 10 S39273A