Bece Past Questions & Answers – 2017 (English)

PART C
LITERATURE
[10 MARKS]

Answer all the questions in this part

SACKEY J. A. and DARMANI L. (COMP.): The Cockcrow

5. Questions 5(a) to 5(c) are based on one of the prescribed short stories for your study. Provide short answers to them.

MERRILL CORNEY: Debbie, Sandy and Pepe

(a) What is referred to as Poor little thing in the story?
(b) What is the setting of the story?
(c) The attitude of the girls to the baby bird is that of ………………………….

Read the following extract carefully and answer Questions 5(d) and 5(e)

KAAKYIRE AKOSOMO NYANTAKYI: Tell My Son to Hold On to His Gun

“Be courageous, be courageous, Kwame, be courageous!”
“I will be, Father, I will be,” I answered,
and entered the thick forest …
(Page 93)

(d) Be courageous, be courageous, Kwame, be courageous is an example of the use of a literary device termed ………………….

(e) How did Kwame show that he was courageous at the end of the story?

Read the following extract carefully and answer Questions 5(f) and 5(g)

JEAN WATSON: The Old Man and His Children

Once there was an old man who had seven sons.
They should have been his pride and joy.
But they were not.
(Page 17)

(f) The above extract is a/an ……………………..to a story.

(g) The idea expressed in the second sentence is that of ……………….

Read the following extract carefully and answer Questions 5(h) and 5(j)

AMA ATA AIDOO: The Dilemma of a Ghost

Yes, my young woman, I shall remember you.
I shall remember you in the hours of the night –
In my sleep,
In my sleepless sleep.
(Page 62)

(h) “… young woman” refers to ………………..

(i) The ‘sleepless sleep’ of the speaker is caused by ………………………

(j) “… sleepless sleep” shows that the speaker is ……………………..

END OF ESSAY TEST