Section A
1. RAY BRADBURY - Fahrenheit 451
(a) In what ways do you think Bradbury makes the war significant in this novel? Support your ideas with details from the novel.
(b) How does Bradbury make the Hounds so memorable and important in the novel? Support your answer with close reference to the novel.
(c) Text-based Questions
(i) What does Bradbury suggest about the role of television in the lives of Mildred and Guy Montag in this passage?
(ii) How does Bradbury elsewhere in the novel convey the role that television has in people's lives?
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2. ANITA DESAI - Games at Twilight and Other Stories
(a) How does Desai vividly portray an unhappy relationship in any one of the following stories?
Pigeons at Daybreak
Surface Textures
Scholar and Gypsy
Support your answer by close reference to your chosen story.
(b) Which of the stories in this collection do you feel most strongly about - and why? Support your choice by close reference to Desai's writing.
(c) Text-based Questions
(i) How does this opening passage make you want to read the rest of the story?
(ii) What does Desai's writing make you feel about Ravi and his experience in the rest of the story?
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3. MARK HADDON - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
(a) Choose one incident inthe novel that you find amusing and one that makes you feel angry and in each case show how Haddon's writing has made you feel like this.
Do not use the passage in (c) in answering this question.
(b) Selfish and heartless
Loving but inadequate
Which of these two descriptions is closer to your view of Christopher's mother? Support your answer by close reference to her words and actions.
(c) Text-based questions
(i) In this passage, how does Haddon make Christopher's description of his experience particularly vivid?
(ii) Explore one other incident from the novel whcih Haddon brings to life for you because of the way in whcih Christopher describes what is happening.
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4. WITI IHIMAERA: The Whale Rider
(a) In what ways do you think Ihimaera makes the relationship between Nani Flowers and Koro such a memorable part of the novel?
(b) How do you think Ihimaera makes Kahu such a striking central character in the novel? Refer closely to the novel in your answer.
(c) Text-based questions
(i) How does the writer make the scene vivid for you in this passage?
(ii) In what ways do you think this early passage is significant to the rest of the novel?
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5. HARPER LEE: To Kill A Mockingbird
(a) How does Lee make Calpurnia's importance to the Finch family such a vital part of the novel? Support your answer by close reference.
(b) Choose two incidents in the novel that you find amusing and explore the wyas in which Lee makes them so amusing.
(c) Text-based Questions:
(i) What does Lee make you feel as you read this passage?
(ii) How does Lee make you feel strongly about the attitudes of Maycomb people in any one other incident in the novel? Support your answer by close reference.
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6. A. POON and W.C.SIM, eds.: Island Voices: A Collection of Short Stories from Singapore
(a) How in your opinion does the writer of An Obituary For Fifth Aunt Come Late (Patricia Wong) make this a particularly moving story?
(b) In what ways does the writer memorably portray the tensions in a relationship in any one of these stories, and where do your sympathies lie in this relationship?
(c) Text-based questions:
(i) What does Tay make you feel about Grandfahter Chang in this passage?
(ii) In what ways does Tay make links between characters and tea-drinking elsewhere in the story? Refer to other parts of the story in your answer.
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7. DAREN SHIAU - Heartland
(a) What do you find striking about the ways in which Shiau portrays the relationships between Fifth Uncle, Wing, and Wing's mother? Support your answer by close reference to the novel.
(b) How does Shiau convey to you Wing's different feelings about Singapore in the course of the novel? Support your answer by close reference to the novel.
(c) Text-based questions:
(i) How does Shiau vividly portray Wing's dicomfort in this passage?
(ii) Explore how Shiau makes Wing's discomfort and unhappiness clear to you in any one other incident in the novel. Support your answer by close reference.
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