INSTRUCTIONS
*This question paper consists of TWO questions:
Question1 -Shorter text (20)
RUCKTIVITE
Contextuai putations (5)
06 MAY 2024
*Answer ALL the questions
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*For shorter text, pay special attention to spelling, punctuation and sentence construction.
QUESTION 1 (Shorter text)
Rejection'
Read the following extract and answer questions which follow:
I acquiesced under the drops of poison that were burning me: 'A quarter of a
century of marriage', 'a wife unparalleled'. I counted backwards to determine where
the break in the thread had occurred from which everything has unwound. My mother's
thought with
I words came back to me: 'Too perfect. I completed at last my with a wide
the end of the dictum:... to be honest. I thought of the first two
gap between them, the sign of the primacy of love in the individual. I thought of his
absence all day long. He had simply said: 'Don't expect me for lunch.' I thought of
other absences, quite frequent these days, crudely clarified today yet well hidden
yesterday under the guise of trade union meetings. He was also on a strict diet, 'to
break'the stomach's egg,' he would say laughingly, this egg that announced old
age.
Every night when he went out he would unfold and try on several of his suits before
settling on one. The others, impatiently rejected, would slip to the floor. I would have
to fold them again and put them back in their places; and this extra work, I discovered,
I was doing only to help him in his effort to be elegant in his seduction of another
woman. I forced myself to check my agitation.
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DIARY ENTRY
Put yourself into the shoes of the narrator after having discovered that all along your husband,
Modou has been on a strict diet to break the stomach egg in order to suit Binnetou's standard.
Write a diary entry in which you describe your feelings and thoughts AFTER the marriage of
Modou and Binnetou.
Galaxy A14
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