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Manga District Mock - English Paper 3 Question Paper

Manga District Mock - English Paper 3 

Course:Secondary Level

Institution: Mock question papers

Exam Year:2009



Name………………………………………………………. Index No. …………………………….
School …………………………………………………….. Candidate’s Signature…………………
Date……………………………………
101/3
ENGLISH
(Imaginative Composition and essays based on set Texts)
Paper 3
July/ August 2009
Time: 2½ Hours
MANGA DISTRICT SECONDARY SCHOOLS
JOINT EVALUATION TEST - 2009
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)
101/3
ENGLISH
(Imaginative Composition and essays based on set Texts)
Paper 3
Time: 2½ Hours
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
• Answer three questions
• Questions one and two are compulsory
• Choose any one question from the optional set texts
• If more than one optional text question is attempted only the first one is marked
• Each essay should not be more than 450 words
This paper consists of 2 printed pages.
Candidates should check the question paper to ensure that all pages are printed as indicated and no questions are missing
1. Imaginative Composition.
Either
a) Write a story illustrating the saying, ‘Better to have tried and failed than never to have
tried at all’
Or
b) Write a story with the following beginning:
This was no ordinary day for a child orphaned by HIV and AIDS. Never before had the
future looked……
2. Compulsory set text: The River Between by Ngugi wa Thiong’o (20mks)
“Rivalry and hatred seem to be the driving force of the novel”, write a composition to support the
truth of this statement. Illustrate your answer from the novel ‘The River Between.’
3. Optional set text: Homestretch: by Velma Pollard (20mks)
Write a composition on challenges/ problems experienced by Africans in the diaspora. Draw your
illustrations from the novel Homestretch by Velma Pollard.
4. Optimal set text: Shreds of Tenderness by John Ruganda.
“Odie is his own enemy”. Write a composition to validate the truth of this statement in relation to
Shreds of Tenderness
5. Optional set text: Short stories: Half a Day and Other Stories: (20mks)
“Hama Tuma is against ills in society”. Write an essay in support of the statement. Draw your illustrations from Hama Tuma’s short story, ‘Government by Magic spell’.






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