Alt 100: Critical Reading And Response Question Paper
Alt 100: Critical Reading And Response
Course:Bachelor Of Education English Literature
Institution: Kenyatta University question papers
Exam Year:2010
KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2009/2010
INSTITUTE OF OPEN LEARNING
EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS AND
BACHELOR OF EDUCATION
ALT 100: CRITICAL READING AND RESPONSE
DATE: WEDNESDAY 17TH FEBRUARY 2010 TIME: 11.00 A.M. - 1.00 P.M.
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer 3 questions. Question 1 is compulsory.
Choose either 1a or 1b and two other questions.
Either
1 (a)
?Literature is meant for enjoyment, not for academic speculation.? State and defend your
response to this assertion. Illustrate your answer with reference to your experience of
literature.
(24 marks)
Or
1(b)
Systematically examine the significance of theme in literary creativity and analysis.
(24 marks)
2.
Present a concise literary explication of the poem below.
(23 marks)
AIDS
Aids indeed
From a willing donor
To a willing recipient
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Aids
Aid indeed
A gift of death
Through a gift of life
Aids
Aid indeed
Aid with strings attached
From the haves
To the have-nots
Aids
A gift of death indeed
From the developed world
To the developing world
The fable of the hen
And the mother egg
What came first
Development or
The aid of Aids?
- J. K. Mungai (Boundless Voices, P.88)
3.
Support the view that a child?s point of view is most suited to present the ideas in Maya
Angelou?s ?Momma, the Dentist and Me.?
(23 marks)
4.
Discuss the relevance of the title ?His Chosen Calling? to the story in Miguel Street.
(23 marks)
5.
What is the ?tragedy? in Sophocle?s Antigone and who or what brings it about?
(23 marks)
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