BECE 2014 English Past Questions Essay (Paper 2) – Answers

JUNE 2014
ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Paper 2

ANSWERS

4 (a) Two things the girl learnt to do in one month.
She learnt to milk cows, separate butter and cheese from the milk, ferment the milk and cook nearly as well as Rikku’s mother. (any two)

(b) Two adjectives that describe Fatimeh as presented in the first paragraph
Silent /quiet, diligent/ hardworking/ industrious, intelligent/ clever/ smart, fast/quick

(c) Hodio’s main reason for following Fatimeh to the stream
Hodio’s main reason for following Fatimeh to the stream was to propose marriage to her.
Or : to ask her to be his wife
Or: to ask that they elope (leave secretly to get married)

(d) (i) What Fatimeh refused to do at first
She refused to get married to Hodio.

OR:   She refused his marriage proposal.
(ii) Why she refused Hodio’s proposal.
She refused because she was a slave, and could not hope to marry a freeborn Fulani.

(e) Why Hodio wanted to live in a town.
Hodio wanted to live in a town because there, no one cared about tradition and custom.

(f)   (i) silent – quiet
(ii) sour – sharp-tasting / bitter
(iii) improved – become better/ nicer /more pleasant
(iv) drew – fetched
(v) proposal – plea/ request/ appeal/ petition/ entreaty/offer

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