FORM 4 PAPER 2 MARKING SCHEME

(a) The effects of global warming are melting ice caps, rising sea levels, species extinction and climatic change.
(4 marks)
(b) The main cause of global warming, according to the passage, is fossil fuel emissions. (2 marks)
(c) Britain encourages people to use renewable electricity by making it very easy for people to switch to
renewable sources. (3 marks)
(d) An ordinary reader would not be blamed for wondering why he or she has to reduce on driving while
industries continue to emit a lot of CO2. (4 marks)
(e) The writer communicates the message that, while pollution is a life-threatening issue, the approaches to
resolving it are ineffective. (4 marks)
(f) (i) fob off — to avoid/make excuses
(ii) Incentive — a thing that motivates or encourages someone to do something
(iii) Calamity — an event that causes great damage (3 marks)

[Link] Kaelo sends Taiyo to call Resian for him. Resian feels hopeful and excited that she is being called to be
informed about admission to the university. She thinks that it is her mother or sister who has talked to her father
about the matter.

2. It is ironical for Resian to think that her father is going to tell her about her dream wish of joining Egerton
University but he has plans to marry her off to his friend Oloisudori. This is even as he says “your future is very
important to me”

3. He says this because he has plans to marry her to his friend Oloisudori. If this succeeds, his business would
be saved because Oloisudori had helped him establish the business and even building his house in Nasila.

4. Ignorant- she thinks that her father has good news about joining university which is not the case. She says,
“That’s it!” She thought triumphantly. “Is it Yeiyo or Taiyo who spoke to you?”

Apprehensive. She replies to her father apprehensively.

Fearful- she is in fear of her father. She sits on a chair far from her father.

5. Determination/optimism. Resian is very much determined to join Egerton University. She thinks it is the
reason why her father has called her. “Who between them spoke to you about our enrollment at the Egerton
University.”

6. After the excerpt, Ole Kaelo hesitates telling Resian what he wanted to tell her and tells her to go to the
kitchen. He tells her to tell her mother to come.

7. She asked him who between them had spoken to him about their enrollment at the Egerton University.

8. Suspense. The reader is left in suspense wanting to know why Ole Kaelo had called his daughter.
Dialogue- there is dialogue between Resian and her father. It reveals the strained relationship between daughter
and father.

Nervously/worriedly/fearfully

Sit far away

Control herself

Troubled/disturbed

(a) The poem is about the death of a ruler, who is a traitor. The ruler who is assassinated outside a night club,
and his body is left to be devoured by vultures. His diary is washed into the sea by rain. and when it is found
it reveals who the ruler was and his desire to be buried in a dignified, grand funeral.
(3 marks)
(b) The words stuttering rifles are onomatopoeic. They describe the sound of bullets flying from the rifles of the
assassins. (2 marks)
(c) The tone of the poem is satirical/sarcastic. The poem is satirical about the arrogance of the politician who is
very selfish and has no regard for other people. The poem satirizes the politicians desire for a lavish funeral
but dies in very humiliating conditions.(4 marks)
(d) The central theme of the poem is betrayal and change. The politician has no regard for the downtrodden and
poor people in the country, whose interests he should be serving. He uses his money to buy cheap pleasure
instead of engaging in constructive activities. Change is represented by the assassination and at the end of
the poem a pupil suggests that they bring tractors to plough the land; which represents a major change. (3
marks)
(e) (i) Yellow is not a colour of the national flag of Kenya. The poet is asking who could contradict the
politician who claimed to be the expert while the common citizens are cursed to brood on books, think about
schoolgirls and hunger, and sleep hungry under torn mosquito nets. (2 marks)
(ii) The possible meanings of this line are:
first, it could literally mean that his diary was a submarine because it was found in the sea; secondly, it
could mean that the ideas he had written in the diary were highly destructive and irresponsible, to the
extent that they could lead to the Third World War. (2 marks)
(f) This is an open question. Award marks for well thought out alternatives, for example civic education and
electing responsible leaders who have integrity. (2marks)
(g) (i) anchored — secured or held firmly (1mark)
(ii) brood — think or worry about (1mark)
QUESTION 4 GRAMMAR
A.
(1) differ with
(2) in accordance with
(3) independent of
B.
(1) Under no circumstance would my father allow us to attend night parties.
(2) On no account should strangers be allowed into the compound without the security officer’s
permission.
(3) Scarcely had the plane taken off when one of the passengers began to scream
C.
(1) Always be frank and open with your friends.
(2) When you are, you will win their trust and confidence.
(3) Help yourself to some oranges. These ones are sweet but those are sweeter
D.
(1) Naliaka,, who is very good at grammar, joined our school this term
(2) The elephant, which is a very big animal, is also very strong.
(3) The generator, which had been on the whole night, broke down in the morning
E.
(1) They aren’t serious, are they?
(2) He bought a new house last month, didn’t he?
(3) They won’t shut up, will they?
(4) Let us go, shall we?
(5) He hasn’t been here before, has he?
(6) You live in an apartment, don’t you?