AL AZAR HIGH SCHOOL
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
ENGLISH TAT
FRIDAY 11TH APRIL, 2025
EXCERPT: THE SAMARITAN
Instructions
Answer ALL the questions given. All your answers must be illustrated. Avoid stroking your
answers or giving more than one answer to the same question. Be very careful with the names
of the characters to avoid textual errors. Wish you well.
Read the excerpt below and then answer the questions that follow. (25 marks)
Seymour: Money, money, money! And more money.
Ted: You mean we give money to the two students and the teacher?
Seymour: No, mobilise enough money to fight any cases that might be brought up against us and if necessary,
enough for dealing in other ways with those who insist on pursuing us.
Ramdaye: Good idea, but I have loans and projects. I don't think I can raise any money now.
Bembe: I, too, just finished the Madingo Golf Club recently. I am as broke as a church mouse.
Ted: I cannot raise a meaningful amount, either.
Harvester: If that is the case, they why can't we find a way of averting the court cases from coming up in the first
place?
Ramdaye: How can we do that?
Harvester: Restitution.
Ted: What is that?
Harvester: It's an idea that Struck me as I was having a walk along the beach yesterday. We can conduct a truth and
reconciliation exercise.
Bembe: How will that work?
Harvester: We will announce a grace period within which everyone in the Municipality should come clean, confess
their mistakes. give back what they have acquired irregularly, forgive one another and then open up a new chapter
Of honesty in the conduct of our municipal affairs.
(Chuckling) That has never happened anywhere. in the world!
Harvester: It can be our local initiative. I know the tmth can set us free.
Harvester: Isn't restitution an admission of guilt? How can I incriminate myself? And in any case, what if you are
accused of crimes Other than acquiring wealth irregularly?
Ted : I doubt whether restitution is a good idea.
Ramdaye: That takes us back to the idea of raising money to fight the cases. We may have to procure loans or sell
some of our properties.
Seymour: Since we all do not have money, why can't we find a way Of getting that money from the Municipal
Fund?
Mossi: Municipal Fund? How?
Seymour: We just need to do some reallocation of budget line items.
Ted: I agree. We must set aside some money to take care Of investigators, lawyers, prosecutors and judges if things
go
Seymour: You See, the waste disposal system in our town is in terrible state. There is garbage all over the place and
the drains are broken. As we speak, it is a serious health hazard. We can justify reallocation of funds on the need to
address this problem. In reality, we will use some of the funds to fight Off cases that are without a doubt coming.
Mossi: (Surprised and in disbelief) What?
QUESTIONS
a) Briefly explain what happens just before the events in the excerpt. (3 marks)
b) What does Hon. Seymour imply when he says they need to mobilise enough money. if necessary, enough for
dealing in other ways with those who insist on pursuing them? (2 marks)
c) Identify with appropriate illustrations two-character traits of Hon. Seymour brought out in the excerpt. (4
marks)
d) (i) I doubt whether restitution is a good idea. (Rewrite in the reported speech) (1 mark)
(ii) It can be our local initiative. (Add a question tag) (l mark)
(iii) We just need to do some reallocation of budget line items. (Rewrite in the passive) ' (l mark)
e) Discuss two thematic concerns of the writer raised in the excerpt. (4 marks)
f) Pick out and illustrate two stylistic devices used in the excetpt. (4 marks)
g) Explain the meanings ofthe following words used in the excerpt. (3 marks)
h) Briefly explain what happens shortly after the events in the excerpt. (2 marks)
