ENG 4U Final Practice Exam for Grade 12 English Students
[GRADE 12] [ENGLISH] [ENG4U]
PRACTICE FINAL EXAM
INSTRUCTOR: TIME LIMIT: _2 hours
DATE: PAGE 1 OF 12
Instructions that are to be followed for a Final exam:
1. No textbooks, notes or electronic devices are allowed.
2. Students are to WRITE the exam using BLUE/BLACK INK PEN unless
otherwise directed.
3. No soft copy submissions or typed answers unless otherwise directed.
4. Answer all other questions in the spaces provided.
- If you require additional paper, let your proctor know.
-If you do use additional paper, please be sure to label the questions accordingly.
5. Please ensure that all 12 pages are included and returned.
6. Your Proctor must return your exam to your instructor via email or fax
immediately upon completion.
Mark Breakdown
Part A – Knowledge and Understanding 19 marks
Part B – Thinking and Investigation 25 marks
Part C – Application 18 marks
Part D – Communication 14 marks
Total: 76 Marks
ENG 4U Final Practice Exam for Grade 12 English Students
, ENG 4U Final Practice Exam for Grade 12 English Students
PART A – Literary Analysis
Read the following story, and answer the questions that follow.
Larry’s Party
Excerpt from Chapter 1: Fifteen Minutes in the Life of Larry Weller, 1977
By Carol Shields
By mistake, Larry Weller took someone else’s Harris tweed jacket
instead of his own, and it wasn't until he jammed his hand in the pocket
that he knew something was wrong.
His hand was travelling straight into a silky void. His five fingers pushed
down, looking for the balled-up Kleenex from his own familiar worn-out
pocket, the nickels and dimes, the ticket receipts from all the movies he
and Dorrie had been seeing lately. Also, those hard little bits of lint, like
meteor grip, that never seem to lose themselves once they've worked
into the seams.
This pocket – today’s pocket -- was different. Clean, a slippery valley. The
stitches he touched at the bottom weren't his stitches. His fingertips glided
now on a sweet little sea of lining. He grabbed for the buttons. Leather, the
real thing. And something else -- the sleeves were a good half inch longer
than they should have been.
This jacket was twice the value of his own. The texture, the seams. You
could see it got sent all the time to the cleaners. Another thing, you could
tell by the way the shoulders sprang out that this jacket got parked on a
thick wooden hanger at night. Above a row of polished shoes. Refilling its
tweedy warp and woof with oxygenated air.
He should have run back to the coffee shop to see if his own jacket was still
scrunched there on the back of his chair, but it was already quarter to six,
and Dorrie was expecting him at six sharp, and it was rush hour and he
wasn't anywhere near the bus stop.
And -- the thought came to him – what’s the point? A jacket’s a jacket. A
person who patronized a place like Cafe Capri is almost asking to get his
jacket copped. This way all that’s happened is a kind of exchange.
Forget the bus, he decided. He'd walk. He'd stroll. In his hot new Harris
tweed apparel. He'd push his shoulders along, letting them roll loose in their
sockets. Forward with the right shoulder, bam, then the left shoulder coming
up from behind. He'd let his arms swing wide. Fan his fingers out. Here
comes the Big Guy, watch out for the Big Guy.
The sleeves rubbed light across the back of his hands, scratchy but not
too scratchy.
ENG 4U Final Practice Exam for Grade 12 English Students
[GRADE 12] [ENGLISH] [ENG4U]
PRACTICE FINAL EXAM
INSTRUCTOR: TIME LIMIT: _2 hours
DATE: PAGE 1 OF 12
Instructions that are to be followed for a Final exam:
1. No textbooks, notes or electronic devices are allowed.
2. Students are to WRITE the exam using BLUE/BLACK INK PEN unless
otherwise directed.
3. No soft copy submissions or typed answers unless otherwise directed.
4. Answer all other questions in the spaces provided.
- If you require additional paper, let your proctor know.
-If you do use additional paper, please be sure to label the questions accordingly.
5. Please ensure that all 12 pages are included and returned.
6. Your Proctor must return your exam to your instructor via email or fax
immediately upon completion.
Mark Breakdown
Part A – Knowledge and Understanding 19 marks
Part B – Thinking and Investigation 25 marks
Part C – Application 18 marks
Part D – Communication 14 marks
Total: 76 Marks
ENG 4U Final Practice Exam for Grade 12 English Students
, ENG 4U Final Practice Exam for Grade 12 English Students
PART A – Literary Analysis
Read the following story, and answer the questions that follow.
Larry’s Party
Excerpt from Chapter 1: Fifteen Minutes in the Life of Larry Weller, 1977
By Carol Shields
By mistake, Larry Weller took someone else’s Harris tweed jacket
instead of his own, and it wasn't until he jammed his hand in the pocket
that he knew something was wrong.
His hand was travelling straight into a silky void. His five fingers pushed
down, looking for the balled-up Kleenex from his own familiar worn-out
pocket, the nickels and dimes, the ticket receipts from all the movies he
and Dorrie had been seeing lately. Also, those hard little bits of lint, like
meteor grip, that never seem to lose themselves once they've worked
into the seams.
This pocket – today’s pocket -- was different. Clean, a slippery valley. The
stitches he touched at the bottom weren't his stitches. His fingertips glided
now on a sweet little sea of lining. He grabbed for the buttons. Leather, the
real thing. And something else -- the sleeves were a good half inch longer
than they should have been.
This jacket was twice the value of his own. The texture, the seams. You
could see it got sent all the time to the cleaners. Another thing, you could
tell by the way the shoulders sprang out that this jacket got parked on a
thick wooden hanger at night. Above a row of polished shoes. Refilling its
tweedy warp and woof with oxygenated air.
He should have run back to the coffee shop to see if his own jacket was still
scrunched there on the back of his chair, but it was already quarter to six,
and Dorrie was expecting him at six sharp, and it was rush hour and he
wasn't anywhere near the bus stop.
And -- the thought came to him – what’s the point? A jacket’s a jacket. A
person who patronized a place like Cafe Capri is almost asking to get his
jacket copped. This way all that’s happened is a kind of exchange.
Forget the bus, he decided. He'd walk. He'd stroll. In his hot new Harris
tweed apparel. He'd push his shoulders along, letting them roll loose in their
sockets. Forward with the right shoulder, bam, then the left shoulder coming
up from behind. He'd let his arms swing wide. Fan his fingers out. Here
comes the Big Guy, watch out for the Big Guy.
The sleeves rubbed light across the back of his hands, scratchy but not
too scratchy.
ENG 4U Final Practice Exam for Grade 12 English Students
