Klausur (assessment) — Unit 4: Short Stories and Style

Track E · Klasse 11 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden

Track E · Klasse 11 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden (incl. breaks) · 90 BE

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (full paper, 90 BE)
Time. 4 hours including 20 minutes of breaks (220 active minutes). Total. 90 BE.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Part A — Comprehension (~24 BE) Link to heading

Listen twice.

“The hour before is the only one I remember. The kettle was on, whose whistle had not yet started; the cat was asleep, of whom I was jealous; the corridor in which my mother stood was lit by the standing lamp.”

  1. The remembered period: ___ . 2. Kettle relative clause: ___ . 3. Cat relative clause: ___ . 4. Corridor relative clause: ___ .

Part B — Analysis (~18 BE) Link to heading

Read the Hour Before extract above.

  1. Three objects given relative clauses: ___ . 2. The narrator’s contradiction: ___ . 3. What is deliberately absent: ___ . 4. The implied subject of the story: ___ .

Part C — Composition (~18 BE) Link to heading

Insert whose / of whom / of which / in which.

  1. The corridor ___ my mother stood was lit by the lamp.
  2. The cat ___ I was jealous slept on the chair.
  3. The kettle ___ whistle had not yet started was on the hob.
  4. The standing lamp ___ light filled the corridor had been bought in 2011.

Mediation (~30 BE) Link to heading

Write 300 words: a stylistic-analysis essay on the Hour Before extract. Use 3 wider-toolkit relative clauses + 1 cleft + 2 markers.

Expected-answer profile (Erwartungshorizont) — sample
T1. the hour before; whose whistle had not yet started; of whom I was jealous; in which my mother stood. T2. kettle / cat / corridor; None of this is important. All of it is the only material I have.; the larger event off-stage; the pressure that absence exerts on what remains. T3. in which / of whom / whose / whose. T4. Open.
grading scale (Notenschlüssel) (von 90 BE)
| 86–90 | 1+ | 81–85 | 1 | 76–80 | 1- | | 71–75 | 2+ | 66–70 | 2 | 61–65 | 2- | | 56–60 | 3+ | 51–55 | 3 | 46–50 | 3- | | 41–45 | 4+ | 36–40 | 4 | 30–35 | 4- | | 22–29 | 5 | 0–21 | 6 | | |