Klausur (assessment) — Unit 8: Post-Colonial Voices, Advanced

Track E · Klasse 12 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden

Track E · Klasse 12 · 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

Read twice.

“The narrator’s two surnames sit side by side on a London library card. The library card itself is a postcolonial artefact: two languages, two empires, one borrower.”

  1. Two surnames where: ___ . 2. Card as: ___ . 3. Hybridity NOT meaning: ___ . 4. Card as working condition: ___ .

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

Read the three extracts above.

  1. Rushdie’s artefact: ___ . 2. Dangarembga’s split: ___ . 3. Roy’s pronominal move: ___ . 4. Shared central move: ___ .

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

Composition prompt: Apply Spivak’s subaltern concept to one extract in 250 words. Use 2 markers + 1 cleft.

Mediation (~30 BE) Link to heading

Mediation prompt: A 250-word German post-colonial-studies introduction (Einführungsband). Mediate for an English-speaking literature student. (Source provided in class.)

Expected-answer profile (Erwartungshorizont) — sample
Comprehension. 1. on a London library card; 2. postcolonial artefact (two languages, two empires, one borrower); 3. multicultural cheer / synthesis; 4. two empires, one borrower, no resolution. Analysis. 1. two surnames on London library card; 2. educated I + home-language I (double consciousness); 3. ironised we refusing celebratory national we; 4. principled refusal of synthesis / keeping the seams visible. Composition. Open. Mediation. 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 | | |