University of the West Indies

Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication

Entrance Test

April 13, 2007

Duration: 2 hours 15 minutes

Value: 100 marks

General Instructions
This question paper has 5 sections, A - E. Answer ALL questions in ALL sections. Place your answers on this question paper.
Section A: Listening Exercise (25 marks)
Instructions to be read by invigilator:
A recording will be played once. Listen to it and take notes on the rough work sheets provided. After the first playing of the recording, you will be given the question paper. You have five minutes to familiarise yourself with the questions. The recording will be played a second time. Listen to the recording and respond to the questions on this sheet.

1.  Which organisation was formed with the speaker’s assistance in April 1976? ______. (1 mark)

2.  The speaker states that from 1973 to 1980 she ‘belonged to the public’. What does she mean by this mean? ______. (2 marks)

3.  What rumour the speaker says circulated about her at one point?

______. (1 mark)

4.  What is the ‘sexual double standard’ she mentions in her speech?

______. (2 marks)

5.  What was the speaker’s feeling about the ‘woman question’?

______. (1 mark)

6.  Complete the following statement: “When the gas price became crucial, ______with friends where some days we travelled with them, and other days they travelled with us.” (1 mark)

7.  a. How does the speaker feel about how the work of people like her was assessed?

______. (1 mark)

b. Give the example she uses to illustrate her point.

______. (2 marks)


8. The speaker gives a small account of her routine during the period being discussed. In 20-30 of YOUR OWN WORDS, give four of the activities involved in this routine.

______

______. (4 marks)

9.  Although most weekends were used for domestic chores, the speaker says that after a while she decided to designate some weekends for home time. Give the three activities that defined those weekends.

______. (2 marks)

10.  Weekends designated for home time came about as a result of the speaker’s recognition of their importance but also from:

______. (1 mark)

11.  What was the speaker’s five –year- old daughter’s view of a ‘proper mommy’?

______. (2 marks)

12.  What lasting impact did the experience of being a socio-politically active working mother have on the speaker?

______. (2 marks)

13.  Provide a word/phrase that means the same as the following as used by the speaker:

  1. anonymous
  2. designate
  3. discreet
  4. promiscuous
  5. riddled
  6. subscribe (3 marks)

Section B: General Knowledge (10 marks)
Choose the BEST or CORRECT answer from among the responses following each item. Indicate your choice by circling the letter beside the response.

1.  The Caribbean Court of Justice is the final appellate court for which Caribbean states?

A.  Barbados and Jamaica

B.  Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago

C.  Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana

D.  Guyana and Barbados

2.  Between January 2006 and March 2007, all of the following African presidents contested elections EXCEPT:

A.  Levy Mwanawasa

B.  Abdoulaye Wade

C.  Joseph Kabila

D.  Olusegun Obasanjo

3.  The Commonwealth Caribbean celebrates this year the 200th anniversary of the:

A.  abolition of slavery

B.  declaration of emancipation

C.  abolition of the slave trade

D.  start of indentureship

4.  All of the following European states have territorial holdings in the Caribbean EXCEPT:

A.  The United Kingdom

B.  France

C.  The Netherlands

D.  Spain

5.  In how many Caribbean territories was World Cup Cricket played?

A.  5

B.  6

C.  8

D.  9

6.  The language spoken by the LARGEST number of speakers is:

A.  English

B.  Hindi

C.  Mandarin

D.  Spanish

7.  The Acting President of Cuba is:

A.  Raúl Castro Ruz

B.  Raúl Hector Castro

C.  Raúl Fidel Castro

D.  Raúl Castro Hernández

8.  Refugees in Darfur would most likely need relief assistance from:

  1. UNFPA
  2. UNHCR
  3. UNOPS
  4. UNDCP

9.  The term ‘Ayatollah’ is used to designate the ‘Supreme Leader’ of:

  1. Iraq
  2. Iran
  3. Jordan
  4. Syria

10.  The term ‘occupied territories’ used in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict refers to territories taken from:

  1. Syria, Egypt and Lebanon
  2. Syria, Egypt and Jordan
  3. Syria, Palestine and Lebanon
  4. Syria, Palestine and Jordan

11.  The concept of ‘one country, two systems’ is used in China in relation to which territories?

  1. Macau and Hong Kong
  2. Macau and Tibet
  3. Macau and Taiwan
  4. Macau and Mongolia

12.  Typhoons are tropical cyclones in the ______Ocean:

  1. Atlantic
  2. Indian
  3. Pacific
  4. Southern

13.  Two Caribbean territories which have Creole languages that are NOT related to their European standard language are:

  1. Jamaica and Haiti
  2. Barbados and Grenada
  3. Martinique and Guadeloupe
  4. St. Lucia and Dominica

14.  The two CARICOM territories sharing a historic bond because of the presence in both of the same Afro-Amerindian ethnic group are:

  1. Barbados and Guyana
  2. Puerto Rico and Surinam
  3. Belize and St. Vincent
  4. Haiti and Trinidad

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15.  The name of the following country is:

A.  Britain

B.  Spain

C.  France

D.  Germany

16.  RNA is MOST relevant to the field of:

A.  nuclear physics

B.  genetic engineering

C.  quantum physics

D.  chemical engineering

17.  New Orleans is culturally similar to the Caribbean because of its:

A.  Creole heritage

B.  English heritage

C.  French heritage

D.  Southern heritage

18.  World War II aided the spread of the following:

A.  women’s rights, gay rights, civil rights

B.  women’s rights, colonialism, civil rights

C.  women’s rights, imperialism, civil rights

D.  women’s rights, capitalism, civil rights

19.  The President of Pakistan is:

(a) Gabriel Garcia Marquez

(a)  Pervez Musharaf

(b)  Mahmoud Abbas

(c)  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

(d)  Mahmoud al Zahar

20.  Which country was described by a North American government official as “a menace to society”.

(a)  Taiwan

(b)  Singapore

(c)  Venzuela

(d)  Guatemala

Section C: Language
Part I (5 marks)
Choose the ONE CORRECT answer from among the responses following each item. Indicate your choice by circling the letter beside the response.

1.  Marie lives in a mansion; ___, her sister Karen lives in a shack.

A. therefore

B. however

C. otherwise

D. but

2.  It is better for him to take a taxi. ___, he will arrive late.

  1. Consequently
  2. Furthermore
  3. Otherwise
  4. Or

3.  I enjoy reading this new magazine. ___, it has good articles.

A.  Moreover

B.  Nevertheless

C.  However

D.  Although

4.  Andrew went to the bookstore to pick up a book for his mother but when he got to the bookstore, it was closed. Replace the words in bold with one of the following:

  1. here
  2. there
  3. their
  4. then

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5.  The dog ______we saw belongs to Martin’s father.

Place the BEST word in the space above.

  1. who
  2. whom
  3. which
  4. that

6.  Which of the following shows correct punctuation?

  1. Many persons believe that the Caribbean is a single country.
  2. Many persons believe that, the Caribbean is a single country.
  3. Many persons, believe that the Caribbean is a single country.
  4. Many persons believe that the Caribbean, is a single country.

7.  Which of the following shows correct capitalisation?

  1. The UWI is the best University in the Region.
  2. The UWI is the best university in the Region.
  3. The UWI is the best University in the region.
  4. The UWI is the best university in the region.

8.  The correct version in reported speech of: She asked, “Where are you going?” is:

  1. She asked where are you going
  2. She asked where am I going?
  3. She asked where I was going.
  4. She asked where were you going?

9.  The following sentence has an error. Choose the correct revision from below:

He said that, I was absent from school yesterday. Reason being, I was sick.

  1. I was absent from school yesterday. I was sick.
  2. I was absent from school yesterday; reason being, I was sick.
  3. I was absent from school yesterday, reason being, I was sick
  4. I was absent from school yesterday because I was sick

10.  The following sentence has an error. Choose the correct revision from below History makers are what Colonel Douglas called the CARICOM troops in Haiti.

  1. ‘History makers’ is who Colonel Douglas called the CARICOM troops in Haiti.
  2. ‘History makers’ are whom Colonel Douglas called the CARICOM troops in Haiti.
  3. ‘History makers’ is what Colonel Douglas called the CARICOM troops in Haiti.
  4. ‘History makers’ are who Colonel Douglas called the CARICOM troops in Haiti.

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Section C: Language
Part II (10 marks)
Each of the following sentences has ONE error. Write the corrected sentence in the space provided. YOU LOSE MARKS FOR EVERY ERROR THAT YOU ADD.
  1. The robber was of medium built, and had a huge scar across his left cheek.

______

  1. Been diagnosed with a terminal illness is hard to deal with, especially if you are young.

______

  1. The students moved closer to the board in order to see what the teacher was writing on it.

______

  1. The lecturer told the class that the material was copywritten by its author.

______

  1. There are ten aircrafts in the airport hangar.

______

  1. No one should go through life uncared for but with love given to them by family.

______

  1. I am pleased to meet you Thomas.

______

  1. The match was to be held today, however, it was postponed due to bad weather.

______

  1. If I knew, I would have told you before so you could have prepared yourself for the bad news.

______

  1. Much more persons came to the funeral than expected; there was standing room only.

______

  1. Between you and I, it is a bad idea to throw in the towel like that.

______

  1. From how they played, we could see that they were going to loose the match.

______

  1. He might be more exposed but not necessary brighter than a student from a primary school.

______

  1. Poverty is one of the reason why many children do not attend school regularly.

______

  1. When an individual does not go to school, they are vulnerable to getting involved in criminal activities.

______

  1. Crime in the Caribbean will not end overnight; it will only get worst.

______

  1. The Caribbean, like many tropical places, is vulnerable to disasters such as hurricane and earthquakes.

______

  1. His mother asked him were he was coming from at that hour of the night.

______

  1. My brothers friend is a policeman.

______

  1. Television, along with radio and print, is one medium of mass media.

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Section D Creative and Logical Thinking Skills (30 marks)
Logically arrange the pictures to match a story that you will write beginning: “We headed towards Jangamo beach, taking a dirt track …
and ending “ … we ended the day as we had begun; winding our way down a dirt road fringed by palm trees.”
You story should be between 100 and 150 words.

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Photos retrieved 2007/03/10 from: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/yaser/AFRICA05/inhambane.html

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Section E: Critical Analysis (20 marks)
Read the following extract and respond to the items that follow.
Jamaica Observer
Wednesday, March 17, 2004
Haiti, a wake-up call for us all (Adapted)
Hazel Ross-Robinson
President Aristide's ouster places in stark relief the extreme dangers inherent in Caribbean nations permitting external powers to stoke and intensify whatever political divisions may exist within our small and precious democracies. Unless we become less trusting of others' efforts to help us "build democracy", unless we are willing to undertake the hard work and assume full responsibility for ensuring that our nations are indeed stable and that within our borders justice does indeed prevail, we will, sooner or later, find ourselves once again, in the words of President Thabo Mbeki, objects of pity, objects of ridicule.
I have long lamented the fact that too many African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) nationals allow "friends" in the United States, France, Canada and other industrialised nations to encourage us to overthrow our governments, massacre each other, destroy crucial public infrastructure, and bring our countries to a state of total and absolute chaos in order to register our displeasure with our elected officials. Tragically, we comply - never pausing to question why our "friends" never use the same methods to express their displeasure with their elected officials, no matter how great the provocation. In the United States, for example, Republicans think that President Clinton utterly defiled the presidency. Democrats insist that President Bush, without question, stole the 2000 presidential election. Yet, even the most ruthlessly ambitious American politicians always decide, as though it is by now etched onto their DNA, that the place to inflict the ultimate punishment, in their countries, is at the polls.
My most insistent message in the wake of President Aristide's ouster, therefore, has been that in an increasingly hostile, globalised environment, the governments and peoples of the Caribbean absolutely must learn to band together in defence of sacred and time-honoured principles - justice, equity, democracy. Failure to do so will leave our individual nations, as well as our Caricom family, woefully ill-equipped to withstand the multifaceted and never-ending subterfuge and machinations of the world's "leading democracies".
Prime Minister Patterson has announced that the Aristide family will, for the next several weeks be residing in Jamaica. In doing so, the prime minister has shown himself to be a leader of calm courage and steadfast principle. He is also demonstrating that not only do our nations have a proud, strong tradition of parliamentary democracy, we are also a people whose history have made us concerned about fairness, justice, and human decency.
In the United States, the most ruthless criminals are routinely given "a new chance at a new life", at taxpayer expense, under the US witness protection programme. How, then, can any American policymaker with even a smidgen of understanding of, or regard for, Caribbean people, in good conscience, pressure our governments to isolate the first democratically-elected, and recently-ousted, president of Haiti - a nation whose very existence holds such profound psychological significance in our slave-descended hearts?
Consider the irony of France and the United States having arranged the comfortable exile of Haiti's brutal military dictator, Jean Claude Duvalier in France, or the United States having arranged for Haiti's ruthless military coup leaders Cedras and Biamby to lead equally comfortable lives in Panama, while France, Canada and the United States now insist that Haiti's twice-elected, and recently ousted, president be proclaimed persona non grata within the Caribbean family.
President Aristide co-operated fully with Caricom as the latter attempted to forge a non-violent, constitutional solution to the Haitian crisis, for this is the Caribbean tradition. Haiti's so-called opposition stubbornly refused, year after year, to go to the polls, deeming a selected government more appropriate for the Haitian people than an elected one, thereby pushing Haiti into a vortex of instability which to this day has not abated.
And the people of the Caribbean are now supposed to close their hearts to the Aristide family? We are a special people, with a special history. Let us move forward together, free of rancour and political opportunism, focused on meeting the practical exigencies of managing small-island economies, but ever mindful of importance of insight, wisdom and integrity to a safe and secure future for us all.
Retrieved 2007/03/10
From: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/html/20040316T190000-0500_57225_OBS_HAITI__A_WAKE_UP_CALL_FOR_US_ALL.asp

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