Q.1
MARGARET: You can come with me. To my secret, secret hide. . JACKIE: No. Not yet. Do you mind?
  • In the final scene in the Wasteground, Margaret invites Jackie to join her in death, her secret, secret hide
  • In the final scene in the Wasteground, Margaret invites Jackie to join her in death, her secret, secret "hide"
  • In the final scene in the Wasteground, Margaret invites Jackie to join her in death, her "secret, secret hide"
  • In the final scene in the Wasteground, Margaret invites Jackie to join her in death, her "secret, secret" hide
Q.2
DORIS: Mother! Come and look. Do I look different? I must look different, I feel as though I've swallowed a firework.
  • Doris is so excited and surprised by her engagement that she can only express her feelings by explaining that she feels as though she has swallowed a firework
  • Doris is so excited and surprised by her engagement that she can only express her feelings by explaining that she feels as though "I've swallowed a firework"
  • Doris is so excited and surprised by her engagement that she can only express her feelings by explaining that she "feels as though she has swallowed a firework"
  • Doris is so excited and surprised by her engagement that she can only express her feelings by explaining that she feels as though she has "swallowed a firework"
Q.3
MARGARET: It's funny, hearing "Mummy" in this place. You do a job, people treat you differently.
  • Margaret is struck by how "odd" it is to hear herself "called Mummy" in the workplace
  • Margaret is struck by how odd it is to hear herself called "Mummy" in the "workplace"
  • Margaret is struck by how odd it is to hear herself called Mommy in the workplace
  • Margaret is struck by how odd it is to hear herself called "Mummy" in the workplace
Q.4
ROSIE: Why don't you go and get drunk, or whatever it is you lot do to show you're feeling something.
  • Rosie rejects her birth mother in the most cruel manner by referring to her as you lot
  • Rosie's complete and utter rejection of her birth mother is shown in her use of the phrase "you lot"
  • Rosie accuses Jackie of lacking feeling, telling her to go and get drunk or whatever
  • Rosie accuses Jackie of lacking "feeling", telling her to go and get drunk or whatever
Q.5
DORIS: Margaret? I brought you some cocoa. ( .) Margaret? Are you asleep? . . . Dear? ( .) Well then. You'll just have to drink it cold in the morning.
  • The first time in the scene that Doris shows Margaret kindness, bringing her "cocoa" and calling her "dear", it is too late: Margaret is "asleep"
  • The first time in the scene that Doris shows Margaret kindness, bringing her cocoa and calling her "dear", it is too late: Margaret is asleep
  • The first time in the scene that Doris shows Margaret kindness, bringing her cocoa and calling her dear, it is too late: Margaret is asleep
  • The first time in the scene that Doris shows Margaret kindness, bringing her "cocoa" and calling her dear, it is too late: Margaret is asleep
Q.6
ROSIE: It's so lovely here, Doris. ( .) Ken phoned to say happy birthday. I asked him to put some flowers on Margaret's grave today.
  • At the end of the play, after surviving the shock of revelation, Rosie refers to her entire family by their first names, "Doris", "Ken" and "Margaret"
  • At the end of the play, after surviving the shock of revelation, Rosie refers to her entire family by their first names: Doris, Ken and Margaret
  • At the end of the play, after surviving the shock of revelation, Rosie refers to her entire family by their first names; "Doris", "Ken" and "Margaret" join "Jackie", as she has always known her own mother
  • All of the above
Q.7
JACKIE ( ): I'll go back! Yes I will, finish the degree, I won't fail both things!
  • Jackie feels like a failure at motherhood, but promises her mother that she will go back to college, rather than failing both things
  • Jackie feels like a failure at motherhood, but promises her mother that she will "go back" to college, rather than failing "both things"
  • Jackie feels like a "failure" at motherhood, but promises her mother that she will go back to college, rather than failing "both things"
  • Jackie feels like a failure at motherhood, but promises her mother that she will go back to college, rather than failing "both things"
Q.8
JACKIE: There. I even washed your red sock. Washed everything, don't want Mommy to think — ( .) I've got to clear up, Rosie. — All these ashtrays, Sandra and Hugh last night, they never think about you, do they?
  • As she fusses over the ashtrays, Jackie struggles with two simultaneous roles: being a good mother and a good daughter worried about pleasing her own mother
  • Jackie struggles with being a "good mother" at the same time as proving herself to her own "Mummy"
  • Jackie feels as if she is still a "little girl" who needs her mother's approval
  • All of the above
Q.9
MARGARET: And I'm going to learn to type! Ken says it will be helpful if we need a second income. ( .) Typing's far more useful than all those stupid school certificates. I'll get a job.
  • In referring to academic "qualifications" as "stupid" and housework as not a "proper job", Margaret rejects her mother's expectations for her
  • In referring to academic qualifications as "stupid" and housework as not a "proper job", Margaret rejects her mother's expectations for her
  • In referring to academic qualifications as "stupid" and housework as not a proper job, Margaret rejects her mother's expectations for her
  • In referring to academic qualifications as stupid and housework as not a "proper" job, Margaret rejects her mother's expectations for her
Q.10
MARGARET: If you left a bit of butter on your plate, it was either Mother on at you about rationing, or Father would tell us again, how he started his business with a tin of boot polish, cleaning gentlemen's shoes on the steps of the Royal Exchange. What that had to do with butter, I really don't know.
  • Margaret remembers being "lectured" frequently as a child, complaining: "it was either Mother on at you about rationing, or Father would tell us again, how he started his business with a tin of boot polish"
  • Margaret remembers being lectured frequently as a child, complaining it was either Mother on at you about rationing, or Father would tell us again, how he started his business with a tin of boot polish
  • Margaret remembers being lectured frequently as a child, complaining: "it was either Mother "on at you about "rationing", or Father would tell us again, how he started his business "with a tin of boot polish"
  • Margaret remembers being lectured frequently as a child, complaining: "it was either Mother on at you about rationing, or Father would tell us again, how he started his business with a tin of boot polish"
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