Q.1
What is the immediate context for this passage?
  • Tommy has just lost his temper on the playing field yet again
  • Kathy explains that she has finished telling childhood memories and wishes to move on to recalling the students' later years at Hailsham
  • Ruth has just stolen Kathy's tape
  • Miss Lucy has disappeared from Hailsham
Q.2
What immediately follows this passage?
  • Miss Lucy is replaced as a guardian
  • The students make a visit to Norfolk
  • The oldest students move to the Cottages
  • Miss Lucy forces the students to confront their limited futures
Q.3
Which conversation with Tommy does Kathy regard as a "turning point"?
  • The conversation when Kathy tells Tommy about her missing tape
  • The conversation when the students discuss the plot against Miss Geraldine
  • The conversation when Tommy tells Kathy what Miss Lucy said about the importance of being creative
  • The conversation when Kathy urges Tommy to get back together with Ruth
Q.4
What is significant about the use of the word "hysterical"?
  • It depicts Laura's wild behavior while also referring to the underlying, barely-controllable fear felt by the students
  • It suggests that Laura might injure herself by falling off her chair
  • It hints that Laura and the other students lack compassion for the soldiers
  • It signifies Miss Lucy's impending loss of control
Q.5
How does Miss Lucy's response relate to the students' literature lesson?
  • Miss Lucy believes the rioting students should have the discipline of soldiers
  • She is attempting to get the students to calm down
  • Miss Lucy sees the parallels between the students' constrained lives and the imprisonment of soldiers in the camps
  • Her response is unrelated to the lesson
Q.6
Which of the following phrases does NOT demonstrate Kathy's observant nature?
  • This might have been intended as a serious point, but the rest of us thought it pretty funny
  • I came to notice various odd little things she said or did that my friends missed altogether
  • I could see, just for a second, a ghostly expression come over her face as she watched the class
  • But I heard her clearly enough
Q.7
What does Miss Lucy mean by her comment about the Hailsham fences?
  • Miss Lucy merely wishes to protect the students from accidents
  • In her view, it would be natural for the horrific future in store for each of the students to lead to suicides
  • Miss Lucy wants nothing more than to protect the students from distress
  • The students are notoriously accident-prone
Q.8
Miss Lucy speaks softly here. Why is that significant?
  • She is speaking against her will and cannot bring herself to be heard
  • She is afraid she will be overheard by Madame
  • She is not sure how much she ought to tell the students
  • It is not significant. She always speaks quietly
Q.9
Which of the following sentences best explains why Kathy is the only student listening to Miss Lucy?
  • Where before I’d have backed away from awkward stuff, I began instead, more and more, to ask questions, if not out loud, at least within myself
  • We’d been looking at some poetry, but had somehow drifted onto talking about soldiers in World War Two being kept in prison camps
  • I went on watching Miss Lucy through all this and I could see, just for a second, a ghostly expression come over her face as she watched the class in front of her
  • Not that anything significant started to happen immediately afterwards; but for me at least, that conversation was a turning point
Q.10
"It’s even possible I began to realize, right back then, the nature of her worries and frustrations. But that’s probably going too far; chances are, at the time, I noticed all these things without knowing what on earth to make of them." How does Kathy's reflection relate to the themes of the novel?
  • She has grown to mistrust Miss Lucy since leaving Hailsham and is looking for evidence that the guardian lied to the students
  • Kathy believes that only her own memories are valid. This is related to the theme of self-importance
  • Kathy is full of doubts later and realizes that all of her memories of Hailsham are wrong. This is relevant because she is an unreliable narrator
  • She is discussing the construction of memories and their trustworthiness, which is relevant because the story is told through the narrator's memories
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