High School: 9th and 10th Grade - Literature - My Mother Said I Never Should - Extract 2 Solution

Q.1.

What is the immediate context for this passage?

Q.2.

What happens next, chronologically?

Q.3.

What emotion does Margaret convey with the words, "those are my years"?

Q.4.

Margaret presents different versions of what it means to have a relationship with a child. Which one of the following is NOT one of these?

Q.5.

Which of the following most accurately describes the emotions in this passage?

Q.6.

Why is Jackie terrified at first?

Q.7.

Which lines tell the reader that Jackie understands how Margaret is feeling?

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"I can make up for it — somehow — "
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"She must remember — I visited!"
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"I wish we weren’t in your office!"
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"You know Mummy, the Gallery and everything, I couldn’t have done it without you. You can’t be a mother and then cancel Christmas to be in New York"

Q.8.

JACKIE: We were running along this dazzling beach. I thought, is that what I’ve missed? What does this line tell the audience about Jackie?

Q.9.

What does Jackie agonize over?

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Whether she should stay for a longer talk with her mother or catch the early train
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Whether she should ever go back to Manchester and to her gallery, or not
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Whether she should tell Rosie immediately about her birth
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Whether she should have another child

Q.10.

What causes Jackie to run from the room?