Tommy has just lost his temper on the playing field yet again
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Kathy explains that she has finished telling childhood memories and wishes to move on to recalling the students' later years at Hailsham
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Ruth has just stolen Kathy's tape
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Miss Lucy has disappeared from Hailsham
Q.2.
What immediately follows this passage?
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Miss Lucy is replaced as a guardian
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The students make a visit to Norfolk
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The oldest students move to the Cottages
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Miss Lucy forces the students to confront their limited futures
Q.3.
Which conversation with Tommy does Kathy regard as a "turning point"?
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The conversation when Kathy tells Tommy about her missing tape
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The conversation when the students discuss the plot against Miss Geraldine
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The conversation when Tommy tells Kathy what Miss Lucy said about the importance of being creative
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The conversation when Kathy urges Tommy to get back together with Ruth
Q.4.
What is significant about the use of the word "hysterical"?
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It depicts Laura's wild behavior while also referring to the underlying, barely-controllable fear felt by the students
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It suggests that Laura might injure herself by falling off her chair
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It hints that Laura and the other students lack compassion for the soldiers
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It signifies Miss Lucy's impending loss of control
Q.5.
How does Miss Lucy's response relate to the students' literature lesson?
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Miss Lucy believes the rioting students should have the discipline of soldiers
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She is attempting to get the students to calm down
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Miss Lucy sees the parallels between the students' constrained lives and the imprisonment of soldiers in the camps
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Her response is unrelated to the lesson
Q.6.
Which of the following phrases does NOT demonstrate Kathy's observant nature?
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This might have been intended as a serious point, but the rest of us thought it pretty funny
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I came to notice various odd little things she said or did that my friends missed altogether
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I could see, just for a second, a ghostly expression come over her face as she watched the class
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But I heard her clearly enough
Q.7.
What does Miss Lucy mean by her comment about the Hailsham fences?
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Miss Lucy merely wishes to protect the students from accidents
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In her view, it would be natural for the horrific future in store for each of the students to lead to suicides
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Miss Lucy wants nothing more than to protect the students from distress
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The students are notoriously accident-prone
Q.8.
Miss Lucy speaks softly here. Why is that significant?
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She is speaking against her will and cannot bring herself to be heard
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She is afraid she will be overheard by Madame
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She is not sure how much she ought to tell the students
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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?
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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
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We’d been looking at some poetry, but had somehow drifted onto talking about soldiers in World War Two being kept in prison camps
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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
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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?
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She has grown to mistrust Miss Lucy since leaving Hailsham and is looking for evidence that the guardian lied to the students
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Kathy believes that only her own memories are valid. This is related to the theme of self-importance
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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
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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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