Q.1
What is Arthur's first explanation for the other presence in the house?
  • He believes it to be a ghost
  • He believes an animal has entered the house
  • He believes a living person has been hiding in the house
  • He thinks the wind has been causing strange noises and disturbances in the house
Q.2
How does Arthur respond to breaking his torch?
  • He completely gives up
  • He loses control of his emotions
  • He remains calm and collected
  • He runs away in terror
Q.3
Which of the following phrases offers a contrast to the ghostly presence in the house?
  • "I began to doubt my own reality"
  • "Whatever was about, whoever I had seen, and heard rocking, and who had passed me by just now, whoever had opened the locked door was not 'real'"
  • "No light came on. The torch had broken"
  • "We sat on the floor together and I hugged her warm body to me"
Q.4
"The first thing I must have was a light and I groped my way back across to my bed, reached over it and got my hand to the torch at last, took a step back, stumbled over the dog who was at my heels and dropped the torch. It went spinning away across the floor and fell somewhere by the window with a crash and the faint sound of breaking glass. I cursed but managed, by crawling about on my hands and knees, to find it again and to press the switch. No light came on. The torch had broken." Which language choices emphasise Arthur's loss of control in this scene?
  • first, light, reached, last, dropped
  • groped, reached, hand, step, managed
  • groped, stumbled, dropped, spinning, crawling
  • reached, hand, heels, faint, managed
Q.5
Which of the following lines demonstrates Arthur's attempt to provide his own comfort and reassurance?
  • "I listened hard. Nothing"
  • "I would go down into the kitchen and make myself a drink, stir up the fire a little and sit beside it trying, trying to shut out that calling voice for which I could do nothing"
  • "For a moment I was as near to weeping tears of despair and fear, frustration and tension, as I had ever been since my childhood"
  • "It was Spider who brought me to my senses by scratching a little at my arm and then by licking the hand I stretched out to her"
Q.6
Why does Arthur begin to doubt his own reality?
  • He is grappling with the idea that something can be "real" even though it is beyond any of the physical senses
  • He has utterly lost his mind
  • He begins to believe that he and Spider are ghosts in the house inhabited by Mrs Drablow and the Woman in Black
  • The narrator is using hyperbolic language here. Arthur knows that he is solid and real and still believes another person is physically present in the house
Q.7
Who does Arthur wish would "rest in peace"?
  • Mrs Drablow
  • Jennet Humfrye
  • The child who drowned in the marsh
  • Mr Jerome's deceased child
Q.8
What effect does the wind have in this passage?
  • It sounds like a spirit
  • It causes all the lights in the house to go out
  • It relentlessly brings the cries of the ghostly child to Arthur
  • All of the above
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