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Question 1 of 23
1. Question
Understanding English literature pre-1914
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
Fearing the monster’s revenge, Victor makes preparations for his marriage to Elizabeth.
In this state of mind I wrote to Elizabeth. My letter was calm and affectionate. “I fear, my beloved girl,” I said, “little happiness remains for us on earth; yet all that I may one day enjoy is centred in you. To you alone do I consecrate my life and my endeavours for contentment. I have one secret, Elizabeth, a dreadful one; when revealed to you it will chill your frame with horror, and then, far from being surprised at my misery, you will only wonder that I survive what I have endured. I will confide this tale of misery and terror to you the day after our marriage shall take place; for, my sweet cousin, there must be perfect confidence between us. But until then, I conjure you, do not mention or allude to it.”
Soon after my arrival, preparations were made for the event. Through my father’s exertions, a part of the inheritance of Elizabeth had been restored to her by the Austrian government. A small possession on the shores of Como belonged to her. It was agreed that, immediately after our union, we should proceed to Villa Lavenza, and spend our first days of happiness beside the beautiful lake near which it stood.
In the meantime I took every precaution to defend my person in case the fiend should openly attack me. I carried pistols and a dagger constantly about me, and was ever on the watch to prevent artifice.
After the ceremony was performed a large party assembled at my father’s; but it was agreed that Elizabeth and I should commerce our journey by water, sleeping that night at Evian, and continuing our voyage on the following day.
Those were the last moments of my life during which I enjoyed the feeling of happiness.
It was eight o’clock when we landed; we walked for a short time on the shore enjoying the transitory light, and then retired to the inn and contemplated the lovely scene of waters, woods, and mountains, obscured in darkness, yet still displaying their black outlines. The wind, which had fallen in the south, now rose with great violence in the west. The moon had reached her summit in the heavens and was beginning to descend — the clouds swept across it swifter than the flight of the vulture and dimmed her rays, suddenly a heavy storm of rain descended.
How does Shelley present Victor Frankenstein’s feelings in this extract?
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Question 2 of 23
2. Question
Understanding adjectives
Which word is an adjective?
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Question 3 of 23
3. Question
Understanding grammatical constructions
What is an example of pathetic fallacy?
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Question 4 of 23
4. Question
Reading to make inferences
A Monster Calls
This is the scene when Harry ignores Conor in the dining hall at school, and Conor confronts him.
“HEY!” Conor called loudly.
The dining hall had fallen silent now, as Conor and the monster moved faster after Harry.
Harry who had still not turned around.
Conor reached him and grabbed him by the shoulder, twisting him round. Harry pretended to question what had happened, looking hard at Sully, acting like he was the one who’d done it. “Quit messing about,” Harry said and turned away again.
Turned away from Conor.
”And then one day the invisible man decided,” the monster said, “I will make them see me.”
“How?” Conor asked, breathing heavily again, not turning back to see the monster standing there. “How did the man do it?”Conor could feel the monster close behind him, knew that it was kneeling, knew that it was putting its face up to his ear to whisper into it.
”He called,” it said, “for a monster.”
And it reached a huge monstrous hand past Conor and knocked Harry flying across the floor.
Trays clattered and people screamed as Harry tumbled past them. Anton and Sully looked aghast, first at Harry, then back at Conor.
Their faces changed as they saw him. Conor took another step towards them, feeling the monster towering behind him.
Anton and Sully turned and ran.
“What do you think you are playing at, O’Malley?” Harry said as he pulled himself up from the floor, holding his forehead. He took his hand away and a few people screamed as they saw blood.
Conor kept moving forward, people scrambling to get out of his way.
“You don’t see me?” Conor shouted. “You don’t see me?”
“No, O’Malley!” Harry shouted back.
What were Harry’s thoughts when he fell to the floor?
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Question 5 of 23
5. Question
Vocabulary in Context
A Monster Calls
This is the scene when Harry ignores Conor in the dining hall at school, and Conor confronts him.
“HEY!” Conor called loudly.
The dining hall had fallen silent now, as Conor and the monster moved faster after Harry.
Harry who had still not turned around.
Conor reached him and grabbed him by the shoulder, twisting him round. Harry pretended to question what had happened, looking hard at Sully, acting like he was the one who’d done it. “Quit messing about,” Harry said and turned away again.
Turned away from Conor.
”And then one day the invisible man decided,” the monster said, “I will make them see me.”
“How?” Conor asked, breathing heavily again, not turning back to see the monster standing there. “How did the man do it?”Conor could feel the monster close behind him, knew that it was kneeling, knew that it was putting its face up to his ear to whisper into it.
”He called,” it said, “for a monster.”
And it reached a huge monstrous hand past Conor and knocked Harry flying across the floor.
Trays clattered and people screamed as Harry tumbled past them. Anton and Sully looked aghast, first at Harry, then back at Conor.
Their faces changed as they saw him. Conor took another step towards them, feeling the monster towering behind him.
Anton and Sully turned and ran.
“What do you think you are playing at, O’Malley?” Harry said as he pulled himself up from the floor, holding his forehead. He took his hand away and a few people screamed as they saw blood.
Conor kept moving forward, people scrambling to get out of his way.
“You don’t see me?” Conor shouted. “You don’t see me?”
“No, O’Malley!” Harry shouted back.
Based on the text, what does the word “aghast” mean?
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Question 6 of 23
6. Question
Analysing a writer’s choice of vocabulary
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937)
Read the extract from Chapter 4. This is when Curley’s wife threatens Crooks.
Crooks stood up from his bunk and faced her. “I had enough,” he said coldly. “You got no rights comin’ in a coloured man’s room. You got no rights messing around in here at all. Now you jus’ get out, an’ get out quick. If you don’t, I’m gonna ask the boss not to ever let you come in the barn no more.”
She turned on him in scorn. “Listen,” she said. “You know what I can do to you if you open your trap?”
Crooks stared hopelessly at her, and then he sat down on his bunk and drew into himself.
She closed on him. “You know what I could do?” Crooks seemed to grow smaller, and he pressed himself against the wall. “Yes, ma’am.”
“Well, you keep your place then. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny.”
Crooks had reduced himself to nothing. There was no personality, no ego- nothing to arouse either like or dislike. He said, “Yes, ma’am,” and his voice was toneless.
For a moment she stood over him as though waiting for him to move so that she could whip at him again; but Crooks sat perfectly still, his eyes averted, everything that might be hurt drawn in. She turned at last to the other two.
Old Candy was watching her, fascinated. “If you was to do that, we’d tell,” he said quietly. “We’d tell about you framin’ Crooks.”
“Tell an’ be damned,” she cried. “Nobody’d listen to you, an’ you know it. Nobody’d listen to you.”
Candy subsided. “No….” he agreed. “Nobody’d listen to us.”
Lennie whined, “I wisht George was here. I wisht George was here.”
Candy stepped over to him. “Don’t you worry none,” he said. “I jus’ heard the guys comin’ in. George’ll be in the bunkhouse right now, I bet.” He turned to Curley’s wife. “You better go home now,” he said quietly. “If you go right now, we won’t tell Curley you was here.”
She appraised him coolly. “I ain’t sure you heard nothing.”
“Better not take no chances,” he said. “If you ain’t sure, you better take the safe way.”She turned to Lennie. “I’m glad you bust up Curley a little bit. He got it comin’ to him. Sometimes I’d like to bust him myself.” She slipped out the door and disappeared into the dark barn. And while she went through the barn, the halter chains rattled, and some horses snorted and some stamped their feet.
Crooks seemed to come slowly out of the layers of protection he had put on. “Was that the truth what you said about the guys come back?” he asked.
What word class is the word ‘coldly’?
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Question 7 of 23
7. Question
Language techniques
‘Crooks had reduced himself to nothing.’
What language technique is used in this quote?
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Question 8 of 23
8. Question
Language techniques
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937)
Read the extract from Chapter 4. This is when Curley’s wife threatens Crooks.
Crooks stood up from his bunk and faced her. “I had enough,” he said coldly. “You got no rights comin’ in a coloured man’s room. You got no rights messing around in here at all. Now you jus’ get out, an’ get out quick. If you don’t, I’m gonna ast the boss not to ever let you come in the barn no more.”
She turned on him in scorn. “Listen,” she said. “You know what I can do to you if you open your trap?”
Crooks stared hopelessly at her, and then he sat down on his bunk and drew into himself.
She closed on him. “You know what I could do?” Crooks seemed to grow smaller, and he pressed himself against the wall. “Yes, ma’am.”
“Well, you keep your place then. I could get you strung up on a tree so easy it ain’t even funny.”
Crooks had reduced himself to nothing. There was no personality, no ego- nothing to arouse either like or dislike. He said, “Yes, ma’am,” and his voice was toneless.
For a moment she stood over him as though waiting for him to move so that she could whip at him again; but Crooks sat perfectly still, his eyes averted, everything that might be hurt drawn in. She turned at last to the other two.
Old Candy was watching her, fascinated. “If you was to do that, we’d tell,” he said quietly. “We’d tell about you framin’ Crooks.”
“Tell an’ be damned,” she cried. “Nobody’d listen to you, an’ you know it. Nobody’d listen to you.”
Candy subsided. “No….” he agreed. “Nobody’d listen to us.”
What technique is used in the quote “You know what I could do?”
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Question 9 of 23
9. Question
Reading to make critical comparisons
Hippo writes a love poem to his wife by John Agard
Oh my beautiful fat wife
Larger to me than life
Smile broader than the river Nile
My winsome waddlesome
You do me proud in the shallow of morning
You do me proud in the deep night
Oh, my bodysome mud-basking companion.
Hippo writes a love poem to her husband by John Agard
Oh mu lubby-dubby hubby-hippo.
With your widely-winning lippo
My sumo-thrasher of water
Dearer to me than any two-legger
How can I live without
Your ponderful potamus pout?
The poem primarily consists of which of the following?
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Question 10 of 23
10. Question
Language techniques
Hippo writes a love poem to his wife by John Agard
Oh my beautiful fat wife
Larger to me than life
Smile broader than the river Nile
My winsome waddlesome
You do me proud in the shallow of morning
You do me proud in the deep night
Oh, my bodysome mud-basking companion.
Hippo writes a love poem to her husband by John Agard
Oh mu lubby-dubby hubby-hippo.
With your widely-winning lippo
My sumo-thrasher of water
Dearer to me than any two-legger
How can I live without
Your ponderful potamus pout?
Which language technique is used in the following phrase:
‘How can I live without
Your ponderful potamus pout?’
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Question 11 of 23
11. Question
Understanding text and drawing inferences
Read the extract taken from the fourth chapter of ‘Pink Mist’, ‘Arthur’s Story’. After returning to his mother’s house on R&R, Arthur remembers an incident in Afghanistan.
1 I closed my eyes and tried to see that day again.
March, I was bunking off from school.
A breeze in the reeds, the water over my boots –
A stupid thing to do.
To think I could get away so easily.
6 No chance. As soon as my eyes were shut,
I saw them instead. Those two Yanks*,
the ones who said they’d take our place,
who drive on ahead to the front of the convoy**,
then round a corner where…
By the time we got there
12 their Humvee*** was a ball of flame
burning in the middle of the street.
I saw them climb out. Both on fire.
They ran, who knows why, but they did.
Two burning guys, puppets of flame.
The first, blinded, ran into a wall,
18 tried to stub himself out, then fell.
The other carried on down the street,
ten, twenty feet, before dropping to his knees.
He held his arms out for a moment,
a flaming cross,
then tipped forward, on to his face
24 and died.
I opened my eyes.
Sweat on my wrists.
I was back in my childhood room,
footie posters on the wall,
my opened palm closed to a fist.
30 The pale blue shards of the heron’s egg
scattered inside the drawer,
like a broken promise.
* Yanks – Americans
** Convoy – a group of vehicles traveling together
*** Humvee – a military truck
Which words describe Arthur’s feelings about his memory?
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Question 12 of 23
12. Question
Understanding the difference between Standard English and other varieties of English
Read the extract taken from the fourth chapter of ‘Pink Mist’, ‘Arthur’s Story’. After returning to his mother’s house on R&R, Arthur remembers an incident in Afghanistan.
1 I closed my eyes and tried to see that day again.
March, I was bunking off from school.
A breeze in the reeds, the water over my boots –
A stupid thing to do.
To think I could get away so easily.
6 No chance. As soon as my eyes were shut,
I saw them instead. Those two Yanks*,
the ones who said they’d take our place,
who drive on ahead to the front of the convoy**,
then round a corner where…
By the time we got there
12 their Humvee*** was a ball of flame
burning in the middle of the street.
I saw them climb out. Both on fire.
They ran, who knows why, but they did.
Two burning guys, puppets of flame.
The first, blinded, ran into a wall,
18 tried to stub himself out, then fell.
The other carried on down the street,
ten, twenty feet, before dropping to his knees.
He held his arms out for a moment,
a flaming cross,
then tipped forward, on to his face
24 and died.
I opened my eyes.
Sweat on my wrists.
I was back in my childhood room,
footie posters on the wall,
my opened palm closed to a fist.
30 The pale blue shards of the heron’s egg
scattered inside the drawer,
like a broken promise.
* Yanks – Americans
** Convoy – a group of vehicles travelling together
*** Humvee – a military truck
What is an example of a colloquial word?
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Question 13 of 23
13. Question
Language techniques
Read the extract taken from the fourth chapter of ‘Pink Mist’, ‘Arthur’s Story’. After returning to his mother’s house on R&R, Arthur remembers an incident in Afghanistan.
I closed my eyes and tried to see that day again.
March, I was bunking off from school.
A breeze in the reeds, the water over my boots –
A stupid thing to do.
To think I could get away so easily.
6 No chance. As soon as my eyes were shut,
I saw them instead. Those two Yanks*,
the ones who said they’d take our place,
who drive on ahead to the front of the convoy**,
then round a corner where…
By the time we got there
12 their Humvee*** was a ball of flame
burning in the middle of the street.
I saw them climb out. Both on fire.
They ran, who knows why, but they did.
Two burning guys, puppets of flame.
The first, blinded, ran into a wall,
18 tried to stub himself out, then fell.
The other carried on down the street,
ten, twenty feet, before dropping to his knees.
He held his arms out for a moment,
a flaming cross,
then tipped forward, on to his face
24 and died.
Look at this quote from line 22: “a flaming cross.”
What technique is used in this line?
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Question 14 of 23
14. Question
Interpreting figures of speech in context
From Wonder by R J Palacio (2012)
It was a long drive home. I fell asleep in the backseat like I always do, my head on Via’s lap like she was my pillow, a towel wrapped around the seat belt so I wouldn’t drool all over her. Via fell asleep, too, and Mom and Dad talked quietly about grown-up things I didn’t care about.
I don’t know how long I was sleeping, but when I woke up, there was a full moon outside the car window. It was a purple night, and we were driving on a highway full of cars. And then I heard Mom and Dad talking about me.
“We can’t keep protecting him,” Mom whispered to Dad, who was driving. “We can’t just pretend he’s going to wake up tomorrow and this isn’t going to be his reality, because it is, Nate, and we have to help him learn to deal with it. We can’t just keep avoiding situations that…”
“So sending him off to middle school like a lamb to the slaughter…,” Dad answered angrily, but he didn’t even finish his sentence because he saw me in the mirror looking up.
“What’s a lamb to the slaughter?” I asked sleepily.
“Go back to sleep, Auggie,” Dad said softly.
“Everyone will stare at me at school,” I said, suddenly crying
Complete the sentence:
When the Dad says, “like a lamb to the slaughter”, he is specifically describing how Auggie ___________________.
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Question 15 of 23
15. Question
Reading to make critical comparisons
Listen Mr Oxford Don by John Agard (2006)
Me not no Oxford don
me a simple immigrant
from Clapham Common
I didn’t graduate
I immigrate
But listen Mr Oxford don
I’m a man on de run
and a man on de run
is a dangerous one
I ent have no gun
I ent have no knife
but mugging de Queen’s English
is the story of my life
I don’t need no axe
to split/ up yu syntax
I don’t need no hammer
to mash/ up yu grammar
I warning you Mr Oxford don
I’m a wanted man
and a wanted man
is a dangerous one
Dem accuse me of assault
on de Oxford dictionary/
imagine a concise peaceful man like me/
dem want me serve time
for inciting rhyme to riot
but I rekking it quiet
down here in Clapham Common
I’m not a violent man Mr Oxford don
I only armed wit mih human breath
but human breath
is a dangerous weapon
So mek dem send one big word after me
I ent serving no jail sentence
I slashing suffix in self defence
I bashing future wit present tense
and if necessary
I making de Queen’s English accessory/ to my offence
No Problem by Benjamin Zephaniah (1996)
I am not de problem
But I bare de brunt
Of silly playground taunts
An racist stunts,
I am not de problem
I am a born academic
But dey got me on de run
Now I am branded athletic,
I am not de problem
If yu give I a chance
I can teach yu of Timbuktu
I can do more dan dance,
I am not de problem
I greet yu wid a smile
Yu put me in a pigeon hole
But I a versatile.
These conditions may affect me
As I get older,
An I am positively sure
I have no chips on me shoulders,
Black is not de problem
Mother country get it right,
An just for de record,
Sum of me best friends are white.Which of the following themes best applies to both poems?
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Question 16 of 23
16. Question
Accurate use of pronouns in sentences
Select the intensive pronoun in the following sentence:
No one was around to help me in the restaurant, so I cleaned off the table myself.
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Question 17 of 23
17. Question
Using pronouns in the proper case
Select the correct subject pronoun to complete the sentence.
Yes, it was ________ who baked the cookies.
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Question 18 of 23
18. Question
Using pronouns in the proper case
Select the vague pronoun:
A virus is an infective agent that typically consists of a nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat. They can prescribe antibiotics to help fight the virus.
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Question 19 of 23
19. Question
Using appropriate shifts in pronoun number and person
Select the incorrectly used pronoun in the sentence below:
It is excusable for students to leave school early for a doctor’s appointment, as long as you return with a doctor’s note.
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Question 20 of 23
20. Question
Using punctuation to set off nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements
Select the answer that correctly uses commas to set off a non-restrictive or parenthetical element.
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Question 21 of 23
21. Question
Spelling correctly
Select the word that is spelled correctly.
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Question 22 of 23
22. Question
Understanding word definitions
Select the word that matches the definition provided.
To help someone relax.
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Question 23 of 23
23. Question
Distinguish the connotations of words with similar denotations
Select the word that is a positive connotation for the definition below:
really wanting something to happen
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