Question 1 of 12
Q1. In the passage "The villagers themselves had three ways of living: working for the Squire, or on the farms, or down in the cloth-mills at Stroud", the phrase "ways of living" means...
A) Roads to other places
B) Things to do
C) Types of paid work
D) Sorts of housing
E) Collecting-points for tools
Question 2 of 12
Q11a. In the passage "The village school at that time provided all the instruction we were likely to ask for", find a word that means the same as 'teaching'.
A) instruction
B) barn
C) divided
D) crowding
E) remained
Question 3 of 12
Q11b. In the passage "...nothing in his head more burdensome than a few facts learned off by heart, a jumbled list of wars, and a dreamy image of the world's geography", find a word that means the same as 'muddled'.
A) dame
B) assistant
C) jumbled
D) burdensome
E) dreamy
Question 4 of 12
Q11c. In the passage "Wild boys and girls from miles around...swept down each day to add to our numbers, bringing with them strange oaths and odours, quaint garments and curious pies", find a word that means the same as 'smells'.
A) packed
B) pupils
C) outlying
D) odours
E) quaint
Question 5 of 12
Q11d. In the passage "They were my first amazed vision of any world outside the womanly warmth of my family; I didn't expect to survive it for long, and I was confronted with it at the age of four", find a word that means the same as 'faced'.
A) amazed
B) vision
C) womanly
D) warmth
E) confronted
Question 6 of 12
Q11e. In the passage "The rabble closed in; I was encircled; grit flew in my face like shrapnel", find a word that means the same as 'mob'.
A) encircled
B) grit
C) shrapnel
D) rabble
E) face
Question 7 of 12
Q11f. In the passage "Somebody had plucked my hair...Somebody else had screwed my ears and spat a ribbon of ink down my back", find a word that means the same as 'tweaked'.
A) ribbon
B) plucked
C) screwed
D) stole
E) rescued
Question 8 of 12
Q11g. In the passage "I went home in a smouldering temper", find a word that means the same as 'simmering'.
A) gracious
B) junior
C) smouldering
D) boxed
E) dried
Question 9 of 12
Q11h. In the passage "Somebody had stolen my baked potato, so I swiped somebody else's apple...I grew as ruthless as anyone else", find a word that means the same as 'hard-hearted'.
A) grown
B) veteran
C) apple
D) packed
E) ruthless
Question 10 of 12
Q11i. In the passage where the widow says "'Go on. Do tell. You needn't be shy'", find a word that means the same as 'timid'.
A) staring
B) shy
C) soft-hearted
D) net
E) square
Question 11 of 12
Q16. In the passage "But after a week I felt like a veteran..." Choose ONE of the following which seems to you to describe best how he felt.
A) He seemed to have grown much older
B) He would have liked to look after animals
C) He felt like a soldier
D) He was no longer frightened by school
Question 12 of 12
Q1 Alternative. In the passage "The villagers themselves had three ways of living: working for the Squire, or on the farms, or down in the cloth-mills at Stroud", what does 'ways of living' refer to?
A) The villagers' three main occupations: Squire work, farming, and cloth-mills
B) Different types of houses (vicarage, wooden hut, pub)
C) How villagers spent their time and earned money
D) The school curriculum and education system
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