Question Bank: A Draught of Kindness Author: Charles Dickens Source: An excerpt from The Old Curiosity Shop I. Extract-Based Questions – 4 Scores Each 🔵 1. “They were now in open country; the houses were very few and scattered at long intervals, often miles apart.” (a) Who are referred to as “they”? (1) (b) From which city had they travelled? (1) (c) Why had they left the city? (2) 🟣 2. “Occasionally they came upon a cluster of poor cottages…
Question Bank: So Much Happiness Poet: Naomi Shihab Nye I. Extract-Based Questions – 4 Scores Each 🔵 1. “It is difficult to know what to do with so much happiness. With sadness there is something to rub against, a wound to tend with lotion and cloth.” (a) Name the poem and the poet. (2) (b) Why does the poet compare sadness to a wound? (2) 🟣 2. “With sadness there is something to rub against, a wound to tend with lotion and cloth.” (a) What is…
Question Bank: An Angel in Disguise Author: T. S. Arthur I. Extract-Based Questions – 4 Scores Each 🔵 1. “Intemperance, vice and intemperance had done their miserable work and the dead mother lay cold and still amid her wretched children.” (a) Where did the woman die? (1) (b) How many children did she have? (1) (c) What circumstances led to her death? (2) 🟣 2. “This woman had been despised, scoffed at, and angrily denounced by nearly every man…
Question Bank: Fufi Author: Trevor Noah I. Extract-Based Questions – 4 Scores Each 🔵 1. “Both the cats had been killed. On our front wall someone had written in Afrikaans, ‘Heks’.” (a) Who is the narrator? (1) (b) What does the word “Heks” mean? (1) (c) Why were the cats killed? (2) 🟣 2. “They were two sisters who loved and hated each other. They would look out for each other; they would also fight all the time.” (a) Name the two sisters refer…
