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- 1. Multiple Choice
Explain the meaning of 'strutted' as used in the passage
To walk in a proud way
Walk briskly
To walk slowly
To run
- 2. Multiple Choice
Explain the meaning of 'tawdry' as used in the passage
showy but of cheap quality
Expensive
gaudy
Fairground fashion
- 3. Multiple Choice
Explain the meaning of the phrase ' Anaethesized your senses'
awake your senses
deadens your senses
sensitize your senses
powerful
- 4. Multiple Choice
Explain the meaning of the word 'joie de vivre'
exuberant enjoyment of life
sad
despair
desperate
- 5. Multiple Choice
Explain the meaning of the word' sedately'
Rowdy
undisturbed by passion or excitement
Cheap
Full of love
- 6. Multiple Choice
Explain the meaning of 'slivers'
small or slender
big
huge
joined
- 7. Multiple Choice
Explain the meaning of the word 'itinerant'
Constant
travelling from place to place
Floating
Broken
- 8. Multiple Choice
Explain using your own words what does the writer says in first paragraph about the clothes she had to wear
She wore gypsy like clothes
White clothes that never stayed clean
Her hair was uncomfortable and tight bun
All of the above
- 9. Multiple Choice
Why didn't any of the shows start on time?
Because of crowd
Because they couldn't afford to
Because of power cut
All of the above
- 10. Multiple Choice
Explain using your own words, what is meant by 'double drumbeat that was used literally, to drum up the trade'
When the drum is broken
When they hit the bass drum twice
When they don't hit the drum
All of the above
- 11. Multiple Choice
Why did eating the potato crisps become 'more hazardous with every passing day'.
Potatoes were poisonous
Because the oil was constantly being reused
oil is spilled over it
All of the above
- 12. Multiple Choice
What have you learnt about the food and drink that was on sale at the fair?
They were healthy
They were nutritious
They were hazardous
All of the above
- 13. Multiple Choice
The writer says ' her memories in the fair were 'good in parts'. Explain fully what she liked or disliked about it.
She liked dogs and rides
She didn't like chips
She didn't like that they had to wait a while for circus to start
All of the above
- 14. Multiple Choice
In the final paragraph the narrator switches from using first person pronoun 'I' to the second person pronoun 'you'. What effect does she achieve by this?
the narrator is talking to herself
She is talking to the reader
She is talking to her friends
All of the above
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