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Comprehension Test
Go, Lovely Rose and Other Stories
H. E. Bates
1 Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?
a Mr Carteret’s daughter always stayed out late.
b Mrs Carteret wasn’t worrying about her daughter.
c Mr Carteret didn’t like the young man.
d The day that he met Cora, Bill sold all his flowers.
e Bill wanted to buy a farm.
f Coradidn’t want to help Bill to find money to buy the farm.
g Bill went to prison for eighteen years.
h Gerda Hauptmann was from America.
i Gerda loved her daughter very much.
j Graham wanted to take a picture of the mother and daughter on the dam.
20 marks

2 In Go, Lovely Rose what does Mr Carteret think has happened to his daughter?








10 marks3 Fill in the gaps using: pub, lived, drink, town, railwayman, bridge, beer, closed, finished, cards.
When Bill arrived in the............... he went to the ..............., but it was ................ . He went into a ............... and asked for a ................ . He asked if anyone knew where Miss Whitehead ................ . A ............... who was playing ............... told him.He ............... his ............... and left.
20 marks

4 Why did Bill kill Frankie Corbett?












10 marks

5 Match a number from A with a letter from B to make complete sentences.
A
1 Every morning a German woman sat in the garden ...
2 Trudi said that her mother killed her father ...
3 After they had walked up the mountain ...
4Graham wanted to finish his black and white film ...
5 Graham was surprised when Trudi spoke English ...
B
a ... they stopped in the little restaurant.
b ... sketching and eating grapes.
c ... because Gerda had said she couldn’t.
d ... before taking a picture of Trudi and her mother.
e ... by telling the police he was a spy.
20 marks

6 Choose one of the threestories. Write a short comment about the story. (Did you enjoy it? Did you understand the character’s actions? Which character did you like most? Why?)






















20 marks

Total marks


Multiple-choice Test
Go, Lovely Rose and Other Stories
H. E. Bates

Setting
Choose the best answer.
1 Mr Carteret wakes up on a _____.
a [ ] cold night in Januaryb [ ] rainy night in April
c [ ] warm night in July d [ ] windy night in October
2 Mr Carteret can’t _____.
a [ ] speak b [ ] sleep c [ ] find his glasses d [ ] find his watch
3 Mr Carteret walks around his_____.
a [ ] bedroom b [ ] bathroom c [ ] kitchen d [ ] garden
4 When Bill comes back to the town after 18 years, _____.
a [ ] a lotof things have changed b [ ] nothing has changed
c [ ] Cora has died d [ ] Cora has moved away
5 At first, Bill goes to look for Cora at the _____.
a [ ] station b [ ] farm c [ ] shoe factory d [ ] pub
6 When Bill is younger he comes into town every week to sell his _____.
a [ ] books and newspapers b [ ] cakes and biscuits
c [ ] fruit, vegetablesand flowers d [ ] birds and chickens
7 Gerda and Trudie come from _____.
a [ ] Germany b [ ] Switzerland c [ ] Italy d [ ] England
8 The hotel is near _____.
a [ ] an old church b [ ] a big station c [ ] a new dam d [ ] a famous museum
9 Trudie speaks very good _____.
a [ ] Italian b [ ] English c [ ] French d [ ] Spanish
10Trudie tells Graham about her _____ in the Second World War.
a [ ] father b [ ] brother c [ ] sister d [ ] grandmother
20 marks


Characters
Choose the best answer.
11 Susie is Mr Carteret’s _____.
a [ ] sister b [ ] wife c [ ] mother d [ ] daughter
12 Susie is _____ years old.
a [ ] nine b [ ] nineteen c [ ] thirty-nine d [ ] fifty-nine...