Literature (Poems)

Literature

Poems: The Living Photograph, Charge of the Light Brigade

The Living Photograph

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1) How old was ther persona when the photograph was taken?

• 1

• 2

• 3

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2) Why did the grandmother forget to boil her soup?

• She did not use the match.

• She forgot to put the pot on the stove.

• She forgot to turn on the stove.

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3) Why did the grandmother look tall in the photograph?

• She was not sitting down.

• She was still young.

• She was not short.

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4) Which of these describes the grandmother when she was old and sick?

• sharp blue eyes

• grey bun

• round and hunched

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5) When the grandmother was young, how was her appearance?

• She wore pleated skirt and flat shoes.

• She had white hair and wore broderie anglaise shirt.

• She was not hunched and she was tall.

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6) What does line 7 tell you about the grandmother?

• She was very sick.

• She was brave although she was sick.

• She was not afraid of death.

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7) Choose the best word that the persona uses to describe death.

• Unknown

• Unthinkable

• Awful

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8) What was the color of the grandmother's hair?

• Grey bun

• White hair

• Grey

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9) What does the photograph remind the persona of?

• Her grandmother.

• The grandmother when she was tall.

• The persona and her grandmother long time ago.

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10) Why do think the persona describes the afterlife as awful, unknown and unthinkable?

• Because she is still young.

• Because she knows that there is no way she can go and see her grandmother anymore.

• Because she views death as something horrible and yet has no understanding of what happens after that.

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11) How does the poet describe the grandmother's appearance in the photograph?

• white broderie anglaise shirt

• flat shoes

• pleated skirt

• tall

• round and hunched

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12) Which of these describe the grandmother when she was old and sick?

• round and hunched

• grey hair

• white hair

• blue eyes

• small

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13) Why did the grandmother look tall in the photograph?

Charge of the Light Brigade

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Who gave the command to the soldiers?

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How many soldiers were involved in the war?

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Why was the valley called ‘valley of the death’?

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Who ‘blundered’ in giving the command?

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What was waiting for the soldiers at the battlefield?

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How do you think the soldiers felt when they rode into the battlefield?

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What does the word ‘dismayed' mean?

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Which word means a mistake was made?

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Which phrase in the poem means ‘attack’?

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Choose the meaning of: ‘Charge for the guns!’

• it was not their duty to query or answer

• place where many soldiers lost their lives

• attack the war weapons

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Choose the meaning of: Valley of death

• the scene looked like Hell opened and swallowed them up

• a distance of two and a half kilometres

• place where many soldiers lost their lives

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Choose the meaning of: ‘Theirs but not to make reply’

• fight on and die if necessary

• it was not their duty to query or answer

• somebody had given a wrong order

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Choose the meaning of: ‘do and die’

• fight on and die if necessary

• cannon balls flew and exploded

• it was not their duty to query or answer

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Choose the meaning of: ‘volleyed and thundered’

• cannon balls flew and exploded

• attack the war weapons

• a distance of two and a half kilometres

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Choose the meaning of: ‘Half a league’

• the scene looked like Hell opened and swallowed them up

• a distance of two and a half kilometres

• place where many soldiers lost their lives

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Choose the meaning of: ‘Someone had blundered’

• somebody had given a wrong order

• it was not their duty to query or answer

• attack the war weapons

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Choose the meaning of: ‘into the mouth of Hell’

• the scene looked like Hell opened and swallowed them up

• cannon balls flew and exploded

• somebody had given a wrong order

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How many soldiers were involved in the war?