What Has Happened to Lulu 5RJP

What Has Happened to Lulu

by Charles Causley

Stanza 1

What has happened to Lulu, mother?

What has happened to Lu?

There's nothing in her bed but an old rag-doll 

And by its side a shoe.

Lulu is not in her room. Only a ragdoll and a shoe are on her bed.

Multiple Choice

What does the persona find in Lulu's bed?

• Lulu playing with her doll

• Lulu's ragdoll and a shoe

Stanza 2

Why is her window wide, mother, 

The curtain flapping free, 

And only a circle on the dusty shelf 

Where her money-box used to be? 

windows open wide, curtains flapping free

only a circle on the dusty shelf where her money box used to be

Multiple Choice

What is missing from Lulu's room?

• dusty shelf

• money box

Multiple Choice

Why do you think there was a circle on the dusty shelf?

• That was where her money box used to be

• She drew a circle there

Stanza 3

Why do you turn your head, mother, 

And why do the tear-drops fall? 

And why do you crumple that note on the fire 

And say it is nothing at all?

Multiple Choice

Why do you think the mother turns her head?

• The mother is tired

• The mother does not want the child to see her face

Multiple Choice

What does "teardrops fall" mean?

• The mother is crying

• The child is crying

Multiple Choice

Why does the mother crumple the note on the fire?

• The mother doesn't want the child to see the note

• The mother is angry

Multiple Select

How do you think the mother feels?

• angry

• frustrated

• happy

• sad

Stanza 4

I woke to voices late last night, 

I heard an engine roar. 

Why do you tell me the things I heard 

Were a dream and nothing more?

Multiple Choice

What do you think "engine roar" means?

• There was a car

• There was a movie

Multiple Choice

Why do you think the mother says "Everything was just a dream" to the child?

• She thinks the child was dreaming

• She doesn't want the child to know what has happened

Stanza 5

I heard somebody cry, mother, 

In anger or in pain, 

But now I ask you why, mother, 

You say it was a gust of rain.

Multiple Choice

Whose voices do you think the child heard?

• Lulu and the mother

• strangers

Multiple Choice

Why does the mother say what the child heard was just a gust of rain?

• It was raining

• She doesn't want the child to know what has happened

Stanza 6

Why do you wander about as though 

You don't know what to do? 

What has happened to Lulu, mother? 

What has happened to Lu?

Mother wandering about

Multiple Choice

Why do you think the mother wanders about?

• She's anxious

• She has nothing to do

Open Ended

What do you think has happened to Lulu?

Open Ended

How do you think the mother feels? Why?