What Had Happened to Lulu?

1) Who do you think Lulu is?

• persona’s elder sister

• persona's brother

• persona's younger sister

Which word in the poem means “piggy bank”?

• rag-doll

• dusty-shelf

• Money-box

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.

In stanza 1, which sentence indicates bareness?

(a)  

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?

In stanza 2, what does the phrase “used to be” mean?

• It means that the money-box is missing

• It means that it is normally where Lulu puts her things

• It means that it is where Lulu hide things

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?

In stanza 4, which word in the poem means “loud sound”?

• roar

• engine

• voices

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.

Why do you think the mother told the persona “it was a gust of rain”?

• The mother does not want to scare the child

• The mother was telling the truth

• The mother does not want to the tell the truth to the persona

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.

Who do you think is the “somebody” who cried?

(a)  

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?

What does the curtain flapping free symbolise?

• freedom

• wind blowing

• running away

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?

Based on the line “You don't !now what to do" in stanza 6, sum up mother's feelings.

• Mother is angry about the happening

• Mother is at a loss about what is happening

• Mother is ashamed about the happening

In your opinion, what has happened to Lulu?

(a)