THE LITTLE GIRL BY KATHERINE MANSFIELD

What is this story about?

• A) children

• B) fears of children

• C) childhood fears

• D) a little girl and her feelings for her father

Why was Kezia afraid of her father?

• A) he used to speak rudely to her and always found faults in her

• B) He beat her for tearing his papers

• C) she thought that he was a hard hearted man

• D) All

How did Kezia's grandmother help her to have a better relation with her father?

• A) by asking her to prepare food for him

• B) by sending her to talk to him in his room

• C) by asking her complete her homework

• D) all

What did Kezia's mother ask her to make?

• A) chapati

• B) snacks

• C) a gift of pin cushion

• D) none

Why did Kezia's efforts to please her father irritated him?

• A) he was a rude man

• B) he was unhappy

• C) didn't know how to speak to the children

• D) she had torn his important speech papers

By the end of the story, what all did Kezia feel for her father?

• A) he is a very good father

• B) he loves children

• C) he is very harsh

• D) all

• E) both a and c

"Crying too much to explain, she lay in the shadowed room watching the evening light make a sad little pattern on the floor."

What made her cry?

• her father had scolded her

• her father had beaten her with a ruler

• her mother had left her alone at home

• she wanted to go and play with the McDonald's

'But the child never forgot. Next time she saw him she quickly put both hands behind her back and a red colour flew into her cheeks.'

Her cheeks turned red out of ________

• Embarrassment

• Fear

• Dislike

• Anger

What scared the little girl at night?

• Her father

• The butcher

• The Dark

• Her Loneliness

"My head's on your heart. I can hear it going. What a big heart you've got, Father dear."

What did Kezia 'really' mean?

• Her father had a heart bigger than others

• Her father's heart beat really hard

• she was touched by her father's loving gesture

• she found herself too small in front of her father