Would you rather...? IGCSE English

Would you rather be stuck in the ocean after a helicopter crash or in a ravine with your hand under a chockstone?

• In the ocean

• In a ravine

Would you rather have a hawk, narwhal or a donkey as a pet?

• Hawk

• Narwhal

• Donkey

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Would you rather watch Wacky Races with Emma Levine or play monopoly with Adeline Yen Mah?

• Wacky Races with Emma Levine

• Monopoly with Adeline Yen Mah

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Would you rather ask for someone else's hawk or take the hawk you've been allocated?

• I'd keep the hawk I'd been assigned -- it's weird and awkward to ask for a different hawk. They are just birds!

• I'd ask to swap, even if it was embarrassing. The heart needs what the heart needs!

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Would you rather Helen MacDonald wrote your memoir or Steven Morris wrote a news article about your most embarrassing moment?

• Helen MacDonald writing your memoir

• Steven Morris writing a news article about your most embarrassing moment

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Is it fair for Alagiah to make money from a book describing how he watched as people literally starved to death?

• No, he should donate the money he earns from the book to the starving.

• No, and if he thinks that giving an offhand acknowledgement to a guy with a smile is enough then he is having a laugh.

• Yes, Alagiah's work drew lots of attention to the war and famine in Somalia, resulting in lots of aid.

• Yes, Alagiah is a correspondent and journalist. If you're not happy with journalists earning money, where do you expect to get your news from?

Who is more racist, Adichie's roommate who assumed she couldn't use an oven because she is African or Zephaniah's teachers for thinking that black kids can only be good at sport?

• Adichie's roommate

• Zephaniah's teachers

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Would you rather cultivate your own crops on your own farm, producing just enough to live, or own the crops that others produce for you?

• Cultivate my own crops, making just enough for me

• Be the boss of a big farm and lots of workers

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Would you rather be Curley or Carlson from 'Of Mice and Men'?

• Curley

• Carlson

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Would you rather let your old pet be killed or keep accidentally crushing mice?

• Let your old pet be killed

• Keep accidentally crushing mice

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