HCSC The Road to Winter Ch 12

  ‘I want you to promise me something,’ she says. ‘When you walk through that door, when you enter our house, you don’t tell us any more lies. It’s the truth from now on, you hear?’

Stella is .....................

• telling Finn to leave her house.

• telling Finn he can stay under certain conditions.

• telling Finn he can only stay for a week.

• telling Finn he can do whatever he wants.

Stella smiles. ‘You’ve got a good head on your shoulders, Finn. Your mum and dad would be proud.’

Stella says this because .......

• It is Finn's birthday

• Finn is an excellent surfer.

• Finn is such a convincing liar.

• Finn has taken good care of Rose.

To start with [Kas] was pretty happy just to have a feed and a roof over her head, but then she told us she had to leave.’

Kas probably wants to leave because .....................

• She wants to be re-united with Rose.

• She hates Harry and Stella.

• She hates boiled cabbage.

• She gets bored easily.

  ‘Kashmala—Kas,’ he corrects himself, ‘has done a bit of work around the place, mostly on her horse. She doesn’t let it out of her sight. Sleeps in the barn with it. When I saw her ride it, I understood why.’

This suggests that ......

• Kas finds hay more comfortable than a mattress.

• Kas is an excellent rider.

• Harry doesn't like horses.

• Kas always feels tired after riding.

  ‘You’re not alone here, Finn,’ Harry says. ‘Stella and me will stick up for all of you. The most important thing is bringing that baby into the world safely. It’s the best chance Rose’s got.’

Harry and Stella think that Rose should come and live with them,

• So that Rose can babysit their daughter Willow.

• So that they can use Rose as a slave.

• So that they can keep the baby for themselves.

• So that Rose and the baby can be properly cared for.

"At the end of the day the different work teams return to their own houses. When we get close to ours, Willow runs out to meet Harry. He sweeps her up and carries her on his shoulders."

Which of these phrases would best describe Harry as a father?

• Lazy and indifferent.

• Warm and affectionate.

• Bad-tempered and cruel.

• Never there.

Which of these quotes explains why Finn does not try to escape immediately?

• Every day I think of Rose. Is she getting better?

• Are the antibiotics working? Have the Wilders left Angowrie?

• I toss and turn at night and fret about escaping.

• But I have to get to Kas first. I can’t leave without her.

Harry is silent. Finally he says, ‘You know we’d lose them all. The three of them. They’d never come back to the valley.’ 

‘Four. There’d be four of them, God willing.’

When she say 'four of them', Stella means ...........

• Finn, Kas, Rose and the horse.

• Finn, Kas, Rose and Willow.

• Finn, Kas, Rose and the new baby.

• that she can't count.

  I hear the lamp being blown out in the room and the house falls into darkness. I sit for a while, trying to understand everything I’ve heard. By the time I get to my feet my knees are cramping and I have to navigate carefully back to my room so I don’t knock anything over.  I’m just about to close my door when Stella calls out.  ‘Goodnight, Finn.’

We might infer from this that .............

• Stella wants to wake Finn up.

• Stella thinks that Finn is up too late.

• Stella wants Finn to know that she knew he was listening to her conversation with Harry.

• Stella doesn't realise that Finn was listening to her conversation with Harry.

I’m just about to close my door when Stella calls out.  ‘Goodnight, Finn.’

This is

• Present tense

• Past tense

• a flashback.

• Figurative language.