Year 8 Learning Review Mrs Gomersall

The difference between rich and poor people in the Victorian era is called ...

• social inequality

• bad luck

• inequality

• social

Why did poor Victorian children have to work instead of going to school?

• Social inequality meant that everyone in the family needed to earn money by working.

• Their parents were lazy and couldn't be bothered to work hard.

• Poor children were not intelligent enough to go to school.

Why was Victorian London overcrowded?

• The population of London increased rapidly as people moved there for work.

• People moved out of London to the countryside.

Sherlock Holmes has a dual nature. This means he.... 

• is sometimes introspective and sometimes relentless

• loves two women

• has two pets

• lives in two houses

Irene Adler was able to fool Sherlock Holmes because (choose 2 answers)

• Holmes thought she was inferior to him because she was a woman

• Holmes had too much pride and self confidence

• Holmes was lazy

• Holmes went to the wrong house

Too much pride or self-confidence

• hubris

• brutal

• vulnerable

• malicious

To set up an idea

• establish

• climax

• exposition

• shift

The point that a story's tension builds up to 

• climax

• shift

• exposition

Not as good or as important as something or someone else

• inferior

• superior

• hubris

Better or more important than someone or something else

• superior

• inferior

• hubris