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WorksheetsQUIZ SEPT 2020
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 56mins
Read the memoir 'My Grandmother' written by Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of the Russian dictator, Joseph Stalin. Then, answer the questions 1-10.
Brought up by a hard-working German mother, my grandmother was herself a woman of exceptional industry. She and Grandfather both had golden hands, but hers was a woman's skills (Lines 1-3).
1. The word "industry" is closest to...
knowledge
skills
passion
production
Brought up by a hard-working German mother, my grandmother was herself a woman of exceptional industry" (Lines 1-3). Which of the following THREE words describe grandmother?
skillful
resourceful
boastful
efficient
"She and Grandfather both had golden hands, but hers was a woman's skills" (Lines 2-3). This sentence most probably shows that ...
they were both hard workers but the grandmother only worked around women.
the grandfather was strong but the grandmother was weak.
they were both talented in making money.
they were both gifted with hands-on abilities.
"She was a wonderful cook and dressmaker and a splendid manager of the meagre resources available to her as wife of a Bolshevik who was in jail part of the time and always on the move (Lines 3-5). This description is mostly about
the grandmother's life when the communist party ruled Russia.
the grandmother's life before the communist party ruled Russia.
the grandmother's life in the household run by state employees.
the grandmother's life after Svetlana escaped to the United States.
"Later on, you couldn't fail to see how much she hated seeing our household run like public property by state employees who were just pouring government money down the drain" (Lines 5-7). This sentence suggests that ...
the grandmother is frugal (financially careful) about money.
the state employees are stealing their money.
they don't have much money to waste.
the government is wasting their money.
"The functionaries who were running the house didn't understand, or rather they understood only too well and couldn't forgive her for it". From this sentence, the author suggests that...
the functionaries were too uneducated to understand.
they tried to understand but failed.
they understood but pretended to not understand.
they understood but hid their feelings and pretended to not understand.
The word 'tactful'(Line 9) is closest to...
polite
aware
undiplomatic
concerned
The sentences below show Grandfather’s reasons for holding his tongue (Lines 9-10) EXCEPT
he refrained from expressing his annoyance.
he said nothing about things that irritated him.
he was not permitted to speak up his mind.
he chose to keep quiet.
The writer's mother did not like the Grandmother meddling with matters of the house. Which part of the text shows this?
... (she) got tired of Grandmother's outpourings and her constant criticism of the way the household was run.
... my grandmother was herself a woman of exceptional industry.
.. Grandmother was quite capable of bursting into sudden screams of abuse.
.. Grandmother had just too hot a temper to stand silently by while the household was outrageously mismanaged.
Why was Grandmother so critical of how others ran the household? Choose TWO reasons below.
She had always worked hard.
She had good domestic skills.
She doesn’t have an efficient and careful manager.
She could tolerate money being thrown away.
PART B VOCABULARY AND PUNCTUATION
Questions 11-20 are based on vocabulary and punctuation.
Which of the following is punctuated incorrectly?
“What are you Tarzan?” he asked aloud. “An ape or a man?”
“Then you knew your mother, Tarzan?” asked D’Arnot.
“Yes. She was a great, fine ape, larger than I,” replied Tarzan, “and weighing twice as much.”
“Oh, I beg your pardon” she exclaimed, pausing on the threshold. “I thought you were alone, papa”.
12. Which of these sentences has the comma in the right place?
Please get me, some eggs milk and some butter.
Please get me some eggs, milk and some butter.
Please get me some eggs milk, and some butter.
Please get me some eggs milk and, some butter.
`Won't’ is an informal way of writing and a contraction of `would not’.
True
False
You're tea is getting cold. Is this sentence correct?
Yes
No
Which of these sentences has the right number of commas, with each comma in the right place?
Jo, and Jim, the gardeners were sitting in the shed.
Jo and Jim the gardeners were sitting, in the shed.
Jo and Jim, the gardeners, were sitting in the shed.
Jo, and Jim the gardeners were sitting in the shed.
Read the extract below and answer question 16
The great rock the big boys had swum through rose sheer out of the white sand — black, tufted lightly with greenish weed. He could see no gap in it. He swam down to its base. Again and again he rose, took a big chestful of air, and went down. Again and again he groped over the surface of the rock, feeling it, almost hugging it in the desperate need to find the entrance. And then, once, while he was clinging to the black wall, his knees came up and shot his feet out forward and they met no obstacle. He had found the hole. It was an irregular, dark gap; but he could not see deep into it. He let go of his anchor, clung with his hands to the edges of the holes, and tried to push himself in.
16. The great rock rose vertically. Identify a word or a phrase from the text above which suggests the same idea the word underlined.
(a)
Read the extract below and answer question 17.
The great rock the big boys had swum through rose sheer out of the white sand — black, tufted lightly with greenish weed. He could see no gap in it. He swam down to its base. Again and again he rose, took a big chestful of air, and went down. Again and again he groped over the surface of the rock, feeling it, almost hugging it in the desperate need to find the entrance. And then, once, while he was clinging to the black wall, his knees came up and shot his feet out forward and they met no obstacle. He had found the hole. It was an irregular, dark gap; but he could not see deep into it. He let go of his anchor, clung with his hands to the edges of the holes, and tried to push himself in.
17. He searched blindly with his hands. Identify a word or a phrase from the text which suggests the same idea the word underlined.
(a)
Read the extract below and answer question 18.
The great rock the big boys had swum through rose sheer out of the white sand — black, tufted lightly with greenish weed. He could see no gap in it. He swam down to its base. Again and again he rose, took a big chestful of air, and went down. Again and again he groped over the surface of the rock, feeling it, almost hugging it in the desperate need to find the entrance. And then, once, while he was clinging to the black wall, his knees came up and shot his feet out forward and they met no obstacle. He had found the hole. It was an irregular, dark gap; but he could not see deep into it. He let go of his anchor, clung with his hands to the edges of the holes, and tried to push himself in.
18. He looked as if he was embracing the rock face. Identify a word or a phrase from the text which suggests the same idea the word underlined.
(a)
Thousands live in squalid shacks, spilling sewage into the sea through open Channels. Which of the following word could be used to replace ‘squalid’ in the sentence above?
mutilated
slum-like
moving
devastated
Ursula’s heart hardened with ignominious pain. All the words below express the meaning of `ignominious’ correctly EXCEPT
humiliating
shameful
undignified
intense
