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IGCSE English Literature Carpet Weavers, Morocco

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Morocco is a country in...

a)

The Middle East

b)

North Africa

c)

South America

d)

Central Asia

2.

Which word in the first stanza, not mentioned in the title, might shocking to readers in connection with work?

a)

Loom

b)

Braids

c)

Chime

d)

Children

3.

Which playful, positive image in the first stanza suggests a musical instrument like a xylophone?

a)

Braids are oiled and black

b)

Would make a melodious chime

c)

Look of another world

d)

Their dresses bright

4.

What is the carpet the children are weaving compared to in a direct simile suggesting it is colourful, moving and attention grabbing?

a)

dark rose veins of tree tops

b)

the garden of Islam grows

c)

flickering knots like television

d)

the bench will be raised

5.

Which of the following word in the poem does not have any clear connotations of Islam?

a)

Garden

b)

Mosque

c)

Prayer

d)

Truck

6.

Which word means a machine used for making a carpet?

a)

Mosque

b)

Loom

c)

Lace

d)

Chime

7.

The poem has a regular meter which some critics have suggested reflects the regular movement of a weaving loom. What meter is used?

a)

Iambic tetrameter

b)

Iambic pentameter

c)

dactylic dimeter

d)

trochaic tetrameter

8.

Which metaphorical phrase from the poem suggests that the carpets made by the children are beautiful but also horrible as the children's lives and energy are poured into them?

a)

flickering knots like television

b)

The dark rose veins of the tree tops

c)

The bench will be raised

d)

Freeze into the frame of all that was

9.

Which modal verb used multiple times in the poem suggests that the children have no choice and their lives and acts are controlled by others?

a)

Would

b)

Are

c)

Will

d)

Are

10.

Which verb is polysemic (meaning it has multiple meanings) and suggests donating or gifting but also yielding or giving up itself to a stronger force?

a)

Heaped

b)

Give

c)

Lace

d)

Freeze

11.

Which ambiguous phrase from the poem opens up the issue of child labour and where we would expect children like these to spend their days?

a)

It will give when heaped with prayer

b)

Hard at work in the school of days

c)

all-that-will-be

d)

Freeze into the frame

12.

Do you think this poem makes child labour glamourous?

a)

Yes

b)

No

c)

Perhaps but it depends on the reader's interpretation

d)

Don't know

13.

Explain your answer to the previous question: does the poem glamourise child labour?

4 lines
14.

What questions do you have about the poem? What would you like to ask Carol Rumens about it?

4 lines