WorksheetsIGCSE English Literature Carpet Weavers, Morocco
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 13mins
Morocco is a country in...
The Middle East
North Africa
South America
Central Asia
Which word in the first stanza, not mentioned in the title, might shocking to readers in connection with work?
Loom
Braids
Chime
Children
Which playful, positive image in the first stanza suggests a musical instrument like a xylophone?
Braids are oiled and black
Would make a melodious chime
Look of another world
Their dresses bright
What is the carpet the children are weaving compared to in a direct simile suggesting it is colourful, moving and attention grabbing?
dark rose veins of tree tops
the garden of Islam grows
flickering knots like television
the bench will be raised
Which of the following word in the poem does not have any clear connotations of Islam?
Garden
Mosque
Prayer
Truck
Which word means a machine used for making a carpet?
Mosque
Loom
Lace
Chime
The poem has a regular meter which some critics have suggested reflects the regular movement of a weaving loom. What meter is used?
Iambic tetrameter
Iambic pentameter
dactylic dimeter
trochaic tetrameter
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?
flickering knots like television
The dark rose veins of the tree tops
The bench will be raised
Freeze into the frame of all that was
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?
Would
Are
Will
Are
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?
Heaped
Give
Lace
Freeze
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?
It will give when heaped with prayer
Hard at work in the school of days
all-that-will-be
Freeze into the frame
Do you think this poem makes child labour glamourous?
Yes
No
Perhaps but it depends on the reader's interpretation
Don't know
Explain your answer to the previous question: does the poem glamourise child labour?
What questions do you have about the poem? What would you like to ask Carol Rumens about it?
