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WorksheetsTWIST OF GOLD
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
The boy and the Dragoon sat in the warm drizzle on either side of the river. It was a close, still evening and the flies were down. The boy knew he was there but ignored him as he had been instructed so often by his. He baited his hook yet again and cast it into the river. The Dragoon’s horse stood with his legs in the cool of the water and drank tidily. The man sensed the boy’s burning enmity; he had encountered it often enough before from the children in Ireland, but it hurt him nonetheless as it always did.
1. How did the dragoon feel about being hated by the Irish children?
He felt sad
He felt indifferent
He felt pleased
The boy and the Dragoon sat in the warm drizzle on either side of the river. It was a close, still evening and the flies were down. The boy knew he was there but ignored him as he had been instructed so often by his mother. He baited his hook yet again and cast it into the river. The Dragoon’s horse stood with his legs in the cool of the water and drank tidily. The man sensed the boy’s burning enmity; he had encountered it often enough before from the children in Ireland, but it hurt him nonetheless as it always did.
2. Who had told the boy to have nothing to do with soldiers?
His mother
His father
His uncles
The boy wore nothing but rags, like all the other children, and he went bare-foot. He was thin, but not yet as skeletal as some the Dragoon had seen. The signs of hunger were there already, the hollow cheeks, the stick-like legs and the dreadful white of the bones at the knees. It was the child’s sunken eyes though that held the Dragoon’s attention, fixed as they were in complete concentration at the point where his line lay in the water. His whole body was taut and waiting behind those eyes.
3. How could the Dragoon tell that the boy was starving and close to death?
The boy wore nothing but rags
The boy was angry. An angry man is a hungry man
The hollow cheeks, stick like legs, dreadful white of the knee bones.
The Dragoon was “exhilarated” when the boy spoke to him at last.
4) What does “exhilarated” mean?
to be happy or excited
to be relieved
to be exaspirated
The Dragoon was “exhilarated” when the boy spoke to him at last.
5) What does his reaction tell us about the Dragoon?
It tells us that he was a mean man
it tells us that he was a kind and considerate man
it tells us that he was proud and insensitive
6. What word could take the place of the word underlined in the sentence below.
a. The man sensed the boy’s burning enmity.
hatred
jealously
desire
Select the word in the options that is NOT closest in meaning to the word underlined below
b. He had encountered it often enough before
Seen
experienced
fought
8. ''The following options could take the place of the word underlined in the sentence below EXCEPT.
c. The truth dawned on him in all its clarity
Transparency
clearness
obscurity
9.What was the Dragoon’s first name?
sean
Brien
Will
10. What was the boy’s first name?
Sean
Will
Brien
