WorksheetsThe Photograph
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 7mins
What does the poet mean by ‘smile through their hair’?
(a) It means that a smile was painted on the hair of the photographed girls
(b) It means that the photographed girls were wearing a mask
(c) It means that the hair of the photographed girls was covering their face when they were smiling
(d) It means that the hair of the girls in the photograph was smiling too
What has not changed over a period of time?
(a) The photo
(b) The cardboard
(c) The girls
(d) The sea
Find a word from the extract which means “lasting only for a short time”?
(a) Still
(b) Transient
(c) Changed
(d) Less
Who are Betty and Dolly?
(a) They are poet’s cousins
(b) They are poet’s friends
(c) They are the poet’s mother’s friends
(d) They are the poet’s mother’s cousins
…………. in the extract is the synonym of ‘photograph’.
(a) Snapshot
(b) Picture
(c) Mine
(d) Laboured
Why did ‘she’ laugh?
(a) Because of the funny dresses that they were wearing at the sea holiday
(b) Because one of them cracked a joke
(c) Because of the funny dresses they were wearing at the party
(d) Because of the funny man they saw at the sea holiday
What does the cardboard depict?
(a) It depicts a scenery
(b) It depicts the picture of a house
(c) It depicts the picture of a school
(d) It depicts the picture of three girls
Who wrote this poem?
Shirley Pitman
Shirley Toulson
Shirley Edison
How old is the mother in the Photograph?
10
15
12
30
What is the theme of the poem?
The transience of human life
The technology and greatness of photography
Relationships
Friendship
"Its silence silences..." Silences whom?
The poet and his friends
The uncle who took the photo
The cousins who played with her
The poet and the sensitive persons who watch the photograph
Find out the possible contextual meaning of the word, "paddling" in the poem?
a) Paddling means walking in the water with bare feet
b) paddling means the act of rowing in a boat
c) paddling means dance in the water
