WorksheetsThe Curious Incident play Part One
Total questions: 39
Worksheet time: 20mins
The fundamental difference between a play and a novel is that...
one is meant to be read and the other to be performed
there is no real difference
one is fun and the other isn't
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was originally a novel by...
Michael Morpurgo
Robert Louis Stevenson
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Mark Haddon
A person who writes plays is called a...
playwright
playwrite
play writer
player
The play was first produced in...
2011
2012
2013
2014
It has won several awards.
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Wrong
In this play, all the actors remain onstage even if they're not involved in the action.
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Wrong
The dog mentioned in the title belongs to...
Christopher
Siobhan
Mrs Shears
Ed
Siobhan ("shevaun") is a kind of narrator as she...
explains to the audience what's happening
she reads from Christopher's book
is the voiceover
is the main character
When the policeman arrives, Christopher notices that...
he's not wearing his helmet
his buttons are undone
he has an orange leaf stuck to the bottom of his shoe
he has a scar on his cheek
Christopher likes to lie.
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Christopher hits the policeman because...
he's very angry
he wants to see what will happen
the policeman tries to lift him up off the ground
he hates policemen
Christopher finds people confusing because...
they do a lot of talking without using words
they never say what they mean
they lie
they cheat
Christopher tells the duty sergeant that his mother is...
sick
in Sunderland
dead
lost
For hitting the policeman, Christopher receives...
a fine
a caution
a month's prison sentence
a pat on the back
The second reason Christopher finds people confusing is that they sometimes talk in...
French
metaphors
similes
Serb-Croat
Two years before the action of the play starts, Ed told Christopher his mum...
had run away with the neighbour
had been killed in a car accident
had been taken into hospital with a heart condition
was a secret agent for MI5
Christopher decides to investigate to try to find out who killed Wellington, despite his father telling him not to.
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Wrong
Christopher has a discussion with Reverend Peters about...
the whereabouts of heaven
the existence of God
the impossibility of understanding black holes
the unbearable lightness of being
When Christopher interviews Number40, he's advised to...
ask his father
mind his own business
get in contact with the police
call a private detective
Christopher enjoys his snack with Mrs Alexander.
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Wrong
Why is Mr Shears Christopher's prime suspect?
Because murders are generally committed by people close to the victim
Because he's a notorious dog killer
Because he was seen at the scene of the crime on the night in question
Because he's a psychopath
Christopher's father, Ed, would like the school to give Christopher the opportunity to...
go on a school trip to Dublin (the most beautiful city in the world)
eat in the canteen for free
to sit his A-Levels
replace his teacher
The mention of Mr Shears' name makes Ed
cry
laugh
shout
faint
Ed then says something to Christopher that seems to confirm Mr Shears as a prime suspect. Ed says Mr Shears is...
cuddly
cute
nasty
evil
Christopher's dream job would be...
school teacher
engineer
astronaut
hairdresser
This would be his dream job because...
he'd never get homesick and he likes being far away from people
he likes the idea of being weightless
his favourite film is Star Wars
he believes he was born on Krypton
Christopher has...
a pet mouse named Robbie
a pet hamster named Toby
a pet guinea pi named Robbie
a pet rat named Toby
Christopher will be the first person to sit A-Level maths in his school because...
it's a primary school
it's not a real school
it's a Jedi Padawan school
it's a special school
Christopher asks Mrs Alexander if she thinks...
Anakin is really Luke's father
Mr Shears killed his mother
Einstein's theory of relativity is really compatible with Newton's laws of gravitation
Mrs Shears killed Wellington
Mrs Alexander reveals to Christopher that before she died his mother was...
a spy for the Empire
having an affair with Mr Shears
secretly planning to kill Wellington
working in the local bank
Ed puts red food colouring in Christopher's aloo gobi because Christopher hates...
things that aren't red
pale food
the colour yellow
non-pigmented Asian food
Ed and Judy manage to calm Christopher by getting him to...
touch the fingers of one hand with his
watch Star Wars
eat aloo gobi
recite the list of all prime numbers up to 7507
When Ed gets angry and grabs Christopher by the arms, he...
kicks his father in the shins
breaks free and runs out of the house
he breaks free and calls 999
he falls unconscious
When Christopher finds all the letters addressed to him, he suspects they might be from his mother because...
of the curve of the 's's
because of the shape of the "t"s
because of the dots on the 'i's (which are little circles)
because of the smell of her perfume
After Christopher has read the letter from his mother, he looks at the postmark and discovers that it was written...
in 1945
10 days after the 9/11 attacks
18 months after she died
yesterday
In the second letter, Judy tells Christopher that the difference between her and Ed is that...
Ed likes yellow and she doesn't
Ed loves Star Wars and she doesn't
Ed is very patient with Christopher while she isn't
Ed loves his job and she doesn't
She eventually agreed to go and live with Roger when she realised that...
Luke really was Anakin's son
Ed was a secret agent for MI5
she could never be happy with Ed and Christopher
Ed and Christopher would be better off without her
When Ed finds Christopher in distress and surrounded by the letters from his mother, he apologises for lying about his mother's death and confesses to...
being a spy for the Empire
loving Justin Bieber
killing Wellington
loving Mrs Alexander
At the end of Part One of the play we understand that Christopher is going to go...
to live with Siobhan
to live with Mrs Alexander
to live with Uncle Terry
in search of his mother
