Chapter 2

Question 1

No one from the village had ever tried to use the path

Answer 1

since our father locked the gates

Question 2

I carefully locked the gate again,

Answer 2

and tested the padlock to make sure it held.

Question 3

I thought Constance was a

Answer 3

fairy princess

Question 4

She was the most

Answer 4

precious person in my world

Question 5

Partly because you bring home food, of course.

Answer 5

But partly because I miss you.

Question 6

She sat on the rose sofa

Answer 6

with our mother’s portrait looking down on her

Question 7

It’s spring, you’re young, you’re lovely, you have a right to be happy.

Answer 7

Come back into the world.

Question 8

if you’d go halfway to be friendly

Answer 8

there’d never be a word said against you

Question 9

A child should be punished for wrongdoing,

Answer 9

but she should be made to feel that she is still loved.

Question 10

It was Constance who saw them dying around her like flies

Answer 10

(…) and never called a doctor until it was too late.

Question 11

I can’t help it when people are frightened;

Answer 11

I always want to frighten them more

Question 12

He (Thomas Blackwood) was ten years old

Answer 12

and possessed many of his father’s more forceful traits

Question 13

Context:

Answer 13

Tea party with Mrs. Wright and Helen Clarke.