Chapter 3 - Cloze Deletion

Question 1

Now the antagonism was ___________.

Answer 1

audible

Question 2

Simon turned away from them and went where the just ___________ path led him.

Answer 2

perceptible

Question 3

They were twins, and the eye was shocked and ___________ at such cheery duplication.

Answer 3

incredulous

Question 4

The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of ___________ impossibility; the coral reef and the few stunted palms that clung to the more elevated parts would float up into the sky, would quiver, be plucked apart, run like raindrops on a wire or be repeated as in an odd succession of mirrors

Answer 4

blatant

Question 5

They were silent on the mountain-top while the ___________ look appeared in Jack’s eyes and passed away.

Answer 5

opaque

Question 6

The smaller boys were known now by the ___________ title of ““littluns.”

Answer 6

generic

Question 7

Jack nodded, as much for the sake of agreeing as anything, and by ___________ consent they left the shelter and went toward the bathing pool.

Answer 7

tacit

Question 8

Johnny was well built, with fair hair and a natural ___________.

Answer 8

belligerence

Question 9

The littluns watched him ___________ over double handfuls of ripe fruit.

Answer 9

inscrutably

Question 10

In his other life Maurice had received ___________ for filling a younger eye with sand.

Answer 10

chastisement