english test chapters 10-17 Flashcards
Who does the Zealand women call ‘primitive’?
David and his group, Waknuk
What do they think happened to Katherine?
Katherine has been unconscious for such a long time, they think she is dead.
What does Michael say it is better to do then let them be captured?
Michael says it is better to kill Rosalind and Petra than to let them be captured
Everybody in Sealand can . . .
Make thought-shapes, and anyone who cannot work hard to be able to.
What does the Sealand woman stress?
She stresses the importance to keep Petra alive and safe
Who did Anne announce she would marry and what was her reason?
She announced she would marry Alan Ervin and instead of waiting for someone that might not come or who she might hate if they do come, she will marry Alan Ervin.
What does David think of marrying someone that cannot produce thought-shapes?
David says there would be misery, insecurity, lack of confidence, and guarding against slipping up. It would be prolonged unhappiness and frustration until a fatal slip up
Rosalind and David are in a _________ _______________ but cannot _________ because of their _________ __________
secret
relationship
marry
family
feud (between Angus Morton and Joseph Strorm)
Anne stopped doing what after she announced to marry?
Respond to the group’s thought shapes
What question does Axel ask David regarding Anne marrying?
Axel asks if Anne has the moral right to endanger eight for her own selfish pursuit.
What does Axel propose doing to Anne and how does David respond?
Axel proposes killing Anne. David says he couldn’t because it be like “violating a part of yourself forever”
What crops has Joseph Strorm given up to promote himself as a pure family?
His dad has given up the solanaceae family (tomatoes) to have more pure crops. They buy their potatoes and tomatoes
What happens to Alan?
One day, Sunday at Dusk, Alan was found dead in the field path that led to his home, with an arrow through his neck.
What happens to Anne after Alan’s death?
Rachel tries to see her sister but Anne screams at Rachel to go away.
Rachels mother tries to persuade Anne to come home
Anne became hysterical and forced everyone out of her house, Rachel had gotten up an hour before dawn and went to Anne’s house. She knocked but no-one answered, so she went to a neighbor’s house who was with Anne, and the neighbors with Anne found her upstairs in her bedroom, hanged.
What does the Anne’s suicide note say and what did Rachel do to the note?
the letter denounced all of the group and accused them of planning Alan’s murder and carrying it out. Rachel burned it.
The spring the year of Anne’s death is . . .
is especially good, with good weather and extremely low crop deviations
What does Petra do, and what happens?
Petra sends a distress call and it is described as a blot that Petra had no control over, David grabbed the gun from the house door, and saddled up on a horse, Rosalind and Michael kill the animal that is eating Petra’s pony. Three others of their group arrive, they are sent back, Sally and Katherine come, and Jerome Skinner arrives.
What happens when Jerome Skinner comes?
He asks what is happening, asks for Rosalind and Petra’s tags, says to be careful and leaves. Rosalind says ‘This man had the air of smelling a rat’
How does David describe parts of Wild Country?
Three or four miles farther they came out into more open country, dotted with bushes, brakes, and thickets. The grass was coarse and large-leafed, and in some places monstrous, growing into tuffs ten feet high
What does David see in Wild Country?
David sees four of five women and a couple of men gathered around a horse. They were arguing about it
What does David see that encourages him he is in Wild Country?
They see deviated oats that would be burnt at home
What happens at the start of Chapter 13?
They are attacked by a man on a horse, but they kill his horse and he is flung into bushes. They pass him.
How does Waknuk find the man Rosalind shot?
his dog found him and they came across the great horse tracks.
How does David teach Petra to form thought-shapes?
He tells her to close her eyes and look down a deep deep well, not thinking about anything but how deep and dark it is. He makes a bunny, then Petra tries to make an image but its like a thunderbolt
Then Petra tries to make a image and its a flash and a glare like a thunderbolt. She makes a fish with a droopy tail.
What is the physical description of the Deviated animal eating Petra’s pony
deviated flesh eating creature, reddish brown, dappled with yellow and darker brown spots, with pad like feet and covered with mops of fur, with long curved claws, fur hung from the tail, nose almost retrousse, two large incisors projected towards the lower jaw that was eating Petra’s pony.
What happens in Petra’s fourth lesson and by the end of the week?
In the fourth lesson she managed to clear her mind without closing her eyes, and by the end of the week she was improving and she starts to be able to recept simple forms.
