Incidents in the text

Question 1

Killing The Rabbit

Answer 1

• Chapter 9
• “It was Tom Curdie who came forward, lifted the stone, and bending over the rabbit struck it several times with surgical coolness and accuracy”
• covered “as much of the dead creature as possible”
• “He liked doing it!”
• “I’m terribly disappointed in you, Gillian”
• Charlie’s “stern humanitarianism”

Question 2

Charlie and Mary’s argument

Answer 2

• Chapter 13
• “Are you afraid they’ll laugh at you at school when they hear your to send him back so soon for stealing!”
• “Your pet delinquent from the slums”
• Affection? He doesn’t need it… he’s more likely to take it away”

Question 3

Tom singing

Answer 3

• Chapter 10
• “I’m terribly disappointed in you, Gillian”
• “Consumed by jealousy”
• “Loneliness, unhappy love, sea sorrow” themes of toms song

Question 4

Punching The Tree

Answer 4

• “with his right fist struck the tree several times, deliberately, with all his force”
• “so lacerated and bloody”

Question 5

Charlie’s Turning Point

Answer 5

• “ ‘Changeling’, he muttered. ‘Changeling’ ”
• Charlie once defended him; now bullied him
• Coward, makes these awful comments in words Tom doesn’t understand, won’t say it to his face
• “a failed experiment”
• “I regard it as the first victory in the battle of Tom Curdie”
• “This boy has bewitched us all”

Question 6

Climax

Answer 6

• “she screamed…”
• “She made out round his neck, in a noose, the rope she had noticed lying on the floor”

Question 7

Stealing From Woolsworth

Answer 7

• “It was to destroy the delusion growing in his mind that Mr and Mrs Forbes were his parents, Alastair his brother, and Gillian his sister [necessary to that delusion was another that there was no such place as Donaldson Court.]”
• “let [his] heart thaw”
• “Tom Forbes”