Never Let Me Go

Question 1

The guardians… (forms of control)

Answer 1

“The guardians were really strict about smoking.”

Question 2

But what… (forms of control)

Answer 2

“But what you must understand is that for you, it’s much, much worse to smoke than it ever was for me.” - Miss Lucy

Question 3

Do you think… (persecution)

Answer 3

“Do you think she’d have talked to us like that if she’d known what we really were?” - Ruth

Question 4

We’re all afraid… (persecution)

Answer 4

“We’re all afraid of you. I myself had to fight back my dread of you almost every day I was at Hailsham.” - Miss Emily

Question 5

You look in… (persecution)

Answer 5

“You look in the gutter. You look in rubbish bins. Look down the toilet, that’s where you’ll find where we all came from.” - Ruth

Question 6

She believed… (propaganda/withholding information)

Answer 6

“She believed you should be given as full a picture as possible.” - Miss Emily (about Miss Lucy)

Question 7

The problem… (propaganda/withholding information)

Answer 7

“The problem, as I see it, is that you’ve been told and not told”. - Miss Lucy

Question 8

When the guardians… (propaganda/withholding information)

Answer 8

“When the guardians were giving us those talks, nothing came as a complete surprise. It was like we’d heard everything somewhere before”.

Question 9

A part… (surveillance)

Answer 9

“A part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us.” (in cottages)

Question 10

And as soon… (surveillance)

Answer 10

“And as soon as you looked like you were trying to sneak off for a secret talk, the whole place seemed to sense it within minutes, and you’d have no chance.”

Question 11

It should have… (love/hope/betrayal)

Answer 11

“It should have been you two. I’m not pretending I didn’t always see it. Of course I did, as far back as I can remember. But I kept you apart.” - Ruth

Question 12

If you… (love/hope)

Answer 12

“If you were a boy and a girl, and you were in love with each other, really, properly in love, and you could show it, then the people who run Hailsham, they sorted it out for you.” - Chrissie

Question 13

We’ve loved… (love/hope)

Answer 13

“We’ve loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can’t stay together forever.” - Tommy

Question 14

It was possible… (memory)

Answer 14

“It was possible to forget for whole stretches of time who we really were.”

Question 15

It was that exchange… (memory)

Answer 15

“It was that exchange, when we finally mentioned the closing of Hailsham, that suddenly brought us close again.” (Talking with Laura)

Question 16

All separated… (memory)

Answer 16

“All separated now but still somehow linked by the place we’d come from”.

Question 17

Ruth and I… (memory)

Answer 17

“Ruth and I often found ourselves remembering these things a few years ago, when I was caring for her down at the recovery centre.”

Question 18

The memories… (memory)

Answer 18

“The memories I value most, I don’t see them ever fading. I lost Ruth, then I lost Tommy, but I won’t lose my memories of them.”

Question 19

The line… (memory)

Answer 19

“The line would blur between what were my memories and what were his.”

Question 20

Tommy thought… (withholding information)

Answer 20

“Tommy thought it possible the guardians had, throughout all our years at Hailsham, timed very carefully and deliberately everything they told us, so that we were always just too young to understand properly the latest piece of information.”

Question 21

All around… (persecution)

Answer 21

“All around the country, at this very moment, there are students being reared in deplorable conditions, conditions you Hailsham students could hardly imagine.” - Miss Emily

Question 22

Sleepless nights… (persecution)

Answer 22

“Sleepless nights, with the drugs and the pain and the exhaustion.”

Question 23

Very well… (propaganda/withholding information)

Answer 23

“Very well, sometimes we meant to keep things from you, lied to you. Yes, in many ways we fooled you. I suppose you could even call it that. But we sheltered you during those years, and we gave you your childhoods.” - Miss Emily

Question 24

There was something… (love/hope)

Answer 24

“There was something in Tommy’s manner that was tinged with sadness, that seemed to say: ‘Yes, we’re doing this now and I’m glad we’re doing it now. But what a pity we left it so late.”

Question 25

Maybe I’m… (memory)

Answer 25

“Maybe I’m remembering it wrong.”

Question 26

If I drive past… (nostalgia)

Answer 26

“If I drive past one I keep looking over to it for as long as possible” (about the pavilions and the resemblance to Hailsham)

Question 27

Her general drift… (forms of control)

Answer 27

“Her general drift was clear enough: we were all very special, being Hailsham students, and so it was all the more disappointing that we behaved badly.” (About Miss Emily’s assemblies)

Question 28

Your life must (persecution)

Answer 28

“Your life must now run the course that’s been set for it.” - Madame (clones treated as utilities rather than people)

Question 29

It was such a shock… (compliance/non resistance)

Answer 29

“It was such a shock that time Marge K. asked Miss Lucy her question.” (about smoking)

Question 30

Drive off… (compliance)

Answer 30

“Drive off to wherever I was supposed to be.”