quiz 3

Question 1

Tentatively:

Answer 1

hesitantly “how one goes about a delicate or dangerous situation

Question 2

Triumphantly

Answer 2

great happiness or joy at victory or achievement

Question 3

Eiderdown

Answer 3

a quilt filled with duck feathers(dovet)

Question 4

Crescendo

Answer 4

the loudest point reached in an increasing sound.

Question 5

Horizon:

Answer 5

the line at which the earth’s surface and the sky appear to meet

Question 6

Extinguished

Answer 6

cause(a fire or light) to cease to burn or shine

Question 7

Terrace

Answer 7

a relatively level paved or planted area adjoining a building

Question 8

Cellar:

Answer 8

: a room below ground level, typically for shelter and storing
Affronted:often to offend or insult somones values

Question 9

Unabated

Answer 9

without any reduction in intensity

Question 10

Charles Darwin:

Answer 10

He was the one who started the theory of evolution

Question 11

Menin Gate:

Answer 11

A war memorial for ypes

Question 12

What is the theme of the novel so far?

Answer 12

War causes pain, hardship and destruction.

Question 13

Who was Jeremy’s father?

Answer 13

She didn’t know because she slept with alot of soldiers and she just tells Jeremy he died in war.

Question 14

Why does Maeve believe that the soldiers she spent time with did not love her?

Answer 14

Because they were more afraid to die in war

Question 15

What is assumed by most men about Maeve?

Answer 15

a way to get there minds of off the war.

Question 16

For a moment, Maeve wishes she had know Jeremy’s father. Why?

Answer 16

She would marry him and he would have taken care of jeremy

Question 17

Why does Maeve want to go home?

Answer 17

To get to Jeremy, and get her belongings, especially a coat. And see what’s rest of her house

Question 18

How do we know that Harriet has feelings for Jeremy?

Answer 18

She has deep intimate feelings for him, “she misses the feeling of his body”

Question 19

“The leaves have turned black on the trees. The limbs are twisted and full of clothes, caught like strange birds in the upper branches” What has caused this painful sight?

Answer 19

The bombing and ash.

Question 20

Explain what had happened to the woman referred to on pages 102-3.

Answer 20

She was very injured, her legs were broken and she was dying

Question 21

Who are Agnes and Richard? (105-6)

Answer 21

meave next door neighbors, she hid with them and evacuated with them.

Question 22

What does Harriet believe reading to be, after she encounters the fact that the library has been bombed? (109)

Answer 22

Reading helped her get away from reality.

Question 23

On their way to her home, Harriet notices that a cat sits on the windowsill of each house. What conclusion does she come to? (111)

Answer 23

“She sees that the cats are relaxed and are sitting in their place like sentinels.” Unlike dogs who are always with their owners and are probably looking for them now.

Question 24

Why does Harriet feel that the town of Ypres should not have been rebuilt? (112)

Answer 24

To remember the history that took place, and remember the memorial.

Question 25

How does Jeremy discover that Harriet was married? (115)

Answer 25

He finds a photograph

Question 26

Who is Abigail?

Answer 26

Abigail is Harriet’s cat that she took in earlier in the story. (she didn’t like cats but found sanctuary in her because she was the only thing left”

Question 27

Who is Amos? (118)

Answer 27

A donkey, and meave took a liking to him because she thought Jeremy would like it, comical relief.

Question 28

What has possibly happened to Wendell Mumby? 120

Answer 28

She thought he died because the building collapsed

Question 29

Jeremy and Maeve live here?

Answer 29

Mayfield street

Question 30

18. Harriet is about 44, so how old is Jeremy? (125)

Answer 30

Half her age 44/2=22

Question 31

Describe Jeremy’s room.

Answer 31

A boys room, childish

Question 32

Why do you think Jeremy left the house after he and Harriet spent the night together?

Answer 32

She was ashamed and self aware of the reality he was in.