Stella

Question 1

cherub

Answer 1

‘little hands folded like a cherub in choir.’

Question 2

talk

Answer 2

“This is my house and I’ll talk as much as I want to!”

Question 3

thrilled

Answer 3

‘He smashed all the light bulbs with the heel of my slipper! … I was - sort of - sort of thrilled by it.’

Question 4

Blanche authority over Stella

Answer 4

‘’You never did give me the chance to say much, Blanche. So I just got into the habit of being quiet around you”

Question 5

drunk

Answer 5

‘Drunk - drunk - animal thing you!

Question 6

Stanley away

Answer 6

‘When he’s away for a week I nearly go wild… And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby.’

Question 7

Class prejudice

Answer 7

‘Mr Kowalksi is too busy making a pig of himself.’

Question 8

Couldn’t believe rape

Answer 8

“I couldn’t believe her story and go on living with Stanley”.

Question 9

sobs

Answer 9

‘sobs with inhuman abandon. There is something luxurious in her complete surrender to crying.’