The Last Lesson

Question 1

Infer

Example: Infer their meanings from the context

Answer 1

To conclude

Question 2

In great dread of

Example: I started for school very late that morning and was in great dread of a scolding.

Answer 2

Fearful in anticipation of something

Question 3

Tempting

Example: It was all much more tempting than the rule for participles, but I had the strength to resist, and hurried off to school.

Answer 3

Attractive

Question 4

Draft

Example: For the last two years all our bad news had come from there - the lost battles, the draft, and the orders of the commanding officer

Answer 4

Drought

Question 5

Apprentice

Example: Then, as I hurried by as fast as I could go, the blacksmith, Watcher, who was there with his apprentice, reading the bulletin,called after me.

Answer 5

Trainee

Question 6

Bustle

Example: Usually, when school began, there was a great bustle, which could be heard out in the street…

Answer 6

Noise

Question 7

Unison

Example- …the opening and closing of desks, lessons repeated in unison, very loud, with our hands over our ears to understand better…

Answer 7

In chorous

Question 8

Rapping

Example- …and the teacher’s great ruler rapping on the table

Answer 8

Repeatedly hitting

Question 9

Commotion

Example: I had been counting on the commotion to get to my desk without being seen

Answer 9

Great noise or excitement

Question 10

Blushed

Example: You can imagine how I blushed and how frightened I was.

Answer 10

Felt ashamed

Question 11

Frilled

Example: I saw that our teacher had on his beautiful green coat, his frilled shirt, and the little black silk cap, all embroidered.

Answer 11

Having decorative ruffles or frills

Question 12

Solemn

Example: Besides, the whole school seemed so strange and solemn.

Answer 12

Serious

Question 13

Thumbed

Example: And Hauser had brought an old primer, thumbed at the edges.

Answer 13

Turned on the corner

Question 14

Mounted

Example: While I was wondering about it all, M. Hamel mounted his chair, and…

Answer 14

Sat on

Question 15

Grave

Example- …in the same grave and gentle tone which he had used to me, said…

Answer 15

Serious, Solemn

Question 16

Thunderclap

Example: What a thunderclap these words were to me!

Answer 16

Startling and unexpected

Question 17

Wretches

Example: Oh, the wretches; that was what they had put up at the town-hall!

Answer 17

1- Wretch: An unhappy person
2- Oh the wretches: Used as an exclamation to express pity or sadness

Question 18

Saints

Example: My grammar, and my history of the saints, were old friends now that I couldn’t give up

Answer 18

1- A very good, kind person
2- A very good religious person given special respect after death

Question 19

Cranky

Example: The idea that he was going away, made me forget about his ruler and how cranky he was.

Answer 19

Strange or unusual

Question 20

Dreadful

Example: What would I not have given to be able to say that dreadful rule for the participle without one mistake?

Answer 20

Horrible

Question 21

Mixed up

Example: But I got mixed up on the first words and stood there, holding on to my desk, my heart beating, and not daring to look up

Answer 21

Confused

Question 22

Pretend

Example: You pretend to be Frenchmen, and yet you can neither speak nor write your own language?

Answer 22

Claim

Question 23

Reproach

Example: We’re all a great deal to reproach ourselves with

Answer 23

Blame

Question 24

Cooed

Example: On the roof the pigeons cooed very low, and I wondered, “Will they make them sing in German too?”

Answer 24

To make a soft low sound like a bird

Question 25

Fancy Example: Fancy! For forty years he had been there in the same place, with his garden outside the window and his class in front of him, just like that.

Answer 25

Imagine