The picnic

Question 1

Why couldn’t Sarah go to the rock?

Answer 1

Because she couldn’t recite a long and complicated poem she was supposed to memorise

Question 2

What do the girls go to the rock for?

Answer 2

A picnic

Question 3

What is the rock called?

Answer 3

Hanging Rock

Question 4

Where is the rock?

Answer 4

In the Australian outback

Question 5

What era is this story based in?

Answer 5

Victorian era (1800s)

Question 6

Who else is at the rock when the girls arrive?

Answer 6

A family of English aristocrats (posh) and their coach driver

Question 7

What is the Australian coachman called?

Answer 7

Albert

Question 8

What is the son of the English family called?

Answer 8

Michael

Question 9

Which girls decide to go up the rock?

Answer 9

Miranda, Irma, Edith and Marian

Question 10

What happens to their watches whilst at the rock?

Answer 10

They stop

Question 11

What time to their watches stop?

Answer 11

12pm exactly

Question 12

What are the group of girls overcome with when they explore the rock?

Answer 12

Sleepiness

Question 13

What do the girls exploring decide to do?

Answer 13

They lay down to rest in a clearing

Question 14

What is wrong with Edith?

Answer 14

She feels ill.

Question 15

What does Edith sense?

Answer 15

An impending doom

Question 16

Who doesn’t walk higher up towards the hanging rock?

Answer 16

Edith

Question 17

What is off about the way Miranda, Irma and Marian walk up the rock?

Answer 17

They don’t walk naturally

Question 18

What are the girls described as walking like on page 39?

Answer 18

“sliding over the stones on their bare feet as if they were on a drawing room carpet”

Question 19

Who is it that has an uneasy feeling about the girls exploring the rock further?

Answer 19

Edith

Question 20

Where do Miranda, Irma and Marian disappear behind?

Answer 20

Behind the rocks and shrubs

Question 21

What does Edith do when she sees the girls disappear?

Answer 21

She runs back down screaming

Question 22

Who begins to climb the mountain after Edith comes down screaming?

Answer 22

Miss McCraw

Question 23

What is Miss McCraw motivated by when she climbs the rock?

Answer 23

An impelling force known only to herself

Question 24

Who goes missing?

Answer 24

Miranda, Irma, Marian and Miss McCraw

Question 25

Did they search for the girls?

Answer 25

Yes

Question 26

Does Edith remember what happened up on the rock?

Answer 26

No

Question 27

What did Edith say she saw?

Answer 27

A strange red cloud in the distance. And saw Miss McCraw coming up the hill (which wasn’t till later)