‘I offered to take her in here for a day or two, but she seemed to think it might distress you.”

Persome would be distressed on Mere Gringoire's being taken in because

________.

(i) she did not want to help anyone

(ii) she felt that Mere Gringoire was taking undue advantage of the Bishop

(iii) she was a self-centred person

(iv) she would be put to a great deal of inconvenience

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(ii) she felt that Mere Gringoire was taking undue advantage of the Bishop

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‘I offered to take her in here for a day or two, but she seemed to think it might distress you.”

The Bishop wanted to take Mere Grngoire in because _________.

(i) she was sick

(ii) she had no money

(iii) she was unable to pay the rent of her house

(iv) she was a close friend of Persome

Read the extracts given below and answer the following questions:

1. ‘Persome: Monseigneur the Bishop is a ------------ahem!’

(a) Why does Persome not complete the sentence?

(b) Why is she angry with the Bishop?

2. ‘She sent little Jean to Monseigneur to ask for help, and—’

(a) Who sent little Jean to the Bishop?

(b) What did she want from him? Why?

3. ‘I offered to take her in here for a day or two, but she seemed to think it might distress you.”

(a) Who speaks these words? Whom I she speaking to?

(b) Who is the person being spoken about?

(d) Why did she think her being ‘taken in’ might distress the person being spoken to?

4. ‘You have your soul to lose, my son, it is of move value than my heart.’

(a) Who says these words and to whom?

(b) What has the person being spoken to just threatened to do?

‘She sent little Jean to Monseigneur to ask for help, and—’

Who sent little Jean to the Bishop?

(i) Mere Gringoire

(ii) Marie

(iii) Persome

(iv) Marie's mother

Monseigneur the Bishop is a ------------ahem!’

Why is she angry with the Bishop?

(i) The Bishop has sold her salt-cellars.

(ii) The Bishop has gone to visit Mere Gringoire.

(iii) He showed extra concern for Marie.

(iv) She disliked the Bishop.

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