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?
(c)
How did the Bishop arrange to fulfil
her needs?
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?
(c)
Why did wish to take her in?
(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?
(c)
How does the speaker save the listener’s soul?
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?
(c) How did the Bishop arrange to fulfil her needs?
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?
(c) Why did wish to take her in?
(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?
(c) How does the speaker save the listener’s soul?
1.
(a)
Persome does not complete her sentence because she does not want to
say anything bad about the Bishop.
(b)
She is angry with the Bishop for selling the salt-cellars.
2.
(a)
Mere Gringoire sent little Jean to the Bishop.
(b)
She wanted some help because the bailiff threatened to turn her out
if she did not pay the rent.
(c)
The Bishop arranged to fulfil her needs by selling his silver
salt-cellars.
3.
(a)
The Bishop speaks these words. He is speaking to Persome.
(b)
Mere Gringoire is the person being spoken about.
(c)
He wished to take her in because she was old and the bailiff was
threatening to throw her for not paying the rent.
(d)
Mere Gringoire thought that Persome will be stressed if the Bishop
took her in as Persome objected to the Bishop being overtly kind to
people. Persome thought that Mere Gringoire was taking advantage of
him.
4.
(a)
The Bishop says this to the convict.
(b)
The convict had just threatened to thrust his knife in the Bishop’s
heart.
(c)
The Bishop saved the convict’s soul by showing him kindness
even though he responded in an ungrateful way.
1.
(a) Persome does not complete her sentence because she does not want to say anything bad about the Bishop.
(b) She is angry with the Bishop for selling the salt-cellars.
2.
(a) Mere Gringoire sent little Jean to the Bishop.
(b) She wanted some help because the bailiff threatened to turn her out if she did not pay the rent.
(c) The Bishop arranged to fulfil her needs by selling his silver salt-cellars.
3.
(a) The Bishop speaks these words. He is speaking to Persome.
(b) Mere Gringoire is the person being spoken about.
(c) He wished to take her in because she was old and the bailiff was threatening to throw her for not paying the rent.
(d) Mere Gringoire thought that Persome will be stressed if the Bishop took her in as Persome objected to the Bishop being overtly kind to people. Persome thought that Mere Gringoire was taking advantage of him.
4.
(a) The Bishop says this to the convict.
(b) The convict had just threatened to thrust his knife in the Bishop’s heart.
(c) The Bishop saved the convict’s soul by showing him kindness even though he responded in an ungrateful way.
