An extract from a novel











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An extract from a novel






You are going to read an extract from a novel. For questions 1 - 8 choose the answer (A, B, C or D) which you think fits best according to the text.








It was a freezing cold morning and very damp. The mist lay very thick on the marshes. As I passed the cows, they looked at me as if to say, "Hello, young thief. That's not your pork-pie is it?"No matter how fast I went, I couldn't seem to warm my feet. The damp cold was riveted to them the same way the chain was riveted to the leg of the man I was going to meet. I knew my way to the Battery but the mist had tricked me and I had gone too far to the right. Consequently, I had to walk back along the river bank.I had just crossed the ditch when I saw a man sitting with his arms folded, nodding forward, heavy with sleep. I thought he would be glad to see me with his breakfast, though it was a trifle unexpected. I approached him softly and touched him on the shoulder. He instantly jumped up, and it was not the same man at all. However, this man was dressed in rough grey clothes too and had his legs chained together. He was also lame and everything else the other man was, but when he looked at me, I knew I had made a mistake. He swore at me and weakly attempted to hit me. Then, he disappeared into the mist.Shortly after that, I arrived at the Battery, and there was the right man waiting for me. He was awfully cold and his eyes looked very hungry. He would have probably eaten the file he had asked for if he hadn't seen my bundle. He began pushing the mincemeat down his throat as if he was storing it somewhere in a violent hurry rather than eating it. He stared at me distrustfully as he gobbled away only stopping to take gulps of brandy. Then he said suddenly, "You're not a deceiving little devil, are you? You haven't brought anyone with you, have you?" "No, sir! No.""Nor did you let anyone follow you, did you?" "No.""Well," he said, "I believe you. You'd be a fierce young hound indeed if at your time of life, you could help to hunt down a pitiful man like me," and then he continued to eat. I had often watched a large dog of ours devouring his food and I now noticed a similarity between the dog and the rough old man.I thought for a while and said, "I'm afraid you're not going to leave any of it for him.""Leave any for him? Who's him?" said my friend stopping in his crunching of pie crust."The young man that you spoke of that was hiding with you. Your friend."He told me with something of a laugh that the young man didn't want any food."I thought he looked as if he did," I said. The man stopped eating and looked at me with great surprise."Looked? When?" he said.I told him that I had just seen him wearing the same clothes with his legs chained."This man," he said, "did you notice anything about him?""He had a badly bruised face," I said remembering what I hardly knew I knew."NOT HERE!" exclaimed the man striking his left cheek mercilessly with the flat of his hand."Yes, there!"He asked me to give him the file and then to show him where I had seen the other man. I pointed in the direction. At that moment, the man I was with sat on the wet grass and started filing like a madman at his chain. I was very much afraid of him again and so I told him that I had to go. As he was paying no attention to what I said, I decided to slip away. The last I heard of him was when I stopped in the mist and heard the file which was still going.















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How did the boy feel about stealing the pie?  ?    guilty  ?    frightened  ?    worried  ?    relieved
Why did the boy lose his way to the battery?  ?    He hadn't been there before.  ?    He couldn't see clearly.  ?    He was thinking of the man he was going to meet.  ?    He followed the river in the wrong direction.
When did the writer know that he had wrongly identified the first man?  ?    when he saw his clothes  ?    when he saw his face  ?    when he saw the second man  ?    when he offered him his breakfast
The boy compared the man to a dog because of  ?    the fierce look on his face.   ?    his rough old appearance.  ?    the way he was eating.  ?    his wild behaviour.
What is the man referring to when he says "NOT HERE!"?  ?    the place they were sitting  ?    the bruise  ?    the cheek  ?    the back of his hand
What was the man doing when the boy left?  ?    trying to free himself  ?    eating his breakfast  ?    looking for the other man  ?    trying to avoid the other man
What is meant by 'to slip away' in the las paragraph?  ?    to leave unnoticed   ?    to quickly escape  ?    to stop speaking  ?    to help the man
Who do you think the men in the extract are?  ?    police suspects  ?    homeless people  ?    escaped prisoners  ?    the boy's friends











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