The document is a reading comprehension quiz about a short story. It asks 15 multiple choice questions to test the reader's understanding of the plot. The story is about a narrator who takes the train to work every day as a contented commuter. One day, he sees a stranger on the platform who turns out to be his old school prefect from 50 years ago, bringing back memories of suffering under his punishment at school. The narrator plans to get revenge on the man but is embarrassed when the prefect denies even knowing him.
The document is a reading comprehension quiz about a short story. It asks 15 multiple choice questions to test the reader's understanding of the plot. The story is about a narrator who takes the train to work every day as a contented commuter. One day, he sees a stranger on the platform who turns out to be his old school prefect from 50 years ago, bringing back memories of suffering under his punishment at school. The narrator plans to get revenge on the man but is embarrassed when the prefect denies even knowing him.
The document is a reading comprehension quiz about a short story. It asks 15 multiple choice questions to test the reader's understanding of the plot. The story is about a narrator who takes the train to work every day as a contented commuter. One day, he sees a stranger on the platform who turns out to be his old school prefect from 50 years ago, bringing back memories of suffering under his punishment at school. The narrator plans to get revenge on the man but is embarrassed when the prefect denies even knowing him.
1. The protagonist’s name is __________________________. He is also the narrator of the story.
2. He earns his living as a _________________________. 3. The narrator describes himself as a person who likes travelling regularly to work. In other words, he is a contented _____________________. 4. Every day he used to travel by ______________________ in order to go to work. 5. _______________________ was the day his routine was disturbed. 6. There was a stranger on the platform and he used to carry a ______________________ instead of an umbrella. He also used to smoke a ______________________. 7. While the narrator read _________________, the stranger read the ____________________. 8. The appearance of the stranger brought back old school memories. The stranger was in fact _______________________, a school prefect. 9. His nickname was __________________________. 10. He was called that way because he used to come ____________ forward to ________ the boys. 11. The narrator became his personal _____________ while attending the public school. 12. The narrator suffered enormously at the hands of the stranger. So deep was his pain that he even considered _________________________. 13. One of the worst punishments he had to endure was _______________________________. 14. Nearly fifty years have passed since those school days and the narrator decides to take some _______________________. 15. He intends to embarrass the stranger and expose his acts but he was the one who became embarrassed when the stranger denied being _____________________. KEY 1. William Perkins 2. solicitor 3. commuter 4. train 5. Tuesday 6. cane; pipe 7. The Times; Daily Mail 8. Bruce Foxley 9. Galloping Foxley 10. galloping; hit 11. slave 12. committing suicide 13. the caning 14. revenge 15. Bruce Foxley