ACTIVITY 318: 

Finally, after reading the article again, choose the best answer (A, B, C, or D)

for questions 1-to-7. Then check your answers.

1. What do the three texts have in common?

 
A.     accommodation

B.     exams

C.     qualifications

D.     students

2. What do Texts B and C have in common?

 
A.     Both are about positive attitudes to education.

B.     Both concern people who had no proper education at school.

C.     Both are concerned with voluntary education.

D.     Both mention the cost of education.

3. What do we learn about how Marie's mother felt?

 
A.     She was angry with Marie for destroying her bedroom.
 B.     She was sorry that Marie had had to study a subject she disliked.

C.     She understood why Marie had acted in this way.

D.     She thought Marie was right to burn her book.

4. What does 'it' (Text A, line 7) refer to?

 
A.     the last of her five exams

B.     physics

C.     her favourite subject

D.     the ritual burning

5. What do you think 'pitting their wits against' (Text B, line 1) means?
 
A.     competing with

B.     cooperating with

C.     making fun of

D.     teaching

6. What do you think 'chalked up' (Text B, line 9) means?

 
A.     achieved

B.     chose

C.     entered

D.     studied for

7. What do you think 'disperse' (Text C, line 2) means?

 

A.     break up

B.     carry on
C.     check out

D.     set off