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American Crime Stories: Comprehension Test
American Crime Stories: Comprehension Test
A
1 A woman’s lover dies for her murders...
2 A woman murders her brother’s wife ...
3 A woman becomes a mugger ...
4 A man murders a another man but makes the death look like suicide ...
5 A detective catches a gang of robbers ...
6 A woman sets fire to a house ...
7 A husband murders his wife ...
B
a ... in Death Wish.
b ... in Death on Christmas Eve.
c ... in The Heroine.
d ... in Ride the Lightning.
e ... in The Lipstick.
f ... in Lazy Susan.
g ... in The Gutting of Couffignal.
28 marks
A
1 ‘It’s about my pay, madam. It’s too much.’
2 ‘Didn’t I steal a crutch from a cripple?’
3 ‘When you robbed the liquor store, he stayed in the car to drive.’
4 ‘You haven’t been out of this house since the inquest.’
5 ‘I want you to teach me how to shoot a gun.’
6 ‘It’s a tough world, but you’re not going to find a better one at the bottom of a
river.’
7 ‘You don’t want it known that somebody was pushed out of your office window’
28 marks
14 marks
4 Who are these women? Match a number from A with a letter from B.
A
1 She reminded me of a steel trap ready to shut down on anyone who touched her
incautiously.
2 Her eyes looked like her mother’s when they opened wide like that.
3 She went to the sales office where she worked every day, and she smiled at the
customers, and her bosses liked her.
4 She would play around with a woman’s husband until she was tired of him.
5 She looked at first to be about twelve years old.
B
a Lucille Smith in The Heroine.
b Holly Ann Adams in Ride the Lightning.
c Celia in Death on Christmas Eve.
d Susan Carpenter in Lazy Susan.
e Elinor Hammond in The Lipstick.
Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 6 2
20 marks
5 Put these sentences from The Gutting of Couffignal in the right order. Number them 1–5.
a He fell on his face on the floor.
b I knocked Flippo on the head.
c When her right foot was in the doorway she laughed.
d I put a bullet in her leg.
e The girl was half way to the door when I ordered her to stop.
10 marks
Total marks
Setting
20 marks
20 marks
Dialogue
20 marks
Vocabulary
20 marks
Plot
20 marks
Total marks
2 1 c 5 f
2 g 6 a
3 d 7 e
4 b
3 a F e T
b T f T
c F g T
d F
4 1 c
2 a
3 d
4 e
5 b
5 a 2
b 1
c 4
d 5
e 3
Characters
11 c
12 b
13 a
14 d
15 b
16 d
17 d
18 c
19 b
20 a
Dialogue
21 d
22 a
23 c
24 b
25 c
26 c
27 b
28 a
29 b
30 d
Plot
41 a
42 c
43 b
44 b
45 d
46 c
47 d
48 d
49 c
50 a