1. Where is the setting of the poem?

Lulu’s bedroom/ Lulu’s room

2. Who is asking what has happened to Lulu?/ Who is the

persona?

Lulu’s sibling/ Lulu’s brother/ Lulu’s sister

3. In stanza 6, how does the persona’s mother feel?

The persona’s mother feels confused/ worried/sad

4. Lulu has left the house. Give two reasons why do you think

Lulu decided to do so.

1.She had an argument with her mother.

2. She had a fight with her mother.

3. She wanted to have more freedom.

4. She was being influenced by her friends.

5. From stanza 4, “I woke to voices late last night”

Whose voices the persona may have heard that woke him

up?

The persona’s mother / Lulu’s / Lulu’s friend(s)

6. What can you infer from the line “I heard an engine roar”?
Lulu has gone away in a car / Lulu has run away in a car / Lulu is being

driven away in a car

7. In stanza 5, what does the phrase “gust of rain” being

compared to?

Someone’s cry / Somebody’s cry

8. What is the persona’s mother doing in stanza 6 and why

do you think she reacts that way? Give a reason for your

answer.

Mother cried because she was upset that Lulu had run away.
9. In stanza 1, what can be seen on Lulu’s bed?

A rag-doll

10. In stanza 3, why do you think the persona’s mother

crumples the note?

She was angry with what written in the goodbye note/ She did not

want to know what was written in the goodbye note

11. I woke up to voices late last night’. Whose voices they

might refer to?

The voices belong to Lulu and mother/ Lulu and her friend/ Lulu’s

mother and friend/ Lulu and her kidnapper/ Lulu’s mother and the

kidnapper.

12. In your opinion, why do you think teenagers run away?

They are influenced by the wrong company of friends

They want to get away from overprotective parents
They want to be free
Parental neglect
Personal problems
Teen pregnancy
Drug addiction
13. In stanza 2, What does the line “the curtain flapping free”

indicates?

It was windy and the window is opened

14. In stanza 2, What did Lulu take with her?

Her money-box

15. In stanza 3, why do you think the mother says “It is

nothing at all?”

The mother does not want the persona to know what was written in

that note / the mother does not want the persona to know that she is

worried
16. In your opinion, what do you think had happened to

Lulu?

She ran away/ she was kidnapped

17. Which line in stanza 3, suggest the mother is crying?

And why do the tear-drops fall

18. Why was the mother crying?

She was upset with Lulu’s reaction

19. The number of teenagers running away from home is on

the rise. What could be the factors that contribute to this?

Argument with parents / family problem(s)

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