Villains!

FINAL TEST

A Tick () the correct column.

Catherine Sweeney
Rasputin
de Medici Todd

1. I had a barber’s shop in London.

2. I was the main advisor of the Tsar.

3. The Russian Revolution began a month after my death.

4. I was born in Florence.

5. I committed my first murder at Hyde Park.

6. I wrote the story for a ballet.

7. Some people called me the “Mad Monk”.

8. I gave the meat from dead bodies to a baker.

9. I liked hunting.

9 points (1 point each)

B Complete the sentences according to the stories.

1. Rasputin was the only child in his family after ....................................................................................... .
2. Alexei, the Tsar’s son, had a .................................................................................................................... .
3. The murder of Rasputin was not easy because ..........................................................................................
.................................................................................................................................................................. .
4. When Catherine de Medici was born, astrologers advised her parents to ............................................... .
.................................................................................................................................................................. .
5. Catherine de Medici became an expert in ................................................................................................ .
6. Sweeney Todd’s employer sold ............................................................................................................... .
7. Sweeney Todd’s childhood was .............................................................................................................. .

14 points (2 points each)

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FINAL TEST

C Answer the questions about the stories.

1. Why was Rasputin so unpopular?
...............................................................................................................................................................
2. What happened to Rasputin’s body?
...............................................................................................................................................................
3. Who was Catherine’s only friend in France?
...............................................................................................................................................................
4. Why did Catherine de Medici want to have children?
...............................................................................................................................................................
5. What happened to Margery Lovett?
...............................................................................................................................................................
6. Did the death of Sweeney Todd reflect his crimes? How?
...............................................................................................................................................................

12 points (2 points each)

D Choose one topic and write a paragraph. Your paragraph should be at least 40 words long.
1. Which of the three villains do you think is the worst? Explain your answer.
2. Compare and contrast the lives of two of the main characters in the stories.
3. Describe the personality of one of the main characters in one of the stories.
How did this affect his / her life?

15 points

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ANSWERS TO FINAL TEST

Catherine Sweeney
Rasputin
de Medici Todd
1. I had a barber’s shop in London. 
2. I was the main advisor of the Tsar. 
3. The Russian Revolution began a month after my death. 
4. I was born in Florence. 
5. I committed my first murder at Hyde Park. 
6. I wrote the story for a ballet. 
7. Some people called me the “Mad Monk”. 
8. I gave the meat from dead bodies to a baker. 
9. I liked hunting. 

B 1. his brother and sister died

2. serious blood disease
3. he was very strong and whatever the nobles did, Rasputin refused to die
4. put her in a basket and leave her on the city wall
5. poisons
6. all kinds of cutting instruments
7. very difficult and unhappy

C 1. Because the Tsar and Tsarina trusted him and he was very powerful.
2. It was thrown in the river, then pulled from the river and finally buried and then burned.
3. her husband’s father, King Francis I
4. Because the French people weren’t happy with her. If she didn’t have children, they could
remove her from the throne.
5. She poisoned herself.
6. Yes. He was cut up and became a pile of meat and bones, like his victims.

D Accept all logical and grammatically correct answers.

Possible points for inclusion:
1. Sweeney Todd was the worst of the three villains. Rasputin believed God was talking to him and he
tried to help the Tsar’s son. At first, Catherine tried to listen to moderate advisors and reach a
solution to the French Wars of Religion. But Sweeney Todd killed people because he wanted to make
money from their deaths and steal from his victims.
2. Catherine de Medici was born into a rich family. She had everything she needed. Sweeney Todd’s
family was very poor. Both Catherine and Sweeney became orphans at a very early age and this made
their lives very difficult. Both of them tried to learn new things and later they used these skills to hurt
others. Catherine learned how to make poisons and used them to kill people. Sweeney Todd learned
about knives and razors and used his knowledge to kill people.
3. Rasputin was an evil man with special powers. When he was a child, he held his brother under the
water and he later died from peumonia. As an adult, he used his powers to gain influence in the
Russian court. He took advantage of the Tsarina’s trust to dismiss some of his enemies from the court
and become rich. He was corrupt and led an unclean life. Rasputin was very religious, but he used his
religion to influence the Tsar and Tsarina.