Selection Quizzes (English)



1.	Why, according to the narrator, could the mother not love her children?
	A.	She was incapable of loving anyone.
	B.	The children were sickly and disrespectful.
	C.	They were not her biological children.
	D.	She felt that they had been thrust upon her.

2.	What reason does the mother give Paul for the family's financial problems?
	A.	Her husband has no luck.
	B.	No one will give the family a break.
	C.	That is the way God wants it to be.
	D.	Fate has decided that they should be poor.

3.	What about Paul delighted Uncle Oscar?
	A.	He looked quite a bit like Oscar.
	B.	He was becoming a fine-looking lad.
	C.	He knew all the horse racing news.
	D.	He enjoyed the rocking-horse.

4.	Why does Paul think that Uncle Oscar is lucky?
	A.	Uncle Oscar was wealthier than Paul's family.
	B.	Uncle Oscar has an automobile.
	C.	Uncle Oscar gave him the money with which Paul won his first bet.
	D.	Paul's mother said that Oscar was lucky.

5.	When does Paul tell his mother about the rocking-horse?
	A.	on his deathbed
	B.	after he recovers from his illness
	C.	when Bassett hands him the eighty thousand pounds
	D.	as soon as the Darby results are announced

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