1 "Two men, short, hooded, black boots, black cloaks, black hats were waiting either side of the water-gate. As Jack came through, panting from his run, the men seized his body, pinioned his arms, threw a rough damp torn sack 5 over him and bundled him into a waiting boat.
'Be this the one?'
'This be the one sure as I have a tongue and one ear."
His accomplice laughed. 'If he be not the one, you shall have a tongue or one ear but never both on the same head."
10 'Quiet, you water-rat! Give him the drink.'
The man held back Jack's head and opened his mouth with his fingers, as you would to a dog, the other fellow poured a think red liquid down Jack's throat. Jack spat and coughed and choked, but he had to swallow some of it. It 15 tasted bitter. It was gritty. It was like fire ashes or fine-ground oyster shells mixed up in red vinegar.
The men shoved Jack into a closed coop at the stern of the boat. It was a poultry boat and there was a big slatted wooden hen-coop perched at one end where the fowls were 20 rowed to market. Jack looked out through the torn sack and the slats of the boat; the boat was being rowed rapidly east. Jack wanted to shout out, but he couldn't because he was dizzy, and the last thing he saw were the boats on the river no longer going up and down, but round and round 25 and round and round like at a fair.
Jack felt a great dullness, like the world spinning to a stop at the end of time. He passed into a dead and dreamless sleep, a black place.
The men in the boat sat still without speaking. One lit a 30 clay pipe.
As the boat reached its mooring place, several servants dressed in grey came to meet it. Jack was carried from the coop, and the boat and the two men rowed on, distant now, towards Limehouse.
35 The servants took Jack down and down and down. They laid him there and walked away. There was nothing more to do.
At home, his small spaniel could not be quieted, and ran up and down, down and up, stopping and crying in a dark 40 corner of the room. Jack's mother, standing at the water-gate, had a sense, an instinct, that her son was alive but in danger.
'He is a boy, he's fallen over, he's eating apples, he's met with a friend,' said the groom, wondering why women 45 never used good commonsense but fretted and worried over simple foolish things.
'He was to be here at twelve midday,' said Jack's mother, 'and if he comes not to be here by twelve at midnight, then shall I go to him.'
50 'And how shall that be done?' said the groom, laughing at her, 'in all the teeming city of London, its lanes, lodgings, highways and byways, inns and dens, how shall you, a woman, find one strayed boy?'
But Jack's mother knew how she would find her son. She 55 went up to her room and opened the little door in the wall, and took out a small leather bag with something inside." (7-9)
1. The use of dialect in the beginning of the scene is best used to:
a. Show the joking tone of the scene
Not correct, because the tone isn't completely joking.
b. Give character to the men
Correct, because the use of diction provides the reader with an opinion.
c. Inform the reader of what is happening by
telling
Not correct, because the test doesn't say what is happening.
d. Make the reader curious
Not correct, because the text doesn't put anything in suspense.
e. Introduce colloquial language
Not correct, because it is more strongly used to give characterization.
2. The purpose of telling the reader, “He passed into a dead and dreamless sleep, a black place.” (lines 27-28) is to:
a. Give a physical description of where he is
Not correct, because this quote tells nothing about his whereabouts.
b. Show that he is content
Not correct, because "dead and dreamless" (27-28) is not a content tone.
c. Foreshadow what is going to happen next, by incorporating darkness
Correct, because darkness usually comes before something bad.
d. Give the time of day by saying he is asleep
Not correct, because he was drugged so no reference can be made.
e. Tell the reader that Jack was tired
Not correct, because he was drugged so his own emotions were not in control.
3. The authors tone in this passage is best described as:
a. Critical
Not correct, because there is no evidence of any criticism.
b. Frightened
Not correct, because the tone is more confused than scared.
c. Dramatic
Correct, because the use of foreshadowing creates suspense.
d. Informative
Not correct, because the writing style is descriptive and story-like.
e. Determined
Not correct, because the author shows no determination while writing.
4. The point of the mothers dialogue in the lines 45-47 is to:
a. Show the connection between mother and son
Correct, because the tone of the mother is loving and is important to the novel.
b. Portray her determination
Not correct, because her love for her son is more important.
c. Give background information
Not correct, because no new information is given that is detrimental to the novel.
d. Hint at the time period
Not correct, because the dialogue has already done that.
e. Tell the reader what is going to happen next
Not correct, because the relationship is more important than the foreshadowing.
5. All of the following are FALSE EXCEPT:
a. Jack tried to fight off the kidnappers but they drugged him
Not correct, because they didn't drug him because he fought.
b. Both of the men that took Jack are positive that he is the one they need
Not correct, because of the lines, "'If he be not the one, you shall have a tongue or one ear but never both on the same head." (8-9)
c. Jack was given a drink that made him fall asleep
Correct, because the men poured a liquid down his throat that made him sleep.
d. The men that kidnapped Jack are the same ones laid him down
Not correct, because of the line, "Jack was carried from the coop, and the boat and the two men rowed on, distant now" (33)
e. Jack's mother isn't worried because Jack misses his curfew a lot
Not correct, because of the line, "'He was to be here at twelve midday'" (47)
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