The Last Night revision quiz

Beschreibung

A multi-question quiz helping learners revise key aspects of The Last Night from the Edexcel Anthology.
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Zusammenfassung der Ressource

Frage 1

Frage
The events in The Last Night took place during which twentieth century war?
Antworten
  • The First World War
  • The Second World War
  • The Cold War
  • The Falklands War

Frage 2

Frage
What is dramatic irony?
Antworten
  • An ironic play
  • Exaggerated irony
  • When the audience knows less than the characters
  • When the audience knows more than the characters

Frage 3

Frage
The story is told in the first person through the character of Andre.
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 4

Frage
Annotate this extract from The Last Night to show how language is being used for effect here.
Antworten
  • Alliteration and verb shows defeat
  • Onomatopoeia used to show defeat
  • Verb connotes fear
  • Adverb connotes fear
  • Still protective of children
  • Secretive
  • Ironic as they will die
  • A small mercy
  • Connotes innocence
  • Connotes knowledge
  • Foreshadows their death
  • A blessed escape

Frage 5

Frage
What is pathos?
Antworten
  • A feeling of strong sympathetic sorrow for characters in a text
  • Knowing more than the characters do themselves
  • The revelation that comes at the end of a text
  • Putting yourself in someone else's shoes

Frage 6

Frage
Which of the following techniques does Faulks use to engage the reader in The Last Night?
Antworten
  • Dramatic irony
  • Pathos
  • Foreshadowing
  • Variety of sentence structures
  • Shifting viewpoint
  • Personification
  • Denouement
  • Metaphor

Frage 7

Frage
The Last Night is set in Nazi Germany
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 8

Frage
Annotate this extract from the text to show how Faulks conveys the cruelty of the Nazis and their allies the Vichy French.
Antworten
  • Andres is protective suggesting danger
  • Innocent victims
  • They know they're sending them to die
  • Hasn't even started to live really
  • Callous as he knows the baby will die
  • Pathos used in both paragraphs

Frage 9

Frage
The deportees are being sent to a labour camp rather than a death camp
Antworten
  • True
  • False

Frage 10

Frage
Charlotte Gray is the novel from which The Last Night comes. It is a sequel to another of Faulk's famous novels. Which one?
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