Educating Rita Week 1
Quiz by KHAN Nurhayati (WOL-Teacher)
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- Q1Describe the print that Rita sees when she first enter's Frank's office."erotic" (3)"beautiful"(4)"a good and striking print of a nude, religious scene" (1)"sexually stimulating" (3)30s
- Q2What does Frank drink in his office?"a bottle of Scotch which has no more than three or four fingers left in it" (1)"sweet, sparkling wine" (48)"pots of Guinness" (38)"four" pints of beer (2)30s
- Q3Which of the following best suggests that Frank looked down on Rita, as John does his wife?"I don't think I'm familiar with the actual piece you mean" (5)"you could incinerate ratatouille, radiate it, cook it in the ovens of hell, napalm the bloody stuff and still it wouldn't be overcooked!" (2)"I shall no doubt need to go to the pub afterwards if only to mercifully wash away some silly woman's attempts to get into the mind of … whoever the hell it is we're supposed to study on this course" (1)"this Open University woman coming this evening" (1)30s
- Q4Which of the following best suggests that Rita is a determined individual?"You've got to challenge death and disease." (5)"that's no good, always meaning to, is it? You should get on with it." (2)"I was dead surprised when they accepted me." (4)"there's loads that I don't understand." (6)30s
- Q5Which of the following best suggests that Rita doesn't think she is very intelligent?"there's loads that I don't understand." (6)"I'm slightly out of step" (14)The whisky will "probably have a job finding my brain" (6)"it kills your brain cells" (6)30s
- Q6Which of the following best suggests that Rita is a dedicated student?"I want to know…everything." (7)"I want to be able to see [ballet or the opera and] understand" (8)"I hardly ever talk when I'm [home]" (10)"God… what's it like to be free?" (9)30s
- Q7Which of the following best suggests that Rita, like Simon and Gilman's narrator, is living a double life?"I'm not a Susan anymore. I've called myself Rita" (11)"I talk too much don't I?I don't when I'm at home; I hardly ever talk when I'm there" (10)"I am [a good hairdresser] when I wanna be. Most of the time I don't" (12)"they want to be changed. But if you want to change, you have to do it from the inside… like I'm trying to do." (13)30s
- Q8Which of the following best suggests that Frank is intrigued by Rita?"you are quite, quite different" (16)"I think you're really rather marvellous" (14)"you are seeking a great deal indeed""It's so long since I paid a compliment to anyone that I barely recognise it myself" (14)30s
- Q9Which of the following best suggests that Rita, like Simon, feels different?"If I try and do anything different he gets a gob on him" (14)"I've been realising for ages that I was slightly out of step" (14)"I should have had a baby by now, everyone expects it" (14)"I wanna find myself first, discover myself" (14)30s
- Q10Which of the following best suggests that Rita, like Gilman's narrator, finds it hard to communicate with her husband?"my husband thinks I'm infertile. He's always goin' on about havin' babies [but] I don't want a baby yet" (14)"If I try and do anything different he gets a gob on him" (14)"I've tried to explain it to my husband but between you and me I think he's just … blind… He can't see because he doesn't want to see." (14)"I tried explaining to him how I wanted a better way of living my life… but all he meant was he was fed up living on our estate" (14)30s
- Q11Which of the following best indicates Frank's self-loathing?"I'm really rather an appalling teacher" (15) because "I know absolutely nothing" (16)"I can be a really good teacher when I'm in the pub" (16)I don't want to teach you" (16)"you are seeking a great deal indeed and I'm afraid I cannot provide it" (16)30s
- Q12Why is it ironic that Rita thinks both Frank and Trish have "taste" and "there's nothing phoney about [them]" (18)?They both want her to be herself instead of like them.They are both jealous of her.They are both struggling and unhappy.They both are wealthier than her.30s
- Q13"If I'd started takin' school seriously then I would have had to become different from my mates; and that's not allowed" (19) Which of the following quotations support a similar implication as the one above?"keep your mouth shut or she'll make us write a bleeding essay on it!" (26)"Denny gets really pissed off if I work at home. He doesn't like me doin' this course" (29)"he wants me to stop rockin' the coffin… I'm certainly not just gonna lie down and die for him" (37)"it's like there's this sort of disease but no one mentions it; everyone behaves as though it's normal." (33)30s
- Q14"it's really tempting to go out and get that other dress… you won't be upsetting anyone or hurting anyone - apart from yourself!" (20) Which of the following quotations support a similar implication as the one above?"he wants me to stop rockin' the coffin… I'm certainly not just gonna lie down and die for him" (37)"keep your mouth shut or she'll make us write a bleeding essay on it!" (26)"it's like there's this sort of disease but no one mentions it; everyone behaves as though it's normal." (33)"Denny gets really pissed off if I work at home. He doesn't like me doin' this course" (29)30s