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LAHOF Revision - Quiz 1
Quiz by Greg Steptowe
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Match the following quote with its relevant key theme:
"A long while has passed since we'd made jokes [...] I can't remember the last time my wife touched me with hands that were anything except neutral and businesslike [...] It was aside to her I was seeing for the first time, this professional, acquired distance. At our house, in our script, Claire was the slapdash one." [The narrator in 'Like a House on Fire']
Match the symbol with the correct short story in which it appears:
Type the missing word to complete this sentence:
The images on the cover of Cate Kennedy's short story collection, such as the spilt coffee, broken plate and leaky tap, all suggest the theme of chaos and disorder in a d ____________ setting.
Match the following quote with its relevant key theme:
" ‘I’m not going to be a burden on anyone, is that clear?’ he mutters to her when the physios finally leave them alone for the afternoon. And knocks her hand away, as she goes to wipe some gravy off his chin."
"That’s Frank all over. Can’t hold a fork, but can still find a way to smack her out of the way." [Mrs Slovak in 'Flexion']
Match the short story with its setting:
Match the object with the correct story it is featured in
Match the following quotes to its relevant key theme:
“I told Shirley, that’s where he’d rather be laid to rest, in the place where he shared such precious times with his son.He had lots of happy memories of all those fishing trips.” [Chris' mother in 'Ashes']
"All those fishing trips. They’d been twice. Once at the Easter break, and once for the first week of the September school holidays. After that his father had given up." [Chris in 'Ashes']
Place the key events involving the narrator from 'Laminex & Mirrors' in the correct order:
It is the e__________s of the stories in Cate Kennedy's collection that often provide the key to an understanding of their central themes or meanings.
Match the following quote with its relevant key theme:
"I sit down and peel off my glove, pick up his hand. It's like a bundle of twigs. That hand, I tell myself, held a rifle, tried to stop itself trembling with terror, worked all its life." [The narrator in 'Laminex & Mirrors']
Place the letters in the correct order to spell out a famous simile and symbol in one of the short stories:
Match the character with a strong emotion they feel at the end of their story: