Subject: English, asked on 31/12/17

Subject: English, asked on 12/6/17

Subject: English, asked on 12/6/17

Read the extract and answer the questions.
Tom looked vaguely and listlessly at all the well-known objects. He was lying on the very spot where the fights came off- where he himself had fought six years ago his first and last battle. He conjured up the scene till he could almost hear the shouts of the ring, and East's whisper in his ear; and looking across the garden to the Doctor's private door, half expected to see it open, and the tall figure in cap and gown come striding under the elm trees towards him. He got up, walked to the chapel door, and unlocked it. He passed through a vestibule, and then paused for a moment to glance over the empty benches. He walked up to the seat which he had last occupied as a sixth-form boy, and sat himself down there to collect his thoughts.
The memories of eight years were all dancing though his brain, and carrying him about whither they would. He raised himself up and looked round, and after a minute rose and walked humbly down to lowest bench, and sat down on the very seat which he had occupied on his first Sunday of Rugby.
He looked up at the great painted window above the altar, and remembered how, when a little boy, he used to try not to look through it at the elm trees and the rooks, before the painted glass came; and the subscription for the painted glass, and the letter he wrote home for money to give to it. And there, down below, was the very name of the boy who sat on his right hand on that first day, scratched rudely in the oak panelling.
Questions
  1. Which are the places where Tom sat or lay on?
  2. What memories did Tom have of each of these spots?
  3. Who do you think East was?
  4. What did Tom notice in the panelling of the seat that he had occupied on his very first Sunday of Rugby?
  5. Give a suitable title to this passage. Why did you choose such a title?
 
 

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