LAST TIME RIVISION
📘 Factual Questions (with Answers)
1. Q: Who love to listen to stories about their elders?
A: Children.
2. Q: What do children like to imagine when hearing stories?
A: A traditionary great-uncle or grandame whom they never saw.
3. Q: In what spirit did Lamb’s little ones gather around him one evening?
A: To hear about their great-grandmother Field.
4. Q: Where did great-grandmother Field live?
A: In a great house in Norfolk.
5. Q: How was the great house in Norfolk described in size compared to their own house?
A: A hundred times bigger than the house in which the children and their papa lived.
6. Q: What tragic incidents were believed to have taken place in the Norfolk house?
A: The incidents from the ballad The Children in the Wood.
7. Q: How had the children recently become familiar with this story?
A: From the ballad of The Children in the Wood.
8. Q: What was carved on the chimney-piece of the great hall?
A: The whole story of the children and their cruel uncle, down to the Robin Redbreasts.
9. Q: What happened to the wooden chimney-piece with the carved story?
A: A foolish rich person pulled it down and set up a marble one of modern invention in its stead.
10. Q: What was missing from the new marble chimney-piece?
A: There was no story upon it.
11. Q: How did Alice react to this replacement of the chimney-piece?
A: She put out one of her dear mother’s looks, too tender to be called upbraiding.
12. Q: How was great-grandmother Field described in terms of character?
A: She was very religious and good, beloved and respected by everybody.
13. Q: Was great-grandmother Field the mistress of the great house?
A: No, she only had the charge of it, though in some respects she might be said to be the mistress.
14. Q: Who had given her charge of the house?
A: The owner of the house.
15. Q: Why did the owner not live in the great house?
A: He preferred living in a newer and more fashionable mansion in the adjoining county.
16. Q: How did great-grandmother Field treat the great house while she lived in it?
A: As if it were her own, keeping up its dignity.
17. Q: What happened to the great house after she died?
A: It fell into decay, nearly pulled down, and its ornaments were stripped and carried away.
18. Q: Where were the old ornaments taken?
A: To the owner’s other house.
19. Q: How did the old ornaments look in the new house?
A: Awkward, as if old tombs were carried away and stuck up in a tawdry gilt drawing-room.
20. Q: Whose house was compared to the owner’s newer house?
A: Lady C.’s tawdry gilt drawing-room.
21. Q: How did John react to the comparison of moving old tombs?
A: He smiled, as much as to say, “That would be foolish indeed.”
22. Q: Who attended great-grandmother Field’s funeral?
A: A concourse of all the poor and some gentry from many miles around.
23. Q: Why did people attend her funeral?
A: To show respect for her memory, because she was a good and religious woman.
24. Q: How well did great-grandmother Field know the Psaltery?
A: She knew all the Psaltery by heart.
25. Q: Besides the Psaltery, what else did she know by heart?
A: A great part of the Testament.
26. Q: How did little Alice react when she heard this?
A: She spread her hands.
27. Q: How was great-grandmother Field described in appearance?
A: A tall, upright, graceful person.
28. Q: In her youth, how was great-grandmother Field esteemed?
A: As the best dancer in the county.
29. Q: How did Alice react when she heard this?
A: Her little right foot played an involuntary movement until checked.
30. Q: What cruel disease struck great-grandmother Field?
A: A cancer.
31. Q: What effect did the disease have on her body?
A: It bowed her down with pain.
32. Q: Did the disease affect her spirits?
A: No, her spirits remained upright because she was so good and religious.
33. Q: Where did great-grandmother Field sleep in the great house?
A: By herself in a lone chamber.
34. Q: What did great-grandmother Field believe appeared at midnight?
A: An apparition of two infants gliding up and down the great staircase.
35. Q: What did she say about the apparitions?
A: “Those innocents would do her no harm.”
36. Q: Who was frightened by the apparitions?
A: The narrator (Elia/Charles Lamb).
37. Q: Did the narrator have company while sleeping?
A: Yes, he had his maid to sleep with him.
38. Q: Why was the narrator more frightened than Field?
A: Because he admitted he was never half so good or religious as she.
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📘 100 Factual Questions from the Passage
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Opening – Infants and John
1. Q: Who did the narrator say he never saw?
A: The infants.
(He begins with this statement before John reacts.)
2. Q: How did John react to this statement?
A: He expanded his eyebrows and tried to look courageous.
3. Q: Whose kindness is mentioned first in the passage?
A: Their great-grandmother Field’s kindness.
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Great-grandmother Field’s Love
4. Q: To whom was great-grandmother Field kind?
A: To all her grandchildren.
5. Q: Where did she invite them during the holidays?
A: To the great house.
6. Q: How did the narrator spend much of his time in the great house?
A: By gazing at the busts of the Twelve Cæsars.
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Busts of the Twelve Cæsars
7. Q: Who were the Twelve Cæsars?
A: Emperors of Rome.
8. Q: What effect did looking at the busts have on the narrator?
A: They seemed to come alive.
9. Q: What else did he feel while looking at them?
A: That he himself was turning into marble.
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The Great House
10. Q: How did the narrator describe the house?
A: Huge, with vast empty rooms.
11. Q: What condition were the hangings in?
A: Worn-out.
12. Q: How did he describe the tapestry?
A: Fluttering.
13. Q: What were the panels made of?
A: Carved oak.
14. Q: What was almost rubbed out from the panels?
A: The gilding.
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The Garden
15. Q: Where else did the narrator spend time apart from the house?
A: In the spacious, old-fashioned gardens.
16. Q: Who did he sometimes meet there?
A: A solitary gardener.
17. Q: What fruits grew on the garden walls?
A: Nectarines and peaches.
18. Q: Did he ever pluck the fruit?
A: No.
19. Q: Why did he not pluck them?
A: Because they were forbidden fruit.
20. Q: What trees did he wander among instead?
A: Yew trees and firs.
21. Q: What did he collect from these trees?
A: Red berries and fir apples.
22. Q: Were these berries and fir apples useful?
A: No, they were only good to look at.
23. Q: Where did he lie to enjoy the surroundings?
A: On the fresh grass.
24. Q: What did he enjoy while lying there?
A: The fine garden smells.
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The Orangery
25. Q: Where did the narrator bask in warmth?
A: In the orangery.
26. Q: What fruits were ripening there?
A: Oranges and limes.
27. Q: What did he imagine while basking in the orangery?
A: That he too was ripening like the fruit.
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The Fish Pond
28. Q: What fish darted about in the pond?
A: Dace.
29. Q: What larger fish hung silently in the pond?
A: A sulky pike.
30. Q: How did the narrator describe the pike’s position?
A: Midway down the water, motionless.
31. Q: What did the pike seem to do to the dace?
A: Mock their frisking.
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Children’s Reaction to Fruit
32. Q: What fruit did John secretly take?
A: A bunch of grapes.
33. Q: What did he plan to do with them?
A: Divide them with Alice.
34. Q: What did John do instead?
A: He put the grapes back on the plate.
35. Q: Who noticed John doing this?
A: Alice.
36. Q: Why did they both leave the grapes alone?
A: They thought them irrelevant at the moment.
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Uncle John L——
37. Q: Which grandchild did great-grandmother Field especially love?
A: Uncle John L——.
38. Q: Why did she love him especially?
A: Because he was handsome and spirited.
39. Q: How was he regarded by the other children?
A: Like a king to the rest of them.
40. Q: What kind of horse would he ride?
A: The most mettlesome horse he could get.
41. Q: What did he make the horse do?
A: Carry him half over the county in a morning.
42. Q: What other adventurous thing did he join?
A: The hunters, when they were out.
43. Q: Did he also love the old house and gardens?
A: Yes.
44. Q: Why did he not always stay there?
A: Because he had too much spirit to be confined.
45. Q: How did John L—— grow up?
A: As brave as he was handsome.
46. Q: Who admired him most especially?
A: Great-grandmother Field.
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John L—— and the Narrator
47. Q: What did John L—— do for the narrator when he was lame-footed?
A: Carried him on his back for many miles.
48. Q: Why did John carry him?
A: Because the narrator could not walk for pain.
49. Q: How was John L—— older than the narrator?
A: By a good bit.
50. Q: What happened to John later in life?
A: He became lame-footed too.
51. Q: How did the narrator fail John at that time?
A: By not making enough allowances for his pain.
52. Q: What had John shown the narrator earlier that he forgot to return?
A: Consideration when he was lame.
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Death of Uncle John
53. Q: What feeling did the narrator have when John died?
A: It seemed as if he had been dead a long time.
54. Q: Why did it feel this way?
A: Because of the distance between life and death.
55. Q: How did the narrator bear the death at first?
A: Pretty well.
56. Q: What happened afterward?
A: John’s death haunted him.
57. Q: Did the narrator cry for John?
A: No.
58. Q: How did he think John would have behaved if the narrator had died?
A: He would have taken it to heart.
59. Q: What did the narrator realize after John’s death?
A: How much he had loved him.
60. Q: What did he miss about John?
A: Both his kindness and his crossness.
61. Q: What did he wish for after John’s death?
A: That John were alive again, even if only to quarrel.
62. Q: What did the narrator compare his uneasiness without John to?
A: John’s suffering when the doctor amputated his limb.
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Children’s Reaction
63. Q: How did the children respond when they heard about Uncle John’s death?
A: They cried.
64. Q: What did they ask about their mourning clothes?
A: Whether they were for Uncle John.
65. Q: What did the children beg the narrator not to do?
A: Not to go on about Uncle John.
66. Q: What did they ask him to tell instead?
A: Stories about their dead mother.
Great 👍 Let’s complete the set of 100 factual questions by breaking down the descriptive details more finely. I’ll continue numbering from 67 to 100 so you have a full pack for exam revision.
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📘 100 Factual Questions from the Passage
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Details of the Great House
67. Q: What adjective is used to describe the size of the mansion?
A: Huge.
68. Q: How were the rooms of the mansion described?
A: Vast and empty.
69. Q: What word is used for the old hangings?
A: Worn-out.
70. Q: How is the tapestry described?
A: Fluttering.
71. Q: Of what material were the panels in the house made?
A: Oak.
72. Q: What was almost rubbed out on the oak panels?
A: The gilding.
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Details of the Gardens
73. Q: What type of gardens did the narrator mention?
A: Spacious and old-fashioned.
74. Q: Who was usually absent from the gardens?
A: Other children or companions.
75. Q: Who crossed the narrator now and then in the gardens?
A: A solitary gardening man.
76. Q: Which fruits were forbidden to pluck?
A: Peaches and nectarines.
77. Q: What was the reason for not plucking fruit besides being forbidden?
A: The narrator found more pleasure in other activities.
78. Q: Which trees were described as melancholy-looking?
A: Yew trees.
79. Q: What type of cones did the narrator pick up?
A: Fir apples (cones).
80. Q: What use did the narrator find in the berries and cones?
A: Only to look at.
81. Q: On what did the narrator lie to enjoy the garden?
A: Fresh grass.
82. Q: What surrounded him as he lay on the grass?
A: Fine garden smells.
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The Orangery & Warmth
83. Q: Where did the narrator bask in warmth?
A: The orangery.
84. Q: What fruits were ripening there?
A: Oranges and limes.
85. Q: What did he imagine about himself in the orangery?
A: That he was ripening like the fruit.
86. Q: What word does the narrator use for the orangery’s warmth?
A: Grateful warmth.
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Fish Pond Details
87. Q: Where was the fish pond located?
A: At the bottom of the garden.
88. Q: Which small fish darted to and fro?
A: Dace.
89. Q: What kind of motion did the dace show?
A: Frisking restlessly.
90. Q: How was the large pike described?
A: Sulky and motionless.
91. Q: Where did the pike hang in the pond?
A: Midway down the water.
92. Q: What did the pike’s stillness seem to express?
A: Mockery of the dace’s activity.
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Fruit & Children’s Reaction
93. Q: What kind of fruit did John handle during the story?
A: Grapes.
94. Q: What was John’s intention with the grapes?
A: To share them with Alice.
95. Q: Why did John put them back?
A: They seemed irrelevant to the story.
96. Q: How did Alice react to John putting them back?
A: She noticed but accepted it.
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Uncle John – Youth & Spirit
97. Q: What was Uncle John compared to among the children?
A: A king.
98. Q: What size was he described as when he rode horses?
A: “An imp no bigger than themselves.”
99. Q: What did he sometimes do in a single morning on horseback?
A: Ride half over the county.
100. Q: How did the narrator contrast himself with John L—— as children?
A: He moped in solitary corners, while John was adventurous.
Perfect 👌 You’ve given me the closing dream passage from Dream-Children: A Reverie by Charles Lamb. I’ll now extract factual questions with answers (exam-focused, like before) from every detail of this text.
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📘 Factual Questions from the Passage
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On Courting Alice W——n
1. Q: Whom did the narrator court with hope and despair?
A: The fair Alice W——n.
2. Q: What feelings did the narrator experience while courting Alice W——n?
A: Sometimes hope, sometimes despair.
3. Q: How long did the narrator persist in courting Alice W——n?
A: Ever—he persisted continuously.
4. Q: What did the narrator try to explain to the children about maidens?
A: Coyness, difficulty, and denial.
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Vision of the First Alice
5. Q: In whose eyes did the narrator suddenly see the soul of the first Alice?
A: In the eyes of young Alice (the child).
6. Q: What effect did this vision have on the narrator?
A: He doubted which Alice was before him.
7. Q: What physical feature of Alice caused this doubt?
A: Her bright hair.
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Children Fading Away
8. Q: What happened to the two children as the narrator gazed at Alice?
A: They gradually grew fainter and receded from view.
9. Q: What remained visible at the uttermost distance?
A: Two mournful features.
10. Q: Did these mournful features speak?
A: No, they had no speech.
11. Q: Despite not speaking, what did the mournful features strangely produce?
A: The effects of speech.
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Message of the Children
12. Q: What did the mournful features declare about their identity?
A: “We are not of Alice, nor of thee.”
13. Q: Whom did the children say was their father?
A: Bartrum.
14. Q: What did they call themselves in relation to existence?
A: Nothing, less than nothing, and dreams.
15. Q: What did they say they were?
A: Only what might have been.
16. Q: Where must they wait millions of ages?
A: On the tedious shores of Lethe.
17. Q: What did they have to wait for?
A: Existence and a name.
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Awakening
18. Q: Where did the narrator find himself upon awakening?
A: In his bachelor armchair.
19. Q: What had happened while he was seated there?
A: He had fallen asleep.
20. Q: Who remained unchanged by his side after waking?
A: The faithful Bridget.
21. Q: Who was gone forever at the end of the reverie?
A: John L. (or James Elia).
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