RT-Moonstone

Step Four READING & TRAINING KEY TO THE ACTIVITIES

Page 39 – activity 2 Chapter Four Open answer. Page 39 – activity 3 Page 63 – activity 1 B2.1 Open answer. 1 He’s embarrassed because he thinks she’s going to tell him that The Moonstone Page 40 – activity 4 she stole the diamond. Wilkie Collins Open answer. 2 She probably wants to replace the one with the paint on it so that no Page 40 – activity 5 one will miss it. Open answer. 3 He believes that they didn’t take the diamond, but they want to Page 41 – activity 6 take it. KEY TO THE ACTIVITIES AND EXIT TEST 1 D 2 B 3 A 4 D 5 C 6 B 7 D 8 C 4 He’s upset because Rachel has 9 C 10 D 11 A rejected him. Page 42 – activity 1 5 Students’ guesses. 6 He sees her footprints going to the Page 17 – activity 4 Open answers. About the author quicksand, but he doesn’t see any 1 C 2 D 3 B 4 D 5 A 6 B 7 C 8 D Page 42 – activity 2 footprints returning, and he knows Page 6 – activity 1 9 A 10 C 11 D Open answer. that she’s talked about dying in the 1 F 2 F 3 T 4 T 5 T 6 F 7 F 8 T Page 18 – activity 1 quicksand. Page 42 – activity 3 9 F 10 F 1 C 2 A 3 B 4 C 5 A 7 He weeps openly. Students’ ideas. 1 roses 2 sitting room 3 door 4 three 8 He thinks she needed the money Preface Chapter One o’clock in the afternoon 5 Wednesday to pay off secret debts. 6 twelve 7 midnight (or 12 o’clock 9 He thinks she needed Rosanna to Page 8 – activity 1 Page 26 – activity 1 p.m.) 8 midnight (or 12 o’clock p.m.) find someone who will give her 9 three o’clock in the morning (or 3 money for the stolen diamond. 1 B 2 C 3 A 4 C 1 A 2 A 3 C 4 C 5 D 6 B 7 A a.m.) 10 took the diamond 10 He believes she’ll be shocked and Page 9 – activity 2 Page 27 – activity 2 she will feel guilty for causing 1 throughout 2 sacred Open answers. Chapter Three Rosanna’s death because she 3 generations 4 descendant involved her in the theft. 5 inherit Page 28 – activity 3 Page 50 – activity 1 Page 63 – activity 2 Page 9 – activity 3 1 F 2 A 3 B 4 G 5 D 6 C 1 A 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 B 6 C 7 A 8 D Not used: E Open answer. 1 for 2 in 3 who 4 the 5 so 6 all Page 52 – activity 2 Page 64 – activity 3 7 could 8 if 9 from 10 from 11 of Page 30 – activity 1 1 pp, C 2 ppc, B, 3 pp, D 4 pp, A 1 T 2 S 3 X 4 W 5 W 6 T 7 X 8 T 1 A 2 B 3 C 4 A 5 C 5 ppc, E Page 14 – activity 1 9 W 10 F 11 X 12 F 13 X 14 S 1 C 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 D Page 53 – activity 3 Chapter Two Page 64 – activity 4 Open answer. Page 15 – activity 2 1 found out 2 You are to blame Page 38 – activity 1 Open answers. Page 53 – activity 4 3 if you don’t 4 allow Mr Blake to 1 G 2 J 3 G 4 F 5 D, F 6 M Open answer. 5 committed suicide Page 16 – activity 3 7 G, D, M, I 8 I 9 B 10 P 11 P 12 R, S 1 B 2 E 3 H 4 D 5 I 6 F 7 C 8 A 13 S 14 R, S 15 B 16 S 17 S, C Page 54 – activity 1 Page 65 – activity 5 9 G 1 B 2 A 3 B 4 C 5 A Open answers.

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Page 66 – activity 6 7 He says that they don’t know where Reporter: Well then! Can you tell me in Reporter: Did your attackers take 1 H, D, B 2 H, D, B, C 3 B 4 B, D he comes from and he looks strange. your own words, what happened to anything? you yesterday afternoon? Mr Luker: Nothing. I have no idea what 5 H 6 H, B 7 B 8 C 9 H 10 D 11 H Page 82 – activity 2 12 C 13 D 14 C 15 C Mr Luker: I’ve already told the police they were looking for. It wasn’t Open answers. what happened, I suppose I can tell money. I had plenty of money on me Imperialism on the Page 83 – activity 3 you. I returned to my home after and none of it was taken. doing some business at the bank. I Reporter: Are you aware that Godfrey Open answers. Indian Subcontinent saw that there was a letter for me Ablewhite has been attacked as Page 84 – activity 4 from one of my best customers. I well? Page 72 – activity 1 1 Franklin promised to give up deal in valuable jewellery and art Mr Luker: Of course. The papers were 1 F 2 T 3 F 4 T 5 T 6 F 7 F 8 T smoking cigars. from China and India, as you know, full of it this morning. 9 T 10 F 2 Rachel agreed to delay her trip for as well as being able to help people Reporter: Do you have any idea why? Page 73 – activity 1 two hours. out with loans. Mr Luker: Absolutely none. I have no Reporter: Yes, of course. Now, what idea why I was attacked either, Open answers. 3 Mr Blake offered to help Sergeant Cuff with his investigations. happened after you received the before you ask. Page 73 – activity 2 4 Franklin refused to stay in the letter? Reporter: Do you know anything about 1 Lady Julia has died house. Mr Luker: The letter, as I’ve said, was an Indian diamond called the 2 attacked by Indians 5 Betteredge promised not to tell from a customer. In the letter, he Moonstone? 3 his father has died anyone about the nightshirt. told me that he had moved to some Mr Luker: I’ve heard of it. 4 April 1849 6 Rachel refused to see Mr Blake. rooms on Tottenham Court Road Reporter: Did you know that it was 5 leave me alone 7 Betteredge offered to pour some and that he wanted to meet me stolen from a house in Yorkshire 6 stole the Moonstone brandy for Mr Blake. later that afternoon. I went to the earlier this year? 8 Betteredge promised to do his best address that was provided in the Mr Luker: There’s been some talk Chapter Five to help Mr Blake. letter immediately. When I arrived, about it. 9 Sergeant Cuff agreed to leave the the door was answered by a Reporter: Mr Luker, have you ever Page 82 – activity 1 house. respectable looking gentleman. He been approached by someone who showed me into the drawing room. wanted to sell the Moonstone or use 1 There is business that he has to take 10 Mr Blake refused to stay in the On a table was a beautiful book it as security for a loan? care of in connection with inheriting house. filled with writing and art from Mr Luker: You’re asking me if I deal his father’s money. Page 85 – activity 5 India. It looked very valuable. I with stolen goods. 2 He thinks the Indians were after the 1 C 2 B 3 A 4 C 5 B 6 C 7 B 8 C started to look through it. Reporter: Well… Moonstone. He believes they Tapescript Reporter: Was this when you were Mr Luker: This interview is over. Please attacked Luker because he has the Reporter: Mr Luker! I’m so glad you attacked? don’t contact me again. diamond, but that they made a could come. Please have a seat. Can Mr Luker: Yes. I was so interested in Reporter: Mr Luker, I apologise… mistake and attacked Godfrey I offer you anything to drink? the book that I didn’t hear anyone Ablewhite because they saw him Page 86 – activity 1 Mr Luker: Let’s just get this over with. come in. The next thing I knew, with Luker. I’m only doing this because you’re a someone grabbed me by the neck. 1 F 2 D 3 E 4 A 5 B 6 G 7 C 8 H 3 About 10 months has passed. friend of my niece. I really shouldn’t Then a cloth was tied around my 4 No one from the family is living Page 87 – activity 2 be talking to the papers at all. I’m a eyes. My hands were tied next. there now. Lady Julia is dead and Open answers. private person… Reporter: Were you hurt? Rachel is living in London. Reporter: Yes, I’m very grateful that Mr Luker: No. They searched my Page 87 – activity 3 5 Rosanna was very important to her you’re willing to let me interview pockets and then left. I lay on the and she blames him for her death. Open answers. you. floor for quite some time, and then I 6 She loved Franklin Blake and it was Mr Luker: You’ve got a quarter of an was found by the owners of the the only thing of his that she had. hour. house.

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Chapter Six 6 He wants him to go back to the Page 122 – activity 2 Speaker 3: Well… it’s very good for the same state of mind he was in last 1 C, D, E, I 2 D, L 3 A, L 4 B, G, I time, especially when you think year, so he talks about the things about what was happening in Page 97 – activity 1 5 H, C, M 6 K 7 C 8 A, F 9 C, F that Mr Blake was probably 10 L, C 11 A, D, G 12 B, D, G, J history when the book was being 1 A 2 C 3 B 4 D 5 A 6 B 7 A thinking about at that time. 13 D, L 14 A, H, M 15 M written. But on the other hand, they Page 98 – activity 2 7 He is re-living exactly what he did seem so strange and exotic. And the year before. Page 123 – activity 3 they’re kind of scary, aren’t they? Open answers. 8 They proved that Franklin was Open answers. Sneaking around waiting to attack Page 99 – activity 3 innocent, but they didn’t find out or kill anyone who has this magic Page 124 – activity 4 Open answers. what he did with the Moonstone diamond. There’s so little that you after he took it the year before. 1 E, Franklin Blake 2 C, Godfrey actually know about them. I’d love Page 100 – activity 4 9 They are going to try to catch Ablewhite 3 B, the three Brahmins to have seen a chapter narrated by 1 widely 2 regularly 3 variety whoever took the Moonstone. 4 F, Rachel Verinder 5 A, Gabriel one of them, but if Collins had done 4 famous 5 recreational They are expecting this person to Betteredge that I guess it would have given too 6 acceptable 7 gradually 8 addiction be at the bank sometime in the Not used: D, Rosanna Spearman much of the plot away. 9 prescription 10 illegal 11 dangerous next few days. Tapescript Speaker 4: Well, they’re interesting, 12 criminal 10 He is too ill to travel, in fact he Speaker 1: That part didn’t really work that’s the main thing. They’re expects that he will die soon. for me, to be honest. First you’re allowed to be interesting characters, Page 101 – activity 1 not sure how Rachel feels about him whereas with someone like Dickens Page 109 – activity 2 Open answer. because it’s all seen through you get all these saintly, boring, Open answers. Betteredge’s eyes. Then Rachel Page 101 – activity 2 goody-goody heroines. And she’s a starts acting so strangely and it Page 110 – activity 3 good character, very strong willed Open answers. suddenly seems to be over between and honest. She won’t allow herself Open answer. them and you don’t understand to be lied to. She’s the one who Chapter Seven Page 110 – activity 4 why. The thing that does almost decides if the relationship with make the whole love story work is Open answers. Franklin Blake is going to continue Page 109 – activity 1 the way he tries so hard to prove or not. Perhaps it’s having all that 1 He needs witnesses to prove that Page 111 – activity 5 himself to Rachel. He doesn’t seem money that gives her so much Franklin only took the Moonstone 1 between 2 of 3 who 4 for 5 that to even consider that he might go to confidence. under the influence of opium. (He 6 was 7 had 8 of 9 to 10 fall jail, he just wants to make things Speaker 5: Yes, it’s something I like himself has a bad reputation and 11 went 12 be right with Rachel again. I guess that about this book, actually. Wilkie might not be believed.) is romantic. Collins just presents them as normal 2 He wants Franklin’s state of mind Page 113 – activity 1 Speaker 2: Yes and no. I knew the people who happen to be servants. to be similar to the year before, 1 E 2 F 3 D 4 B 5 A 6 C Moonstone would end up back in And the main one – he’s such a but if he meets Rachel he will only India, but only because I skipped great character. He’s very down-to- Page 113 – activity 2 think of her and their relationship. ahead and read the last paragraph. I earth, and at the same time he’s so 3 His health is bad. He’s afraid he Open answer. also suspected who the thief was, loyal and caring – sort of a father might be too ill to carry out the just because he seemed too good to figure to the other characters, experiment. Chapter Eight be true. I wasn’t one hundred especially Rosanna. That part where 4 Franklin is the only person in the percent sure it would be him until she dies – you know, British butler village who’s been a friend to him Page 122 – activity 1 the end, though. I had no idea who characters are supposed to be so and he wants to repay his 1 T 2 F 3 T 4 F 5 T 6 F 7 T 8 T the ‘sailor’ was until they took off stiff and cold, and there he is in the kindness. 9 F 10 T the make-up. And of course I didn’t rain with the tears streaming down 5 The crystal will play the part of the know anything about his secret his face. I thought it was really Moonstone in the experiment. girlfriend. I thought he was after touching. Rachel all along.

Comprehension 5 ‘When I retire from the police force, I’ll spend my time growing roses.’ 1 Write a short summary of the story describing: 6 ‘My child was the same age as Rosanna. I thought with horror that my girl might have lived that miserable life and died this A the main characters terrible death.’ B the main events 7 ‘Betteredge, I have no memory of taking the diamond, but B the setting/s where the story develops. there is evidence against me!’ 8 ‘How could I say, “My darling, you’re a thief!” My hero, who I 2 Answer the questions. love and honour, you’ve come to my room in the middle of the night and stolen my diamond!’ 1 How many narrators are there in The Moonstone? 9 ‘The point is, people don’t trust me, partly because of my 2 Who are they? unusual appearance and partly because I’ve lost my good 3 Why do you think Wilkie Collins chose to tell the story from the point name.’ of view of different narrators?

4 Who is your favourite character in The Moonstone? Describe them and say why you like them in approximately 100 words. Characters

3 Who said it? Which character said these things? Write the letter of the right character next to the right quotation. Not every character will have a quotation and some characters might have more than one.

Rachel (R) Rosanna (RO) Franklin Blake (FB) Godfrey Ablewhite (GA) Lady Julia (LJ) Betteredge (B) Sergeant Cuff (SC) Dr Candy (DC) Mr Bruff (BR)

John Herncastle (JH) Mr Murthwaite (M) Ezra Jennings (EJ)

Superintendent Seegrave (SS) answer. Open

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EJ 9 R 8 FB 7 B 6 SC 5 FB 4 RO 3 JH 2 RO

1 ‘Sometimes I think my grave is waiting for me in The Shivering 1

Sand!’ 3 Activity

Open answer. Open 3 Jennings. Ezra Blake, Franklin Betteredge, Gabriel 2 Three 2 ‘Tell Lady Julia that I’ll remember my niece’s birthday!’ 1 3 ‘They’ll never find the Moonstone, sir, or the person who took 2 Activity it!’

4 ‘Superintendent Seegrave is a complete fool. I’ll send a answer. Open

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