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The Moonstone Book key e Penelope says she thinks it is because Rosanna has fallen hopelessly in love with Franklin. 1 a quicksand f Because Franklin had a debt that needed paying. b opium g Because he has recently given up smoking. c exclaimed h Because she is so fascinated by it. It is as large as a d narrative bird’s egg and is a deep yellow that sucks your eyes e deformed into it. f will 5 a Franklin is a very attractive man and is a lot of fun, g smear but he spends a lot of money and has debts. He 2 a is a huge yellow diamond from and Rachel have known each other since they were India. children and are very good friends. Rachel is angry b 1868 when she learns about his debts and about a woman c It was the first detective novel in English. he knew on the Continent, but the next day she d The story is told by a number of different people. forgives him. Penelope tells her father that Franklin 3 a John Herncastle has asked Rachel to marry him and that Rachel has b Gabriel Betteredge neither accepted nor refused the offer. c Franklin Blake b is Rachel’s cousin. He is tall and d Three Indians very good-looking, and popular with women. He e Rosanna Spearman does a lot of work for charity and is an excellent f Franklin Blake public speaker. Betteredge thinks that Rachel loves g him. However, Penelope tells her father that Rachel h Godfrey Ablewhite and Godfrey went for a walk in the garden and that i Lady Verinder it was clear from their conversation afterwards that 4 a It is a very famous, ancient, huge yellow diamond. Godfrey had asked Rachel to marry him and that Ancient Indian writings say that it was originally she refused. placed in the forehead of the Hindu God of the c Rosanna is not very attractive in appearance and she Moon. In the eleventh century a temple was built has a deformed shoulder. She used to be a thief, but for the Moon-God and three priests were ordered Lady Verinder trusted her enough to employ her as to guard the diamond until the end of time. A curse a servant. She is hardworking and polite, but the was put on any person who stole the diamond, and servants don’t like her because she doesn’t talk much when it was stolen in the eighteenth century by a or try to make friends. She seems to fall in love with Muslim leader, he and his children all had great Franklin as soon as she sees him and starts acting misfortunes. strangely. Betteredge feels pity for her and is kind to b Because they want to get the Moonstone back. her. When they talk about ‘It’, they are referring to the 6–7 Open answers diamond. 8 a dress c Colonel Herncastle came to Lady Verinder’s house b Penelope two years ago to wish his niece a happy birthday. c Indians Lady Verinder refused to see him and he said, d sitting-room ‘I shall remember my niece’s birthday in future.’ e 3 a.m. Obviously, he was very angry, and by giving the f anyone Moonstone to Rachel on her birthday, he almost g dress certainly intended to pass the curse on to her. h fire d Because he has been followed by an Indian man in i cloth, dress the last few days. When he hears about the three Indians who have visited Lady Verinder’s house, he fears that they are the three Indian priests who guard the diamond and that they have come to get it back.

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9 a Dr Candy, Mr Murthwaite and . e Cuff says this when saying goodbye to Betteredge Dr Candy is from Fritzinghall and is a pleasant man after Lady Verinder has dismissed him and given who likes jokes and knows a lot about medicine. him a cheque for his work. He makes three Mr Murthwaite is an explorer, is tall and watches predictions about events concerning the people carefully. Moonstone. Miss Clack is a distant cousin of Rachel’s and is one f Franklin says this to Betteredge on receiving a of Godfrey Ablewhite’s charity friends. She is very letter from Lady Verinder saying that Rachel religious but is wearing a low-cut dress and likes certainly knows something about the Moonstone’s alcohol. disappearance and is in a state of nervous b Because the paint didn’t dry until 3 a.m. on the excitement. She says that she is taking Rachel to night the diamond was stolen, which means that London and that it is better if Franklin doesn’t see the person who made the smear could be the person her. who stole the diamond. Penelope has told Cuff that g Limping Lucy says this to Betteredge when she at midnight the paint had no smear on it. The paint arrives with a letter from Rosanna to Franklin. smear looks as if it was made by a dress, which Lucy believes that because Rosanna had learnt that means the diamond could have been stolen by a Franklin did not love her she decided to kill herself. woman. 15 Cuff thinks that Rachel is hiding the diamond because c She behaves very strangely. She is very shocked by she has debts and has pawned the diamond to pay the loss of the diamond and shuts herself in her for them. He believes this because of Rachel’s strange bedroom and refuses to talk to Superintendent behaviour after the theft of the diamond. He also Seegrave. She comes out of her room to speak to believes that because Rachel knew about Rosanna’s Franklin, then loudly tells Seegrave that no one past, she knew she could make people believe that the will ever find the diamond. She locks herself in Moonstone had been stolen by Rosanna. Cuff believed her room, where she can be heard crying. When that Rachel asked Rosanna to help her pawn the stone. Sergeant Cuff arrives the next day, she says, ‘I know 16–17 Open answers nothing,’ then returns to her room. She refuses to 18 a 3 b 3 c 7 d 7 e 3 f 3 g 7 h 7 allow him to search her wardrobe. i 3 10–12 Open answers 19 a Godfrey receives a letter asking him to go to the 13 a 6 b 4 c 1 d 7 e 3 f 5 g 2 house of a woman who wants to give money to 14 a Cuff says this when Franklin finds him lying charity. When Godfrey arrives, an Englishman takes asleep on three chairs in front of Rachel’s rooms. him to a room at the back of the house. As Godfrey Cuff explains that he expects Rosanna to try and looks at a book, a brown-skinned man attacks him communicate with Rachel and tell her that she has from behind. Another man joins him and Godfrey successfully hidden something. Cuff thinks that is tied to a chair and his eyes are bandaged. He is Rachel has stolen her own diamond, hoping that searched, and the men then leave, taking nothing Rosanna will be suspected. from him. Godfrey is discovered later by the owners b Penelope says this to her father about Rosanna. of the house. Rosanna has heard Franklin say, ‘I take no interest b Rachel asks Godfrey questions about the attack and in Rosanna Spearman,’ and she is very hurt. he tells her that he had never met Mr Luker until c A fisherman says this to Cuff after he has discovered he passed him in the bank. that Rosanna has killed herself by walking into the Rachel says that the newspapers are connecting the Shivering Sand. theft of the diamond with the attacks on Godfrey d Lady Verinder shouts this at Cuff when she hears and Mr Luker and that the object in the bank is the the news about Rosanna’s death. Moonstone. She says that some people are saying that Godfrey pawned the Moonstone to Luker but that she knows for certain that he is innocent and that she has been unfair to him.

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c Miss Clack tells Mr Bruff that Sergeant Cuff Indian then asks, ‘How long would you have given suspects Rachel took the Moonstone. Cuff says me to pay it back?’ Mr Bruff answers, ‘A year,’ that he knows Rachel well and that it is impossible realizing that the Indian’s visit was an excuse for she stole it, but when Miss Clack explains Cuff’s this question. Soon afterwards, Luker visits him reasons for believing this, Mr Bruff is puzzled. Miss and tells him that the Indian had visited him and Clack also tells him that Franklin Blake was in the asked the same question. Bruff then meets Mr house when the diamond disappeared but Mr Bruff Murthwaite who explains why the Indians have gives her good reasons why Franklin could not have acted in the way they have. stolen the diamond. He says that the only fact we 25 Because it is clear that Godfrey went to see Luker, a know is that the Moonstone is in London and that money-lender, at the end of June in order to pawn Mr Luker or his banker has it. the Moonstone for a large sum of money. Since the 20 We know that the Moonstone came to London Indians stole the receipt for the Moonstone, they because Mr Luker was attacked by dark-skinned know that Mr Luker put the Moonstone in the bank. men who took nothing from him but a receipt for an They also now know that one usually has a year to extremely valuable object that he had put in the bank. repay a loan and that therefore Godfrey will repay the Cuff had predicted that there would be news about money near the end of June 1849. Luker will then Mr Luker, who he described as a money-lender. It is take the Moonstone out of the bank in order to return clear, therefore, that the men who attacked Mr Luker it to Godfrey, and this is when the Indians can hope to were the Indians and that the object in the bank is the obtain it. Moonstone. 26–28 Open answers 21–22 Open answers 29 a 6 b 5 c 4 d 2 e 7 f 1 g 3 23 a friendship > marriage 30 a It gives directions on how to find a particular rock b gets better > dies at the Shivering Sand and how to find the chain c Miss Clack > the Ablewhites beneath it and pull up the case that Rosanna hid. d not happy > happy b Because the nightgown has a smear of paint on it e Mrs > Mr and Franklin remembers that Sergeant Cuff said f loved her > needed money that if you found the ‘dress with the stain’, you g the diamond > a loan would know who took the diamond. But Franklin h Bruff > Murthwaite has no memory of taking the diamond. 24 a Godfrey ask Rachel to marry him and she agrees, c She was cleaning his room the day after the but after moving to Brighton she tells Godfrey that Moonstone was stolen. She saw that his nightgown she has changed her mind. Godfrey tells Miss Clack had a smear of paint on it. that he is not upset and will concentrate on his d Because she loved Franklin and she wanted to be charity work. We then learn from Mr Bruff that he able to prove to him that she had saved him by had told Rachel what to tell Godfrey: that she had hiding the nightgown. proof that his motive for asking her to marry him e There must be proof that Franklin wore the was financial and that therefore she cannot marry nightgown when it was smeared. him. Godfrey accepts this without getting upset, f He says that Franklin must find the thief who took which confirms Mr Bruff’s belief that Godfrey the diamond. needed a large sum of money very quickly. g When Franklin met him at the birthday party, b Mr Bruff tells Rachel that he suspects Godfrey’s Dr Candy was very lively, but now his face is thin marriage offer has financial motives. He is present and grey and he is obviously very ill. during the conversation with the Ablewhites and 31–33 Open answers invites Rachel to come and stay with him. In 34 a Franklin’s b opium c experiment London he is visited by one of the three Indians, d innocent e drops f sailor who ask him for a loan. Mr Bruff refuses but the g Godfrey Ablewhite h mechanic

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35 a At Rachel’s dinner party, Franklin had been rude 8–10 Open answers about medicine. In order to teach Franklin a lesson 11 a Perhaps because he is trying to give up smoking. about the power of drugs, Dr Candy gave Franklin b Probably because he asked Rachel to marry him and a dose of opium that night without Franklin she refused. knowing about it. If Dr Candy hadn’t become ill c Perhaps it is the effect of the diamond. that night he would have returned the next day and d Because he says that ‘medicine is like a blind man in explained what he had done. Rachel would have the dark’. realized why Franklin had taken the diamond and e Because the house was locked up and the hunting the truth would have been revealed. dogs were loose in the garden. b knows this because when he was very f Open answer ill, Dr Candy talked a lot, and Jennings made notes g Because she said to him, ‘They’ll never find the of what he said. When Franklin tells Jennings that diamond, will they sir? Or the person who took it. he took the diamond without knowing it, Jennings I’ll make sure of that.’ suspects the truth. Jennings is able to put Dr h Open answer Candy’s words together to reveal the fact that the 12–17 Open answers doctor had given Franklin opium. 18 Suggested answer c Because under the influence of opium, Franklin Mr Bruff says these words to Miss Clack. He believes finds the diamond but then drops it and becomes that Rachel is innocent because he knows her very very sleepy. So the group do not learn what happened to the diamond after Franklin took it. well. He says she is ‘wild, stubborn and secretive – but d The ‘mechanic’ kills Godfrey and takes the she’s as honest and true as steel.’ Miss Clack tells him Moonstone. Mr Murthwaite then discovers that about Rachel’s declaration that Godfrey Ablewhite a new temple of the Moon-God is being built is innocent. Because it is clear that Rachel knows in Banares. Three priests have arrived in the city something about the theft, Mr Bruff believes this to and announced that ‘The Eye of the Moon has be true. Finally, Mr Bruff knows that although Mr returned.’ Franklin has debts, his lenders know that his father is e It is clear that the Indians have been following rich and are prepared to wait. Also, Rachel has told Godfrey for some time and they knew that he Franklin that she loves him. So why should Franklin had disguised himself as a sailor when he went to steal the jewel if he is going to marry Rachel? the bank to get the Moonstone from Luker. They 19–29 Open answers employ a man dressed like a mechanic to follow 30 Suggested answers Godfrey, kill him, take the Moonstone and return it Candy has changed a lot due to his illness. He forgets to them. things, why he does things, he is in constant pain. 36–47 Open answers 31 Open answers 32 Suggested answers: Discussion activities key Jennings suggests that Franklin should steal the 1 Open answers diamond, unconsciously, in a trance, for a second 2 See introduction for answers time, in the presence of witnesses. Then he may 3–6 Open answers remember what he did with the diamond after he left 7 a Betteridge looks after the servants in Lady Verinder’s house. Rachel’s room. b They are brother and sister. But because Lady + Open answers Verinder knows how Hardcastle stole the diamond 33–38 Open answers she does not want to see him. Activity worksheets key c Rachel is Hardcastle’s niece. 1 a 6 b 3 c 1 d 8 e 5 f 7 g 2 h 4 d They are cousins. i 10 j 9 e Rosanna is second housemaid in Lady Verinder’s 2 a 4 b 2 c 7 d 3 e 1 f 5 g 9 h 8 house. Rosanna had been imprisoned for theft and i 10 j 6 Lady Verinder had taken Rosanna into her house after Rosanna came out of prison.

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3 a False. Rachel does not allow him to search hers. 2 a aunt and nephew b True b servant and manager c True c cousins d False. She buys cloth to make a dress or a gown. d daughter and father e False. Rosanna does. e police officer and London detective 4 a 5 b 3 c 2 d 7 e 6 f 4 g 1 f Betteridge looks after the servants in Lady Verinder’s 5 a cloth b gown c smear d Rosanna e pawn house. 6 a niece b bank c tied d innocent g brother and sister e heart disease f books h Rachel is Hardcastle’s niece. 7 a Rachel to Godfrey when Godfrey proposes. i They are cousins. b Samuel to Miss Rachel when he finds her mother. j Rosanna is second housemaid in Lady Verinder’s c Godfrey to Miss Clack after his engagement is house. broken. 3 a False b False c True d False e True d Godfrey’s father to Rachel after he learns she has 4 a Miss Clack b Mr Godfrey c Miss Rachel broken the engagement with his son. d Mr Godfrey e Miss Clack e Mr Bruff to the Indian who visits him asking for a 5 a 2 b 2 c 1 d 1 e 1 loan. 6 a ‘She’ is Rachel. ‘Him’ is Franklin. ‘There’ is the 8 a Because Mr Bruff told her that Ablewhite had house in Yorkshire. Rachel has heard from Jennings financial motives for marrying her. He needs a large about Dr Candy’s words and now believes that sum of money quickly. Franklin is innocent. She wants to be present in the b Because he wants to know how long a money- house for the opium experiment. lender gives someone to pay money back. b ‘He’ is Franklin. ‘It’ is the Moonstone. In an opium c Because the Indians will try and get hold of the trance, Franklin has gone to Rachel’s sitting room, diamond when Luker removes it from the bank. and removed the moonstone. Then he dropped it. d Because his father has died. c ‘I’ is Franklin, who is narrating this section of the e Because it contains the paintstained nightgown story. ‘He’ is Luker. Luker has gone to the bank to with his name on it. collect the moonstone, and Franklin has gone to the f In Franklin’s room. bank with Bruff to observe Luker. They are certain g That Franklin was with Rachel between midnight he will pass the jewel to someone as he leaves the and 3 a.m. bank. h Because she loved Franklin. She believed he had d ‘I’ is Gooseberry, a boy who works for Bruff. stolen the jewel. She wanted to prove to him that Gooseberry had seen Luker pass something to the she had saved him. tall man with the beard in the bank. The boy 9 a money b Franklin c Rachel d Moonstone followed the man to an eating house and then to a e Franklin’s f Luker g inherits h pays pub. i recovers j death e ‘Him’ is a mechanic who followed the man with the 10–11 Open answers beard. Gooseberry saw him talking to an Indian. When the man with the beard went to his room in Progress test key the pub, he found the mechanic there, pretending to 1 a John Hardcastle be drunk. The landlord threw him out. b Rachel Verinder f ‘He’ is Ablewhite. He saw Franklin take the stone in c Franklin Blake a trance. The next morning Rachel says nothing and d Rosanna Spearman Franklin realises nothing. So Ablewhite realizes he e Gabriel Betteridge can steal the diamond. 7 a 3 b 5 c 1 d 2 e 4

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