PENGUIN READERS Answer keys LEVEL 6 Teacher Support Programme 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 The Moonstone 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 Godfrey Ablewhite 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 Rachel Verinder 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. c Pearson Education Limited 2008 The Moonstone - Answer keys 1 of 5 PENGUIN READERS Answer keys LEVEL 6 Teacher Support Programme The Moonstone 9 a Dr Candy, Mr Murthwaite and Miss Clack. 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. c Pearson Education Limited 2008 The Moonstone - Answer keys of 5 PENGUIN READERS Answer keys LEVEL 6 Teacher Support Programme The Moonstone 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.