LQA4 (1) Revised

SBQ1: Describe the game played by the children in the waiting room.
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The children had played the game of advertisement. It was something like dumb Crambo. The
players take it in turns to go out, and then come back and look as like some advertisement as they
can, and the others have to guess what advertisement it is meant to be. Bobbie came in and sat
down under Mother's umbrella and made a sharp face, and everyone could guess she was trying
to be fox. Phyllis tried to make a Magic Carpet of Mother's waterproof, but it would not stand
out stiff and raft-like as a Magic Carpet should, and nobody could guess it. The game went on
like that.
SBQ2: How did the Russian feel about the strawberries that the children brought from
Perks? Describe the place where the children planned to go to collect the wild berries for
the Russian gentleman. 5
The Russian gentleman was so delighted with the strawberries that the three children had brought
them. They had seen the blossom on the trees in the spring, and they knew where to look for wild
cherries now that cherry time was here. The trees grew all up and along the rocky face of the cliff
out of which the mouth of the tunnel opened. There were all sorts of trees there, birches and
beeches and baby oaks and hazels, and among them the cherry blossom had shone like snow and
silver. That was where the children had planned to go to collect the
BQ1: Write about the Russian and his family. 10

He was a writer; he'd written beautiful books. In Russia at the time of the Czar one dared not say
anything about the rich people doing wrong, or about the things that ought to be done to make
poor people better and happier. If one did one was sent to prison and the same happened to him
too after he had written a beautiful book about poor people and how to help them. He was there
for three years in a horrible dungeon, with hardly any light, and all damp and dreadful and then
they took him out and sent him to Siberia as a convict. When the war came, some of the Russian
prisoners were allowed to volunteer as soldiers. And he volunteered. But he deserted at the first
chance he got and because he owed more to his wife and children then to his country. He didn't
know what had become of his family. For anything he knew they might have been sent to prison,
too. They did those things in Russia. But while he was in the mines some friends managed to get
a message to him that his wife and children had escaped and come to England. So when he
deserted he came here to look for them.
BQ2: What natural disaster did the children witness when they went along the fence near
the tunnel? How did they save the lives of the passengers on the 11.29 train? Describe in
your own words. 10
The children saw earthquake moving the huge rock which fell on railway. Peter tried to say that
the rock was coming down but he found there was hardly any voice to say it with. And, indeed,
just as he spoke, the great rock, on the top of which the walking trees were, leaned slowly
forward ultimately to fall on the line with a blundering crash that could have been heard half a
mile off. A cloud of dust rose up. And the children remembered the 11.29 down train was yet to
go by. They calculated the distance and thought of doing things like climbing up the telegraph
post to signaling the train with something red to alert it. And the latter one they did by making a
flag sort of thing tearing Bobbie’s flannel petticoat. They made six flags, and two of the flags
were set up in heaps of loose stones between the sleepers of the down line. Then Phyllis and
Roberta took each a flag, and stood ready to wave it as soon as the train came in sight. And after
a long wait , the train came and they waved the flags with all their might. And when the driver
and the fireman had got off the engine and Peter and Phyllis had gone to meet them and pour out
their excited tale of the awful mound just round the corner, Bobbie still waved the flags but more
and more feebly and jerkily.
BQ: Describe the birthday cake, decoration, and the presents received by Roberta.
The birthday decoration had twelve candles on the table, one for each of Roberta's years. The
table was covered with a sort of pattern of flowers, and at Roberta's place was a thick wreath of
forget-me-nots and several most interesting little packages. And Mother and Phyllis and Peter
were singing—to the first part of the tune of St. Patrick's Day. Roberta knew that Mother had
written the words on purpose for her birthday. They were very nice presents. There was a green
and red needle-book that Phyllis had made herself in secret moments. There was a darling little
silver brooch of Mother's shaped like a buttercup, which Bobbie had known and loved for years,
but which she had never, never thought would come to be her very own. There was also a pair of
blue glass vases from Mrs. Viney. Roberta had seen and admired them in the village shop. And
there were three birthday cards with pretty pictures and wishes. Mother fitted the forget-me-not
crown on Bobbie's brown head and directed her towards the table where there was a cake
covered with white sugar, with 'Dear Bobbie' on it in pink sweets, and there were buns and jam.
And the big table was almost covered with flowers—wallflowers were laid all round the tea-tray
—there was a ring of forget-me-nots round each plate. The cake had a wreath of white lilac
round it, and in the middle was something that looked like a pattern all done with single blooms
of lilac or wallflower or laburnum. Phyllis gifted a map of the railway with intricate details
inscribed and Peter gave his adorned engine whose tender was full of sweets.

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