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11+ Sutton
SELECTIVE ELIGIBILITY TEST (S.E.T.)
PRACTICE TEST 9

Mathematics
45 minutes

Instructions:

– This test contains 50 questions.

– For each question, choose the correct answer and then mark its letter on
the answer sheet.

Your time will start when you turn over the page.

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Q1. What is the remainder if you divide 179 by 11?

A 2
B 3
C 4
D 5
E 6

Q2. What is 19 – 131 + 129?

A 9
B 11
C 17
D 23
E 19

Q3. What angle is formed when a horizontal line and a vertical line meet?

A 45°
B 50°
C 60°
D 90°
E 360°

Q4. Which is the best estimate for the length of a rugby ball?

A 2.7 mm
B 27 inches
C 27 mm
D 27 cm
E 27 m

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Q5. 8 people log on to the You Spell website every minute.

How many people log on to the site in 6 hours?

A 48 people
B 2880 people
C 360 people
D 288 people
E 3840 people

Q6. A car is able to travel 18 km on a litre of petrol at optimum speed.

If the car goes faster or has to keep slowing in heavy traffic, the distance it
travels per litre of petrol can drop to 10 km.
If petrol costs £1 per litre, what is the range of petrol costs for a journey
of 90 km?

A £1
B £2
C £3
D £4
E £5

Q7. The number 20 can be written as a product of prime numbers.

For example, 5  2  2 = 20

What is 540 written as a product of prime numbers?

A 32  22  5
B 33  22  5
C 3 3  2  10
D 32  23  5
E 3  22  5

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Q8. What fraction of the grid below is shaded?

1
A
4
1
B
6
5
C
24
1
D
8
3
E
8

Q9. A bicycle has wheels of circumference 1.5 m.

A second bicycle has wheels of circumference 2 m.
If both bicycles are ridden so that the wheels make 1000 revolutions, how
much further will the bicycle with larger wheels travel?

A 300 m
B 350 m
C 400 m
D 450 m
E 500 m

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Q10. The graph shows the number of children, adults and pensioners who attended
the 7 p.m. performance of a theatre show each night for one week.

If the theatre was full to capacity on one night only, approximately how many
people does the theatre seat?

A 250 people
B 200 people
C 300 people
D 350 people
E 150 people

3
Q11. What is as a decimal?
50

A 0.03
B 0.6
C 0.06
D 0.9
E 0.12

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Q12. The shape below is made from two identical rectangles.

Each rectangle measures 6 cm  2 cm.
What is the area of the shape?

A 18 cm2
B 20 cm2
C 22 cm2
D 24 cm2
E 26 cm2

Q13. It costs 4.5 p per minute to use the phone on the island of Taipa.
How much would a 52-minute call cost?

A £230
B £23
C £2.30
D £2.34
E £24

Q14. Anja is travelling abroad.

She exchanges 120 pounds for 54 dupes of local currency.
She buys a bag for 9 dupes and pays for an excursion that costs 36 dupes.
If allowed to exchange the remaining dupes back to pounds at the same rate,
how many pounds will Anja receive?

A £25
B £32
C £20
D £15
E £18

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Q15. How many numbers between 0 and 100 are divisible by both 3 and 7?

A 1 number
B 2 numbers
C 3 numbers
D 4 numbers
E 5 numbers

Q16. The table shows the population in 2019 of five countries.

Country Population

China 1 420 062 022

India 1 368 737 513

United States 329 093 110

Mexico 132 328 035

Vietnam 97 429 061

Approximately how many times larger than Vietnam’s population is

India’s population?

A 200 times
B 50 times
C 14 times
D 8 times
E 3 times

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Q17. Jasmin thinks of a number, n.

She adds 3 to the number and then multiplies the result by 2.
Which of the following is an expression for Jasmin’s final answer?

A 2n + 3
B n+6
C n+5
D 3n + 2
E 2n + 6

Q18. In a garden, one-sixth of the flowers are red, 40% are white and 0.3 are blue.
The rest are yellow.
What fraction of the flowers in the garden are yellow?

2
A
15
1
B
15
3
C
15
4
D
15
1
E
5

Q19. 256 children compete in a knock-out tennis tournament.

The children are numbered from 1 to 256.
Each child plays one match in the first round: child 1 plays child 129,
2 plays 130, 3 plays 131, and so on.
The loser of each match is knocked out of the tournament and the winner goes
through to the next round.
This continues until only one child is left, having won all of their matches.
How many rounds need to be played to find this one winner?

A 4 rounds
B 5 rounds
C 6 rounds
D 7 rounds
E 8 rounds

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Q20. A farmer wants to make a square or rectangular paddock for her horse.
She has 80 m of fence panels.
Each fence panel is 1 m long and cannot be cut.
If the farmer uses all of the fence panels, what is the difference between the
areas of the smallest paddock and the largest paddock that she can make?

A 220 m2
B 243 m2
C 361 m2
D 280 m2
E 121 m2

Q21. An animal holiday home looks after pets while their owners are away.
The pie chart shows the ratio of the different animals that they look after.

If there are 50 rabbits at the animal holiday home, how many cats are there?

A 50 cats
B 55 cats
C 60 cats
D 64 cats
E 72 cats

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Q22. Mr Smith buys a half-litre bottle of tomato sauce.

10% of the sauce gets stuck at the bottom of the bottle and never comes out.
The rest is used by his three children, who each have 15 ml with their evening
meal every night.
If the bottle is opened to use on Monday, on what day of the week will it run out?

A Tuesday
B Thursday
C Monday
D Wednesday
E Friday

Q23. One hundred and twenty strawberries can fit in a container measuring
20 cm  18 cm  8 cm.
How many strawberries will fit in a container than measures
10 cm  36 cm  64 cm?

A 800 strawberries
B 860 strawberries
C 900 strawberries
D 960 strawberries
E 1020 strawberries

Q24. A pumpkin weighs the same as two melons.

A melon weighs the same as four apples.
How many apples weigh the same as three pumpkins?

A 12 apples
B 20 apples
C 24 apples
D 30 apples
E 32 apples

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1 3
Q25. What is the difference between 5 and 3 ?
4 8

1
A 2
8
7
B 1
8
3
C 2
8
3
D 1
8
1
E 2
4

Q26. What is 0.375 as a fraction in its lowest terms?

3
A
10
15
B
25
1
C
4
3
D
8
1
E
8

Q27. The population of a village is counted and found to be 800.

During the following year, 10% of the population leave the village to live
elsewhere, 12 babies are born, 4 people die and 57 new people move into
the village.
What is the new population of the village?

A 782 people
B 785 people
C 790 people
D 797 people
E 902 people

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Q28. A box of 2000 biscuits weighs 20.02 kg.

Each biscuit weighs 10 g.
How much does the box weigh?

A 2g
B 200 g
C 20 g
D 2 kg
E 0.2 g

Q29. The shape below is formed from two identical equilateral triangles.

What is the size of angle x?

A 140°
B 80°
C 90°
D 100°
E 120°

Q30. What is (7 2 – 6 2)2?

A 1
B 169
C 144
D 25
E 13

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Q31. Which two numbers are both a cube and a square number?

A 27 and 36
B 16 and 36
C 1 and 64
D 8 and 125
E 2 and 64

Q32. How many sevenths are there in 42?

A 6
B 2
C 82
D 124
E 294

Q33. Mo has a large rectangle of card measuring 2 m  1.5 m.

He plans to cut it into smaller rectangles measuring 10 cm  6 cm to make
greetings cards.
What is the maximum number of greetings cards that Mo can cut from the
large piece of card?

A 500 cards
B 510 cards
C 600 cards
D 50 cards
E 60 cards

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Q34. School A has 400 students of which 201 are boys.

School B has 290 students of which 150 are boys.
School C has 270 students of which 140 are boys.
School D has 400 students of which 199 are boys.
If one pupil is picked at random from each of the four schools, at which school
is there the greatest likelihood of picking a boy?

A School A
B School B
C School C
D School D
E It is the same for all four schools.

Q35. Look at the graph below.

Which statement must be true?

A Cho walked for 10 hours.

B Cho stopped walking at 11:00.
C Cho walked a total of 6 km.
D Cho walked fastest between 15:00 and 16:00.
E Cho got lost at 10:00.

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Q36. A dressmaker has a new reel of cotton, holding 20 m of thread.

Each dress requires 1.08 m of thread.
The dressmaker does not want to run out of thread in the middle of making
a dress.
How many dresses can the dressmaker make before the reel should
be changed?

A 18 dresses
B 19 dresses
C 11 dresses
D 14 dresses
E 12 dresses

Q37. Jim asks his family if he can do any jobs for them to earn money.
His father agrees to pay £5 per week for Jim to wash his car.
His mother agrees to pay £2 once every two days for Jim to empty the bins.
His grandmother says she will pay Jim £1 to do her shopping once every
four days.
His grandfather asks Jim to fetch his daily newspaper for 50 p per day. What
is the maximum amount that Jim can earn in one week?

A £19.00
B £18.50
C £17.00
D £16.50
E £16.00

Q38. Lea thinks of a number.

She doubles it, adds 7 to the result and then divides by 3.
The final answer is 9.
What was Lea’s original number?

A 6
B 7
C 9
D 9
E 10

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Q39. At a wedding, the guests are seated at rectangular or circular tables.

The rectangular tables seat 6 people and the circular tables seat 5.

Each table must have all its seats filled.

What is the smallest number of tables needed to seat 99 guests?

A 15 tables
B 16 tables
C 17 tables
D 18 tables
E 19 tables

Q40. Given that 238  127 = 30 226, what is 302.26  12.7?

A 23.8
B 238
C 2380
D 23 800
E 238 000

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Q41. The scale on the map below is 1 : 4000.

If the distance between the cross and the campsite at C is 3 cm on the map,
what is the distance in real life?

A 1.2 m
B 12 m
C 120 m
D 1.2 m
E 12 km

Q42. Sam can cycle at a speed of 15 km per hour.

Sam’s grandmother can walk 1 km in half an hour.
How many times faster is Sam on her bike than her grandmother walking?

A 30 times
B 18 times
C 15 times
D 7.5 times
E 2.5 times

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Q43. The mean of five numbers is 7.

If three of the numbers total 17, what is the average of the other two?

A 18
B 9
C 10
D 16
E 12

Q44. Dough, So and Lo are three dogs.

Their total weight is 60 kg.
Dough weighs 1.5 kg more than both So and Lo.
How much does Dough weigh?

A 22 kg
B 21.5 kg
C 21 kg
D 20.5 kg
E 20 kg

Q45. What is the next number in the sequence below?

623, 512, 401, 290, …

A 189
B 197
C 279
D 179
E 111

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Q46. Joe needs to get 80% in a spelling test to receive a coveted certificate.
There are 40 spellings in total.
Joe realises that he has got the first three spellings wrong.
How many more spellings can he get wrong but still achieve 80%?

A 4 spellings
B 5 spellings
C 6 spellings
D 7 spellings
E 8 spellings

Q47. Eight identical cubes are assembled:

The cubes are all put together to make a larger cube.

The outside of the larger cube is then painted.
Finally, the large cube is dismantled into eight individual cubes again.
How many faces in total remain unpainted?

A 24 faces
B 22 faces
C 20 faces
D 18 faces
E 16 faces

Q48. Orange paint is made by mixing red and yellow paint in a ratio of 2 : 5.
If 28 litres if orange paint is needed, how many more litres of yellow paint are
required than red paint?

A 20 litres
B 8 litres
C 7 litres
D 12 litres
E 2.5 litres

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Q49. (0, 0) and (5, 5) are two points on a straight line.

Which of the following is a point on the same line?

A (1, –1)
B (3, 0)
C (0, 5)
D (4, 2)
E (–4, –4)

Q50. Three numbers are missing from the subtraction calculation below.

1 7 3
– 9 8

8 7

What is the total of the three missing numbers?

A 12
B 13
C 14
D 15
E 16

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11+ Sutton
SELECTIVE ELIGIBILITY TEST (S.E.T.)
PRACTICE TEST 9

English
50 minutes

Instructions:

– This test contains 34 questions, which are split over 4 sections

– You are advised to spend the time suggested below on each section:
Section A: Spelling – 5 minutes
Section B: Text 1 – 25 minutes
Section C: Text 2 – 10 minutes
Section D: Comparison of Texts 1 & 2 – 10 minutes
– These timings are just recommendations – you are allowed to spend as
much of the given time as you like on each section, and you may return to
questions at any time during the test.
– Read the instructions for each section carefully.
– Mark all your responses on the separate answer sheet provided.

Your time will start when you turn over the page.

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Section A

Which of these is the correct spelling?

1. A Aquit

B Acquit

C Accuit

D Aquite

E Acquite

2. A Consciencious

B Consientious

C Consiencious

D Conciensious

E Conscientious

3. A Harassment

B Harrasment
C Harrassment

D Harasment

E Harassament

4. A Hygene

B Hiygiene

C Higeine

D Hygiene
E Hygeine

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5. A Prefferable

B Prefferible

C Preferable

D Prefrable
E Prefrible

6. A Vaccume

B Vacume
C Vacuum

D Vaccum

E Vaccuum

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Section B
The extract below is from The Hollow Land, by Jane Gardam.

Read the extract carefully and then answer the questions that follow.

I’m Bell Teesdale. I’m a lad. I’m eight. All down this dale where I live there’s dozens of
little houses with grass growing between the stones and for years there’s been none of
them wanted. They’re too old or too far out or that bit too high for farmers now. There
was miners once – it’s what’s called the hollow land – but they’re here no more. So the
5 little houses is all forsook.

They have big garths round them, and pasture for grass-letting – sheep and that – and
grand hayfields. Maybe just too many buttercups blowing silver in June, but grand hay
for all that, given a fair week or two after dipping time.

All these little farmhouses for years stood empty, all the old farming families gone and
10 the roofs falling in and the swallows and swifts swooping into bedrooms and muck trailing
down inside the stone walls.
So incomers come. They buy these little houses when they can, or they rent or lease
them. Manchester folks or even London folks, with big estate cars full of packet food you
don’t see round here, and great soft dogs that’s never seen another animal.

15 All down Mallerstang there’s becks running down off the fell. It’s bonny. Down off the
sharp scales, dry in summer till one single drop of rain sends them running and rushing
and tumbling down the fell-side like threads of silk. Like cobwebs. And when the wind
blows across the dale these becks gasp, and they rise up on theirselves like the wild
horses in Wateryat Bottom. They rise up on their hind legs. Or like smoke blowing, like
20 ever so many bonfires, not water at all, all smoking in the wind between Castledale and
the Moorcock toward Wensleydale. It’s bonny.

And townsfolk come looking at all this now where once they only went to the Lake
District over the west. Renting and leasing they come. Talking south. ‘Why’d they
come?’ I ask our grandad, who’s leased the farmhouse he used to live in (my gran died).
25 ‘There’s not owt for ’em here. What’s use of a farm to them? Just for sitting in. Never a
thing going on.’

‘Resting,’ says my grandad. ‘They take ’em for resting in after London.’

Well, this family that come to my grandad’s old house, Light Trees, wasn’t resting. Not
resting at all. There’s a mother and a father and four or five great lads, some of them
30 friends only, and there’s a little lad, Harry, and the racket they make can be heard as
far as Garsdale likely.

They has the house – our gran and grandad’s old house, see – but we still keep all the
farm buildings and work them and we’ve right to the hay off the Home Field. There’s

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good cow byres, dipping pens, bull’s hull and clipping shed. So we’re clipping and dipping
35 and drenching and putting the cows to the bull regardless. Sometimes there’s a hundred
sheep solid across our yard so they can’t get their car over to the yard gate. But it was
in the arrangement, mind. My dad always says, ‘We’re about to bring in sheep, Mr
Bateman’ – it’s what they’re called, Bateman – ‘We’re bringing in sheep. Would you like
to get your car out first? We’ll hold things back.’ There’s maybe four, five and six of our
40 sheepdogs lying watching, and their soft dog lying watching our dogs, but never going
near. Then from out the house comes their music playing, and lads yelling and laughing
and a radio or two going and the London mother cooking these Italian -style suppers and
their telephone ringing (they’ve got in the telephone like they’ve g ot in a fridge) and
they’re all saying, this London lot, ‘Beautiful evening Mr Teesdale’ – my dad – ‘and what
45 are you doing with the sheep tonight? You’re giving us quite an education.’

And there’s this little lad, Harry, just stands there not saying owt.
Now there’s one night, the first night of hay-time, and we’re all slathered out, even my
dad. It’s perfect. A right hot summer and a right hot night and a bright moon. Yesterday
my dad said, ‘Tomorrow we’ll mow hay. We’ll mow all day and if need be through the
50 night. There may be rain by Sunday.’

He’s never wrong, my dad, so we – my mum and our Eileen and our Eileen’s boyfriend
and Grandad and all of us – we set up till we’d mowed and we finish the High Field and
Miner’s Acre by teatime. And then we sets to with the Home Field – that’s the great big
good field round Light Trees. Light Trees stands right in it.

55 It makes a rare clatter our tractor and cutter, louder than their transistors – clatter,
clatter, clatter, round and round and round – and after a bit, well maybe two hours,
there’s heads beginning to bob from windows. Then round ten-eleven o’clock and the
summer light starts fading and it’s still clatter, clatter, there’s electric lights flashing on
and off inside Light Trees and this London father comes out.
60 First he just stands there. Then he strolls and watches. Clatter, clatter, clatter. Round
and round and round. He starts waving a bit. Then he’s calling. Finally, round midnight
he’s yelling and shouting at us, but we can’t stop. When you open up a field of hay you
have to see it mowed out.

And then the tractor breaks down and there’s silence. Silence like the beginning of the
65 world or the end of it, and the London father and some of the big lads comes over (the
mother’s inside with ear-plugs in likely, the cutter coming up to the house wall, see,
every two-three minutes, though not that near – farther off as we get nearer the middle)
and he says, ‘Will this row be going on much longer then, Teesdale?’

‘Not if I can get this feller mended,’ says my dad, fratcheting with spanners.
70 ‘Causing something of a row,’ says the London father.

‘No row here,’ says my dad, ‘I’m having no row.’

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7. ‘All down this dale where I live there’s dozens of little houses with grass
growing between the stones and for years there’s been none of them
wanted.’ (lines 1–3)

Which of these is NOT correct?

Select one answer.

A There is an example of alliteration in this line.

B The houses have been neglected.

C There are twelve houses.

D The houses are built from stone.

E The houses are modest in size.

8. Why is it called ‘the hollow land’ (line 4)?

Pick the most accurate explanation.

A The houses are in a small round valley.

B The land is now empty of people and life.

C The land looks nice but nothing useful grows there.

D There are nothing but empty pits below the surface of the land.

E The land is of no value to anyone anymore.

9. ‘They’re too old or too far out or that bit too high’ (line 3)

What literary devices are used in this line?

Select all that are correct.

A Alliteration

B Metaphor

C Hyperbole

D Repetition

E The rule of three

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10. Think about the narrative style. Which of these is NOT correct?

Select one answer.

A The text is written in the first person.

B The text is written entirely in the past tense.

C The narrator is an eight-year-old boy.

D The language and grammar reflects the narrator’s dialect.

E It creates the effect of the narrator speaking directly to the reader.

11. ‘swallows and swifts swooping into bedrooms’ (line 10)

Which of these statements are true?

Select all that are correct.

A This is an example of alliteration.

B This is an example of personification.

C This is an example of sibilance.

D This is an example of a metaphor.

E The language reflects the fluid, sweeping movement of the birds.

12. Select the TWO most accurate words to describe the narrator’s attitude
towards the incomers.

A Welcoming

B Bemused

C Admiring

D Disdainful

E Envious

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13. ‘All down Mallerstang there’s becks running down off the fell. It’s bonny.’
(line 15)

What does this line mean?

Pick the most accurate explanation.

A Becks was running down the valley when she fell. It was funny.

B There’s a river that runs the length of the valley. It’s quite big.

C We get lots of fell runners in Mallerstang. It’s nice.

D Streams flow down from the high moorland all along the valley.
It’s beautiful.

E There’s a waterfall that cascades down the hill at Mallerstang.

It’s lovely.

14. ‘Down off the sharp scales, dry in summer till one single drop of rain sends
them running and rushing and tumbling down the fell-side like threads of
silk. Like cobwebs.’ (lines 15–17)

Which of these is NOT correct?

Select one answer.

A These lines contain two similes.

B These lines do not make use of the rule of three.

C These lines contain examples of alliteration.

D These lines contain an example of hyperbole.

E These lines create an image of a lattice of silvery lines across

the landscape.

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15. Look carefully at lines 17–21. Which of these is NOT correct?

Select one answer.

A The wind whips spray from the streams into the air.

B There are wild horses at Wateryat Bottom.

C There are two extended similes in these lines.

D The streams are personified in the first line.

E Despite the streams, they get wildfires in the valley.

16. Look carefully at line 27. What can be inferred from this line?

Select all that are correct.

A Bell’s grandad thinks that London is an exhausting place to live.

B Bell’s grandad is more accepting of the townsfolk than Bell.

C Bell’s grandad thinks the townsfolk are lazy.

D Bell’s grandad begrudges leasing the farm house to the townsfolk.

E Bell’s grandad would like to live in London.

17. Select the TWO words from the extract that are examples of regional
dialect rather than standard English.

A Becks

B Bonny

C Bateman

D Bonfire

E Bull

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18. From the text, what buildings has Bell’s grandad kept for his own use
(separate to the lease of the farm house)?

Select all that are correct.

A A garage

B Cowsheds

C Dipping enclosures

D A large barn

E A sheep-shearing shed

19. ‘So we’re clipping and dipping and drenching and putting the cows to the
bull regardless.’ (lines 34–35)

What does this line suggest?

Select all that are correct.

A Having townsfolk in the house does not affect the running of the farm.

B It rains a lot on the farm.

C They breed their own cattle on the farm.

D Bell is involved in the farm work.

E There is a constant cycle of jobs to be done.

20. Select the TWO words that could replace ‘rare’ in line 55 without changing
the meaning.

A Infrequent

B Scarce

C Intermittent

D Remarkable

E Unrivalled

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21. The word ‘clatter’ appears nine times in lines 55–60. Which of these is
NOT correct?

Select one answer.

A The word ‘clatter’ means a dull thumping sound.

B The word ‘clatter’ is onomatopoeic.

C The word is repeated to show that the noise is continuous.

D The repetition clearly communicates the idea of an awful, ongoing din.

E It creates a strong contrast with the sudden silence at the beginning of

line 65.

22. ‘there’s electric lights flashing on and off inside Light Trees’ (lines 58–59)

What does this tell us?

Pick the most accurate explanation.

A The family living in the house have already put up a Christmas tree.

B Bell’s thinks that the family should use candles rather than
wasting electricity.

C The family in the house are trying to get to sleep but keep
being disturbed.

D The children in the house are messing around with the lights.

E The family are trying to send a Morse code message using the lights.

23. What is the source of the misunderstanding in lines 68–71.

Pick the most accurate explanation.

A Bell’s dad has a strong accent, which the Londoners cannot understand.

B The two men cannot hear each other properly over the noise.

C The word ‘row’ can mean a loud noise or a quarrel.

D The word ‘row’ can mean a line of something or to travel by boat.

E Bell’s dad thinks the Londoners want to help with the haymaking.

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Section C
The extract below is from the poem Faces in the Street, by Henry Lawson.

Read the extract carefully and then answer the questions that follow.

They lie, the men who tell us in a loud decisive tone

That want is here a stranger, and that misery’s unknown;
For where the nearest suburb and the city proper meet
My window-sill is level with the faces in the street
5 Drifting past, drifting past,
To the beat of weary feet
While I sorrow for the owners of those faces in the street.

And cause I have to sorrow, in a land so young and fair,

To see upon those faces stamped the marks of Want and Care;
10 I look in vain for traces of the fresh and fair and sweet
In sallow, sunken faces that are drifting through the street
Drifting on, drifting on,
To the scrape of restless feet;
I can sorrow for the owners of the faces in the street.

15 In hours before the dawning dims the starlight in the sky

The wan and weary faces first begin to trickle by,
Increasing as the moments hurry on with morning feet,
Till like a pallid river flow the faces in the street
Flowing in, flowing in,
20 To the beat of hurried feet
Ah! I sorrow for the owners of those faces in the street.

The human river dwindles when ’tis past the hour of eight,
Its waves go flowing faster in the fear of being late;
But slowly drag the moments, whilst beneath the dust and heat
25 The city grinds the owners of the faces in the street
Grinding body, grinding soul,
Yielding scarce enough to eat
Oh I sorrow for the owners of the faces in the street.

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And then the only faces till the sun is sinking down
30 Are those of outside toilers and the idlers of the town,
Save here and there a face that seems a stranger in the street,
Tells of the city’s unemployed upon his weary beat
Drifting round, drifting round,
To the tread of listless feet
35 Ah! My heart aches for the owner of that sad face in the street.

And when the hours on lagging feet have slowly dragged away,
And sickly yellow gaslights rise to mock the going day,
Then flowing past my window like a tide in its retreat,
Again I see the pallid stream of faces in the street
40 Ebbing out, ebbing out,
To the drag of tired feet,
While my heart is aching dumbly for the faces in the street.

24. What is the lie that the men in line 1 tell?

Pick the most accurate explanation.

A No one living here has ever experienced unhappiness.

B There are no strangers in this community.

C There is no poverty or unhappiness here.

D There are lots of strangers here, but no one is unhappy.

E The people here want for nothing.

25. What do lines 1–7 tell us about the poet’s home?

Select all that are correct.

A He lives in a big house.

B He lives on the boundary of the city centre and the residential area.

C His house used to be a shop.

D He has at least one room on the ground floor at street level.

E He has a house by the river.

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26. Select the TWO most accurate words to describe the faces of the people in
lines 8–14.

A Pallid

B Watery

C Rosy

D Haggard

E Healthy

27. What does the repetition of ‘drifting’ in lines 5 and 12 suggest?

Select all that are correct.

A Slow movement

B An endless flow of people

C People being carried by an invisible current

D An involuntary journey

E People enjoying a leisurely walk

28. Think about the structure of the poem. Which of these is NOT correct?

Select one answer.

A Each stanza has 7 lines.

B Each stanza has the same rhyme scheme.

C The poem’s rhyme scheme is AABBCDD.

D The poem has a refrain (one or more lines that regularly repeat).

E The fifth line of each stanza features repetition.

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29. Which particular verbs in the poem help to create and maintain the image of
a river?

Select all that are correct.

A Drifting

B Flowing

C Yielding

D Aching

E Ebbing

30. Think carefully about the cumulative effect of the last line in each stanza.
Which of these is NOT correct?

Select one answer.

A The repetition emphasises the poet’s lament.

B They draw the reader’s attention back to the poet, making him seem
self-absorbed.

C They highlight that the poet is not one of the masses who must
commute to the city every day.

D They stress the tragedy of the situation.

E They suggest that the poet is more fortunate than most.

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Section D

Answer the following questions using BOTH extracts.

31. Think about the images of water in BOTH extracts. Which of these is
NOT correct?

Select one answer.

A One extract describes real streams whereas the other describes a

figurative river.

B Both writers use the present participles of verbs to communicate the

idea of continuous movement.

C There is a strong contrast between the vivid imagery in Extract 1 and

the ‘pallid river’ in the poem.

D The river / streams in both extracts are portrayed as

unstoppable forces.

E The narrators are both in awe of the river / streams.

32. Select the TWO words, one from each extract, that provide evidence that
the poem is set in an earlier time.

A Young

B Electric

C Gaslights

D Tractor

E Old

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33. How do the poet’s words reflect what Bell’s grandad says in line 27 of
Extract 1?

Pick the most accurate explanation.

A The poet says that the city ‘grinds’ people down and describes the
passing faces as ‘wan and weary’.

B The poet describes those who aren’t part of the workforce as ‘idlers of
the town’.

C The poet is unable to find anything positive to say about the faces that
pass his window.

D The poet repeatedly says that he feels sad for the faces that pass
his window.

E The poet suggests there is no respite for the faces that pass
his window.

34. How are the people in the poem different to the townsfolk in Extract 1?

Select all that are correct.

A The townsfolk in Extract 1 have music and laughter in their lives.

B The townsfolk in Extract 1 have the means to escape.

C The people in the poem are different to the narrator of the poem.

D The people in the poem are poor.

E The people in the poem are described as a mass rather

than individuals.

End of Test

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1. B 26. D
2. C 27. B
3. D 28. C
4. D 29. E
5. B 30. B
6. D 31. C
7. B 32. E
8. C 33. A
9. E 34. C
10. A 35. D
11. C 36. A
12. B 37. B
13. D 38. E
14. C 39. C
15. D 40. A
16. C 41. C
17. E 42. D
18. A 43. B
19. E 44. C
20. C 45. D
21. C 46. B
22. D 47. A
23. D 48. D
24. C 49. E
25. B 50. E

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Marking Guidance

For each question, the maximum number of marks available is shown.

Where questions require multiple answers and use the rubric, ‘Select all that are
correct’, negative marking should also be applied, whereby 1 mark is deducted for
each incorrect answer selected down to 0 marks (note that the number of marks per
question cannot be negative).

For example:

If a question is worth 2 marks and requires options A, B and C to be selected:

Award 2 marks for A, B and C selected or 1 mark for any two correct answers selected.

Award 1 mark for A, B, C and D or E selected (2 marks – 1 incorrect = 1 mark).

Award 0 marks for A, B, C, D and E selected (2 marks – 2 incorrect = 0 marks).

Award 0 marks for A, B and E selected or equivalent (1 mark – 1 incorrect = 0 marks).

1. B [1 mark]
2. E [1 mark]
3. A [1 mark]
4. D [1 mark]
5. C [1 mark]
6. C [1 mark]
7. C [1 mark]
8. D [1 mark]
9. D, E [2 marks]
10. B [1 mark]
11. A, C, E [2 marks]
12. B, D (both answers must be correct) [1 mark]
13. D [1 mark]
14. B [1 mark]
15. E [1 mark]
16. A, B [2 marks]
17. A, B (both answers must be correct) [1 mark]
18. B, C, E [2 marks]
19. A, C, D, E [3 marks]

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20. D, E (both answers must be correct) [1 mark]

21. A [1 mark]
22. C [1 mark]
23. C [1 mark]
24. C [1 mark]
25. B, D [2 marks]
26. A, D (both answers must be correct) [1 mark]
27. A, B, C, D [3 marks]
28. C [1 mark]
29. A, B, E [2 marks]
30. B [1 mark]
31. E [1 mark]
32. B, C (both answers must be correct) [1 mark]
33. A [1 mark]
34. A, B, D, E [3 marks]

Total: 46 marks