Grammar Notes

Read the text. Then choose the correct answer for each question below (26-30)
We go to school through lanes and back streets so that we won’t meet the respectable boys who go to the Christian Brothers’ School or the rich ones who go to the Jesuit school, Crescent College. The Christian Brothers’ boys wear tweed jackets, warm woolen sweaters, shirts, ties, and shiny new boots. We know they’re the ones who will get jobs in the civil service and help the people who run the world. The Crescent College boys wear blazers and school scarves tossed around their necks and over their shoulders to show they’re cock o’ the walk. They have long hair which falls across their foreheads and over their eyes so that they can toss their quaffs like Englishmen. We know they’re the ones who will go to university, take over the family business, run the government, run the world. We’ll be the messenger boys on bicycles who deliver their groceries or we’ll go to England to work on the building sites. Our sisters will mind their children and scrub their floors unless they go off to England, too. We know that. We’re ashamed of the way we look and if boys from the rich schools pass remarks we’ll get into a fight and wind up with bloody noses or torn clothes. Our masters will have no patience with us and our fights because their sons go to the rich schools and, Ye have no right to raise your hands to a better class of people so ye don’t.

26. 
    The “we” the author uses throughout the passage refers to
    

1. 
   his family.
   
2. 
   the poor children in his neighborhood
   
3. 
   the children who attend rich schools.
   
4. 
   the author and his brother.
   

27. 
    The passage suggests that the author goes to school
    

1. 
   in shabby clothing.
   
2. 
   in a taxi cab.
   
3. 
   in warm sweaters and shorts.
   
4. 
   on a bicycle.
   

28. 
    The word pass as used in line 23 means to
    

1. 
   move ahead of.
   
2. 
   go by without stopping.
   
3. 
   be approved or adopted.
   
4. 
   utter
   

29. 
    The author quotes his school masters saying Ye have no right to raise your hands to a better class of people so ye don’t (lines 27–28) in order to
    

1. 
   demonstrate how strict his school masters were.
   
2. 
   contrast his school to the Christian Brothers’ School and Crescent College.
   
3. 
   show how his teachers reinforced class lines.
   
4. 
   prove that the author was meant for greater things.
   

30. 
    The passage implies that
    

1. 
   the author was determined to go to England.
   
2. 
   the author was determined to be someone who will run the world.
   
3. 
   the author often got into fights.
   
4. 
   one’s class determined one’s future
   

18.02.2020

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