Grade 9 Test

Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:-
1. At Pike Place Market, you are never alone. Even when you are by
yourself.
2. Karen McAleese swears to it. On All Saints’ Day a few years ago,
she is convinced she saw someone – something – saunter out of the
kitchen at Kells Irish Restaurant and Pub, her family’s place. "He was
tall and looked part black, with a suit jacket on,” Karen says. “He had
very thin hands. He walked right up to the end of the bar and then
he just kind of faded.” She was terrified. She is pale as a ghost as she
thinks back on the memory.
3. Nina Menon, the co-owner of Bead Zone in the Market’s Down Under,
doubts no more. She was in her shop on a rather tense phone call
when strands of red beads hanging on the wall came crashing to the
ground. “I was extremely sceptical, but seeing was believing,” Nina
says. “It just wasn’t possible that those beads could have just slid off.”
4. When people say Pike Place Market is full of spirits, they cannot
begin to imagine how true that may be. We mere mortals may not be
the only things lurking in the market’s nooks and crannies. For starters,
there’s Frank, a tall and elderly ghost who allegedly introduces
himself by name outside the Alibi Room, a club off Post Alley. Then
there was the time an overpowering scent of old-lady perfume filled
the back office of the Market Theatre, sending an employee – alone
inside – bolting out the front door.
5. Still not a believer? Then let’s gather round for a Pike Place Market
ghost story – the scariest, creepiest, and most hair-raising of them
all. Mwahahaha!
We call it: PHANTOMS OF THE MORTUARY
6. Edgar R. Butterworth collected buffalo bones. He tended to the

dead and owned a small furniture store in Centralia. During a
Diphtheria epidemic, he added ready-made coffins to his furniture line.
7. In 1892, the former Centralia mayor and state legislator relocated
to Seattle and bought out a downtown undertaking business. As
Seattle expanded, so did his business. In need of a bigger facility, he
commissioned the building of a three-storey brick structure at 1921
First Avenue.
8. The building opened in 1903 – four years before Pike Place Market
started – two blocks away. It was beautifully furnished in stained
mahogany, art glass, ornamental plaster, and specially designed
brass and bronze hardware. He moved out in 1923.
9. Since then, other businesses have moved in such as Kells, the Irish
pub that has operated successfully in the basement for the past
twenty-five years. Its entrance is reached from Post Alley, not First.
Irishman Patrick McAleese, the six-foot-six owner of Kells, says that
the business occupies the former embalming room and crematorium
(which could explain the bone-thin ghost that his sister Karen reports
seeing at the bar).
10. When Patrick and Karen were teenagers and their parents owned
Kells, a wall mirror in the back bar – which was closed at the time –
fell to the floor and shattered into pieces. “But in a neat little pile,”
Karen adds.
11. When the family ran back to see what had happened, a single candle
on the bar had been inexplicably lit and was burning. “You think
someone must be pulling your leg,” Patrick says, “but then you don’t
see anyone.”
Questions:-
1. Explain the paradox in the opening paragraph.

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2. Refer to paragraphs 2 and 3. What do Nina Menon and Karen
McAleese have in common? Explain your answer.
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3. Explain the following idiomatic expression: “pale as a ghost”

(paragraph 2)
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4. What is the journalist implying by adding “something” after the
dash in paragraph 2?
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5. Explain what the writer’s use of “Mwahahaha” implies (paragraph
2)
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6. How do you think you would have reacted if you had witnessed
what Karen McAleese encountered? Motivate your answer
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7. How does the writer make the beginning interesting?
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8. What is the purpose of this writing?
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9. Why does the writer use direct speech in the text?
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10. What type of sentences are given below:
Sentence Type
1 Nina Menon, the co-owner of Bead Zone in
the Market’s Down Under, doubts no
more.
2 He tended to the dead and owned a small
furniture store in Centralia.
3 When the family ran back to see what had
happened, a single candle on the bar had
been inexplicably lit and was burning.
4 She is pale as a ghost as she
thinks back on the memory.
11. Change the sentence into passive voice.

Then there was the time an overpowering scent of old-lady
perfume filled the back office of the Market Theatre.
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12. What do the words in bold, saunter and skeptical mean?
Saunter = _________________________________________
Skeptical = ________________________________________
Read the poem and answer the questions that follow:-
What Has Happened to Lulu?
What has happened to Lulu, mother?

What has happened to Lu?
There's nothing in her bed but an old rag-doll
And by its side a shoe.
Why is her window wide, mother,

The curtain flapping free,
And only a circle on the dusty shelf
Where her money-box used to be?
Why do you turn your head, mother,

And why do tear drops fall?
And why do you crumple that note on the fire
And say it is nothing at all?
I woke to voices late last night,

I heard an engine roar.
Why do you tell me the things I heard
Were a dream and nothing more?
I heard somebody cry, mother,

In anger or in pain,
But now I ask you why, mother,
You say it was a gust of rain.
Why do you wander about as though

You don't know what to do?
What has happened to Lulu, mother?
What has happened to Lu?
Charles Causley
1. What is the poem about?
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2. Who is the persona in this poem?
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3. What do you think happened to Lulu?
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4. Why doesn’t the mother refuse to tell the truth on what
happened to Lulu?
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5. What is the mood of the poem?
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6. What type of poem is this?
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7. Name two stylistic devices used in the poem, give evidence from
the poem.
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8. In the fourth stanza, first line, the words “late last night” are an
example of alliteration, explain why this is regarded as
alliteration.
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The year is coming to an end and you will probably go for a holiday,
write a well detailed piece on what a perfect holiday can be.
Plan
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Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:-

6. Edgar R. Butterworth collected buffalo bones. He tended to the

1. Explain the paradox in the opening paragraph.

3. Explain the following idiomatic expression: “pale as a ghost”

11. Change the sentence into passive voice.

What Has Happened to Lulu?

What has happened to Lulu, mother?

Why is her window wide, mother,

Why do you turn your head, mother,

I woke to voices late last night,

I heard somebody cry, mother,

Why do you wander about as though

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