Never Let Me Go: Characters
Never Let Me Go: Hailsham
Never Let Me Go: Plot/Themes
Super Toys, Sapiens, The Stranger's Case, The One's Who Walk Away
Grammar
100

This teacher is forced to leave Hailsham for her views about the "system" and the way the students are treated.

Miss Lucy

100

This is the place that Tommy and Kathy have a private chat about Miss Lucy and creativity. It is an example of the liminal places the students have to exist in.

The Pond

100

What word is used to describe a donor who has expired?

Completion/completed

100

What is going to happen to David after the conclusion of "Super Toys Last All Summer Long"?

He will be returned to the factory. Monica Swinton thinks he is malfunctioning

100

Reword this sentence so that it is more euphemistic:

"I need to pee!"

Excuse me, but may I go to the bathroom?

200

This student makes the calendar which Kathy H purchases at an Exchange and angers Tommy with.

Patricia C.

200

Name one difference between the Sales and the Exchanges

The Sales are a more rowdy affair

200

Explain the significance of Norfolk to the students

They make a joke that Norfolk is the lost corner of England. They are the lost property!

200

What is the social contract that features in "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"?

The citizens accept that the young girl must suffer in order to ensure their own prosperity.

200

"I'm not sure if it was like this where you went to school, but at Hailsham we had the Sales, I think they might have been more special for us, but I might be exaggerating." What grammatical technique is Kathy exhibiting here

Low modality or Hedging

300

Which student of Hailsham is forced to stare at the haunted woods as punishment for her transgressions?

Marge K

300
Apart from Madame, the Guardians, and the delivery drivers, who are the other members of the "outside world" that the students might encounter?

Gardeners

300

At first, Miss Lucy comforts Tommy by telling him that creativity is not important. Before leaving Hailsham, she contradicts this. What does she tell Tommy that creativity and artwork could be?

Evidence

300

What is a set of shared myths and social constructs—such as laws, money, or human rights—that exist only in the collective imagination of a large group of people. Despite being having no physical objectivity, these orders govern human behavior and allow thousands of strangers to cooperate effectively toward common goals.

An Imagined Order

300

Make a sentence in the third conditional using these three words

Mr. Short/teacher/happy

If Mr. Short had been my teacher in J2, I would have not been very happy.

400

This is the name of the horse Ruth "allows" Kathy to ride first.

Bramble

400

Why does the library at Hailsham not include any of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels?

Holmes smokes a pipe.

400

Name FOUR possessions that are important to Kathy, Tommy or Ruth?

Tommy's Blue Polo/Soccer Jersey

Patricia C's Calendar

The Julie Bridgewater Tape

Ruth's pencil case

400

What are the three rhetorical techniques used by Shakespeare in "The Stranger's Case" to make the crowd/audience rethink their attitude towards immigrants?

Pathos - appeal to emotion

Ethos - appeal to integrity

Logos - appeal to logic/reason

400

Use the political passive to exonerate (clear) this politician of his crimes:

I stole public money to buy a nice car

Finances were redistributed for an investment in private transport

500

This is a name of a teacher that the students do not like very much. She is implicated in the plot to kidnap Miss Geraldine, discovered by the "Secret Guardians"

Miss Eileen

500

What is the phrase used by the delivery driver to describe the items he brings for The Sales?

A bumper crop

500

The student's joke about Second World War prisoners dying on an electric fence. Here, the students are dealing with the dark reality of their existence by making a joke out of it. What is the psychological coping method called?

Sublimation

500

What are the three reasons Yuval Harari gives for why black Africans were taken as slaves to the Americas?

1) Geography

2) Convenience

3) Genetics

500

Nominalize this sentence:

Mr. Tall killed Mr. Short with a baseball bat.

The Answer: "The killing of Mr. Short was carried out by Mr. Tall with a baseball bat." (Alternative: "The death of Mr. Short was effected by Mr. Tall via a baseball bat.") 

HINT - change kill to killing/ending/completion