English Literature - Short Stories - Essential Quote Memorisation

Question 1

Odour of Chrysanthemums
Give a quote about the family distance in understanding from each other

Answer 1

‘Lost in the darkness’

Question 2

Odour of Chrysanthemums
What is a quote about the human soul

Answer 2

Utter isolation of the human soul

Question 3

Odour of Chrysanthemums
What is a quote about the effect of death on Elizabeth Bates

Answer 3

Peace sunk heavy on her heart

Question 4

Odour of Chrysanthemums
What is the size of the gap created by death

Answer 4

Infinite

Question 5

Odour of Chrysanthemums
What is a description of death for Walt Bates

Answer 5

Naive dignity of death

Question 6

Odour of Chrysanthemums
What is a quote that uses sibilance and describes how Elizabeth reacts to death

Answer 6

Silent in seeing

Question 7

Odour of Chrysanthemums
With what emotions does Elizabeth view her dead husband

Answer 7

In fear and shame she looked at his naked body

Question 8

Odour of Chrysanthemums
What did the mother of Walt learn to do for her son

Answer 8

Make allowances

Question 9

Odour of Chrysanthemums
What is in the mothers womb

Answer 9

Ice of fear

Question 10

Odour of Chrysanthemums
What is a word describing the mining village at the start

Answer 10

Forsaken

Question 11

Odour of Chrysanthemums
How are the miners introduced

Answer 11

Miners/shadows

Question 12

Odour of Chrysanthemums
How are the chrysanthemums outside the house described?

Answer 12

Dishevelled pink chrysanthemums

Question 13

Odour of Chrysanthemums
What is a hellish description of the mining village in the opening

Answer 13

Flames like red sores licking its ashy sides

Question 14

Odour of Chrysanthemums
What are two quotes showing the wife’s disgust with her husband

Answer 14

Rolling and slink

Question 15

Korea
What is a quote about watching a boy die

Answer 15

Boy tore at his tunic over the heart

Question 16

Korea
What is a quote about PTSD

Answer 16

Furze pods bursting…shocking

Question 17

Korea
How many dollars would be given if the boy died in Korean War

Answer 17

10 000 dollars

Question 18

Korea
What is a quote that uses dialect to illustrate difference

Answer 18

Sounds a big highfalutin to me

Question 19

Korea
How is the father described in a moment in the story

Answer 19

Aggressively

Question 20

Korea
What is the quote with swearwords which shows anger

Answer 20

The smell of shit and piss and the warm fleshy smell of worms

Question 21

Chemistry
What is a quote about Ralph taking over

Answer 21

Ralph now lorded it, tucking into bigger and bigger meals

Question 22

Chemistry
What is a quote about the mum not being able to cope

Answer 22

Quivery look of being about to spill over

Question 23

Chemistry
What describes the relationship between the main trio at the start with sibilance

Answer 23

Sad symmetry

Question 24

Chemistry
What did the boy use to understand relationships around him

Answer 24

Sort of equation

Question 25

Chemistry What links the grandfather and narrator

Answer 25

Invisible cord

Question 26

Chemistry What can gold also do

Answer 26

Even gold can change

Question 27

Chemistry What is chemistry the science of

Answer 27

Chemistry is the science of change

Question 28

Chemistry How is the pond described

Answer 28

Circular, exposed

Question 29

The darkness out there What describes the way in which Kerry grows up

Answer 29

His anger eclipsed his acne

Question 30

The darkness out there What is the last line

Answer 30

Everything is not as it appears, oh no.

Question 31

The darkness out there What is the darkness and where is it

Answer 31

The darkness was out there and it was a part of you

Question 32

The darkness out there What shows how vague Sandra is about her dreams

Answer 32

There’d be this man

Question 33

The darkness out there What did the cushions do in the cottage

Answer 33

Cushions oozed

Question 34

The darkness out there What is a word describing the garden

Answer 34

Bedraggled

Question 35

The darkness out there What word describes the path

Answer 35

Cindery

Question 36

The darkness out there What words describe the night of the granny’s misdeed

Answer 36

Filthy wet night

Question 37

The darkness out there What is the granny composed of

Answer 37

Composed of circles

Question 38

The darkness out there What do the granny’s eyes do

Answer 38

Eyes snapped and darted

Question 39

The darkness out there What words describe the granny that are all linked to liquids

Answer 39

Creamy smiling pool

Question 40

My Polish Teacher’s Tie What is a quote about uniformity

Answer 40

I wear a uniform

Question 41

My Polish Teacher’s Tie What is a quote about loss of cultural identity

Answer 41

Mother, I’ve lost the words you gave me

Question 42

My Polish Teacher’s Tie What two words describe the tie

Answer 42

Terribly hopeful tie

Question 43

My Polish Teacher’s Tie What did the bird in the coal mine do?

Answer 43

Sand and sand until it died

Question 44

My Polish Teacher’s Tie What is a quote showing Carla being sarcastic

Answer 44

Very keen on fairness, we are, here

Question 45

My Polish Teacher’s Tie What is a quote that uses repeated b sounds

Answer 45

Big bright tie blazing

Question 46

My Polish Teacher’s Tie What is a quote about ties and flags

Answer 46

Flag from another country, a better country than the ones either of us lived in

Question 47

My Polish Teacher’s Tie What is the headteacher called

Answer 47

The Head

Question 48

My Polish Teacher’s Tie What did the head to when he met Carla

Answer 48

He stitched a nice smile on his face

Question 49

My Polish Teacher’s Tie How do the teachers look at catering staff

Answer 49

Without really seeing them

Question 50

My Polish Teacher’s Tie How tense was Stefan at the end

Answer 50

He was as tense as a guitar string

Question 51

The Invisible Mass of the Back Row What are 4 short sentences about Easington vs England

Answer 51

Easington heat. Easington sweat. English cold. English ice.

Question 52

The Invisible Mass of the Back Row What is the last line

Answer 52

Claiming, proclaiming, learning the new language in dis here England.

Question 53

The Invisible Mass of the Back Row What does learning about their past help the back row in England to do

Answer 53

They help us assert our right to be

Question 54

The Invisible Mass of the Back Row What 3 things are frozen in England

Answer 54

Frozen places, frozen information, frozen faces.

Question 55

The Invisible Mass of the Back Row What is a quote about an aeroplane

Answer 55

Belly of the gigantic metal bird

Question 56

The Invisible Mass of the Back Row What is a quote about strange temperatures going to England

Answer 56

I am cold in the blazing sunshine

Question 57

The Invisible Mass of the Back Row What is a quote using plosive sounds

Answer 57

Pain of parting traps us

Question 58

The Invisible Mass of the Back Row What two words come up allot in the poem

Answer 58

Cold and smell

Question 59

The Invisible Mass of the Back Row What is a quote about the back row from the start

Answer 59

Hidden, disposed of, dispatched to the invisibility of the back row

Question 60

The Invisible Mass of the Back Row What word describes the state of the words in Hortense’s head

Answer 60

Trapped words inside my head tumble out

Question 61

The Invisible Mass of the Back Row What traps them in the school room

Answer 61

Fear which has trapped us in this rank, smelly, room

Question 62

The Invisible Mass of the Back Row What does the chatter do in Easington/heartease

Answer 62

Chatter weaves is it waves? and heaves

Question 63

The Invisible Mass of the Back Row How does hortense feel about her new clothes

Answer 63

Like a stranger, I greet my new clothes

Question 64

A Family Supper Who does the father actually resemble

Answer 64

Chou En-Lai

Question 65

A Family Supper What does the father look like

Answer 65

Stony and forbidding

Question 66

A Family Supper What kind of blood does the father have

Answer 66

Pure samurai blood

Question 67

A Family Supper What season is it

Answer 67

Autumn

Question 68

A Family Supper How did Watanabe kill himself in harakiki

Answer 68

Cut his stomach with a meat knife

Question 69

A Family Supper What is the house like

Answer 69

Startlingly empty

Question 70

A Family Supper What does the father not like about business now

Answer 70

Delaying with foreigners. Doing things their way.

Question 71

A Family Supper What is Fugu poisoning like

Answer 71

Hideously painful and almost always fatal