Micro/Macrocosm

Question 1

Roaring

Answer 1

Roaring louder than waterfalls, aeroplanes had shot down from the sky over the wood,

Question 2

Humble

Answer 2

The war was being fought so that ordinary humble people could live in leave without being bullied and enslaved by brutal men with power;

Question 3

Creatures

Answer 3

This was the terrifying mystery, why creatures he loved should kill each other,

Question 4

Neighbours

Answer 4

Weren’t they all friends and neighbours now? she had asked. Hadn’t her sisters windows in Greenock been blown in by a bomb?

Question 5

Superior

Answer 5

‘Why do we talk about a dogs life, Duror? What right do we have to feel superior to these chaps?’ ‘They have no wars, Duror.’

Question 6

Innocent

Answer 6

‘Why is it, Mr Tulloch,’ he asked, ‘that the innocent have always to be sacrificed?’

Question 7

Supplication

Answer 7

His arms were loose and dangled in macabre gestures of supplication.