If you come to . School you will be required to follow many rigid regulations for written work

You will have to write neatly; you will have to spell correctly; you will have to punctuate properly. Your present ability to do these things will be graded strictly on your examination paper. In answering the questions below, keep this in mind. Your grade will be determined by what you write and the way you write it.

Read Carefully

"Even here the children laugh in the narrow lanes that run between these tragic habitations. A sheet of iron, a few planks, hession and grass, an old door from some forgotten house. Smoke curls from vents cunningly contrived, there is the smell of food, there is the sound of voices, not raised in anger or pain, but talking of ordinary things, of this one that is born and that one that has died, of this one that does so well at school and that one who is now in prison. There is drought over the land, and the sun shines warmly down from the cloudless sky. But what will they do when it rains, what will they do when it is winter?"

Quoted from Cry, The Beloved Country

By ALAN PATON

Answer the following questions relating to the passage above:

I. Sentences, punctuation, and grammar

Find one complex sentence and one compound sentence in the passage above. Copy them and designate each.

Part of one sentence gives the topic of the paragraph. Copy the sentence and underline the part that gives the paragraph topic.

What rule for comma usage is illustrated in the next to the last sentence?

In the first sentence find and tell what each modifies: two adjectives, two adverbs, and two phrases used as adverbs.

What part of speech is each of the words below as used in the paragraph: run, smell, some, anger, ordinary, shines, between, and one.

Give the meaning of the words below as they are used in the paragraph: habitations, vents, cunningly, contrived, and drought.

II. Reading for understanding:

1. There is a study of contrast in the paragraph;what is the contrast?

2. What two words in the first sentence introduce the contrast?

3. Several experiences that pertain to living arepictured or implied; name six.

III. Reading is thinking:

1. Write a theme describing the lives of two children from this settlement. What they are like, what they do, how they grow up, what happens to each in life. Underline the topic sentence in each of your paragraphs. Give your theme a title. Be sure to spell all words correctly.