The Last Night revision quiz

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A multi-question quiz helping learners revise key aspects of The Last Night from the Edexcel Anthology.
Sarah Holmes
Quiz by Sarah Holmes, updated more than 1 year ago
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Question 1

Question
The events in The Last Night took place during which twentieth century war?
Answer
  • The First World War
  • The Second World War
  • The Cold War
  • The Falklands War

Question 2

Question
What is dramatic irony?
Answer
  • An ironic play
  • Exaggerated irony
  • When the audience knows less than the characters
  • When the audience knows more than the characters

Question 3

Question
The story is told in the first person through the character of Andre.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 4

Question
Annotate this extract from The Last Night to show how language is being used for effect here.
Answer
  • Alliteration and verb shows defeat
  • Onomatopoeia used to show defeat
  • Verb connotes fear
  • Adverb connotes fear
  • Still protective of children
  • Secretive
  • Ironic as they will die
  • A small mercy
  • Connotes innocence
  • Connotes knowledge
  • Foreshadows their death
  • A blessed escape

Question 5

Question
What is pathos?
Answer
  • A feeling of strong sympathetic sorrow for characters in a text
  • Knowing more than the characters do themselves
  • The revelation that comes at the end of a text
  • Putting yourself in someone else's shoes

Question 6

Question
Which of the following techniques does Faulks use to engage the reader in The Last Night?
Answer
  • Dramatic irony
  • Pathos
  • Foreshadowing
  • Variety of sentence structures
  • Shifting viewpoint
  • Personification
  • Denouement
  • Metaphor

Question 7

Question
The Last Night is set in Nazi Germany
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 8

Question
Annotate this extract from the text to show how Faulks conveys the cruelty of the Nazis and their allies the Vichy French.
Answer
  • Andres is protective suggesting danger
  • Innocent victims
  • They know they're sending them to die
  • Hasn't even started to live really
  • Callous as he knows the baby will die
  • Pathos used in both paragraphs

Question 9

Question
The deportees are being sent to a labour camp rather than a death camp
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 10

Question
Charlotte Gray is the novel from which The Last Night comes. It is a sequel to another of Faulk's famous novels. Which one?
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