Last Lesson Worksheet Answer Key
Last Lesson Worksheet Answer Key
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1. Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow.
A. “My children this is the last lesson I shall give you. The order came from Berlin to teach only
German in the schools of Alsace and Lorraine. The new master comes tomorrow. This is your
last French lesson.”
i.
In which language is the last lesson?
A. German
B. American
C. French
D. British
ANSWER: C
ii.
Who is the speaker in the above lines?
A. Franz
B. Hauser
C. M. Hamel
D. Wachter
ANSWER: C
iii.
Where has the order come from?
A. France
B. Berlin
C. Lorraine
D. Alsace
ANSWER: B
iv.The speaker is speaking to _________.
A. Franz
B. villagers
C. class
D. soldiers
ANSWER: C
2. B. “M. Hamel went on to talk of the French language, saying that it was the most beautiful
language in the world — the clearest, the most logical; that we must guard it among us and
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never forget it, because when a people are enslaved, as long as they hold fast to their language it
is as if they had the key to their prison. Then he opened a grammar book and read us our lesson. I
was amazed to see how well I understood it. All he said seemed so easy, so Easy!”
i.
Which of the following can be attributed to M. Hamel’s declaration about the French
language?
A. subject expertise
B. nostalgic pride
C. factual accuracy
D. patriotic magnification
ANSWER: D
ii.Which of the following can be attributed to M. Hamel’s declaration about the French
language?
A. subject expertise
B. nostalgic pride
C. factual accuracy
D. patriotic magnification
ANSWER: B
iii.
Franz was able to understand the grammar lesson easily because he was
A. receptive.
B. appreciative.
C. introspective.
D. competitive.
ANSWER: D
iv.Read the quotes given below. Choose the option that might best describe M. Hamel’s
viewpoint.
(i) Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. – Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
(ii) Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and
where they are going. – Rita Mae Brown
(iii) A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country. – Ali Ibn Abi Talib
(iv) The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as
children, and which we learn unconsciously. That
shapes our perceptions for life. – Marshal McLuhan
A. Option (i)
B. Option (ii)
C. Option (iii)
D. Option (iv)
ANSWER: B