Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de San Roque
Departamento de inglés
Surname: …..............................................................
Group: …...............................
Name: ….................................................
Date: …...................................................
Selected Stories by D.H. Lawrence
Chapter 1. The Virgin and the Gipsy
Complete the following sentences so that they mean what you read in the book. To make it easier
you find sometimes some explanations before some of the sentences. In some others there are some
words in brackets you can use. (Total 10 puntos)
1. The young people drove up to Bonsall Head. Suddenly, they saw a horse pulling a small
green cart.
Because the road was narrow, ________________________________________________
2. Yvette, Lucile, Lottie and Ella wanted _________________________________________
__________________________________________________________ ( gipsy / fortunes)
3. Aunt Cissie asked Lucile and Ivette to collect money for the Window Fund too.
Aunt Cissie and Ivette’s father were angry with Ivette because ___________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
4. Yvette's father lent her some money so she _____________________________________
__________________________________________________________________ (money)
5. The rectory was ____________________________________________________________
6. Yvette always looked out of this window, hoping to see someone on the road.
When the gipsy saw Yvette standing at the window, ______________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
7. She danced with Leo Wetherell at the party.
Yvette ____________________________________________________________________ Leo
Wetherell so she didn't accept to get engaged with him.
8. Yvette told her family that she was going for a ride on her bicycle but _______________
_____________________________________________________________ (gipsies' camp)
9. Mrs Fawcett said to Yvette that they could tie her bicycle onto the back of the car so __
___________________________________________________________________ (home)
10. The gipsy told Ivette about the old gipsy's dream 'Listen for the voice of water'
Although the old gipsy dreamt about 'the voice of water', Yvette ___________________
__________________________________________________________________________
11. At the end of the story the rector and his daughters went to the quarry because ______
__________________________________________________________________________
but the gipsies _____________________________________________________________
Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de San Roque
Departamento de inglés
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Name: ….................................................
Date: …...................................................
Selected Stories by D.H. Lawrence
Chapter 2. The lovely Lady
Complete the following sentences so that they mean what you read in the book. To make it easier
you find sometimes some explanations before some of the sentences. In some others there are some
words in brackets you can use. Answer the last two sentences with your own explanation. (Total 10
puntos)
1. Pauline's niece, Ciss, had no money or home of her own.
She needed a place to live so _________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________ (Aunt Pauline)
2. Pauline always had a rest in the afternoons.
When the sun shone, she liked to lie outside and _________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________ (sun)
3. When Ciss heard that strange voice, she _______________________________________
_________________________________________________________________ (flat roof )
4. Although Pauline Attenborough had a secret, Ciss _________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
5. Pauline Attenborough knew Henry was dead but ________________________________
____________________________________________________________________ (voice)
6. Robert thought Ciss was his cousin so ___________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
7. Pauline Attenborough confessed her son that ______________________________________
___________________________________________________________________ (father)
8. Pauline got her revenge on her son and her niece by ________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
9. The second chapter is called The Lovely lady but __________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
10. When Pauline Attenborough died, Robert and Ciss _________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de San Roque
Departamento de inglés
Surname: …..............................................................
Group: …...............................
Name: ….................................................
Date: …...................................................
Selected Stories by D.H. Lawrence
Chapter 3. The Rocking Horse Winner
Complete the following sentences so that they mean what you read in the book. To make it easier
you find sometimes some explanations before some of the sentences. In some others there are some
words in brackets you can use. (Total 10 puntos)
1. Although Paul’s mother didn’t believe he was lucky,
____________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
2. Oscar Cresswell, Paul’s uncle, was surprised when Paul told him the horse which won the big
race at Ascot because ______________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
3. Oscar Cresswell decided to be Paul and Basset’s partner when ____________________________
___________________________________________________________ (fifteen hundred pounds)
4. Paul wanted to be lucky and _______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________ (whispers)
5. Although Hester received one thousand pounds in her birthday, ___________________________
_________________________________________________________________________ (lawyer)
6. Paul lost some money at the Grand National because ___________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
7. Paul didn’t want to leave the house because __________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
8. Paul shouted: ‘Basset! Basset, I know! It’s Malabar’ because _____________________________
________________________________________________________________ (racehorse / Derby)
9. When Basset bet on Malabar, Paul __________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________ (eighty thousand pounds)
10. Although Hester had eighty thousand pounds, ________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de San Roque
Departamento de inglés
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Group: …...............................
Name: ….................................................
Date: …...................................................
Selected Stories by D.H. Lawrence
Chapter 4. Love among the Haystacks
Complete the following sentences so that they mean what you read in the book. To make it easier
you find sometimes some explanations before some of the sentences. In some others there are some
words in brackets you can use. (Total 10 puntos)
1. The Wookeys’ family piled up the hay into huge haystacks because ________________________
__________________________________________________________________ (farm animals)
2. When there was a storm, __________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________ (a canvas stack-cloth)
3. Maurice slipped and fell over the edge of the high stack onto the hard ground but Paula ________
________________________________________________________________________________
4. When the tramp asked for work, __________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
5. The harvest was not finished. Maurice was going to stay and meet Paula.
Maurice did not know what to do until Paula came so _____________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
6. When Geoffrey came to help Maurice put the cloth on the second stack, ____________________
________________________________________________________________________________
7. The tramp’s wife was looking for her husband so ______________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________ (Geoffrey)
8. When Geoffrey planned to leave the country with Lydia, she _____________________________
_______________________________________________________________________ (her sister)
9. Geoffrey lifted the ladder and put it against the side of the second stack.
Although Maurice tried to convince Paula that the ladder was not there the night before, Paula ____
________________________________________________________________________________
10. At the end of the story everything changed for both brothers: Maurice _____________________
_________________________ and Geoffrey ___________________________________________