The Stolen Party

Part A: Which statement identifies a theme of the text?

• Class differences are insignificant and people are usually able to look beyond them.
• Children are clueless to how cruel other people can be.
• Class differences can negatively impact the way people are treated.
• Adults are sometimes inexplicably cruel to children.

Part B: Which passage from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

• “'That one’s not your friend. You know what you are to them? The maid’s daughter, that’s what.’” (Paragraph 7)
• “They had their tea in the kitchen and they told each other secrets. Rosaura loved everything in the big house, and she also loved the people who lived there.” (Paragraph 9)
• “Rosaura remembered a story in which there was a queen who had the power of life or death over her subjects.” (Paragraph 36)
• “Rosaura didn’t feel like explaining that she’d be horribly ashamed to be the odd one out. Instead she said: ‘I was the best-behaved at the party.’” (Paragraph 57)

PART A: What is the meaning of “boisterous” in paragraph 17?

• overactive
• untrustworthy
• uncoordinated
• weak

PART B: Which detail from paragraph 17 best supports the answer to Part A?

• “Rosaura was the only one allowed into the kitchen.”
• “'they might break something.’”
• “She even managed the jug of orange juice,”
• “She wasn’t a butterfingers, like the others.”

PART A: How would you describe Rosaura’s mother?

• She is hateful towards people with money because she is jealous that she doesn’t have money.
• She is not trusting of people with money because she knows they spend it on unnecessary things.
• She is not trusting of people with money because she knows how they treat people without money.
• She is uncaring towards her daughter because she thinks her desires to be rich are silly.

PART B: Which quote from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

• “Monkeys at a birthday? Her mother had sneered. Get away with you, believing any nonsense you’re told!” (Paragraph 1)
• “'Get away with Heaven,’ said the mother.
• "'Listen, Rosaura,’ she said at last. ‘That one’s not your friend. You know what you are to them? The maid’s daughter, that’s what.’” (Paragraph 7)
• “The mother swung around to take a good look at her child, and pompously put her hands on her hips.” (Paragraph 11)