The Destructors

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-text review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. In referencing an explosion, the narrator notes: “The leader, who was known as Blackie, claimed to have heard it fall, and no one was precise enough in his dates to point out that he would have been one year old and fast asleep on the down platform of Wormsley Common Underground Station.” Which statement does the quotation support?

A) Blackie has a very astute memory.

B) Blackie experienced housing insecurity.

C) Blackie’s parents died during WWII.

D) Blackie is often mistaken and not respected by the group.

2. Which phrase would T most likely use to describe historical relics?

A) Irrelevant to present day

B) Important for preservation

C) Unchangeable by time

D) Necessary for the continuity of mankind

3. How do the boys respond to Old Misery’s offer of candy?

A) With regard

B) With admiration

C) With suspicion

D) With apathy

4. Which of the following words do the boys use to refer to stealing?

A) “Pinching”

B) “Jugging”

C) “Drilling”

D) “Chipping”

5. Which of the following lists chronologically orders the gang’s destruction of the house?

A) Externally, the loo, internally, the pipes

B) Personal items, piping, exterior

C) The walls, exterior, personal items

D) The loo, personal items, piping

6. What is Old Misery’s requirement for the boys to play on his property?