How Many Miles To Babylon: Characters test questions - CCEA

Alec's family are rich and privileged. His early childhood could be described as:

After Alec returns from Europe he watches Jerry win a point-to-point horse race. Alec shakes his hand and congratulates him. Afterwards, his mother says of Jerry, “I believe that young man to be involved in some way with some criminal organisation.” How does Alec respond?

Alec could be described as...

Alec describes Jerry in the following passage:

I noticed his feet before his face. In the summer they were bare, dust-grey and with soles obviously as hard and impervious to stones, thorns, damp, as were the soles of my expensive black leather shoes. In the winter he moved awkwardly in a pair of men’s boots tied on to him with string.

What does this tell us about Jerry?

Jerry could be described as:

Jerry notices that the army horses are in a poor state, “They’re not looking after those animals at all ... The spirit’s gone out of them”. What does he do?

Who says this to whom: “The earth is not your element, my loves. Go now. Shooshy, go.”?

Who writes this to whom: “I had got used to your company, and now I find my own very unsatisfactory.”?