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These are quotes from the book Old Man and the Sea to go along with the assessment questions.

Questions 1-5 “They must have taken a quarter of him and of the best meat,” he said aloud. “I wish it were a dream and that I had never hooked him. I’m sorry about it, fish. It makes everything wrong.” He stopped and he did not want to look at the fish now. Drained of blood and awash he looked at the colour of the silver backing of a mirror and his stripes still showed. “I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish,” he said. “Neither for you nor for me. I’m sorry, fish.” Now, he said to himself. Look to the lashing on the knife and see if it has been cut. Then get your hand in order because there still is more to come. Page 110

Questions 6-10 He was asleep when the boy looked in the door in the morning. It was blowing so hard that the drifting boats would not be going out and the boy had slept late and then come to the old man’s shack as he had come each morning. The boy saw the old man’s hands and he started to cry. He went out very quietly to go to bring some coffee and all the way down the road he was crying. Many fishermen were around the skiff looking at what was lashed beside it and one was in the water, his trousers rolled up, measuring the skeleton with a length of line. The boy did not go down. He had been there before and one of the fishermen was looking after the skiff for him. “How is he?” one of the fishermen shouted. “Sleeping”, the boy called. He did not care that they saw him crying. “Let no one disturb him.” Page 122