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Grades 9 and 10 - Literature - High School - My Mother Said I Never Should - Context
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MCQs on context in Charlotte Keatley's My Mother Said I Never Should.

Grades 9 and 10 - Literature - High School - My Mother Said I Never Should - Context
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10 Questions

1. Over the course of the play, a shift can be seen in attitudes towards which of the following?
2. By the end of the play, Rosie is beginning to make money through a small business she has developed selling what?
3. In the Wasteground, Rosie tells Margaret that she might 'grow' a baby even if she doesn't marry, making Margaret fearful. Considering Rosie's life coincides with times contemporary to the play, what does this conversation tell the audience?
4. Which of the following wars does NOT have an impact on the events and characters of the play?
5. Who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the time the play was written?
6. When was My Mother Said I Never Should first performed?
7. In Act Two, Rosie takes a sheet to make a banner for her Greenham protest at school. What is she protesting specifically?
8. Charlotte Keatley wrote the play for four female characters only, explaining that she wanted the audience to learn about how women are under 'pressure to be 'good women of their time'.' What does being a 'good woman' mean for Margaret?
9. Keatley writes, 'Theatre is an art form where male work is seen as universal, women's work an aberration from the norm.' What does she mean by this statement?
10. In reference to the work she does for Rosie, Doris says: 'Forced to do piecework, tying scraps of colored paper to lengths of string all day long...' What does Doris mean by 'piecework'?