As she and her husband turned away in terror, the extraordinary chair pushed them both out of the room and then appeared to slam and lock the door after them. Mrs Hall almost fell down the stairs in hysterics. She was convinced that the room was haunted by spirits, and that the stranger had somehow caused these to enter into her furniture. “My poor mother used to sit in that chair,” she moaned! To think it should rise up against me now! The feeling among the neighbours was that the trouble was caused by witchcraft.” i. Mrs Hall felt that the room was haunted by spirits because m) she could see evil spirits. n) she heard strange noise. o) uncanny things happened there. p) the door slammed shut. ii. Pick the option that best describes how Mrs Hall must be feeling at the moment described in the extract. i) stunned and furious j) shocked and outragedk) outraged and nervous l) stunned and agitated iii. Pick the sentence that brings out the meaning of ‘hysterics’ as used in the extract. c) My friend and I were in splits when we saw the clown’s antics. h) I don’t know why I suddenly felt worried about flying home. i) The sight of blood put the old man in a frenzy. j) The people who had witnessed the accident were spellbound. iv. Pick the option that displays a cause -> effect relationship. a) pushed and locked out -> hysterical b) rising of the chair -> moaning c) troubled neighbours -> witchcraft d) stranger -> haunted spirits v. The neighbours thought it was ‘witchcraft’. This tells us that neighbours were  e) suspicious. f) superstitious.g) nervous wrecks. h) gossip-mongers. vi. Extra Q: Pick the option that includes the correct matches of Column A with Column B.Column AColumn BI. The stranger was(i) Eccentric, lonely and callousII. He  had escaped(ii) eccentric, callous and short-temperedIII he had an uncommon appearance (iii) from Iping to london(iv) as he wore bandage round his foreheada) I-ii; II-iv; III-iii b) I-i; II-iii; III-iv c) I-iii; II-ii; III-i d) I-ii; II-iii; III-ivvii Extra Q:Look at the different meanings of ‘haunt’. Pick the option that DOES NOT correspond to its meaning a) to be conscious of a strange phenomenon. b) be persistently and disturbingly present in (the mind). c) (of something unpleasant) continue to affect or cause problems for. d) a place frequented by a specified person.