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Oliver Twist Analysis Worksheet
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Oliver Twist Analysis Worksheet
Read the original passage below, then answer each question using details from the passage. For inference and prediction questions, explain which clues helped you.
A Morning at the Workhouse
Before the first bell had finished ringing, Oliver was standing in the workhouse yard with his thin coat pulled close around him. A grey mist clung to the wall, and the stone beneath his shoes felt cold. He had been sent outside while the older boys carried benches into the dining room.
Mr Griggs, the workhouse officer, came through the doorway carrying a ledger. He glanced at Oliver’s empty hands. “Still waiting to be told what to do?” he asked, tapping the book against his palm. Oliver lowered his eyes and stepped towards a bench. He lifted one end, but it scraped heavily across the stones.
“Careful,” said a woman from the kitchen doorway. She placed a small heel of bread on the window ledge, out of Mr Griggs’s sight. Oliver looked at her, then at the bread. Before he could reach it, the bell rang again. Mr Griggs turned towards the sound, and the woman disappeared inside. Oliver stayed still for a moment, listening to the hurried footsteps beyond the door.
Inference and close reading
1.How does the opening description suggest that Oliver is uncomfortable? Support your answer with two details from the passage.
2.Which description best sums up Mr Griggs’s manner towards Oliver?
- Patient and encouraging
- Suspicious and impatient
- Nervous and uncertain
- Warm and protective
3.Why might Oliver lower his eyes when Mr Griggs questions him? Use a clue from the passage to explain your inference.
Prediction and vocabulary
4.What might happen when Oliver goes back inside? Give one likely possibility and explain which event in the passage supports your prediction.
5.Match each word to its meaning.
- clung
- ledger
- scraped
- hurried
- a book used to keep written records
- done or moving quickly
- dragged noisily across a surface
- stuck closely to
6.Why might the writer mention that the woman puts the bread where Mr Griggs cannot see it?
- To suggest that she is secretly trying to help Oliver
- To show that Oliver has already eaten his breakfast
- To explain why the dining room is empty
- To show that Mr Griggs asked her to hide the bread
7.What does the detail that Oliver “stayed still for a moment” suggest about him at the end of the passage?
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