CLOZE TEST: THE BOY IN THE STRIPPED PYJAMAS

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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (by John Boyne)

AS	BUT	BY	DESPITE	EITHER	ENTIRELY	FOR
HAVING	KEEPS	KEPT	LAST	LATEST	MIGHT	MUST
ORDER	OUT	REFERS	SO	SPOIL	TAKES	THAT
WHEN	WHILE	WITHOUT	WHO

[0]_____a rule, it's the job of a dust jacket to tell you what's inside a book. But not in this case.

"We think it would [1]_____ the reading of the book," declared the publishers on the back cover of the original edition, published in 2006. "It's important that you start to read [2]_____ knowing what it's about." Since then, however, this hugely successful book has been made into a film, and, far from drawing a veil over the subject matter, the front cover of the [3]_____ edition carries a photograph that makes it all too clear what the story's about. But, in [4]_____ to read the book as author John Boyne originally intended, you should really start at page one with no preconceptions.

The tale begins with a nine-year-old boy called Bruno [5]_____ to leave his home in wartime Berlin and travel with his family to a remote part of the countryside. Here, large crowds of men, women and children are [6]_____ behind a large fence, all of them wearing the same washed-out blue-and-grey striped uniforms. [7]_____contrast, Bruno lives on the other side of the fence with his mother, his sister and his authoritarian father, [8]_____ is a Nazi commandant.

Where this telling of the concentration camp story differs from others is that, [9]_____ we know all too well what's happening, our young hero Bruno doesn't. Bit by bit, he pieces together his observations, forming a picture that never becomes [10]_____ clear until the shocking ending of the book.

Unable to grasp the name of the place he's come to, Bruno [11]_____ to it as Out-with, instead of Auschwitz. As for the angry, moustachioed little man in uniform who [12]_____ coming and haranguing his father, he thinks he's called The Fury, instead of Führer. And he never quite gets to the bottom of why his father's soldiers are [13]_____ nasty, and the people in the striped pyjamas so scared.

All this [14]_____ the fact that Bruno meets a young inmate called Shmuel, who is the same age as him. They strike up a friendship that is conducted entirely through a barbed-wire fence, conveniently [15]_____ of sight of the guards.

The book has been criticised in some quarters for the length of time it [16]_____ Bruno to find out what's happening, but Boyne, a graduate of the University of East Anglia's celebrated creative writing course, says the hole-pickers are missing the point.

"The fact is that this book is a fable and you can approach a fable [17]_____ with your head or your heart," says Boyne, who lives in Dublin. "Yes, Bruno is slow to realise what's going on and there are a thousand reasons why events [18]_____ not have unfolded exactly as they do, but in my view, the reader does better just to sit back and accept the story, rather than fighting it."

There is no denying that this book captures perfectly not just the thinking of a young boy who is not being told the full story, [19]_____ also his way of speaking. The text is full of phrases that Bruno has borrowed from the adult world, such as "for the foreseeable future", "chalk it up to experience" and, in the case of his self-willed sister Gretel, "a hopeless case".

He can't quite grasp why his father and grandmother have fallen out (she's against the Nazis), or why his father [20]_____never know that their cook Pavel has bandaged a cut on Bruno's leg (Pavel is Jewish and Bruno's father is, of necessity, violently anti-Semitic).

It also comes as a complete surprise to our young hero to discover that there are no bars and cafés in the concentration camp for people to sit out at, like he remembers from Berlin.

KEY			0.   as	1. SPOIL	2.   WITHOUT
3.   LATEST	4.   ORDER	5.   HAVING	6.   KEPT	7.   BY	8.   WHO
9.   WHILE	10. ENTIRELY	11. REFERS	12.  KEEPS	13.  SO	14. DESPITE
15. OUT	16. TAKES	17. EITHER	18. MIGHT	19. BUT	20. MUST