Poem What Has Happened to Lulu?

: Sample Questions + Answers

 -Where is the setting of the poem?
Lulu’s bedroom/ Lulu’s room

 -Who is asking what has happened to Lulu?

Lulu’s sibling/ Lulu’s brother/ Lulu’s sister

 -In stanza 6, how does the persona’s mother feel?

The persona’s mother feels confused/ worried/sad

 -Lulu has left the house. Give two reasons why do you think Lulu decided
to do so.
1. She had an argument with her mother.
2. She had a fight with her mother.
3. She wanted to have more freedom.
4. She was being influenced by her friends.
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 From stanza 4,
“I woke to voices late last night”
Whose voices the persona may have heard that woke him up?
The persona’s mother and Lulu/ Lulu and her friend / The persona’s mother and friend

 -What can you infer from the line “I heard an engine roar”?
Lulu has gone away in a car / Lulu has run away in a car / Lulu is being driven away in a
car

 -In stanza 5, what does the phrase “gust of rain” being compared to?
Someone’s cry / Somebody’s cry

 -What is the persona’s mother doing in stanza 6 and why do you think
she reacts that way? Give a reason for your answer.
Mother cried because she was upset that Lulu had run away.

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 -In stanza 1, what can be seen on Lulu’s bed?

A rag-doll

 -In stanza 3, why do you think the persona’s mother crumples the note?
She was angry with what written in the note/ She did not want to know

what was written in the note

 -I woke up to voices late last night’
The voices belong to Lulu and mother/ Lulu and her friend/ Lulu’s

mother and friend/ Lulu and her kidnapper/ Lulu’s mother and the

kidnapper.

 -In your opinion, why do you think teenagers run away? Give two
reasons.
They are influenced by the wrong company of friends

They want to get away from overprotective parents

They want to be free

Peer pressure

Parental neglect

Personal problems

Teen pregnancy

Drug addiction

Abused by parents / siblings

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 -In stanza 2,
-(i) What does the line “the curtain flapping free” indicates?
It was windy and the window is opened

-(ii) What did Lulu take with her?

Her money-box

 -In stanza 3, why do you think the mother says “It is nothing at all?”
the mother does not want the persona to know what was written in that note / the
mother does not want the persona to know that she is worried

 -In your opinion, what do you think had happened to Lulu?

She ran away/ she was kidnapped
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 -Who is the persona?

Lulu’s sibling/ Lulu’s brother/ Lulu’s sister

 -Which line in stanza 3, suggest the mother is crying?

And why do the tear-drops fall

 -Why was the mother crying?

She was upset with Lulu’s reaction

 -The number of teenagers running away from home is on the rise. What
could be the factors that contribute to this?
Factor 1: Argument with parents / family problem(s)

Factor 2: Peer influence / Any other acceptable answer