Question

In Alphonse Daudet’s short story, ‘The Last Lesson’, Franz says that ‘all our bad news had come from there.’ What does ‘there’ refer to?

Options

• The school building

• The bulletin board

• The clock tower

• The town hall

Answer 1

The bulletin board

Explanation:

Franz describes “there” in The Last Lesson as the bulletin board where the villagers might read official messages, which were frequently bad news.