Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene is very famous for his wonderful clever detective stories and mystical thrillers
B) He established his reputation with his fourth novel, Stamboul Ship
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene was born prematurely
B) Many of his novels and short stories have been filmed and The Third Man was written as a film treatment
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) He undertook work for the Foreign Office and was stationed in Kupavna
B) Many of his novels and short stories have been filmed and The Third Man was written as a film treatment
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Among the many people who paid tribute to him on his death were Kingsley Amis
B) Graham Greene describes horrible things and is critisized by many, but this is his strong point
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of pamphlets
B) In 1916 he had been received into the Roman Catholic Church and visited Mexico in 1938 to report on the religious persecution there. As a result he wrote The Lawless Roads and, later, his famous novel The Power and the Glory
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of rap songs
B) In 1916 he had been received into the Roman Catholic Church and visited Mexico in 1938 to report on the religious persecution there. As a result he wrote The Lawless Roads and, later, his famous novel The Power and the Glory
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories
B) He undertook work for the Foreign Office and was stationed in Latvia from 1941 to 1943
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories
B) He established his reputation with his fourth novel The plane
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Being a son of a headmaster, Greene ran away from school, because he hated his teachers and learning
B) He learned depression quite early, he was about to commit a suicide, though he lived in a friendly atmosphere of careful parents
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Being a son of a headmaster, Greene ran away from school, because he hated his teachers and learning
B) His first novel wasn’t published
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Brighton Rock was published in 1938 and in 1940 he became literary editor of the Spectator
B) As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote articles for Pionerskaya Pravda
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Brighton Rock was published in 1938 and in 1940 he became literary editor of the Spectator
B) In 1916 he had been received into the Roman Catholic Church and visited Mexico in 1938 to report on the religious persecution there. As a result he wrote The Lawless Roads and, later, his famous novel The Power and the Glory
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene contributed hundreds of essays and film and book reviews, some of which appear in a collection entitled Reflections
B) Among the many people who paid tribute to him on his death were members of the rock band Nirvana
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene contributed hundreds of essays and film and book reviews, some of which appear in a collection entitled Reflections
B) He established his reputation with his fourth novel, Petushki Train
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene contributed hundreds of essays and film and book reviews, some of which appear in a collection entitled Reflections
B) In 1935 he made a Journey across Liberia, described in Journey Without Maps, and on his return was appointed film critic of the Spectator
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene contributed hundreds of essays and film and book reviews, some of which appear in a collection entitled Reflections
B) He established his reputation with his fourth novel, London Tube
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene contributed hundreds of essays and film and book reviews, some of which appear in a collection of butterflies
B) He undertook work for the Foreign Office and was stationed in Sierra Leone from 1841 to 1843
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene describes horrible things and is critisized by many, but he said he always wanted to imitate Stephen King
B) Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and Ku Klux Klan
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene describes horrible things and is critisized by many, but this is his strong point
B) He learned depression quite early, he was about to commit a suicide, but then decided to become a gangster instead
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene describes horrible things and is critisized by many, but this is his strong point
B) Graham Greene is one of the most readable writers in modern England
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene describes only pleasant things
B) His life was always nice and comfortable
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene died in April 1891
B) Brighton Rock was published in 1838 and in 1840 he became literary editor of the Spectator
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene died in April 1919
B) Graham Greene is very famous for his stories, poems and theatrical plays
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene died of swine flu
B) Graham Greene is one of the most readable writers in modern England
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene is one of the most readable writers in Finland
B) He will be missed all over the world
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene is one of the most readable writers in modern England
B) But there are many kinds of books: psychological, philosophical to some extent, where Greene analyses the inner world of a man paying much attention to the dark sides of Man’s nature, to the origin of the crime, to wickedness and weekness of a man
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene is one of the most readable writers in modern England
B) Graham Greene describes horrible things and is critisized by many, but this is his strong point
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene is one of the most readable writers in modern England
B) Graham Greene was born in 1904
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene is one of the most readable writers in modern England
B) He is also very famous for his comic shows and acrobatic circus performances
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene is still alive
B) He wrote some novels during the AfghanWar
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene is very famous for his wonderful clever detective stories and horror books
B) He is very famous for his wonderful clever detective stories and novels
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene is very famous for his wonderful clever detective stories and novels
B) Many of his novels and short stories have been filmed and The Spider Man was written as a film treatment
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour
B) Graham Greene is one of the most readable writers in modern Afghanistan
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour
B) Graham Greene is very famous for his wonderful clever detective stories and novels
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and the cult called the Branch Davidian
B) Graham Greene contributed hundreds of essays and film and book reviews, some of which appear in a collection entitled Reflections
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and the Russian Union of Writers
B) But there are many kinds of shows: psychological, philosophical to some extent, where Greene analyses the inner world of a man paying much attention to the dark sides of Man’s nature, to the origin of the crime, to wickedness and weekness of a man
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene was born in the streets
B) His first novel was published in 1929
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene’s life was hard and unusual
B) Being a son of a headmaster, Greene ran away from school, because he wanted to travel to Russia
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene’s life was hard and unusual
B) He will be missed all over the world
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Graham Greene’s life was in the hands of secret services
B) He learned depression quite early, he was about to commit a suicide, though he lived in a friendly atmosphere of hockey players
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Green undertook work for the Scotland Yard
B) Brighton Rain was published in 1938 and in 1940 he became literary editor of the Spectator
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Greene called his books “erotic” and “entertaining”
B) In 1935 he made a Journey across Siberia
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Greene called his books “funny” and “crazy”
B) But there are many kinds of books: psychological, philosophical to some extent, where Greene analyses the inner world of a man paying much attention to the dark sides of Man’s nature, to the origin of the crime, to wickedness and weekness of a man
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Greene called his books “long” and “difficult to read”
B) His first novel was published in 1929
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Greene called his books “serious” and “entertaining”
B) Graham Greene is very famous for his wonderful clever detective stories and novels
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Greene started writing at the end of the last century
B) Graham Greene died in April 1991
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Greene started writing at the end of the sixties
B) He undertook work for the Foreign Office and was stationed in Russia
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Greene started writing at the end of the twenties
B) He is hated all over the world
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Greene started writing at the end of the twenties
B) Many of Green’s novels and short stories have been forbidden
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Greene started writing at the end of the twenties
B) Many of his novels and short stories have been filmed and The Third Man was written as a film treatment
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Greene started writing at the end of the twenties
B) There are many kinds of books: psychological, philosophical to some extent, where Greene analyses the inner world of a man paying much attention to the dark sides of Man’s nature, to the origin of the crime, to wickedness and weekness of a man
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Green’s first novel was published in kindergarden
B) In 1916 he had been received into the Roman Catholic Church and visited Mexico in 1938 to report on the religious persecution there. As a result he wrote The Lawless Roads and, later, his famous novel The Power and the Glory
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) He learned depression quite early, he was about to commit a suicide, though he lived in a friendly atmosphere of careful parents
B) In 1935 he made a Journey across Liberia, described in Journey Without Caps, and on his return was appointed film critic of the Survivor
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) In 1916 Graham Greene had been received into the Roman Catholic Church and visited Mexico in 1938 to report on the religious persecution there. There he tried haluccinogenic mushrooms and befriended Timothy Leary
B) He undertook work for the Foreign Office and was stationed in Sierra Leone from 1941 to 1943
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Many of Green’s novels and short stories have been filmed and The Batman was written as a film treatment
B) His first novel was published in Moscow
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) On coming down from Balliol College, Oxford, Greene worked for four years as sub-editor on Moscovski Komsomolets
B) He wrote some novels before the Second World War
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) On coming down from Balliol College, Oxford, Greene worked for four years as sub-editor on The Times
B) His first novel was published in 1929
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He never wasted a word __________ to tell his name until that was required of him by the rules
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The new recruit had _________with the gang since the beginning of the summer holidays, and there were pos sibilities about his brooding silence that all recognized
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: They squatted in the ruins of the room and _________. unwanted sandwiches. Half an hour for lunch and they were at work again
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: When he said “Trevor” __________ was a statement of fact, not as it would have been with the others a statement of shame or defiance
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: __________ did anyone laugh except Mike, who finding himself without support and meeting the dark gaze of the newcomer opened his mouth and was quiet again
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: One __________ was occupied by his wife, who believed herself to be an invalid and obeyed strictly the dictate that one should live every day as if it were one’s last
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: A __________ came to Mr. Ferraro to take a real holiday, and he nearly told his chauffeur to drive to Richmond Park
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: After an early lunch—a simple one in a City chop-house which concluded with some Stilton and a glass of excellent port—Mr. Ferraro visited Christie’s. Maverick was satisfactorily on the spot and Mr. Ferraro did not bother to wait for the Bonnard and the Monet which his agent __________ advised him to buy
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: And what had she been doing with her office time—those long hours of pilgrimage? She had __________ taken a whole week-end at Walsingham
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Before leaving for his office at nine-thirty Mr. Ferraro as a matter of courtesy would telephone to his wife in the other _________. “Father Dewes speaking,” a voice would say
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: But he always preferred, if it were possible, to combine business with pleasure, and it occurred to him that if he drove out now to Canon Wood, Miss Saunders should be arriving about the same time, after her lunch __________, to start the afternoon’s work
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: But he had not been mistaken, and suddenly a terrible doubt came to him how often in the last __________ years Miss Saunders had betrayed her trust
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: But then an arm circled her __________, a young man’s face looked down into the street, a hand pulled a curtain across with the familiarity of habit
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Canon Wood was one of those new suburbs built around an old _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Even her qualifications were special: she had been __________ girl at the Convent of Saint Latitudinaria, Woking, where she had won in three successive years the special prize for piety—a little trip tych of Our Lady with a background of blue silk, bound in Florentine leather and supplied by Burns Oates & Washbourne. She also had a long record of unpaid serv ice as a Child of Mary
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Even his doctor had to submit to a sudden counter-check from a rival consultant. “I think,” he said to Hopkinson, “this after noon I will drop in to Christie’s and see how Maverick is getting on.” (Maverick was employed __________ his agent in the purchase of pictures)
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: For this reason her wing for the last ten years had invariably housed some Jesuit or Dominican priest with a taste for good __________ and whisky and an emergency bell in his bedroom
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: God has made man in his image, and it was not unreasonable for Mr. Ferraro to return the com pliment and to regard God as the director of some __________ business which yet depended for certain of its operations on Ferraro & Smith
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He couldn’t believe that. Surely a few of that vast total of 36,892 days must still be valid. But only Miss Saunders could tell him how _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He did this the more readily because he was accustomed to make unexpected __________, and woe betide the employee who failed him
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He retained the firm __________ on practical affairs that had enabled his grandfather, who had been a fellow exile with Mazzini, to found the great business of Ferraro & Smith in a foreign land
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He sat __________ in his Daimler waiting for something to happen
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: I noticed just now that your estimate for May is lower than your April __________, and your estimate for June is nearly down to the March level
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: If a friend could have seen Mr. Ferraro that evening __________ the steps of Montagu Square, he would have been surprised at how he had aged
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: In his office he unlocked the drawer and took __________ the special file
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: In the terraces behind dubious girls leant against the railings, and a street band blew harshly round a corner. _________. Ferraro found the house, but he could not bring himself to ring the bell
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: It became obvious to Mr. Ferraro that not even the conditions for an indulgence had been properly _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: It was almost as though he _________assumed during the long afternoon those 36,892 days he had thought to have saved during the last three years from Purgatory. The curtains were drawn, the lights were on, and no doubt Father Dewes was pouring out the first of his evening whiskies in the other wing
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: It was not very onerous, for Mr. Ferraro had the __________ quality of being able to delegate responsibility
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Miss Saunders __________ in. She gave the impression of moving close to the ground
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Mr. Ferraro did not ring the __________, but let himself quietly in. The thick carpet swallowed his footsteps like quicksand. He switched on no lights: only a red-shaded lamp in each room had been lit ready for his use and now guided his steps
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Mr. Ferraro drove into the dreary waste of Bayswater: __________ family houses had been converted into private hotels or fortunately bombed into car parks
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Mr. Ferraro looked after his salvation in more independent _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Mr. Ferraro thought at first that it was the warmth of the __________ that had caused her to be so inefficiently clothed, as she slid the window a little wider open
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Mr. Ferraro, having telephoned from his bedroom, where he took his breakfast, would walk rather as God walked in the Garden, through his library lined with the correct classics and his drawing-room, on the walls of which hung one of the most expensive art collections in private _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: On this particular Monday morning it was also May the first. The sense of spring had come punctually to London and the sparrows were noisy in the dust. Mr. Ferraro too was punctual, but unlike the seasons he was as reliable as Greenwich ________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: One indulgence of three hundred days will compensate for many _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: She laid a typed list on Mr. Ferraro’s desk: in the first column the date, in the second the church or place of pilgrimage where the indulgence was to be gained, and in the third column in red __________ the number of days saved from the temporal punishments of Purgatory. Mr. Ferraro read it carefully
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: She was about thirty years old, with indeterminate hair and eyes of a startling clear blue which gave her otherwise anonymous face a re semblance to a __________ statue
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: She was described in the firm’s books as “assistant confidential secretary” and her duties were “special” _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The day remained warm and sunny, but there were confused sounds from the direction of Trafalgar Square which reminded Mr. Ferraro that it was _________Day
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The estate was now a public park, the house formerly famous as the home of a minor Minister who served under Lord __________ at the time of the American rebellion was now a local museum
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The strength of a __________ is in its weakest link, and Mr. Ferraro did not forget his responsibility
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: There was something inappropriate to the sun and the early flowers under the park trees in these processions of men without __________ carrying dreary banners covered with bad lettering
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: What better could be done on a fine May afternoon than check on Maverick? He added, “Send in Miss Saunders,” and drew forward a personal __________ which even Hopkinson was not allowed to handle
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Where one man would treasure a single Degas, Renoir, Cezanne, Mr. Ferraro bought wholesale — he had six Renoirs, four Degas, five Cezannes. He never tired of their presence; they represented a sub stantial saving in death _________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: William Ferraro, of Ferraro & Smith, lived in a great __________ in Montagu Square
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: With his confidential secretary — a man called Hopkinson — he went __________ the schedule for the day
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “April is a very good month for indulgences, sir. There is Easter. In May we can depend only on the fact that it is Our _________’s month. June is not very fruitful, except at Corpus Christi. You will notice a little Polish church in Cambridgeshire…”
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “As long as you remember, Miss Saunders, that none of us is getting younger. I put a great deal of trust in you, Miss Saunders. If I were less occupied here, I could attend to some of these indulgences _________. You pay great attention, I hope, to the conditions.”
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: A row of old iron beds each with a tumble of dark blanket rugs, no sheets. Raymond was __________ at the sight and hoped that Lou was not feeling upset
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Elizabeth had not been very pleasant. She had __________ admiration for Lou’s hat, bag, gloves and shoes which were all navy blue, but she had used an accusing tone
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He knew very well Elizabeth had a decent living income from a number of public sources, and was simply a __________, one of those who would not help themselves
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: It was not till they had reached Victoria Park that Lou felt the full force of the fact that everything would be different from what she had _________. ‘It may have gone down since I was last there,’ she said to Raymond who had never visited Elizabeth before
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Lou could not tell him how she had petitioned the __________ of Oxford St. John. But when she got a letter from Henry Pierce to say he was improving, she told Raymond, ‘You see, we asked for Henry to get back the Faith, and so he did. Now we ask for his recovery and he’s improving.’
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Lou had _________that people sometimes came from neighbouring parishes to pray at the Church of the Sacred Heart because of the statue
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Outside the underground station at Victoria Park, where they stopped to ask the way, Lou felt a strange sense of panic. Elizabeth lived in a very downward quarter of Bethnal Green, and in the past nine years since she had seen her Lou’s memory of the __________ ground-floor rooms with their peeling walls and bare boards had made a kinder nest for itself
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Raymond at the wheel kept saying, ‘Poor Elizabeth - eight kids,’ which __________ Lou, though she kept her peace
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Raymond did not like being called Ray, but he made no objection for he knew that Lou had been under a _________
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Sending off the postal order to her sister each week she had gradually come to picture the habitation at Bethnal Green in an almost monastic light; it would be __________ but well-scrubbed, spotless, and shining with Brasso and holy poverty
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: She had vaguely __________, in previous numbers, various references to the Black Madonna, how she had granted this or that favour
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Some said they came from all over England, but whether this was to admire the art-work or to pray, Lou was not _________. She gave her attention to the article in the parish magazine
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The floorboards gleamed. Elizabeth was grey-haired, lined, but neat. The children well behaved, sitting down betimes to their broth in two rows __________ an almost refectory table
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The house had been smelly and dirty. ‘I’ll show you round,’ Elizabeth had said in a tone of __________ refinement, and they were forced to push through a dark narrow passage behind her skinny form till they came to the big room where the children slept
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: There was a lopsided double bed in the corner, and beside it a table cluttered with mugs, tins, a comb and brush, a number of hair curlers, a framed photograph of the Sacred Heart, and also Raymond __________ what he thought erroneously to be a box of contraceptives
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: They had pulled up outside the house where Elizabeth lived on the ground floor. Lou looked at the chipped paint, the dirty windows and torn grey-white curtains and was reminded with startling clarity other hopeless childhood in Liverpool from which, miraculously, hope had lifted her, and had come true, for the nuns had __________ her that job; and she had trained as a nurse among white-painted beds, and white shining walls, and tiles, hot water everywhere and Dettol without stint
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: They went to her one day towards the end of their holiday. Henry sat at the back of the car beside a _________ suitcase stuffed with old clothes for Elizabeth
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: They __________ their London holiday, but it was somewhat marred by a visit to that widowed sister of Lou’s to whom she allowed a pound a week towards the rearing of her eight children. Lou had not seen her sister Elizabeth for nine years
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: When she had first married she had wanted all white-painted furniture that you could wash and liberate from germs; but Raymond had been for oak, he did not understand the __________ of hygiene and new enamel paint, for his upbringing had been orderly, he had been accustomed to a lounge suite and autumn tints in the front room all his life. And now Lou stood and looked at the outside of Elizabeth’s place and felt she had gone right back
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: You should hear her cheeking up to the teachers.’ Elizabeth’s bones __________ with laughter among her loose clothes.
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: A hand first supported him and then pushed him _________
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: A voice spoke to him softly through the star-shaped hole in the door. “Don’t worry, Mr. Thomas,” it said, “we won’t hurt you, not if you __________ quiet.” Mr. Thomas put his head between his hands and pondered
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: After a while it seemed to him that there were sounds in the silence — they were __________ and came from the direction of his house
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Even the fan-light had been left __________ by the bomb’s blast. Somewhere somebody whistled. Old Misery looked sharply round
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He didn’t trust whistles. A child was _________: it seemed to come from his own garden
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He didn’t want to __________ his house, which stood jagged and dark between the bomb-sites, saved so narrowly, as he believed, from destruction
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He had noticed that there was only one __________ in the car-park, and he felt certain that the driver would not come for it before the morning
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He stood up and peered through the ventilation-hole — between the cracks in one of the shutters he saw a light, not the light of a lamp, but the wavering light that a candle might _________
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He stumbled on the path, but the boy caught his elbow and __________ him. “Thank you, thank you, my boy,” he murmured automatically
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: His bag hit his feet. A hand __________ the key out of the lock and the door slammed
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: His head ...the opposite wall and he sat heavily down
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I don’t mind you playing __________ the place Saturday mornings. Sometimes I like company
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I’ve got to go careful. There’s __________ stones here. Give me your hand
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Mike had gone home to bed, but the __________ stayed. The question of leadership no longer concerned the gang
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Next morning the serious destruction _________. Two were missing—Mike and another boy whose parents were off to Southend and Brighton in spite of the slow warm drops that had begun to fall and the rumble of thunder in the estuary like the first guns of the old blitz
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Nobody could hear him from the road in front, and the lane at the back was seldom _________. Anyone who passed there would be hurrying home and would not pause for what they would certainly take to be drunken cries
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Old Misery came limping off the common. He had __________ on his shoes and he stopped to scrape them on the pavement’s edge
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Somebody shouted again through the dark. “I’m coming, I’m coming,” Mr. Thomas called. He said to the boy beside him, “I’m not unreasonable. Been a boy myself. As long as things are done _________
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Sometimes people came from London especially to see the Black Madonna, and __________ were not Catholics; they were, said the priest, probably no religion at all, poor souls, though gifted with faculties
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The driver again became aware of somebody _________. It came from the wooden erection which was the nearest thing to a house in that desolation of broken brick
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The new town of Whitney Clay had a large proportion of Roman Catholics, especially among the nurses at the new hospital; and at the paper mills, too, there were many Catholics, drawn inland from Liverpool by the new housing __________, likewise, with the canning factories
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Then they sawed through the joists and __________ into the hall, as what was left of the floor heeled and sank
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: They began again on the first floor picking up the top floor-boards next the outer wall, leaving the joists _________
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: They came, as if to a museum, to see the line of the Black Madonna which must not be __________ by vestments
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: They had learnt with practise, and the second floor __________ more easily. By the evening an odd exhilara tion seized them as they looked down the great hollow of the house
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: They ran risks and __________ mistakes: when they thought of the windows it was too late to reach them. “Cor,” Joe said, and dropped a penny down into the dry rubble-filled well. It cracked and span among the broken glass
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: When he climbed out the whole landscape had suddenly _________. There was no house beside the car-park, only a hill of rubble
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: When the Black Madonna was __________ in the Church of the Sacred Heart the Bishop himself came to consecrate it
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: With nails, chisels, screwdrivers, anything that was sharp and penetrating they moved around the __________ walls wor rying at the mortar between the bricks
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: “Let me _________,” he called, and heard the key turn in the lock. “A serious crash,” he thought, and felt dithery and confused and old
Choose the right preposition: . Already and privately for some years I have been guessing that I was set apart __________ the common run, but this of the needle attested the fact to my whole public. George, Kathleen, and Skinny
Choose the right preposition: . The next Saturday I looked out __________ him, and at last there he was, without Kathleen, half-wor ried, half-hopeful
Choose the right preposition: . We look lovely and it was a great day at the time, but I would not care for it all over again. From that day I was known __________ Needle
Choose the right preposition: After seeing George taken away home __________ Kathleen that Saturday in the Portobello Road, I thought that perhaps I might be seeing more of him in similar circumstances
Choose the right preposition: All the same, George was relieved when the inquiries were over without the marriage __________ Matilda being disclosed
Choose the right preposition: And George was haggard. His eyes seemed to have got smaller as if he had been recently __________ pain
Choose the right preposition: And most extraordinary, __________ that morning as I spoke, a degree of visibility set in
Choose the right preposition: As for myself, the main attraction of marrying Skinny was his prospective expeditions __________ Mesopotamia
Choose the right preposition: But a couple __________ months later he did escape. It was a Monday
Choose the right preposition: But I recognized Kathleen, my friend; her features had already begun to sink and protrude in the way that mouths and noses do in people destined always to be old ______ their years
Choose the right preposition: But the marriage didn’t come out - who would think of looking up registers in the Congo? Not that this would have proved any motive __________ murder
Choose the right preposition: Creams, toothpastes, combs, and hankies, cot ton gloves, flimsy flowering scarves, writing-paper, and crayons, icecream cones and orangeade, screwdrivers, boxes of tacks, tins of paint, __________ glue, of marmalade; I always liked them but far more now that I have no need of any
Choose the right preposition: Finally we three com posed ourselves __________ George’s picture
Choose the right preposition: George thought this a little foolish. They checked up __________ his life in Africa, right back to his living with Matilda
Choose the right preposition: He ad vanced up the road __________ Kathleen on his arm, letting himself lurch from side to side with his wife bobbing beside him, as the crowds asserted their rights of way
Choose the right preposition: He looked in my direction, rooted __________ the midst of the flowing market-mongers in that convivial street. I thought to myself, “He looks as if he had a mouthful of hay.” It was the new bristly maize-coloured beard and moustache surrounding his great mouth suggested the thought, gay and lyrical as life
Choose the right preposition: He was away down a side-street and along another street and down one more, zig-zag, as far and as devious as he could take himself __________ the Portobello Road
Choose the right preposition: Her long stiff-crooked fingers pounced to select a jade ring __________ amongst the jumhle of brooches and pendants onyx, moonstone and gold, set out on the stall
Choose the right preposition: I might have been inspired to say more __________ that agreeable morning, but he didn’t wait
Choose the right preposition: I saw her shoving in her avid manner from stall to stall. She was always fond _________antique jewellery and of bargains
Choose the right preposition: I stood silently among the people, watching. As you will see, I wasn’t __________ a position to speak to Kathleen
Choose the right preposition: I wondered that I had not seen her before in the Portobello Road _________my Saturday-morning ambles
Choose the right preposition: Kathleen was a little younger than me, but looked much older. She knew her chances were diminishing but __________ that time I did not think she cared very much
Choose the right preposition: Kathleen was more interested __________ marriage than I thought
Choose the right preposition: Kathleen, speaking from that Catholic point of view which takes some getting used to, said, “She was _________Confession only the day before she died — wasn’t she lucky?”
Choose the right preposition: Kathleen, to prove that George had absolutely no motive, told the police that she was engaged __________ him
Choose the right preposition: Like me, she had racketed around a good deal __________ the war; she had actually been engaged to an officer in the U. S. navy, who was killed
Choose the right preposition: My desire to marry him had to be stimu lated __________ the continual reading of books about Babylon and Assyria; perhaps Skinny felt this, because he supplied the books and even started instructing me in the art of deciphering cuneiform tables
Choose the right preposition: Nevertheless he was back again next week. Poor Kathleen had brought him __________ her car
Choose the right preposition: Not another soul passed by as he pressed my body into the stack, as he made a deep nest __________ me, tearing up the hay to make a groove the length of my corpse, and finally pulling the warm dry stuff in a mound over this concealment, so natural-looking in a broken haystack
Choose the right preposition: One day in my young youth __________ high summer, lolling with my lovely companions upon a haystack I found a needle
Choose the right preposition: One Saturday in recent years I was mooching down the Portobello Road, threading among the crowds __________ marketers on the narrow pavement when I saw a woman
Choose the right preposition: Really I should not care to be so young _________heart again
Choose the right preposition: She had a haggard careworn wealthy look, thin but for the breasts forced-up high like a pigeon’s. I had not seen her __________ nearly five years
Choose the right preposition: She left it __________ the top of the street and got out with him, holding him tight by the arm
Choose the right preposition: She too was getting on __________ years
Choose the right preposition: Shortly afterwards the byre-hand emigrated to Canada to start afresh, __________ the help of Skinny who felt sorry for him
Choose the right preposition: Sometimes as occasion arises on a Saturday morn ing, my friend Kathleen, who is a Catholic, has a Mass said __________ my soul, and then I am in attendance as it were at the church
Choose the right preposition: That is my thought every time I turn over my old papers and come across the photograph. Skinny, Kathleen, and myself are __________ the photo atop the haystack
Choose the right preposition: The poor byre-hand who sold us the milk was grilled for hour after hour __________ the local police, and later by Scotland Yard. So was George. He admitted walking as far as the haystack with me, but he denied lingering there
Choose the right preposition: The remainder of our families __________ Scotland were hinting that it was time we settled down with husbands
Choose the right preposition: There is a pleasurable spread of objects on the counters which I now perceive and exploit __________ a certain detachment, since it suits with my condition of life
Choose the right preposition: They took him __________ a nursing home. He was fairly quiet, except on Saturday mornings when they had a hard time of it to keep him indoors and away from the Portobello Road
Choose the right preposition: When Saturdays are fine I go instead __________ the Portobello Road where formerly I would jaunt with Kathleen in our grown-up days
Choose the right preposition: “You hadn’t seen your friend __________ ten years?” the In spector asked him
Choose the right preposition: That is how I came to be _________the Portobello Road that Saturday morning when I saw George and Kath leen
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Put the verb in brackets in the right form: A pound a week I’ve (to be) sending up to now, that’s fifty-two pounds a year. I would never have done it, calling herself a Catholic with birth control by her bedside
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: A voice spoke to him softly through the star-shaped hole in the door. “Don’t worry, Mr. Thomas,” it said, “we won’t hurt you, not if you (to stay) quiet.”
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: After a while it seemed to him that there were sounds in the silence — they (to be) faint and came from the direction of his house
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: And she told me she (to go) to Mass every Sunday, and all the kids go excepting James
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Better book a private ward, we’ll (to manage) the expense
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: But whatever conclusion you come to, please don’t (to upset) your wife at this stage. She has already refused to feed the child, says it isn’t hers, which is ridiculous.
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Even the fan-light had been left (to unbreak) by the bomb’s blast. Somewhere somebody whistled
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He sat by her bed, (to bewilder). Presently a nurse beckoned him from the door
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He stood up and peered through the ventilation-hole — between the cracks in one of the shutters he saw a light, not the light of a lamp, but the wavering light that a candle might (to give)
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He thought of burglars — perhaps they had employed the boy as a scout, but why should burglars (to engage) in what sounded more and more like a stealthy form of carpentry? Mr. Thomas let out an experimental yell, but nobody answered
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: I (to notice) the baby was red,’ said Raymond
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: In fact, it was a very easy birth, a girl. Raymond was (to allow) in to see Lou in the late afternoon
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: It (to be) then they heard Mike’s whistle at the back
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: I’m terribly sorry, Mr. Thomas. One of us got (to take) short, and we thought you would’t mind, and now he can’t get out
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Lou could never (to be) sure if that was what she heard from the doorways and landings as she climbed the stairs of Cripps House, the neighbours hushing their conversation as she approached
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Lou gave up most of her church work in order to sew and (to knit) for the baby
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Mr. Thomas put his head between his hands and pondered. He had noticed that there was only one lorry in the car-park, and he felt certain that the driver would not (to come) for it before the morning
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Next day he (to find)Lou in a half-stupor. She had been given a strong sedative following an attack of screaming hysteria
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Next morning the serious destruction (to start)
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: No wonder he’s (to get) into trouble with an example like that. I might have known, with her peroxide hair
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Oh, the red will go. It (to change), you know. But the baby will certainly be brown, if not indeed black, as indeed we think she will be. A beautiful healthy child
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Old Misery looked sharply round. He didn’t trust whistles. A child was (to shout): it seemed to come from his own garden. Then a boy ran into the road from the car-park
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Raymond gave up the Reader’s Digest. He applied for promotion and got it; he (to become) a depart mental manager
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: She (to have) decided to go into the maternity wing of the hospital like everyone else. But near the time she let Raymond change her mind, since he kept saying, ‘At your age, dear, it might be more difficult than for the younger women
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Summers was restive. “Haven’t we (to do) enough?” he said. “I’ve been given a bob for slot machines. This is like work.”
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: That’s something you must (to work) out for yourselves. I’d have a word with the doctor if I were you
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: The flat was now a waiting-room for next summer, after the baby was born, when they would (to put) down the money for a house
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: The noise could not even (to have) reached his enemies.
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: The Sister appeared, a tall grave woman. Raymond thought her to be short-sighted for she seemed to look at him fairly closely before she bade him (to follow) her
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Then he thought he (to hear) the sound of hammering and scraping and chipping
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: There must be a mix-up. You must (to have) mixed up the babies
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: There’s no question of mix-up,’ said the matron sharply. ‘We’ll soon (to settle) that. We’ve had some of that before
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: They began again on the first floor (to pick) up the top floor-boards next the outer wall, leaving the joists exposed
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Two were missing — Mike and another boy whose parents (to be) off to Southend and Brighton in spite of the slow warm drops that had begun to fall and the rumble of thunder in the estuary like the first guns of the old blitz
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Yes, indeed we think so, indeed I must (to say), certainly so’, said the matron. ‘We did not expect your wife to take it so badly when we told her. We’ve had plenty of dark babies here, but most of the mothers expect it
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Your wife is (to upset) about her baby,’said the matron. ‘You see, the colour. She’s a beautiful baby, perfect. It’s a question of the colour’
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “I’m coming, I’m (to come),” Mr. Thomas called
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: ““We’ve hardly started,” T. said. “Why, there’s all the floors left, and the stairs. We haven’t (to take) out a single window. You voted like the others. We are going to destroy this house. There won’t be anything left when we’ve finished.”
Put the verb in brackets in the right form:Then they sawed through the joists and retreated into the hall, as what was (to leave) of the floor heeled and sank
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “Something’s wrong,” Blackie (to say). They could hear his urgent breathing as they unlocked the door