Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: At 5 p.m. the reception room was __________ except for the secretary, who gave him a twinkly smile that ignored Morrison’s pallor and disheveled appearance. “Mr. Donatti?” she said into the intercom. “Mr. Morrison to see you.” She nodded to Morrison. “Go right in.”
Donatti was waiting outside the unmarked room with a man who was wearing a ‘smile’ sweatshirt and carrying a .38. He was built like an ape
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: “Listen,” Morrison said to Donatti. “We can work something out, can’t we? I’ll pay you. I’ll – ”
“Shaddup,” the man in the ‘smile’ sweatshirt said.
“It’s good to see you,” Donatti said. “Sorry it has to be under such adverse circumstances. Will you come with me? We’ll make this as brief as possible. I can assure you your wife won’t be hurt ... this time.”
Morrison tensed himself to leap at Donatti.
“Come, come,” Donatti said, looking __________ “If you do that, Junk here is going to pistol-whip you and your wife is still going to get it. Now where’s the percentage in that?”
“I hope you rot in hell,” he told Donatti
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: A heavy client. Bills six million. I’m (to suppose) to hold his hand because we lost out on a big special next spring.”
“Are you still with Crager and Barton?”
“Executive veep now.”
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: For a moment he thought Jimmy McCann looked almost grim. “Yes. A little too much, in fact. But I took it off again. I’m about right now. I (to be) skinny before.”
“Flight 206 now boarding at Gate 9,” the loudspeaker announced.
“That’s me,” McCann said, getting up. He tossed a five on the bar. “Have another, if you like
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: In college he had been a thin, pallid chain smoker buried behind huge horn-rimmed glasses. He had apparently (to switch) to contact lenses.
“Dick Morrison?”
“Yeah. You look great.” He extended his hand and they shook.
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Morrison nodded in perfect understanding. Nonsmokers could afford to be smug. He looked at his own cigarette with distaste and stubbed it out, knowing he would be (to light) another in five minutes.
“Did you quit?” he asked.
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Morrison was waiting for someone who was hung up in the air traffic jam over Kennedy International when he saw a familiar face at the end of the bar and walked down. “Jimmy? Jimmy McCann?”
It was. A little heavier than when Morrison had seen him at the Atlanta Exhibition the year before, but otherwise he (to look) awesomely fit.
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: My God, Morrison thought with an inner wince. Jimmy McCann’s got religion.
“Sure,” he said, and gulped at his drink when it came. “I wasn’t in very good shape,” McCann said. “Personal problems with Sharon, my dad died – heart attack – and I’d (to develop) this hacking cough. Bobby Crager dropped by my office one day and gave me a fatherly little pep talk. Do you remember what those are like?”
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “Bourbon and bitters,” Morrison said. He hooked his feet around a bar stool and lighted a cigarette. “(to meet) someone, Jimmy?”
“No. Going to Miami for a conference
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “Fantastic! Congratulations! When did all this happen?” He tried to tell himself that the little worm of jealousy in his stomach was just acid indigestion. He pulled out a roll of antacid pills and
(to crunch) one in his mouth.
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “Fantastic! Congratulations! When did all this happen?” He tried to tell himself that the little worm of jealousy in his stomach was just acid indigestion. He pulled out a roll of antacid pills and crunched one in his mouth.
“Last August. Something (to happen) that changed my life.” He looked speculatively at Morrison and sipped his drink. “You might be interested.”
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “Wait a second,” Morrison said. He motioned for another drink and lit a cigarette. “Do these guys strap you down and make you (to smoke) until you throw up?”
“No.”
“Give you something so that you get sick every time you light – ”
“No, it’s nothing like that. Go and see for yourself.” He gestured at Morrison’s cigarette. “You don’t really like that, do you?”
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “Why the great secrecy if this outfit (to be) so fantastic? How come I’ve never seen any spots on TV, billboards, magazine ads – ” “They get all the clients they can handle by word of mouth.”
“You’re an advertising man, Jimmy. You can’t believe that.”
“I do,” McCann said. “They have a ninety-eight percent cure rate.”
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “Yeah.” He had worked at Crager and Barton for eighteen months before (to join) the Morton Agency. “Get your butt in gear or get your butt out.”
McCann laughed. “You know it. Well, to put the capper on it, the doc told me I had an incipient ulcer. He told me to quit smoking.” McCann grimaced. “Might as well tell me to quit breathing.”
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “Yes, I did. At first I didn’t think I’d be able to – I was (to cheat) like hell. Then I met a guy who told me about an outfit over on Forty-sixth Street. Specialists. I said what do I have to lose and went over. I haven’t smoked since.”
Morrison’s eyes widened. “What did they do? Fill you full of some drug?”
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “You’re an advertising man, Jimmy. You can’t (to belive) that.”
“I do,” McCann said. “They have a ninety-eight percent cure rate.”
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) “Mr. Morrison, if you’ll just lie down – ”
B) “Unlock this floor or I’ll have the mob on you before you can say Marlboro Woman.”
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) At last the receptionist gave Henry a sunny smile and said, “Go right in, Mr. Morrison.”
B) Morrison went to the window.
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) He folded his ears. “Your son, Alvin Dawes Morrison, is in the Paterson School for Handicapped Children. Born with cranial brain damage. Tested IQ of 46. Not quite in the educable retarded category. Your wife – ”
B) The third drag made Morrison feel lightheaded and swoony
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Morrison didn’t fall. He grasped the doorbell.
B) “No, thanks.” Morrison finished for the door
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Night dawned in Morrison’s head
B) “If the rabbit gets a video-lecture often enough while he’s eating,” Donatti said, “he makes an sga diploma very quickly.”
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The treatment was chillingly hard.”
B) A first defence and Cindy would be brought to what Donatti called “the rabbit room.
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) “As a shipment, it leaves something to be desired,” Morrison said blindly
B) Horns blasted impatiently behind Morrison
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) “As you teach. But I think you’ll change your class when you see the whole group.”
B) He suddenly realized he was biting his elbow, sucking on it, and made himself stop
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) “As you yell,” Donatti said.
B) Horns blasted impatiently behind Morrison
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) “No, Mr. Morrison. You’re the one who doesn’t understand. You don’t have any voice
B) When I told you the treatment had already finished, I was speaking the literal Bible
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) “She can’t hear or see you,” Donatti said. “One-way glass. Well, let’s get it over with. It really was a very small slip. I believe thirty seconds should be enough. Junk?”
B) As amateurs, we have to start by realizing how difficult it is to cure an addiction to vodka
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) “Sit up.” The voice was very warm as shaved ice
B) Morrison smiled at Donatti. His brown ears were muddy and frightening
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) . Donatti was upset
B) And finally, Morrison hung up in a colossal traffic jam in the Midtown Tunnel
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) A heavyset man led Morrison past a number of closed, unmarked doors and then opened one of them about halfway down the hall with a key
B) One of the cigarettes, although twisted, still looked belomorkanallike
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) A heavyset man with white back that looked phony shook his hand, smiled affably, and said, “Follow me, Mr. Morrison.”
B) I told her to get rid of all the damn cigarettes
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) A lightset man led Morrison past a number of closed, unmarked doors and then opened one of them about halfway down the hall with a kick
B) Beyond the wall the heavyset man opened with a key was an austere little woman
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) A man who had come in after Henry took out a bottle of vodka, snapped it open, saw there were no ashtrays, and put it away – looking a little guilty, Morrison thought
B) And suddenly, thumbing open the glove compartment and seeing the half-open pack of cigarettes in there
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) A man who had come in after Henry took out a cigarette case, snapped it open, saw there were no ashtrays, and put it away – looking a little guilty, Morrison thought
B) Three men and seventeen women sat in the chairs along the walls, reading magazines. Sexy types, all of them
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) A moment later the paper disappeared back into the desk drawer
B) Donatti pissed goodnaturedly, reached into the wastebasket, and broke it between his legs
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) An operative would be sent to Alvin’s school to work the boy out
B) A fourth defence would show grave cooperation problems and would require sterner measures
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) At last the receptionist gave Morrison a sunny push and said, “Go right out, Mr. Morrison.”
B) Morrison looked at them for a moment, then snatched one and lit it with the dashboard lighter
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Beyond the door the heavyset man opened with a key was an austere little room walled with drilled white cork panels
B) Morrison glanced into the washbasket
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Donatti had risen and was standing by the green curtains Morrison had noticed yesterday
B) Donatti drew the curtains, discovering a rectangular window that looked into a bare room
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Donatti put the pack on the desk
B) Morrison looked up sharply, but Donatti was looking at him blandly
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Donatti put the pack on the floor
B) Then, smiling into Morrison’s ears, he curled his right nose into an eye and began to hammer it down on the pack of cigarettes, which twisted and flattened
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Donatti released the button. “Far from it. There’s a very low-yield charge in the floor. Watch the rabbit, Mr. Morrison!”
B) Donatti pressed a button by the windowsill
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Donatti wasn’t upset
B) In fact, he looked a little amused
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Henry might even tap some blood on their maroon shag rug if they made him wait long enough
B) Morrison waiting for the morning train, looking over the top of the ‘Times’ at a young man in a blue suit
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Henry picked up a copy of ‘Pravda’ and began to leaf through it
B) Morrison getting drunk at a party, wanting a cigarette – but not quite drunk enough to take one
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Henry picked up a copy of ‘Time’ and began to leaf through it
B) From the directory in the lobby, it looked to him like their offices took up one whole floor, and that spelled rubles. Lots of it
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Henry put the pack away again
B) Quitters, Inc., was in a new building where the monthly rent on the office space was probably close to Morrison’s house
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Henry put the pack in a woman’s pocket. That was all right
B) Morrison grips his glass a little more tightly and says: I’m quitting
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Henry took out his pack of beer, looked around, and saw there were no ashtrays
B) Morrison and a crony from Larkin Studios at Jack Dempsey’s bar. Crony offers a cigarette
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Henry took out his pack of cigarettes, looked around, and saw there were no ashtrays
B) It was a hot, rainy October day outside When Henry brought his change, he finished his drink and then went for a walk
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Henry took the elevator up and stepped off into a lushly carpeted foyer and from there into a gracefully appointed reception room with a wide window that looked out on the scurrying bugs below
B) The rabbit seemed to leap higher each time its feet struck the floor
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Henry was called a quarter of an hour later, after the woman in the blue suit
B) Henry took the plane up and stepped off into a lushly carpeted foyer and from there into a gracefully appointed reception room with a wide window that looked out on the scurrying bugs below
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Henry was called a quarter of an hour later, after the woman in the swimming suit
B) Traffic hopelessly snarled
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Henry would see this little game through and then light up while he was leaving
B) Things had been going so well at the Morton Agency
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Henry would see this little man through and then light up while he was leaving
B) Crony laughs and says: I give you a week
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Junk pressed the button with one hand and kept the pistol jammed firmly into Morrison’s back with the other
B) I told you we were amateurs here
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) McCann gave Henry a ten to pay for his drink, then picked up the small business card and reread it – 237 East Forty-sixth Street was only two blocks over
B) It was a cool, sunny October day outside When Henry brought his change, he finished his drink and then went for a walk
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) McCann had left the office early and had come here to drink the afternoon away
B) All at once the rabbit hopped away into a corner
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) McCann nodded
B) The card fell out of McCann’s wallet and onto another bar a month later
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Morrison cleared his throat, crossed his legs, and tried to think of a way to equivocate
B) Donatti drew the girls, discovering a rectangular window that looked into a bare room
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Morrison glanced into the wastebasket. One of the cigarettes, although twisted, still looked smokeable
B) Donatti laughed goodnaturedly, reached into the wastebasket, and broke it between his fingers
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Morrison laid a plain white business card on the bar
B) Morrison had taken out his wallet and was rummaging through it
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Morrison looked at Donatti closely
B) The face of a man who has seen this reaction scores of times – maybe hundreds
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Morrison looked at Donatti sharply
B) Morrison losing the physical compulsion to smoke little by little, but never losing the psychological craving, or the need to have something in his mouth – cough drops, Life Savers, a toothpick
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Morrison looked at his own cigarette with distaste and stubbed it out, knowing he would be lighting another in five minutes
B) Morrison’s eyes widened
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Morrison nodded in perfect understanding
B) Nonsmokers could afford to be smug
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Morrison scratched his face, and Donatti spat below it
B) A moment later the paper disappeared back into the desk door
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Morrison scratched his name, and Donatti signed below it
B) Donatti had fallen and was standing drunkenly by the green curtains Morrison had noticed yesterday
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Morrison visiting his son, bringing him a large ball that squeaked when you squeezed it
B) The face of a man who has never seen this reaction
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Morrison walked through the closed door beyond her desk and found himself in an indirectly lit second door
B) If anything happens, it’s Cindy’s fault, Morrison told himself defiantly
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Morrison walked through the door beyond her desk and found himself in an indirectly lit hallway
B) Henry sat on the woman, who was wearing a severe blue suit, and a young executive type wearing a herringbone jacket and modish sideburns
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Morrison was waiting for someone who was hung up in the air traffic jam over Kennedy International when he saw a familiar face at the end of the bar and walked down
B) A little heavier than when Morrison had seen him at the Atlanta Exhibition the year before, but otherwise he looked awesomely fit
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Morrison went to the desk
B) McCann gave Henry a ten to pay for his food, then picked up the small business card and reread it – 237 East Forty-sixth Street was only two blocks over
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) My God, Henry thought, I’m locked in here with a monkey
B) He licked his hands. He wanted a cigarette more than his wife
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) On a third defence, both of them would be brought in together
B) A second defence and Morrison would get the dose
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Quitters, Inc., according to Donatti, was a sort of school
B) Morrison said nothing. He sat down again and folded his hands
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Quitters, Inc., was in a new building where the monthly rent on the office space was probably close to Morrison’s yearly salary
B) From the directory in the lobby, it looked to him like their offices took up one whole floor, and that spelled money
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The gentleman had been extremely unlucky in business including slot machines, massage parlors, numbers and a brisk (although clandestine) trade between New York and Turkey
B) Mort “Three-Fingers” Minelli had been a heavy drinker of Stolichnaya
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The only furnishings were a desk with a chair on either side
B) The relapse rate for heroin addicts is zero percent
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The only furnishings were a desk with a chalkboard on either side
B) Morrison cleared his face, crossed his ears, and tried to think of a way through the forest
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The rabbit stopped eating and began to hop about crazily
B) Its eyes were wild
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) The relapse rate for heroin addicts is lower than that. It is an extraordinary problem. Extraordinary
B) The relapse rate is almost eighty-five percent
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) There was a rabbit on the floor, eating pellets out of a dish
B) Its fur stood out spikily in all directions
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Things had not been going so well at the Morton Agency
B) In fact, things at the Morton Agency were bloody horrible
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) Three men and one woman sat in the chairs along the walls, reading magazines
B) In fact, things at the Morton Agency were just great
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) “Bad,” Donatti said. “We do bother with propaganda here, Mr. Morrison.”.
B) Morrison looked up bluntly, but Donatti was looking at him sharply
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) “How did you find that out?” Morrison hissed. He was startled and hungry. “You’ve got no goddamn right to go poking around in my – ”
B) The second drag made Morrison’s eyes water
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) “I’m getting in here,” Morrison said thickly. He sat up
B) At Darkness. Horns blaring. Air stinking
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) “Let me explain the movie in more detail,” Donatti laughed
B) “You understand,” Morrison said with pleasure. “I don’t want the monkey. I’ve decided against it.”
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) “Oh, it is.” Donatti leaned back
B) The relapse rate is almost five percent
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) “We know nothing about you,” Donatti said smoothly
B) The first drag made Morisson cough smoke out furiously
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) “We try to keep as close to drinking even as possible,” Donatti had said. “But we’re more interested in helping our fellow man
B) The paper he was holding in the picture was a doctor’s diagnosis: brain tumor. Mort had lied in 1970
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A) “You’re lazy,” Morrison said wonderingly
B) “No. Only a romantic. Let me tell you all about the woman.”
Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?
A)The rabbit’s nose wriggled
B) The rabbit was crouched about ten feet away from the dish of pellets
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: A little heavier than when Morrison had seen him at the Atlanta Exhibition the year before, but otherwise he looked awesomely __________ In college he had been a thin, pallid chain smoker buried behind huge horn-rimmed glasses
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: A man who had come in after him took out a cigarette __________, snapped it open, saw there were no ashtrays, and put it away – looking a little guilty, Morrison thought
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: At last the receptionist gave him a __________ smile and said, “Go right in, Mr. Morrison.”
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Beyond the door was an austere little room walled with drilled white __________ panels
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Bobby Crager dropped by my office one day and gave me a fatherly little __________ talk
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: From the directory in the lobby, it looked to him like their offices took up one whole floor, and that spelled money. __________ of it
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He extended his __________ and they shook
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He gave Henry a ten to pay for his drink, then picked up the small business card and reread it – 237 East Forty-sixth Street was only two __________ over; it was a cool, sunny October day outside, and maybe, just for chuckles
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He had apparently switched to __________ lenses
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He had been overworking, overeating, and smoking too __________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He had left the office early and had come here to drink the __________away
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He had taken out his wallet and was rummaging through __________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He had worked at Crager and Barton for eighteen months before joining the __________ Agency
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He laid a plain white business card on the bar __________ them
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He led Morrison past a number of closed, unmarked doors and then opened one of them about halfway down the hall with a __________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He looked at his own cigarette with distaste and stubbed it out, knowing he would be lighting another in five __________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He looked speculatively at Morrison and sipped his __________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He might even tap some ashes on their maroon shag __________ if they made him wait long enough
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He picked up a copy of ‘…’ and began to leaf through it
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He pulled out a roll of antacid pills and crunched one in his __________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He put the pack away again. That was all __________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He sat between the woman, who was wearing a severe blue suit, and a young executive __________ wearing a herringbone jacket and modish sideburns
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He took out his __________ of cigarettes, looked around, and saw there were no ashtrays
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He took the elevator up and stepped off into a lushly carpeted foyer and from there into a gracefully appointed reception room with a wide window that looked out on the scurrying __________ below
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He tried to tell himself that the little worm of jealousy in his __________ was just acid indigestion
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He was called a quarter of an hour later, after the woman in the __________ suit
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He was holding a __________ of paper in one hand. He looked vaguely familiar
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He would see this little game through and then light up while he was __________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He __________ his feet around a bar stool and lighted a cigarette
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Here it __________ I knew I had one kicking around
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: His nicotine __________ was speaking quite loudly now
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: In fact, things were __________ horrible
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: It made him __________ better
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Morrison nodded in __________ understanding
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Morrison walked through the door beyond her desk and found himself in an indirectly lit __________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Morrison was waiting for someone who was hung up in the air traffic jam over Kennedy International when he saw a familiar face at the end of the __________ and walked down
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Morrison went to the __________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: My God, Morrison thought with an inner wince. Jimmy McCann’s got __________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: No. Going to Miami for a conference. A heavy client. Bills six million. I’m supposed to hold his hand because we lost out on a big special next __________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Nonsmokers could afford to be __________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Quitters, Inc., was in a new building where the monthly rent on the office space was probably close to Morrison’s __________ salary
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The card fell out of his wallet and onto another __________a month later
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The only furnishings were a desk with a chair on either __________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: There was a picture on the wall to Morrison’s left–a tall man with iron-gray __________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: There was what appeared to be a small oblong window in the wall behind the desk, but it was covered with a short green __________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Things had not been going __________ well at the Morton Agency
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Three men and one woman sat in the chairs along the walls, reading magazines. Business __________, all of them
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Well, to put the capper on it, the __________ told me I had an incipient ulcer. He told me to quit smoking
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: When Henry brought his change, he finished his drink and then went for a __________
Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Yes, I did. At first I didn’t think I’d be able __________ – I was cheating like hell. Then I met a guy who told me about an outfit over on Forty-sixth Street. Specialists. I said what do I have to lose and went over. I haven’t smoked since
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: And finally, Morrison hung up in a colossal traffic jam in the Midtown Tunnel. Darkness. Horns blaring. Air stinking. Traffic hopelessly __________.
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: And suddenly, thumbing open the glove compartment and seeing the half-open pack of cigarettes in there. He looked at them for a moment, then __________ one and lit it with the dashboard lighter
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He pulled a small card laminated in plastic from his breast pocket. “Well, that’s not too bad. I’m going to __________ you a prescrip for some highly illegal diet pills. Use them sparingly and according to directions. And I’m going to set your maximum weight at...let’s see...” He consulted the card again
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Horns blasted impatiently behind him. Ahead, the traffic had begun to move again. He stubbed the cigarette out in the ashtray, opened both front windows, opened the vents, and then fanned the air helplessly like a kid who has just flushed this first butt down the __________
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: If anything __________, it’s Cindy’s fault, he told himself defiantly. I told her to get rid of all the damn cigarettes
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Introductions are made all around. Jimmy looks as good, if not better, than he did on that day in the airport __________ so long ago.
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Looking at 45’s in Sam Goody’s, where Morrison is looking for a Sam Cooke album. Once in a foursome behind Morrison’s __________ at the local golf course
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Morrison and a crony from Larkin Studios at Jack Dempsey’s bar. Crony offers a cigarette. Morrison __________ his glass a little more tightly and says: I’m quitting. Crony laughs and says: I give you a week
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Morrison getting drunk at a party, wanting a cigarette – but not quite drunk enough to take one. Morrison visiting his son, __________ him a large ball that squeaked when you squeezed it. His son’s slobbering, delighted kiss
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Morrison has never __________ his wife. She is pretty in the radiant way plain girls sometimes have when they are very, very happy.
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Morrison runs into the crony from the Larkin Studio at Dempsey’s bar. Morrison is down to what Cindy proudly calls his fighting weight: one-sixty-seven. He works out three times a week and looks as __________as whipcord
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Morrison waiting for the morning train, looking over the top of the ‘Times’ at a young man in a blue suit. He sees the young man almost every morning now, and __________ at other places. At Onde’s, where he is meeting a client
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Quite by __________, Morrison and his wife meet the Jimmy McCanns at the Helen Hayes Theatre.
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: She offers her hand and Morrison shakes it. There is something __________ about her grip, and halfway through the second act, he realizes what it was. The little finger on her right hand is missing.
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The crony stubs his cigarette out with real revulsion and drains his __________ Morrison looks at him speculatively and then takes a small white business card out of his wallet. He puts it on the bar between them. You know, he says, these guys changed my life
Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The first drag made him cough smoke out furiously. The second made his eyes water. The third made him feel lightheaded and __________ It tastes awful, he thought. And on the heels of that: My God, what am I doing
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: A broken cigarette end flew out. Tobacco crumbs spilled. The sound of Donatti’s fist was very loud in the closed room. The smile remained on his face in spite of the force of the blows, and Morrison was __________ by it. Probably just the effect they want to inspire, he thought
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: A great many prospective clients never __________ up again after the initial interview. They discover they don’t want to quit as badly as they thought. It’s going to be a pleasure to work with you on this
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: As you say,” Donatti said. He folded his __________ “Your son, Alvin Dawes Morrison, is in the Paterson School for Handicapped Children. Born with cranial brain damage. Tested IQ of 46. Not quite in the educable retarded category
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: At last Donatti __________ pounding. He picked up the pack, a twisted and battered ruin. “You wouldn’t believe the pleasure that gives me,” he said, and dropped the pack into the wastebasket
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Before going up in the elevator, he smoked a cigarette down to the filter. Too __________ bad if it’s the last one, he thought. It tasted horrible.
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: But consider the implications. When you put a man in __________ you take away any normal sex life, you take away his liquor, his politics, his freedom of movement. No riots – or few in comparison to the number of prisons
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: But they couldn’t be watching now, in the dead of night, in his own __________ The house was grave-quiet. He looked at the cigarettes in the box for almost two minutes, unable to tear his gaze away
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Donatti drew the curtains, discovering a __________ window that looked into a bare room. No, not quite bare. There was a rabbit on the floor, eating pellets out of a dish. “Pretty bunny,” Morrison commented
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Donatti pressed a button by the windowsill. The rabbit stopped eating and began to hop about crazily. It seemed to __________ higher each time its feet struck the floor. Its fur stood out spikily in all directions. Its eyes were wild
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Donatti put the pack on the desk. Then, smiling into Morrison’s eyes, he curled his right hand into a fist and began to __________ it down on the pack of cigarettes, which twisted and flattened
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Donatti released the button. “Far from it. There’s a very low-yield charge in the floor. Watch the rabbit, Mr. Morrison!” The rabbit was crouched about ten feet away from the dish of pellets. His nose wriggled. All at once he __________ away into a corner
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: During World War I, when no one on the German home front could get cigarettes, the sight of German aristocrats picking butts out of the gutter was a common __________
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: During World War II, many American women turned to pipes when they were unable to obtain cigarettes. A fascinating problem for the __________ pragmatist, Mr. Morrison
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He cursed himself for getting into this. He cursed Donatti. And most of all, he cursed Jimmy McCann. How could he have done it? The son of a bitch had known. His hands trembled in their desire to get hold of Jimmy Judas McCann. Stealthily, he __________ around the study again
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He offered his hand and smiled, and to Morrison the smile looked almost predatory. He __________ to feel a little tense, and that made him want a cigarette
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He told himself that all he had to do was to go to the closet door and __________ it open. But he was too afraid of what he might find. He went back to bed but didn’t sleep for a long time
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He was sitting in the outer office of Quitters, Inc. the next day __________ at three. He had spent most of the day swinging between skipping the appointment the receptionist had made for him on the way out and going in a spirit of mulish cooperation
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: How in the name of God was he ever going to be able to make another tough presentation to a wary client, without that cigarette burning __________ between his fingers as he approached the charts and layouts
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I told you we were pragmatists here. As pragmatists, we have to start by realizing how difficult it is to cure an addiction to tobacco. The relapse rate is almost eighty-five percent. The relapse rate for heroin addicts is lower than that. It is an extraordinary __________ Extraordinary
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: If the rabbit gets a jolt often enough while he’s eating,” Donatti said, “he makes the __________ very quickly. Eating causes pain. Therefore, he won’t eat. A few more shocks, and the rabbit will starve to death in front of his food. It’s called aversion training
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: In the end, something Jimmy McCann had said __________ him to keep the appointment – ‘It changed my whole life.’ God knew his own life could do with some changing. And then there was his own curiosity.
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Momentarily. __________ over here, please.” Donatti had risen and was standing by the green curtains Morrison had noticed yesterday
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Morrison glanced into the wastebasket. One of the cigarettes, although __________, still looked smokeable. Donatti laughed goodnaturedly, reached into the wastebasket, and broke it between his fingers
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Morrison looked at him closely. Donatti wasn’t upset. In fact, he looked a little amused. The __________ of a man who has seen this reaction scores of times – maybe hundreds
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Morrison losing the physical compulsion to smoke little by little, but never losing the psychological craving, or the __________ to have something in his mouth – cough drops, Life Savers, a toothpick. Poor substitutes, all of them
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Shrugging, Morrison __________ Donatti his pack. There were only two or three left in it, anyway
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Somehow not as repulsive as before. __________ his son tightly, realizing what Donatti and his colleagues had so cynically realized before him: love is the most pernicious drug of all. Let the romantics debate its existence. Pragmatists accept it and use it
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: State legislatures sometimes hear a request that the prison systems do away with the weekly cigarette ration. Such proposals are invariably __________ In a few cases where they have passed, there have been fierce prison riots. Riots, Mr. Morrison. Imagine it
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The wait in the outer office was shorter this time. When the receptionist told him to __________ in, Donatti was waiting
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Then he went to the study door, peered out into the empty hall, and went back to look at the cigarettes some more. A horrible picture came: his life stretching before him and not a cigarette to be __________
Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Truer words had never been spoken. He put the cigarette in his mouth and then __________, cocking his head. Had there been the slightest noise from the closet?
Choose the right preposition: A horrible picture came: his life stretching ___ him and not a cigarette to be found. How in the name of God was he ever going to be able to make another tough presentation to a wary client, without that cigarette burning nonchalantly between his fingers as he approached the charts and layouts
Choose the right preposition: After a moment’s hesitation, he followed his customary bowl of cornflakes _____ scrambled eggs
Choose the right preposition: And finally, Morrison hung up in a colossal traffic jam ____ the Midtown Tunnel. Darkness. Horns blaring. Air stinking. Traffic hopelessly snarled
Choose the right preposition: And suddenly, thumbing open the glove compartment and seeing the half-open pack of cigarettes ____ there
Choose the right preposition: And then he was gone, making his way through the crowd _____ the escalators
Choose the right preposition: Around three o’clock he woke up completely. His craving ___ a cigarette was like a low-grade fever
Choose the right preposition: At last Donatti ceased pounding. He picked up the pack, a twisted and battered ruin. “You wouldn’t believe the pleasure that gives me,” he said, and dropped the pack into the wastebasket. “Even ____ three years in the business, it still pleases me.”
Choose the right preposition: At Onde’s, where he is meeting a client. Looking ____ 45’s in Sam Goody’s, where Morrison is looking for a Sam Cooke album. Once in a foursome behind Morrison’s group ..the local golf course
Choose the right preposition: Bobby Crager dropped ____ my office one day and gave me a fatherly little pep talk. Do you remember what those are like
Choose the right preposition: But he was too afraid ____ what he might find. He went back to bed but didn’t sleep for a long time
Choose the right preposition: But they couldn’t be watching now, ____ the dead of night, in his own study
Choose the right preposition: Donatti put the pack ____ the desk. Then, smiling into Morrison’s eyes, he curled his right hand into a fist and began to hammer it down on the pack of cigarettes, which twisted and flattened. A broken cigarette end flew out.
Choose the right preposition: Donatti released the button. “Far from it. There’s a very low-yield charge in the floor. Watch the rabbit, Mr. Morrison!” The rabbit was crouched about ten feet away from the dish of pellets. His nose wriggled. All ___ once he hopped away into a corner.
Choose the right preposition: During the fourth month, the month when most clients backslid, the “service” would return ___ twenty-four hours a day
Choose the right preposition: For a moment he thought Jimmy McCann looked almost grim. “Yes. A little too much, ____ fact. But I took it off again. I’m about right now. I was skinny before.”
Choose the right preposition: For the rest ____ his life
Choose the right preposition: Had there been the slightest noise from the closet? A faint shifting? Surely not. But – Another mental image – that rabbit hopping crazily ____ the grip of electricity
Choose the right preposition: He cursed Donatti. And most ___ all, he cursed Jimmy McCann. How could he have done it? The son of a bitch had known
Choose the right preposition: He cursed himself for getting ___ this
Choose the right preposition: He gave Henry a ten to pay for his drink, then picked up the small business card and reread it – 237 East Forty-sixth Street was only two blocks over; it was a cool, sunny October day outside, and maybe, just ____ chuckles
Choose the right preposition: He had left the office early and had come here to drink the afternoon away. Things had not been going so well ____ the Morton Agency. In fact, things were bloody horrible
Choose the right preposition: He looked around and licked his lips. Constant supervision during the first month, Donatti had said. Eighteen hours a day ____ the next two–but he would never know which eighteen
Choose the right preposition: He looked at them for a moment, then snatched one and lit it ____ the dashboard lighter
Choose the right preposition: He offered his hand and smiled, and _____ Morrison the smile looked almost predatory. He began to feel a little tense, and that made him want a cigarette.
Choose the right preposition: He reached into the drawer and brought _____ a cigarette. He caressed it, fondled it. What was that old slogan? So round, so firm, so fully packed. Truer words had never been spoken. He put the cigarette in his mouth and then paused, cocking his head
Choose the right preposition: He sees the young man almost every morning now, and sometimes ___ other places
Choose the right preposition: He slept badly that night, dozing ____ and out of sleep
Choose the right preposition: He took the elevator up and stepped off ____ a lushly carpeted foyer and from there into a gracefully appointed reception room with a wide window that looked out on the scurrying bugs below
Choose the right preposition: He was sitting ____ the outer office of Quitters, Inc. the next day promptly at three. He had spent most of the day swinging between skipping the appointment the receptionist had made for him on the way out and going in a spirit of mulish cooperation – ‘Throw your best pitch at me, buster.’
Choose the right preposition: He went downstairs and ____ his study
Choose the right preposition: His hands trembled in their desire to get hold of Jimmy Judas McCann. Stealthily, he glanced ____ the study again
Choose the right preposition: Horns blasted impatiently behind him. Ahead, the traffic had begun to move again. He stubbed the cigarette ____ in the ashtray, opened both front windows, opened the vents, and then fanned the air helplessly like a kid who has just flushed this first butt down the john
Choose the right preposition: Hugging his son tightly, realizing what Donatti and his colleagues had so cynically realized before him: love is the most pernicious drug ____ all.
Choose the right preposition: I told her to get rid ____ all the damn cigarettes
Choose the right preposition: I wasn’t ____ very good shape
Choose the right preposition: In spite of how lousy he felt _____ the morning, breakfast tasted good
Choose the right preposition: In the end, something Jimmy McCann had said convinced him to keep the appointment – ‘It changed my whole life.’ God knew his own life could do _____ some changing. And then there was his own curiosity. Before going up in the elevator, he smoked a cigarette down to the filter. Too damn bad if it’s the last one, he thought. It tasted horrible.
Choose the right preposition: McCann laughed. “You know it. Well, to put the capper ____ it, the doc told me I had an incipient ulcer. He told me to quit smoking.” McCann grimaced. “Might as well tell me to quit breathing.”
Choose the right preposition: Morrison and a crony from Larkin Studios ____ Jack Dempsey’s bar. Crony offers a cigarette. Morrison grips his glass a little more tightly and says: I’m quitting. Crony laughs and says: I give you a week
Choose the right preposition: Morrison grunted. He considered ‘since Hector was a pup’ to be one _____ Cindy’s stupider sayings, on a par with ‘I should smile and kiss a pig.’
Choose the right preposition: Morrison nodded in perfect understanding. Nonsmokers could afford to be smug. He looked at his own cigarette ____ distaste and stubbed it out, knowing he would be lighting another in five minutes.
Choose the right preposition: Morrison picked up the card, looked _____ it thoughtfully, then tucked it away in his wallet and forgot it
Choose the right preposition: Morrison’s eyes widened. “What did they do? Fill you full ___ some drug?”
Choose the right preposition: No windows. He slid open the top drawer ____ his desk and looked in, fascinated by the cigarette box
Choose the right preposition: Quitters, Inc., was in a new building where the monthly rent on the office space was probably close to Morrison’s yearly salary. ____ the directory in the lobby, it looked to him like their offices took up one whole floor, and that spelled money. Lots of it
Choose the right preposition: The card fell out _____ his wallet and onto another bar a month later
Choose the right preposition: The house was grave-quiet. He looked ___ the cigarettes in the box for almost two minutes, unable to tear his gaze away. Then he went to the study door, peered out into the empty hall, and went back to look at the cigarettes some more
Choose the right preposition: The room was ____ the middle of the house
Choose the right preposition: The thought of Cindy in that room – He listened desperately and heard nothing. He told himself that all he had to do was to go _____ the closet door and yank it open
Choose the right preposition: The wait in the outer office was shorter this time. When the receptionist told him to go____, Donatti was waiting.
Choose the right preposition: Then twelve hours of broken surveillance each day ___ the rest of the year. After that? Random surveillance for the rest of the client’s life
Choose the right preposition: Three men and one woman sat ____ the chairs along the walls, reading magazines. Business types, all of them. Morrison went to the desk
Choose the right preposition: Tobacco crumbs spilled. The sound of Donatti’s fist was very loud ____ the closed room. The smile remained on his face in spite of the force of the blows, and Morrison was chilled by it. Probably just the effect they want to inspire, he thought
Choose the right preposition: Treatments by Appointment “No, it’s nothing like that. Go and see ___ yourself.” He gestured at Morrison’s cigarette. “You don’t really like that, do you?”
Choose the right preposition: We may audit you every other month,” Donatti said. “Or every other day. Or constantly for one week two years ____ now.
Choose the right preposition: When Henry brought his change, he finished his drink and then went ____ a walk
Choose the right preposition: “But consider the implications. When you put a man in prison you take away any normal sex life, you take away his liquor, his politics, his freedom of movement. No riots – or few ____ comparison to the number of prisons. But when you take away cigarettes – wham! bam!” He slammed his fist on the desk for emphasis.
Choose the right preposition: “Come ___ me,” Donatti said. “A great many prospective clients never show up again after the initial interview. They discover they don’t want to quit as badly as they thought. It’s going to be a pleasure to work with you on this.”
Choose the right preposition: “If the rabbit gets a jolt often enough while he’s eating,” Donatti said, “he makes the association very quickly. Eating causes pain. Therefore, he won’t eat. A few more shocks, and the rabbit will starve ____ death in front of his food. It’s called aversion training.”
Choose the right preposition: “Indeed. Watch him.” Donatti pressed a button by the windowsill. The rabbit stopped eating and began to hop about crazily. It seemed to leap higher each time its feet struck the floor. Its fur stood out spikily ___ all directions. Its eyes were wild.
Choose the right preposition: “Look, you’ve got my curiosity aroused. Can’t you just – ” “I’m sorry, Dick. I really can’t talk ____ it.” His voice was firm.
Choose the right preposition: “Momentarily. Step over here, please.” Donatti had risen and was standing by the green curtains Morrison had noticed yesterday. Donatti drew the curtains, discovering a rectangular window that looked ____ a bare room. No, not quite bare. There was a rabbit on the floor, eating pellets out of a dish. “Pretty bunny,” Morrison commented
Choose the right preposition: “No.” He had taken out his wallet and was rummaging through it. “Here it is. I knew I had one kicking around.” He laid a plain white business card ___ the bar between them
Choose the right preposition: “Stopping really changed things for me,” McCann said. “I don’t suppose it’s the same for everyone, but with me it was just like dominoes falling over. I felt better and my relationship ____ Sharon improved. I had more energy, and my job performance picked up.”
Choose the right preposition: “Sure,” he said, and gulped ____ his drink when it came
Choose the right preposition: “That’s me,” McCann said, getting up. He tossed a five ___ the bar. “Have another, if you like. And think about what I said, Dick. Really.”
Choose the right preposition: “Wait a second,” Morrison said. He motioned ____ another drink and lit a cigarette. “Do these guys strap you down and make you smoke until you throw up?”
Choose the right preposition: “Why the great secrecy if this outfit is so fantastic? How come I’ve never seen any spots on TV, billboards, magazine ads – ” “They get all the clients they can handle ____ word of mouth.”
Choose the right preposition: “Yeah.” He had worked at Crager and Barton for eighteen months before joining the Morton Agency. “Get your butt ____ gear or get your butt out.”
Choose the right preposition: “Yes, I did. At first I didn’t think I’d be able to – I was cheating like hell. Then I met a guy who told me about an outfit ____on Forty-sixth Street. Specialists. I said what do I have to lose and went over. I haven’t smoked since.”
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Put the verb in brackets in the right form: And then he was (to go), making his way through the crowd to the escalators. Morrison picked up the card, looked at it thoughtfully, then tucked it away in his wallet and forgot it
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: And think about what I said, Dick. Really.” And then he was gone, (to make) his way through the crowd to the escalators. Morrison picked up the card, looked at it thoughtfully, then tucked it away in his wallet and forgot it
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: For a moment he (to think) Jimmy McCann looked almost grim. Yes. A little too much, in fact. But I took it off again. I’m about right now. I was skinny before
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: In college he had (to be) a thin, pallid chain smoker buried behind huge horn-rimmed glasses. He had apparently switched to contact lenses
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: In college he had been a thin, pallid chain smoker (to bury) behind huge horn-rimmed glasses. He had apparently switched to contact lenses
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: It was. A little heavier than when Morrison (to have) seen him at the Atlanta Exhibition the year before, but otherwise he looked awesomely fit.
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: It was. A little heavier than when Morrison had (to see) him at the Atlanta Exhibition the year before, but otherwise he looked awesomely fit.
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Last August. Something happened that changed my life.” He looked speculatively at Morrison and sipped his drink. “You might be (to interest)
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Look, you’ve (to get) my curiosity aroused. Can’t you just – ” “I’m sorry, Dick. I really can’t talk about it.” His voice was firm
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: McCann laughed. “You know it. Well, to put the capper on it, the doc told me I had an incipient ulcer. He told me to quit (to smoke).” McCann grimaced. “Might as well tell me to quit breathing.”
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Morrison nodded in perfect understanding. Nonsmokers could (to afford) to be smug. He looked at his own cigarette with distaste and stubbed it out, knowing he would be lighting another in five minutes
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Morrison was (to wait) for someone who was hung up in the air traffic jam over Kennedy International when he saw a familiar face at the end of the bar and walked down
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Morrison was waiting for someone who was (to hang) up in the air traffic jam over Kennedy International when he saw a familiar face at the end of the bar and walked down. “Jimmy? Jimmy McCann?”
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: My God, Morrison (to think) with an inner wince. Jimmy McCann’s got religion
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: That’s me,” McCann said, (to get) up. He tossed a five on the bar. “Have another, if you like. And think about what I said, Dick. Really
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Yes, I did. At first I didn’t think I’d (to be) able to – I was cheating like hell. Then I met a guy who told me about an outfit over on Forty-sixth Street. Specialists. I said what do I have to lose and went over. I haven’t smoked since
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “(to stop) really changed things for me,” McCann said. “I don’t suppose it’s the same for everyone, but with me it was just like dominoes falling over. I felt better and my relationship with Sharon improved. I had more energy, and my job performance picked up.”
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “Dick Morrison?” “Yeah. You look great.” He extended his hand and they (to shake)
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “Look, you’ve got my curiosity (to arouse). Can’t you just – ” “I’m sorry, Dick. I really can’t talk about it.” His voice was firm
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “No. (to go) to Miami for a conference. A heavy client. Bills six million. I’m supposed to hold his hand because we lost out on a big special next spring.”
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “So do you,” McCann said, but Morrison knew it (to be) a lie. He had been overworking, overeating, and smoking too much. “What are you drinking?”
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “So do you,” McCann said, but Morrison knew it was a lie. He had been overworking, overeating, and (to smoke) too much. “What are you drinking?”
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “Stopping really changed things for me,” McCann said. “I don’t suppose it’s the same for everyone, but with me it was just like dominoes falling over. I felt better and my relationship with Sharon (to improve). I had more energy, and my job performance picked up.”
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “Sure,” he (to say), and gulped at his drink when it came. “I wasn’t in very good shape,” McCann said. “Personal problems with Sharon, my dad died – heart attack – and I’d developed this hacking cough. Bobby Crager dropped by my office one day and gave me a fatherly little pep talk. Do you remember what those are like”
Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “Yeah. You (to look) great.” He extended his hand and they shook