6. Say whether the following sentences are true or false:

1. Jenny, who had come to enjoy the pace at which I drove, complained at one point that I was going thirty in a thirty-five-mile-an-hour zone.

2. No, Mr. Cavilleri would say something like, “Barretto, when are you going to marry her?”

3. She found the charity in her heart to repeat for the nth time the details of her conversation with my father.

4. And all his graduating-Harvard-with-honors daughter could offer by way of reply was: "Father."

5. And Phil Cavilleri, a roughhewn (say 6’5” 165-pound) Rhode Island type in his late fifties, held out his hand.

6. Jenny lived on a street called Hamilton Avenue, a long line of wooden houses with many children in front of them, and a few scraggly trees.

7. I’ll be working over the summer. Then Jenny – that’s my wife – will be teaching in a state school.

8. As I turned to leave, I heard Dean Tomlinson mutter, “That’s unfair.”

9. At supper (the pastries turned out to be merely a snack) Phil tried to have an unserious talk with me about you-can-guess-what.

10. She took my hand (I was a stranger in hell), and led me up the stairs to 165A Hamilton Avenue.

7. Answer the following questions:

1. Speak about Olli’s thoughts and emotions before meeting jenny’s father.

2. The meeting with Jenny’s father. What did he mean by calling him “okay”?

3. Should parents criticize children when the latter are grown-ups?

4. Speak about the future wedding ceremony.

5. Speak about the religious point in the lives of Olli, jenny and her father.

6. Speak about Olli’s principle not to make peace with his father to get money.

7. Speak about the difficulties Olli had to face when he quarreled with his father.

Chapters 11, 12, 13

1. Learn the following words:

1. to pry – выведывать, выпытывать

2. to refrain – воздерживаться

3. gawky – нескладный

4. preconceived notion – предвзятое убеждение

5. lace-doily – сентиментальный

6. to evoke – вызывать, пробуждать

7. scrounge – экономия

8. income – доход

9. nonetheless – тем не менее, все же

10. to haul up – тащить

11. illustrious – громкий, знаменитый

12. to dispel illusions – развеять иллюзии

13. to make ends meet – сводить концы с концами

14. drastically – сильно, решительно

15. exhausted – измотанный

16. feasibility – возможность, вероятность

17. crucial – важнейший, решающий

18. facetiously – шутливо

19. insanity – помешательство

2. Translate and dwell on the sentences:

1. I let Phil pick up the tab, a decision which later evoked one of Jenny’s rare compliments about my intuition (“You’ll be a human being yet, Preppie”).

2. “Jenny, we’re legally married!” – “Yeah, now I can be a bitch.”

3. Still, I would spend Saturday afternoons with a transistor at my ear, listening to the roar of the fans, who, though geographically but a mile away, were now in another world.

4. “But you Barretts are so damn proud and competitive, you’ll go through life thinking you hate each other.”

5. “Stop!” She cut off my apology, then said very quietly, “Love means not ever having to say you’re sorry.”