1 Answer the following questions.

1. How many persons are mentioned in this story?

2. What are their names and occupation?

3. Where did the event take place? What tells you about it?

4. How old were the main characters?

5. What kind of work did the reporter do?

7. What was Tripp?

8. What told about his occupation?

9. How old did Tripp look?

10. What made him look this age?

11. What kind of a habit did Tripp have?

12. What made the reporter feel at peace with the world that day?

13. What did Tripp offer the author?

14. In what way did Tripp meet the girl?

15. What made Ada come to New York?

16. Where did Tripp take Ada to?

17. What was the price per day in the boarding­house?

18. How much did Tripp ask the reporter to give him? What for?

19. What kind of a man was Ada going to marry?

20. What kind of a lie did Ada tell her mother?

21. What kind of a story did Ada tell the reporter?

22. In what way did the reporter help the girl?

23. What made the reporter give one dollar to Tripp?

Say whether the statement is true or false. Correct the false one.

1. The conversation took place between the reporter and the girl.

2. Tripp looked older because of his beard.

3. Tripp always asked for a dollar.

4. Tripp gave the reporter some facts for a very in­teresting story.

5. Ada took the train to New York to find the man who had promised to marry her.

6. Ada stopped Tripp in the street to ask him the way to the boarding-house.

7. The woman did not let the reporter and Tripp come in before they had given her a dollar.

8. The young man, the girl was going to marry, was very good to her.

9. The young man, the girl was going to marry, was a policeman.

10. The girl had half of a dime in her hand.

11. It was difficult to make the girl agree to go back home.

12. The reporter did not give Tripp a dollar for whisky.

13. Tripp felt happy that the girl had left.

14. The reporter made an interesting story out of Tripp’s facts.

3. Complete the sentences.

1)	The reporter had no regular work, so
2)	Tripp’s hands were always stained and burned
	with acids since he
3)	Tripp looked fortv but
4)	Tripp’s hands were shaking because
5)	Tripp said that the reporter would get a lot of
	monev if
6)	Ada was going to marry a farmer but
7)	Ada paid her last cent for the railroad ticket, so

8) The best thing to do for the girl was_________

9. The girl said that George Brown had promised to____

10. Everybody was good to Ada because_________

11. Ada realized that it had been silly to come up to New York _____________

12. Ada did not know

13. Tripp was trying to be of help in order

14. The reporter noticed a cheap watch-chain when_______

15. Tripp told the story that .

4. Put the sentences in the right order.

Tripp tells the reporter a story of the girl from the village.

Ada tells her mother a lie in order to go to New York.

Tripp takes Ada to a boarding-house.

Tripp looks more miserable than ever.

Tripp asks the reporter to spend three dollars on the girl.

They see the girl sitting in the parlor and crying.

Ada says that she has never been to New York before.

On the day when George leaves the village they bring a hammer and chisel and cut a dime into two pieces.

They promise to be true to each other, and keep the pieces till they meet again.

The reporter sees half a dime hanging on a chain across Tripp’s vest.

11. The reporter gives Tripp a dollar.

12. At last the girl agrees to go home.

13. She takes one half, and George takes the other.

14. Ada says that she is going to marry a farmer next Thursday.

15. The reporter is ashamed when Tripp calls him ‘friend’.

16. Tripp used to live in a village.

17. Ada stops Tripp in the street and asks him where she can find George Brown.

18. Tripp comes to the reporter’s room to tell a story.

19. The reporter is angry with Tripp because he finds no story in Tripp’s story.

20. The reporter feels that he will spend three dol­lars for Ada.

21. Tripp and the reporter go to the boarding­house.

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