Labour X The Flock of Geryon

Assignment Eleven (pp. 92-105)

1. Answer the questions using the words given below.

   1. Who came to Poirot one day? What was the reason for her visit?

to apologize for

to bother

to lie like a log

to consult smb

to be anxious about

orthodox religion

a sect

religious

to have doubts

to become a victim of smth

2. What did Miss Carnaby tell Poirot about the Flock of the Shepherd, the head of the movement and the members of the sect?

headquarters

an estate by the sea

to centre round

to depend (up)on

a ramp

3. What really worried Miss Carnaby and what did she find out about the deaths of the devotees?

a devotee

to make no protest

to belong to

a near relative

to have no right/doubt

suspicious circumstances

to take place in

to make a will

4. What did Poirot ask Miss Carnaby to do? What instructions did he give her?

to find out

a woman of great courage and determination

to be associated with smth

a mare’s nest

to pretend

to persuade

to manage

5. What feeling did Poirot have after speaking to Chief Inspector Japp? Why did he believe that case to be the 10^th Labour of Hercules?

to look up

promising

to be expelled from

to be keen on smth

to write smth on the subject

crazy

a genuine fanatic

to die of

to suffer from

to connect smth with smth

a coincidence

to destroy

6. Make up a dialogue between Miss Carnaby and Poirot about her meeting with Dr. Anderson and Miss Carnaby’s impression of him.

to obey

to rely on

to benefit

a revelation

convincing

to care about

to inherit

a distant relative

to accept smth

to be indifferent about smth

to be attached to smb

an ardent believer

to make smb one’s compliments on smth

to be set for smth

7. What scene could one witness in a small restaurant in the sleepy little town of Newton Woodbury? Who were the actors? What did they talk about?

to be breathless

to be odd

to have visions

to stare at smb

to spy on smb

to suspect smb of smth

heart and sole

to do spying work

unfriendly

8. Where and in what way did the Festival take place?

to assemble

before the setting of the sun

a raised platform

golden-haired

blue-eyed

to seem magnificent

to be dressed in

to be prepared for smth

to hold out one’s arm

to move along

9. How and when was Dr. Anderson arrested and what impression did the arrest make on everyone?

to stand by smb

to grasp

to get oneself free

the former

a warrant

a martyr

ignorance

persecution

a syringe

10. What did Inspector Japp and Poirot thank Miss Carnaby for?

first class work

to be flattered

confidentially

to keep the dodge of the sanctuary

to do the best

to overhear

to let smb down

to increase

11. What scheme did Dr Anderson devise and what was the secret of his popularity?

to devise a scheme

under a different name

to make cultures of

to inject a dose of smth

to give the sensation of smth

the spiritual joys

a dominating personality

mass hysteria

12. What was Dr. Anderson’s second aim in view?

to make a will

a lonely woman

in one’s gratitude and favour

to be the cause of smth

to be introduced into

to occur

to arouse suspicion

to cultivate a substance

to delay

to intensify

harmless

to take the risk

13. Did the police have enough evidence to convict that dreadful person?

to have evidence

to convict

to commit a murder

to arrange

2. Comment on Miss Carnaby’s words:

“… I see design where there may be only coincidence.”