Exercises

? Checking Comprehension

1 Answer the following questions.

1) How many persons are mentioned in this story?

1. Where does the story take place? What tells you this?

2. What did Towers Chandler look like?

3. In what way did Chandler look like a typical clubman?

4. What was Chandler’s occupation?

6) In what way did he manage to accumulate money for a dinner?

3. What kind of a restaurant was it?

4. How often did he dine there?

5. How much was the dinner?

6. How long did it take Chandler to spend his sa­vings?

11) How was Chandler dressed on such occasions?

12. What happened one night on his way to the res­taurant?

13. What did Chandler do to the girl?

14. What was the girl like?

15. How was she dressed?

16) What kind of an idea came into Chandler’s head?

13. How did the girl take Chandler’s idea?

18) What made the girl accept Chandler’s invitation?

19. What was the restaurant where Chandler and Marian came in like?

20. What kind of a man did Chandler play before the girl?

21) How did Marian listen to Chandler?

22) Did her ankle hurt Marian when the dinner was over?

23. Did Chandler go to the club to play bridge or did he go to his room?

24. What kind of a room was it?

25. What did Chandler do with his evening suit?

26. When was he going to wear it next?

27. What did Chandler think of himself after the dinner?

28. What did he feel about Marian?

29. What kind of a house did Marian live in?

30. What kind of a man would she love?

Say whether the statement is true or false. Correct

the false one.

1. Chandler looked like a typical working man.

2. At the end of each week Chandler went out to have a good time.

3. He had to iron his suit every week.

4. It took him a month to save money for a good dinner in a fashionable restaurant.

5. Chandler did not know what to do to the girl when she had slipped on the snow.

6. The girl was dressed like a model.

7. Chandler hurt his ankle while helping the girl to her feet.

8. Chandler decided to play a joke on the girl.

9. Chandler’s story did not impress the girl.

10. Helen was Marian’s sister.

11. Chandler lived an idle life.

12. Marian will never marry Chandler.

Put the sentences in the right order.

1. One night Chandler met a girl with a beautiful and kind face.

2. To make impression on Marian Chandler pre­tended to be a rich idler.

3. Marian, that was the girl’s name, came from a rich family.

4. Chandler worked for eighteen dollars a week.

5. Chandler took Marian for a working girl.

6. To give a rest to her twisted ankle Marian ac­cepted the invitation.

7. Marian confessed to her sister what kind of a man she could love.

8. In his cold room Chandler realised what a mis­take he had made.

9. He invited her to dine with him at a restaurant.

10. Chandler went out to have a good time at a fashionable restaurant every ten weeks.

11. Marian returned to her house where her sister and mother worried about her.

4. Say which words and word combinations you would use to describe Chandler and which to describe Marian.

rich, well-dressed, young, handsome, sure of oneself, typical clubman, poor, twenty-two years old, dressed in evening suit, beautiful, kind, dressed in simple clothes, shining dark-brown hair, nice speech and manners, clear blue eyes, happy, rich idler

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