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9)Some foreign governments appear happy to try and make continued human rights abuses seem unimportant. (p. 257)

10)He was trying to frighten him with stories of how hard teaching was. (p. 266)

11)If he responded positively, they would respond in the same way. (p. 267)

12)He was finding it difficult to juggle his family with his work. (p. 270)

13)Not many people have courage and confidence to stand up and speak in front of a large audience. (p. 277)

14)Is that the best excuse you can think of? (p. 278)

15)"We're going to South Africa for our holiday" "Oh, really?" (p. 288)

6Use the word given in capitals after the sentence to form a word that fits in the space in the same sentence.

7 Use the following words in the sentences below.

1)Mr. Brown said the planned charges were the … straw for customers already angry over banks' high-handed attitude.

2)She is adept at eating every … morsel she is served.

3)At … glance, the place seemed deserted.

4)But the main reason for my silence was that secrecy and deception had by then become … nature to me.

5)In August 1939 he escaped with his family on the … but one ship to leave Hamburg.

6)He is a pianist of extraordinary capability, with a virtuoso technique that is … to none.

7)The prime minister was primus inter pares in the cabinet-the … among equals.

8)The … and last mountain I climbed was Mount Rundle.

9)He got his … wind and ran on.

10)Everyone is praying that this time it will be … time lucky.

11)But perhaps, on … thoughts, it wasn't so strange: Luke was special, unique.

12)The battery, like the torch's owner, was on its … legs.

13)And as for Barbara Hervey – she was a bore of the … water.

Comprehension and Discussion

8 Answer the questions below.

1)Why is the chapter called ‘The First Shipment’?

2)Why does Martin return to Upwood? Why doesn’t he come in?

3)How does Laura behave towards Martin? What stops him on the way to the Bruegel?

4)Why does Laura smoke? Comment on misunderstanding that arises when she decides to put her cigarette out.

5)What preoccupies Martin’s mind throughout his conversation with Laura?

6)Who interrupts Laura and Martin’s tête-à-tête conversation? What is symbolic about this interruption?

7)Why does Martin decide to leave unnoticed?

8)Does Martin succeed in behaving “normalistically”? What is the reason of Kate’s silence?

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9)Why doesn’t Kate think of Bruegel as freedom fighter? Why doesn’t she think of Martin as loving husband and father?

10)What is the reason for Tony’s call?

11)Why does John Quiss appear? What is his role in the novel?

12)Who invited Quiss to examine the pictures? Did he see the Bruegel? How would you characterise him?

13)What for does Martin come to the Churts next day? Why is it hard for him to achieve his aim?

14)Who acts “most normalistically” in the novel in your opinion?

15)Why does the author contrast the two brothers and pay special attention to the colours while describing the two Churts? Why does Martin suggest that ‘if they’d swapped heads they’d each have achieved a considerably more harmonious effect’? (p. 275)

16)What’s brother’s attitude towards Martin? Why?

17)What is the reason of brother’s arrival? How does Martin react to it?

18)Which plan does Tony Churt have in mind? How is Martin involved?

19)If Martin’s Bruegel is in the breakfast room, which painting did Laura mean, when Martin understood “from the look on her face that she’d guessed it all.” (pp. 278)

20)What is the importance of baler twine in yet another abduction of Helen?

21)Why does Martin leave the other pictures behind? The eternal question presents itself one more time: who fooled whom – Martin fooled Tony or vice-versa?

22)What is Martin’s condition as he’s driving to London? Which elements add up to it?

23)Where does Martin head for first? Why doesn’t Martin confide in Kate?

9Give a summary of the chapter using words from Vocabulary Practice section.

10Comment on the following quotations and explain their meaning. Do you agree with them?

1)Never has the country seemed so much less appealing than the London Library. (p. 239)

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2)I’ve been so successful in concealing my interest in it that she’s forgotten about it once again. (p. 243)

3)… about normalism or something? (p. 249)

4)In fact I don’t think he’s diving at all – he’s simply tumbling in head first, presumably drunk, while the people around him reach out to save him. (p. 251-2)

5)Normalism, I realize, now that the term’s been introduced into the discourse, is an important concept. (p. 254)

6)… that’s what really puts the wind up the pros – the thought of some amateur pipping them to the post. (p. 266)

7)From creditors of some sort – yes, very possibly, now I come to think about it. (p. 266)

8)Actually, it’s not the thought of his having seen it and recognized it that’s preoccupying me by this time. (p. 269)

9)April for her has suddenly turned to May. (p. 273)

10)My own intentions have overtaken me. (p. 282)

11)Sparta’s falling astern. Ahead lie Troy and immortality. (p. 291)

Creating a Commentary

11 Prepare PowerPoint presentation on each entry.

The Massacre of the Innocents (p. 257); The Adoration of the Kings; The Suicide of Saul.

12 Comment on the meaning and usage of the following references and allusions, give the context they are used in.

The Cayman Islands (p. 240); Kwik Save (p. 241); Purdey (p. 244); the Inquisition (p. 257); the image breaking in 1566 (p. 257); HP (p. 266); repo man (p. 266); legato (p. 272); staccato (p. 272); van Dyck (p. 274); Valckenborch brothers (p. 274); tipstaff (p. 276); Piesporter (p. 278); Depositions (p. 280); prelapsarian world (p. 289).

Language and Style

13 Translate the following passage.

I’m propelled and energized… – …what normal behaviour’s actually like.’ (p. 254)

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Hard cash

PRE-READING

Focus Activity

1 Comment on the quotation below and answer the questions that follow.

‘Not a dealer at all – an academic; a version of myself. Perhaps this is his problem.’ (p. 325)

1)What are the traits of a dealer?

2)Who is a real dealer in the novel?

ACTIVE READING

Vocabulary Practice

2Substitute the underlined part of the sentences below with a synonym from the text.

1)But while they refer to the medium of photography, they also undermine the "freezing" of a moment in time. (p. 295)

2)The reason for this pledge was to carry out the cut in benefits that resulted from the breaking of the link between these benefits and earnings or prices. (p. 295)

3)He just sat staring at the wet walls: the cell was narrow and fetid; a grating high in the wall gave a little air and light. (p. 296)

4)It was after Vincent went back to The Hague to collect some belongings that his correspondence with his brother became really acrimonious. (p. 297)

5)“The devil they do, ma’am!” bolted out Richard, gruffly; and then, ashamed of his lapsus linguæ, screwed up his lips firmly, and glared at the company with an eye of indignant fire. (p. 297)

6)He was driven to frustration by Wilson’s attitude as a result. (p. 298)

7)The vengefulness of the king was legendary. (p. 298)

8)All over the world, the spread of the globalized monoculture is forcefully eradicating ecosocial forms of culture that evolved in place. (p. 299)

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9)It was feared that the army would revolt against the government. (p. 300)

3 Find antonyms in the text.

reputable (p. 295); simple, plain (p. 296); vice (p. 297); capable of seeing (p. 302); start (p. 304); clever (p. 307); fair (p. 308); unknown (p. 308); urban (p. 310); lose (p. 310)

4 Paraphrase the following sentences from the text.

1)‘They’re the trifling return for which the wretched pair have traded their liberty.’ (p. 300)

2)‘But to me, a simple Netherlander, standing here in my wooden shoes, looking at the picture in a very dark hour, they’re something else as well: they’re me and my wretched fellows, pressing in from the darkness to ask succour from the Virgin, the traditional channel of intercession for the ordinary humble citizen.’ (p. 303)

3)‘I stand here in my Netherlandish clogs, searching this mysterious nocturnal scene for meaning.’ (p. 304)

4)‘And it gives me an extra day to find the objective correlative I’m looking for, and redeem a few shreds of my honour.’ (p. 307)

5)‘I come in out of my wasted land, where the bodies of my fellow countrymen twist in the wind beneath so many roadside gibbets, and take refuge for a moment in that quiet and darkened room in Ephesus, alongside the dim multitudes praying before the radiance of Our Lady.’ (p. 308-9)

6)‘The charming young man’s perfect manners reduce me even further.’ (p. 311)

7)‘A sudden chill of unease checks my outrage.’ (p. 315)

5 Find English equivalents to the following words and expressions. Give the context they are used in.

death throes (p. 300-1); biddy (p. 301); leap to the eye (p. 302); elusive (p. 309); unfazed (p. 312); off the cuff (p. 312); look down one’s nose (at) (p. 312); paltry (p. 315); every trick in the book (p. 321); fence (p. 331).

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6Use the word given in capitals after the sentence to form a word that fits in the space in the same sentence.

7 Fill in missing words/phrases in the following sentences.

1)Morale in the armed forces was at rock …. (p. 321)

2)The percentage of … income spent at grocery stores and supermarkets has been declining since the 1970s. (p. 323)

3)I had no money, my husband was sick, and I couldn't get a job. I was at the end of my …. (p. 328)

4)My office became the temporary … post. (p. 331)

5)You'll have to be quick … if you want to find a job around here. (p. 336)

6)Political … was spreading throughout the country. (p. 342)

7)She knew he was on … losing his job. (p. 347)

8)He had … about selling faulty goods to people. (p. 349)

9)At least Marc managed … appearance at the party. (p. 355)

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8 Translate the following sentences into Russian paying attention to the underlined words and expressions.

1. When she'd dropped out of Mount Holyoke, her mother had become an iceberg of vindictiveness and hostility. 2. While this country enters its death throes, all our politicians are interested in is hanging on to their position for one more term. 3. The hallway inside our wing reeked from the rancid insecticide used to kill bedbugs. 4. Police used every trick in the book to get Michael to confess, according to a transcript of the interrogation, most of which was videotaped. 5. Is it not possible that free white labor, unable to compete with these foreign serfs, and perceiving its condition becoming slowly but inevitably more hopelessly abject, may unite in all the horrors of riot and insurrection, and defying the civil power, extirpate with fire and sword those who rob them of their bread, yet yield no tribute to the State? 6. Winged, yet cowering on the ground – wreathed, yet beclouded by shadows – equipped with the tools of art and science, yet brooding in idleness, she gives the impression of a creative being reduced to despair by an awareness of insurmountable barriers which separate her from a higher realm of thought. 7. Odd how certain names leaped to the eye and touched the heart.

Comprehension and Discussion

9 Answer the question below.

1)What is Martin’s opinion of the scholars? What are the reasons for his criticism?

2)What problems arise in front of Martin because of the Helen painting?

3)How does Martin explain presence of troops on the paintings by Bruegel? How would you explain it?

4)What are the differences between Floris’s and Bruegel’s The Fall of the Rebel Angels?

5)Why did Bruegel’s grisaille The Death of the Virgin throw Martin for a loop?

6)Why does Martin recollect the scene outside the Amalienburg Palace in Munich during his conversation with Kate?

7)What does Martin find out about crux gemina?

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8)Which discovery does Martin make, that connects The Death of the Virgin with the great cycle of the year?

9)What happens at the Christie’s?

10)What is symbolic about the statue in the window of the hall of the gallery where Martin has come to try and sell Helen?

11)What is the tone of Martin’s conversation with Kate? Laura? Tony?

12)What is surprising in Bruegel’s painting Sermon of St John the Baptist?

13)What discovery does Martin make that helps him to trace its way through centuries to the Upwood?

14)Why does Martin come to think of baler twine?

15)What happens in Lavenage?

10Give a summary of the chapter using words from Vocabulary Practice section.

11Comment on the following quotations and explain their meaning. Do you agree with them? Why?

1.They’re all iconographers. What this problem needs is an iconologist. (p. 295)

2.What she’s mostly concerned about now, I think, is not her personal hygiene, or her exposure to the weather, but the suspicion that she’s even less covered by our household insurance than she is by her dress. (p. 296)

3.Are you trying to tell me that the Netherlanders looked at that and didn’t think of their own nation, also crushed by its enemies? (p. 298)

4.All right – the sorceress can’t or won’t reveal her mysteries. (p. 307)

5.I’ve got so used to lying that it takes me a little time to realize that I could simply tell something more or less like the truth, and by then the conversation’s moved on. (p. 314)

6.Two nicely brought up, well-educated mother’s sons, and here we are, me trying to sell a picture that’s not mine, him trying to buy it with money that’s almost certainly not his. (p. 328)

7.These pictures make a terrifying historical pattern that ties them in with the Churts’ estate, and clearly connects them to the peasants who go squawking up into the air from under

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your feet at every step, only to be shot dead and roasted alive by faceless figures cowled in black plastic sheeting – the brutal henchmen of the German Inquisition. (p. 350)

8.All my old aspirations to the transcendental truth of the universe have crumbled into a life of endless chaffering. (p. 355)

Creating a Commentary

12 Prepare PowerPoint presentation on each entry.

The conversion of Saul (p. 298); The Triumph of Death (p. 299); The Census at Bethlehem (p. 300); Two Monkeys (p. 300); Dulle Griet (p. 301); The Parable of the Blind (p. 302).

13 Comment on the meaning and usage of the following references and allusions, give the context they are used in.

William of Orange (p. 295); Victorian (p. 296); West End (p. 297); Old Testament (p. 298); the Philistines (p. 298); New Testament

(p. 317); Old Masters (p. 323); Actaeon (p. 323); Armada (p. 345); Iron Curtain (p. 347); thou (p. 353).

14Find proof that Duke of Alva was as bloodthirsty and ferocious as he is described.

15Who is St. Claude de Besançon? Retell his story from Martin’s perspective.

16Describe the year of 1565 from a Netherlander’s point of view.

Language and Style

17 Translate the following passage.

Once you start seeing it… – …to enjoy the joke with him. (p. 300-1)

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