VII. Answer the following questions:

1. What present does Jimmie McBride send to Judy?

2. What does Judy feel about the forthcoming examinations?

3. What entertainment do Judy and her mates have at college?

4. Why cannot Judy graduate with honours?

5. Why does Judy think she can’t go to heaven?

6. What new professional achievement does Judy describe in her letter?

7. Why does Judy choose an unknown conductor for the part of a villain?

8. What shop do the girls visit in New York?

9. What problem does Judy have at the restaurant?

10. Why does Judy find it necessary to return the money to her guardian?

11. What kind of parade do the college girls organize on Field Day?

12. What does Judy do on Field Day?

13. What is the most necessary quality for any person to Judy’s mind?

14. What are Judy’s plans for the summer?

VIII. Give a good translation of the following passages in a written form:

1. ‘You can see with what nicety… entirely lacking in chemistry.’

2. ‘Sallie and Julia and I went … the two loveliest of all.’

IX. Translate the sentences and comment on the notions in italics paying attention to their cultural meaning:

1. If I say that William the Conqueror came over in 1492, and Columbus discovered America in 1100 or 1066 or whenever it was, that’s a mere detail that the Professor overlooks.

2. And after luncheon we went to the theatre – it was dazzling, marvellous, unbelievable – I dream about it every night.

3. When I came in from laboratory this afternoon, I found a squirrel sitting on the tea table helping himself to almonds.

X. Explain the use of the words given in italics:

1. You can see with what nicety we have to trim our sails between chemistry and history.

2. It’s an intoxicating, exhilarating, CALLING noise.

3. Anyway, all nineteen of us settled like locusts over the furniture and clamoured for honey.

4. Julia went into the very most gorgeous place I ever saw, white and gold walls and blue carpets and blue silk curtains and gilt chairs.

5. I felt as though they saw right through my sham new clothes to the checked ginghams underneath. But I’m not letting the ginghams bother me any more. Sufficient unto yesterday is the evil thereof.

6. My childhood was just a long, sullen stretch of revolt, and now I am so happy every moment of the day that I can’t believe it’s true. I feel like a made-up heroine in a story-book.

7. I can't accept any more money than I have to, because some day I shall be wanting to pay it back, and even as great an author as I intend to be won't be able to face a PERFECTLY TREMENDOUS debt.

8. Six friends dropped in to make fudge, and one of them dropped the fudge – while it was still liquid – right in the middle of our best rug.

XI. Task:

1. What is the purpose of the letter from the 10th of April? In what way is it stylistically different from others? Why is it signed “Jerusha” but not “Judy”? Compare it to the next letter form the 11th of April. In what way do these two letters characterize Judy?

2. Find the episode of Judy describing her opinion on John Grier Home and the Lowood School from ‘Jane Eyre’ by Charlotte Bronte. What differences does she find in two institutions? What do they have in common? Have you read the novel yourself? If so, what opinion do you have on the topic?

3. What pedagogical principles does Judy stick to? Do you agree or disagree with her? Try to prove your opinion.

4. Look at the final part of the letter from the 4th of May and characterize its style. What are its basic features? When and for what purpose can this style be used? Why does the letter produce a comic effect here?