Comprehension

2. Give detailed answers to the following questions

1. Where did Adam Warner work?

2. What relationships did Adam Warner and Steward Needham have?

3. What two things did Steward Needham have on his mind to tell Adam Warner?

4. What did Adam Warner learn from the transcript of the court proceedings in the case of the People of New York v. Michael Moretti?

5. What disturbed Adam about the Jennifer Parker case?

6. Was Di Silva able to touch Jennifer Parker?

7. What was Adam’s opinion of Jennifer Parker after leaving Seattle?

8. What was Jennifer thinking about during Adam’s visit?

9. Where did they go later? What was their conversation about?

10. What decision did Adam Warner make after Jennifer had recounted the events in the courtroom?

11. What were Jennifer’s responsibilities?

12. What task did Jennifer receive from Mr. Peabody?

13. What news did Adam Warner tell Jennifer the next morning?

14. What were Jennifer’s usual cases? What kind of cases were offered to her?

15. Why did Jennifer decide to phone Adam?

16. Who were most of Jennifer’s clients?

17. Who was Father Francis Joseph Ryan? What did he ask Jennifer for?

18. What was Jennifer impression when she saw Abraham Wilson first?

19. Why did Jennifer decide to walk back to the assistant Warden’s office?

3. Find evidence in the text to support the following

1. Adam Warner was a methodical man. He was asked to handle the Jennifer Parker case and carried it through to the best of his ability.

2. In the quiet bistro Adam Warner was going out of his way to try to relax Jennifer.

3. Jennifer was very inventive while serving William Carlisle with the summons.

4. The scene Adam Warner had with Steward Needham and Di Silva was very unpleasant.

5. Jennifer was not practicing law. (p. 68).

6. Jennifer was consumed by loneliness. (p. 69).

7. Night courts depressed Jennifer. (p. 74).

8. Most of Jennifer’s clients were unimportant but she came to know a lot and the education was priceless.

4. Consider the following topics. Make use of the words and word combinations given in brackets

1. Stewart Needham (a dapper, trim man in one’s late sixties, a neat Vandyke beard, to wear a tweed suit and vest, to belong to an older era, a titan, to remain in the background, to use considerable influence, to affect the outcome of legislation, a New Englander, born and reared taciturn)

2. Adam Warner (protégé, to be married to, a brilliant lawyer, to have offers from prestigious law firms, to become a partner, to add an extra dimension to him, physically attractive and charming, intelligence, to have an easy sureness about sth, to hurt sb’s feelings, to find challenging, a methodical man, a charming man, amusing and attractive, quiet voice, gray-blue eyes behind the horn-rimmed glasses, polite, to run for United States senator, to feel a sense of elation, to handle the Jennifer Parker case, to recommend that disbarment proceedings against sb be dropped)

3. Ken Bailey (a cynical man, a facade, lonely, bright and well-read, a failure, to be afraid to try for success, to carry his own hell with him)

4. Otto Wenzel (completely different, short, potbellied little man, to be happily married, to regard sb as a daughter)

5. Jennifer Parker (to quit, to practice law, deliver subpoenas and summons, insomnia, nightmares, loneliness, to share oneself with sb, to ache with a feeling of emptiness, to miss sb terribly, source of income, to put sb out of sb’s mind)

6. Abraham Wilson (a life sentence, a holdup, death penalty, a convicted murderer, a witness, to take the law into one’s hands, the ugliest human being, coal-black, with a nose that had been broken in several places, shifty eyes, a knife-scarred face, huge flat feet, menacing, solitary confinement, to pronounce sb guilty)