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The client Chapter 1

  1. Explain the meaning of the following words and expressions in English:

    • to get hooked;

    • to pilfer;

    • to sneak;

    • to protect smb from bullies;

    • to chain-smoke;

    • mature;

    • it takes guts to do it;

    • to be nuts

  2. Try to answer these questions applying your skills for analysis and synthesis:

      • What made Mark feel like an eleven-year-old father? What do you know about the Sways?

      • Why were the brothers nervous about smoking? What were Mark’s reasons for being worried and restless? What were those of Ricky’s?

      • Why had Mark always been mature? What evidence do we have to support this opinion?

      • Why was Mark saving the lawyer’s life? Why couldn’t he just leave the place? Who do you think wiser in this case – Mark or Ricky?

      • What was the suicider thinking about sitting alone in his car? Describe the scene.

      • How do you understand the phrase: “…hoping he would pull the trigger and hoping he wouldn’t”? (p. 15)

      • What is Romey’s story? Why does he want to die?

Chapter 2

  1. Explain the meaning of the following words and expressions in English:

  • slick suits;

  • the feds;

  • to wire the office;

  • bugging devices;

  • a mobster;

  • to indict smb.

2) Try to answer these questions applying your skills for analysis and synthesis:

    • Give the Blade’s portrait. What epithets and similes help to create the certain effect upon the reader?

    • What did a delay mean for the Blade? Why did he need it so much?

Chapter 3

  1. Explain the meaning of the following words and expressions in English:

  • “his late friend Mr. Romey”;

  • paramedics;

  • a stretcher

  1. Try to answer these questions applying your skills for analysis and synthesis:

    • Why have we all started worrying about Ricky’s state? What unusual symptoms is he showing?

- What weak points has Mark got beginning with his call to 911? What questions appeared to be difficult and provocative for Mark and why?

Chapter 8

  1. Explain the meaning of the following words and expressions in English:

  • to chat away in baby talk;

  • to blurt smth. out;

  • (some event or thought) sends chills over smb.;

  • a foldaway bed;

  • medical malpractice case;

  • a legal pad

  1. Answer the following questions:

- Why didn't Mark call the police and say where the body was?

    • What made Mark believe Reggie? What non-typical features and qualities for a lawyer and a woman of her age did she possess?

    • Why didn’t Reggie want to know where the body was?

Chapter 9

  1. Explain the meaning of the following words and expressions in English:

* to be at one’s beck and call;

* to get along with smb.;

* to ponder smth;

* to handle smth;

* to frisk smb;

* to pass for smb. (e.g. for twins);

* obstruction of justice

  1. Answer the following questions:

    • What kind of person was Willis Upchurch? What common features with Foltrigg did he possess?

    • What is the strategy called “good guy – bad guy”?

    • What is the Fifth Amendment? What are “Miranda rights”?

    • What was Reggie’s tactics from the very beginning?

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