Exercise 10. Find the answers to the questions in the text.

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Exercise 10. Find the answers to the questions in the text.

1. What was the pseudonym under which H.H. Munro published his short stories?

2. What kind of stories is he best known for?

3. How many children were there in a compartment?

4. Did they know the man who occupied the opposite corner seat?

5. What was the word which the aunt repeated over and over again?

6. Was the aunt a good story-teller? Was her story interesting?

7. Did the man think that it was a very difficult thing to tell stories that children can both understand and like?

8. Why did the children begin to lose interest in the man’s story?

9. Who was the story about?

10. What did Bertha wear on her dress?

11. How many medals did she have? Did any child in the town have more medals?

12. What did the Prince of the country allow her to do?

13. Who came into the park? Why?

14. What did the wolf do?

Exercise 11. Choose the correct variant to finish the sentence according to the story.

1. The aunt occupied …

a) the whole compartment;

b) two seats in the compartment;

c) one corner of the compartment seat.

2. The opposite corner seat was occupied by a man, who was …

a) their uncle;

b) a stranger to the party;

c) a very strange man.

3. She began a most uninteresting story about a little girl …

a) who was good;

b) who was eaten by a wolf;

c) had no friends.

4. When the man started telling his story the children though that …

a) it would be a different story;

b) all stories seemed to be the same;

c) all stories seemed to be about good little girls.

5. Bertha was so good …

a) that everybody wanted to make friends with her;

b) that wolves were afraid of her;

c) that she won several medals for goodness.

6. Just then a big wolf came into the park to see …

a) Bertha’s medals;

b) if it could catch a little pig for its supper;

c) it could catch Bertha.

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