Exercise 12. Find the answers to the questions in the text.

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1. What is Mark Twain’s real name?

2. How old was he when his father died?

3. What was the happiest period of his life?

4. What are his best-known novels? Who are they about?

5. What was Mark Twain to do at Salamanca, New York?

6. What were all the people doing on the platform?

7. Why couldn’t the local official give Mark Twain a berth in a sleeping-car?

8. Why was Mark Twain hurt by the official’s answer?

9. Why did Mark Twain’s companion advise him to put up with things?

10. What Mark Twain’s companion said didn’t improve the writer’s condition, did it?

11. How did Mark Twain realize that he was being talked about?

12. The uniformed conductor was polite to Mark Twain, wasn’t he? What did he say to the writer?

13. What kind of compartment did the conductor put at Mark Twain’s disposal?

14. In what way did the porter make Mark Twain and his companion comfortable there?

15. How did Mark Twain explain the change of the conductor’s and the porter’s attitude to him?

16. Was the conductor’s attitude to Mark Twain the result of his respect for the great writer?

Exercise 13. Correct the following statements. Begin with I’m afraid that’s wrong / that’s not quite true / as far as I know / on the contrary / I don’t think so / according to the story.

1. The young man in the booking-office gave Mark Twain a sleeping-berth.

2. The local official at Salamanca railway station was very polite to Mark Twain.

3. Neither the conductor nor the porter took any notice of Mark Twain while he was talking to his companion.

4. The conductor at last gave Mark Twain a poor little corner in a sleeper which was already packed.

5. Mark Twain had to get hot water and fix a better lamp at the head of my bed himself.

6. When Mark Twain asked the porter, “Who am I?” the young man answered that he had recognized the great writer the moment he set his eyes on him because he liked his books very much.

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