Exercise 11. Find the answers to the questions in the text.

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1. What universities did Jake Allsop graduate from?

2. What language did he teach? Where did he teach it?

3. What had Mandini already invented?

4. Had any of his inventions made him rich and famous?

5. Why did he think of mousetraps one morning?

6. What had Mandini been using a mousetrap for?

7. How long did it take Mandini to design his own mousetrap? What happened to Mandini during that time?

8. What was in the cardboard box?

9. How does the mouse get to the balcony?

10. What does it see on the floor below?

11. What is set into the top of the balustrade?

12. How is the mouse supposed to be killed in the Mandini Mark I mousetrap?

13. What three things, according to the Patent Officer, were wrong with the Mark I mousetrap?

14. How long did it take Mandini to produce a new design?

15. Was it different from the Mandini Mousetrap Mark I? What was the same? What was different?

Exercise 12. 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. Mandini was rich and famous.

2. Mandini put a box with a mouse on the Patent Officer’s desk.

3. Mandini was not proud of his invention.

4. The Patent Officer understood immediately how the mousetrap works.

5. The Mandini Mousetrap Mark I was a simple device.

6. The Patent Officer liked the Mandini Mousetrap Mark I.

7. The Patent Officer understood at once how the new mousetrap works.

8. The Mandini Mousetrap Mark II was absolutely different from the Mandini Mousetrap I.

9. The Mandini Mousetrap Mark II was not cruel.

10. Soon Mandini invented the Mandini Mousetrap III.

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