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Вопрос id:1424733
According to Kathleen, all the women in her family were beautiful as girls, but they …
?) went off early, they went brown and nosey
?) became even more beautiful as they were elderly
?) never lived to a great age
?) began to lose their looks at the age of fifty
Вопрос id:1424734
According to Kathleen, George spent a long time in her shop, because…
?) she wanted him to become her dormant partner
?) he didn’t want her to spend too much time with Needle and Skinny
?) she needed his help badly
?) it made him feel useful
Вопрос id:1424735
According to Mr. Thomas’ horoscope, he should …
?) have been careful of his health in the first half of that month
?) not have left his house on Monday and Tuesday
?) not have invited anyone to his house in the first half of the next week
?) have abstained from any dealings in the first half of that week
Вопрос id:1424736
According to Trevor, Mr. Thomas’ house had a staircase … years old
?) seventy
?) one hundred
?) two hundred
?) fifty
Вопрос id:1424737
According to Trevor’s plan, Mr. Thomas must have been stuck in …
?) the kitchen
?) the loo
?) the barn
?) the cellar
Вопрос id:1424738
After leaving the band of archaeologists, Needle was able to live on the fee she got for writing …
?) current and foreign news in a local weekly
?) a gossip column in a local weekly
?) a paragraph in the Beira newspaper
?) leading articles in a local newspaper
Вопрос id:1424739
After Needle’s death Kathleen said that Needle was lucky because …
?) she never had enemies but friends
?) all her Rhodesian friends came to attend at her funeral
?) after the funeral Skinny vowed obedience and promises to find her murderer sooner or later
?) she had been at Confession only the day before she died
Вопрос id:1424740
After Skinny had fallen ill, he was sent to a …
?) nursing home in Glasgow
?) private hospital in Birmingham
?) rest home in France
?) sanatorium in Switzerland
Вопрос id:1424741
After the Parkers had decided to send their child to the adoption society …
?) Lou suggested they should go to the United States
?) Raymond got a transfer to London
?) they told the priest they would try to have another baby
?) their friends managed to make them change their minds and keep the baby
Вопрос id:1424742
Apart from George, … was grilled by the police in connection with the murder:
?) George’s uncle
?) Skinny
?) the byreman
?) Kathleen
Вопрос id:1424743
At the beginning of their marriage, being worried about not having children, the Parkers had submitted themselves to medical tests as a result of which …
?) they both had to take medicines
?) Lou was operated on at once
?) Lou had a course of injections
?) Raymond had a course of injections
Вопрос id:1424744
Before her marriage Lou had been a …
?) nurse
?) pianist
?) singer
?) stewardess
Вопрос id:1424745
Before his departure Oxford promised to write to the Parkers …
?) but he only sent them a couple of telegrams
?) but instead of writing, he phoned them twice a week
?) and he kept his promise
?) but they never heard from him
Вопрос id:1424746
Before Lou left Elizabeth’s house, she had given Elizabeth …
?) her hat, bag and gloves
?) a piece of advice how to raise a family
?) hell
?) all her next week’s housekeeping money
Вопрос id:1424747
Blackie asked Trevor if he hated Mr. Thomas a lot, because …
?) Trevor said he would not leave Mr. Thomas alone until he died
?) destroying Mr. Thomas’ savings Trevor said he would have liked to see his face when they were through
?) Trevor said the moment he destroyed his money was the happiest moment in his life
?) Trevor said Mr. Thomas was his bitter enemy
Вопрос id:1424748
Blackie did not leave the gang because …
?) Trevor asked him to stay
?) he believed in Trevor’s plan
?) he hated Trevor and tried to do everything to make Trevor leave the gang
?) Mike said that if Blackie left the gang he would follow him
Вопрос id:1424749
Blackie said he had seen … at work:
?) burglars
?) builders
?) craftsmen
?) housebreakers
Вопрос id:1424750
Blackie said that nobody would pinch things from Mr. Thomas’ house, because …
?) he didn’t want any court stuff
?) Mr. Thomas promised to give Blackie his gold watch
?) he felt a sympathy for Mr. Thomas
?) he didn’t need Mr. Thomas’ things
Вопрос id:1424751
Blackie was anxious …
?) to humiliate Trevor’s pride
?) to get rid of Trevor as soon as possible
?) to retain Trevor in the gang if he could
?) to make Trevor speak in the humblest accents
Вопрос id:1424752
By the end of the destruction the question of … no longer concerned the gang:
?) leadership
?) loyalty
?) brotherhood
?) obedience
Вопрос id:1424753
By the time Trevor arrived at the meeting, the boys had voted for …
?) free rides
?) theft from the nearest supermarket
?) daylight robbery
?) burglary
Вопрос id:1424754
Describing Mr. Thomas’ house, Trevor told the boys that the house was …
?) unfitted with dressers
?) strange
?) beautiful
?) very cold
Вопрос id:1424755
Destroying Mr. Thomas’ savings Trevor told Blackie there would have been no fun if he had … Mr. Thomas:
?) known
?) hated
?) respected
?) loved
Вопрос id:1424756
During the war Kathleen had been engaged to …
?) an officer in the U.S. navy, who was killed
?) an English colonel, who left her
?) a French soldier, who refused to marry her after the war
?) a Scotch man, who broke off the engagement after the war
Вопрос id:1424757
Elizabeth lived in …
?) Belfast
?) London
?) Glasgow
?) Newcastle upon Tyne
Вопрос id:1424758
Elizabeth was a …
?) divorced woman
?) widow
?) cheated wife
?) deserted wife
Вопрос id:1424759
Elizabeth’s letters were …
?) dull, little and almost illiterate
?) long, interesting and well-written
?) interesting, funny and very detailed
?) business-like
Вопрос id:1424760
Everyone kept telling Needle she was …
?) extremely beautiful
?) lucky
?) a woman with delicate taste, mind and style
?) the smartiest woman in the would
Вопрос id:1424761
George accused Needle of …
?) believing all the gossip she heard about Matilda
?) smoking too much and drinking hot Scotch
?) not inviting him to her twenty-first birthday
?) being rude to Matilda
Вопрос id:1424762
George and Matilda had … children:
?) two
?) three
?) four
?) five
Вопрос id:1424763
George could not divorce Matilda, because …
?) he was very fond of their children
?) he felt sorry for Matilda
?) she was Catholic and would not have divorced him
?) his uncle told him if he divorced Matilda, he would cross out George’s name off his will
Вопрос id:1424764
George could see Needle in the Portobello Road on Saturdays, because Saturday was the day when he …
?) had killed Needle
?) had made acquaintance with Needle
?) had married Matilda
?) had proposed to Kathleen
Вопрос id:1424765
George explained to Needle that he had married Matilda, because …
?) she had insisted on the marriage and he needed the woman
?) Matilda had told him she would commit a suicide if he didn’t marry her
?) he was madly in love with her
?) she was rich and could help him to develop his business
Вопрос id:1424766
George kept a … in Durban:
?) restaurant
?) furniture shop
?) tourist agency
?) nightclub
Вопрос id:1424767
George killed Needle because …
?) he did not want her to marry Skinny
?) she wanted to tell Skinny about George’s first marriage
?) she told him if Kathleen intended to marry him, she would tell her that he had been already married
?) she told him, if he proposed to Kathleen she would write to Matilda about it
Вопрос id:1424768
George married Matilda in …
?) London
?) Congo
?) Paris
?) Zimbabwe
Вопрос id:1424769
George treated Matilda as a …
?) princess
?) slave
?) servant
?) queen
Вопрос id:1424770
George was always desperately afraid of …
?) neglect
?) his cousin
?) hard work
?) Skinny
Вопрос id:1424771
George was taken to a nursing home, because he …
?) insisted on seeing Needle in the Portobello Road
?) tried to make Kathleen move into a new flat in the Portobello Road
?) tried to commit a suicide
?) began to call his wife “Needle”
Вопрос id:1424772
George went to Africa …
?) to take part in the local war
?) to join his uncle’s farm
?) to grow rice, wool and furs
?) because he was engaged with a party of researchers to investigate King Solomon’s mines
Вопрос id:1424773
George went to the police and gave himself up after …
?) he had seen Needle in the Portobello Road
?) he had had a sensation that he was under police’s suspicion
?) Kathleen had made him do it
?) Skinny had begun to suspect him of the murder
Вопрос id:1424774
George’s old cousin was …
?) a bit hazy in her head
?) dumb
?) deaf
?) stricken with paralysis
Вопрос id:1424775
George’s uncle had a … farm in Africa:
?) crocodile
?) milk
?) poultry
?) tobacco
Вопрос id:1424776
Graham Greene’s life was …
?) unhappy and short
?) hard and unusual
?) happy but short
?) short but comfortable
Вопрос id:1424777
Henry Pierce and Oxford St. John came from …
?) Congo
?) the United States of America
?) Uruguay
?) Jamaica
Вопрос id:1424778
Henry Pierce and Oxford St. John were taken on at the …
?) Electricity Board
?) Odeon
?) paper mills
?) motor works
Вопрос id:1424779
Henry was desirous of …
?) glory and power
?) success
?) power and fame
?) knowledge in all fields
Вопрос id:1424780
Henry was … years old:
?) nineteen
?) twenty-four
?) thirty-five
?) thirty
Вопрос id:1424781
In Mr. Thomas’ opinion, horoscopes spoke …
?) clearly
?) laconically without double meanings
?) in incomprehensible way
?) in parables and double meanings
Вопрос id:1424782
It was Trevor who suggested the gang should … Mr. Thomas’ house:
?) repair
?) pull down
?) whitewash
?) rob
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