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