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Вопрос id:1424733
According to Kathleen, all the women in her family were beautiful as girls, but they …
?) became even more beautiful as they were elderly
?) began to lose their looks at the age of fifty
?) went off early, they went brown and nosey
?) never lived to a great age
Вопрос id:1424734
According to Kathleen, George spent a long time in her shop, because…
?) it made him feel useful
?) she wanted him to become her dormant partner
?) she needed his help badly
?) he didn’t want her to spend too much time with Needle and Skinny
Вопрос id:1424735
According to Mr. Thomas’ horoscope, he should …
?) not have left his house on Monday and Tuesday
?) have been careful of his health in the first half of that month
?) have abstained from any dealings in the first half of that week
?) not have invited anyone to his house in the first half of the next week
Вопрос id:1424736
According to Trevor, Mr. Thomas’ house had a staircase … years old
?) two hundred
?) seventy
?) fifty
?) one hundred
Вопрос id:1424737
According to Trevor’s plan, Mr. Thomas must have been stuck in …
?) the kitchen
?) the loo
?) the cellar
?) the barn
Вопрос id:1424738
After leaving the band of archaeologists, Needle was able to live on the fee she got for writing …
?) leading articles in a local newspaper
?) a gossip column in a local weekly
?) 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 …
?) 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
?) she never had enemies but friends
?) all her Rhodesian friends came to attend at her funeral
Вопрос id:1424740
After Skinny had fallen ill, he was sent to a …
?) rest home in France
?) private hospital in Birmingham
?) nursing home in Glasgow
?) sanatorium in Switzerland
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
?) their friends managed to make them change their minds and keep the baby
?) Lou suggested they should go to the United States
Вопрос id:1424742
Apart from George, … was grilled by the police in connection with the murder:
?) Skinny
?) Kathleen
?) George’s uncle
?) the byreman
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
?) Raymond had a course of injections
?) Lou had a course of injections
?) Lou was operated on at once
Вопрос id:1424744
Before her marriage Lou had been a …
?) stewardess
?) singer
?) pianist
?) nurse
Вопрос id:1424745
Before his departure Oxford promised to write to the Parkers …
?) but they never heard from him
?) but he only sent them a couple of telegrams
?) and he kept his promise
?) but instead of writing, he phoned them twice a week
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 he would not leave Mr. Thomas alone until he died
?) 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 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
?) he believed in Trevor’s plan
?) Trevor asked him to stay
?) he hated Trevor and tried to do everything to make Trevor leave the gang
Вопрос id:1424749
Blackie said he had seen … at work:
?) craftsmen
?) burglars
?) housebreakers
?) builders
Вопрос id:1424750
Blackie said that nobody would pinch things from Mr. Thomas’ house, because …
?) Mr. Thomas promised to give Blackie his gold watch
?) he didn’t want any court stuff
?) he didn’t need Mr. Thomas’ things
?) he felt a sympathy for Mr. Thomas
Вопрос id:1424751
Blackie was anxious …
?) to retain Trevor in the gang if he could
?) to humiliate Trevor’s pride
?) to make Trevor speak in the humblest accents
?) to get rid of Trevor as soon as possible
Вопрос id:1424752
By the end of the destruction the question of … no longer concerned the gang:
?) obedience
?) brotherhood
?) leadership
?) loyalty
Вопрос id:1424753
By the time Trevor arrived at the meeting, the boys had voted for …
?) free rides
?) daylight robbery
?) theft from the nearest supermarket
?) burglary
Вопрос id:1424754
Describing Mr. Thomas’ house, Trevor told the boys that the house was …
?) beautiful
?) very cold
?) 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
?) respected
?) loved
?) known
Вопрос id:1424756
During the war Kathleen had been engaged to …
?) an English colonel, who left her
?) an officer in the U.S. navy, who was killed
?) 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 …
?) London
?) Newcastle upon Tyne
?) Glasgow
?) Belfast
Вопрос id:1424758
Elizabeth was a …
?) divorced woman
?) cheated wife
?) widow
?) deserted wife
Вопрос id:1424759
Elizabeth’s letters were …
?) interesting, funny and very detailed
?) business-like
?) dull, little and almost illiterate
?) long, interesting and well-written
Вопрос id:1424760
Everyone kept telling Needle she was …
?) a woman with delicate taste, mind and style
?) extremely beautiful
?) lucky
?) the smartiest woman in the would
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:
?) four
?) five
?) three
?) 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 married Matilda
?) had made acquaintance with Needle
?) had killed Needle
?) had proposed to Kathleen
Вопрос id:1424765
George explained to Needle that he had married Matilda, because …
?) he was madly in love with her
?) 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
?) she was rich and could help him to develop his business
Вопрос id:1424766
George kept a … in Durban:
?) tourist agency
?) nightclub
?) restaurant
?) furniture shop
Вопрос id:1424767
George killed Needle because …
?) 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
?) he did not want her to marry Skinny
?) she told him, if he proposed to Kathleen she would write to Matilda about it
Вопрос id:1424768
George married Matilda in …
?) London
?) Congo
?) Zimbabwe
?) Paris
Вопрос id:1424769
George treated Matilda as a …
?) princess
?) slave
?) queen
?) servant
Вопрос id:1424770
George was always desperately afraid of …
?) his cousin
?) neglect
?) Skinny
?) hard work
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
?) because he was engaged with a party of researchers to investigate King Solomon’s mines
?) to join his uncle’s farm
?) to grow rice, wool and furs
Вопрос id:1424773
George went to the police and gave himself up after …
?) Kathleen had made him do it
?) 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
Вопрос id:1424774
George’s old cousin was …
?) stricken with paralysis
?) dumb
?) deaf
?) a bit hazy in her head
Вопрос id:1424775
George’s uncle had a … farm in Africa:
?) crocodile
?) milk
?) poultry
?) tobacco
Вопрос id:1424776
Graham Greene’s life was …
?) happy but short
?) short but comfortable
?) hard and unusual
?) unhappy and short
Вопрос id:1424777
Henry Pierce and Oxford St. John came from …
?) the United States of America
?) Uruguay
?) Congo
?) Jamaica
Вопрос id:1424778
Henry Pierce and Oxford St. John were taken on at the …
?) motor works
?) paper mills
?) Odeon
?) Electricity Board
Вопрос id:1424779
Henry was desirous of …
?) knowledge in all fields
?) glory and power
?) power and fame
?) success
Вопрос id:1424780
Henry was … years old:
?) nineteen
?) thirty
?) twenty-four
?) thirty-five
Вопрос id:1424781
In Mr. Thomas’ opinion, horoscopes spoke …
?) laconically without double meanings
?) clearly
?) in incomprehensible way
?) in parables and double meanings
Вопрос id:1424782
It was Trevor who suggested the gang should … Mr. Thomas’ house:
?) pull down
?) repair
?) rob
?) whitewash
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