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Вопрос id:1424733
According to Kathleen, all the women in her family were beautiful as girls, but they …
?) never lived to a great age
?) began to lose their looks at the age of fifty
?) went off early, they went brown and nosey
?) 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
?) it made him feel useful
?) 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 …
?) 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
?) fifty
?) two hundred
?) one hundred
?) seventy
Вопрос id:1424737
According to Trevor’s plan, Mr. Thomas must have been stuck in …
?) the cellar
?) the kitchen
?) the barn
?) the loo
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
?) leading articles in a local newspaper
?) a paragraph in the Beira newspaper
?) a gossip column in a local weekly
Вопрос id:1424739
After Needle’s death Kathleen said that Needle was lucky because …
?) 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
?) she never had enemies but friends
Вопрос id:1424740
After Skinny had fallen ill, he was sent to a …
?) rest home in France
?) private hospital in Birmingham
?) sanatorium in Switzerland
?) nursing home in Glasgow
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
?) their friends managed to make them change their minds and keep the baby
?) they told the priest they would try to have another baby
Вопрос id:1424742
Apart from George, … was grilled by the police in connection with the murder:
?) Skinny
?) Kathleen
?) the byreman
?) 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 …
?) Raymond had a course of injections
?) Lou was operated on at once
?) Lou had a course of injections
?) they both had to take medicines
Вопрос id:1424744
Before her marriage Lou had been a …
?) singer
?) nurse
?) stewardess
?) pianist
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 …
?) hell
?) a piece of advice how to raise a family
?) all her next week’s housekeeping money
?) her hat, bag and gloves
Вопрос id:1424747
Blackie asked Trevor if he hated Mr. Thomas a lot, because …
?) Trevor said Mr. Thomas was his bitter enemy
?) Trevor said the moment he destroyed his money was the happiest moment in his life
?) 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
Вопрос id:1424748
Blackie did not leave the gang because …
?) Trevor asked him to stay
?) Mike said that if Blackie left the gang he would follow him
?) 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:
?) housebreakers
?) burglars
?) craftsmen
?) builders
Вопрос id:1424750
Blackie said that nobody would pinch things from Mr. Thomas’ house, because …
?) he didn’t want any court stuff
?) he didn’t need Mr. Thomas’ things
?) he felt a sympathy for Mr. Thomas
?) Mr. Thomas promised to give Blackie his gold watch
Вопрос id:1424751
Blackie was anxious …
?) to humiliate Trevor’s pride
?) to retain Trevor in the gang if he could
?) to get rid of Trevor as soon as possible
?) 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:
?) loyalty
?) brotherhood
?) obedience
?) leadership
Вопрос id:1424753
By the time Trevor arrived at the meeting, the boys had voted for …
?) daylight robbery
?) burglary
?) theft from the nearest supermarket
?) free rides
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:
?) loved
?) known
?) hated
?) respected
Вопрос id:1424756
During the war Kathleen had been engaged to …
?) a French soldier, who refused to marry her after the war
?) a Scotch man, who broke off the engagement after the war
?) an English colonel, who left her
?) an officer in the U.S. navy, who was killed
Вопрос id:1424757
Elizabeth lived in …
?) London
?) Newcastle upon Tyne
?) Glasgow
?) Belfast
Вопрос id:1424758
Elizabeth was a …
?) divorced woman
?) deserted wife
?) cheated wife
?) widow
Вопрос id:1424759
Elizabeth’s letters were …
?) long, interesting and well-written
?) dull, little and almost illiterate
?) business-like
?) interesting, funny and very detailed
Вопрос id:1424760
Everyone kept telling Needle she was …
?) extremely beautiful
?) a woman with delicate taste, mind and style
?) lucky
?) 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
?) being rude to Matilda
?) not inviting him to her twenty-first birthday
Вопрос id:1424762
George and Matilda had … children:
?) four
?) two
?) three
?) five
Вопрос id:1424763
George could not divorce Matilda, because …
?) she was Catholic and would not have divorced him
?) he was very fond of their children
?) his uncle told him if he divorced Matilda, he would cross out George’s name off his will
?) he felt sorry for Matilda
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 made acquaintance with Needle
?) 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
?) he was madly in love with her
?) Matilda had told him she would commit a suicide if he didn’t marry her
?) she was rich and could help him to develop his business
Вопрос id:1424766
George kept a … in Durban:
?) furniture shop
?) tourist agency
?) nightclub
?) restaurant
Вопрос id:1424767
George killed Needle because …
?) she told him, if he proposed to Kathleen she would write to Matilda about it
?) 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
Вопрос id:1424768
George married Matilda in …
?) Congo
?) Zimbabwe
?) London
?) Paris
Вопрос id:1424769
George treated Matilda as a …
?) queen
?) servant
?) slave
?) princess
Вопрос id:1424770
George was always desperately afraid of …
?) hard work
?) neglect
?) Skinny
?) his cousin
Вопрос id:1424771
George was taken to a nursing home, because he …
?) tried to commit a suicide
?) began to call his wife “Needle”
?) tried to make Kathleen move into a new flat in the Portobello Road
?) insisted on seeing Needle in the Portobello Road
Вопрос id:1424772
George went to Africa …
?) because he was engaged with a party of researchers to investigate King Solomon’s mines
?) to join his uncle’s farm
?) to take part in the local war
?) to grow rice, wool and furs
Вопрос id:1424773
George went to the police and gave himself up after …
?) he had seen Needle in the Portobello Road
?) Kathleen had made him do it
?) Skinny had begun to suspect him of the murder
?) he had had a sensation that he was under police’s suspicion
Вопрос id:1424774
George’s old cousin was …
?) a bit hazy in her head
?) dumb
?) stricken with paralysis
?) deaf
Вопрос id:1424775
George’s uncle had a … farm in Africa:
?) tobacco
?) crocodile
?) poultry
?) milk
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 …
?) Uruguay
?) Jamaica
?) the United States of America
?) Congo
Вопрос id:1424778
Henry Pierce and Oxford St. John were taken on at the …
?) Electricity Board
?) paper mills
?) motor works
?) Odeon
Вопрос id:1424779
Henry was desirous of …
?) glory and power
?) power and fame
?) knowledge in all fields
?) success
Вопрос id:1424780
Henry was … years old:
?) thirty
?) twenty-four
?) nineteen
?) thirty-five
Вопрос id:1424781
In Mr. Thomas’ opinion, horoscopes spoke …
?) in parables and double meanings
?) clearly
?) in incomprehensible way
?) laconically without double meanings
Вопрос id:1424782
It was Trevor who suggested the gang should … Mr. Thomas’ house:
?) whitewash
?) rob
?) repair
?) pull down
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