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Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The song made him awfully sad. Dora was in the back parlor having a cup of tea when William came in. She said, "What's the matter, you sick?"

"No," said William. "But what's the percentage? I feel ___. I think I'll bump myself off."

Dora had handled plenty of neurotics in her time. Kid 'em out of it was her motto. "Well, do it on your own time and don't mess up the rugs," she said

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Lee ___. He knew it didn't matter what he charged. He wasn't going to get it anyway. He might just as well make it a really sturdy face-saving sum. "Fi' dolla' week," said Lee.

Mack played it through to the end. "I'll have to talk to the boys about it," he said dubiously

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Lee's finger came to a gentle rest on the change mat. He was ___. He knew that. There was left to him only the possibility of saving face and Mack was likely to be very generous about that. Lee said, "You like pay lent my place? You like live there same hotel?"

Mack smiled broadly and he was generous

Choose the right preposition: "Don't you know you can't lay around here? You got to get off. This is private property!"

The soldiers did not even seem to hear him They smiled on and the girls were stroking their hair over the temples. At last ... slow motion one of the soldiers turned his head so that his cheek was cradled between the girl's legs

Choose the right preposition: "You look done in," Dora said.

"I am," Doc admitted. "I haven't had any sleep for about a week."

"I know," said Dora. "I hear it's bad. Comes ... a bad time too."

Choose the right preposition: He smiled benevolently at the caretaker. "Why don't you take a flying fuggut the moon?" he said kindly and he turned back to look ___ the girl.

The sun lighted her blonde hair and she scratched him over one ear. They didn't even see the caretaker go back to his house

Choose the right preposition: Mack and the boys and the captain sat down ___ the ground to have one last short one and to map their campaign. And the plan was bold.

During the millennia that frogs and men have lived in the same world, it is probable that men have hunted frogs.

Choose the right preposition: Mack said, "He give me that jug ___ whiskey, didn't he? You heard him?"

"Sure he did," said Eddie. "I heard him."

"And he give me a pup?"

"Sure, pick of the litter. We all heard him

Choose the right preposition: The medical profession was very busy, and besides, Cannery Row was not considered a very good financial risk.

Now Doc ... the Western Biological Laboratory had no right to practice medicine

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: "Good," said Mack. "I knew Doc could (to depend) on you. I'll get Gay right to work on that truck." He turned about to leave. "By the way," he said. "Doc's paying us five cents apiece for those frogs. We're going to get seven or eight hundred. How about taking a pint of Old Tennis Shoes just 'til we can get back with the frogs?"

"No!" said Lee Chong.

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: "No," said Doc. "I (to tell) you. I have to drive to La Jolla tonight to make tomorrow's tide."

"Oh," said Mack dispiritedly. "Oh. Well, don't you worry about it, Doc. Maybe we can get Lee Chong's old truck."

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Doc's got to go south and I and the boys said we'd (to help) him out. I think a guy's friends ought to help him out of a hole when they can, especially a nice guy like Doc. Why I bet he spends sixty seventy dollars a month with you."

Lee Chong remained silent and watchful. His fat finger barely moved on the change mat but it flicked slightly like a tense cat's tail.

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Lee put back his head so that he could see Mack through his half-glasses. There didn't seem to be anything wrong with the proposition. The truck really wouldn't (to run). Gay really was a good mechanic and the order for gasoline was definite evidence of good faith.

"How long you be gone?" Lee asked.

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Mack plunged into his thesis. "Will you let us (to take) your old truck to go up Carmel Valley for frogs for Doc – for good old Doc?"

Lee Chong smiled in triumph. "Tluck no good," he said. "Bloke down."

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Mack said, "Doc, it's my own invention but I'll (to tell) you because you're a good friend. You make a big wire trap and then you don't use bait. You see – well – you use a lady cat. Catch every God damn tom cat in the country that way."

From the laboratory Mack crossed the street and went through the swinging screen doors into Lee Chong's grocery.

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Mack was smiling broadly. "Doc," he (to say), "you can get to sleep tonight and not even give frogs a thought. We'll have piss pots full of them by the time you get back."

Doc watched him go a little uneasily. Doc's dealings with Mack and the boys had always been interesting but rarely had they been profitable to Doc. He remembered ruefully the time Mack sold him fifteen tom cats and by night the owners came and got every one. "Mack," he had asked, "why all tom cats?"

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: The intestine was in the sand where the dog had (to abandon) it.

Then the French doctor was made to collect the parts. He was forced to wash them reverently and pick out as much sand as possible.

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: They walked on together and Mr. Carriaga told about the little boy and the dog.

At the Adobe Bar a number of citizens (to be) gathered for their morning conversation

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Without much discussion a committee formed made up of everyone there. The stern men walked quickly to the gulch and across the foot bridge and they hammered on the door of the doctor who (to have) studied in France.

He had worked late.

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Steinbeck’s grandfather (from his father’s side) was russian B) Steinbeck with his wife were finally able to travel to Italy

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

А) Steinbeck’s father worked in California

В) In California Steinbeck worked as a painter

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) After leaving New York, Steinbeck traveled back to California

B) John Steinbeck studied and received his degree

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) After leaving New York, Steinbeck traveled back to Moscow

B) Steinbeck’s first work was published in a university magazine

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) After many years of hard work Steinbeck with his wife were finally able to travel to Finland

B) Cannery Row a tone

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) After many years of hard work Steinbeck with his wife were finally able to travel to Ireland

B) John Steinbeck studied from 1919 to 1965

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) After many years of hard work Steinbeck with his wife were finally able to travel to such places as England

B) John Steinbeck studied in MUH (SGA)

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) After many years of hard work Steinbeck with his wife were finally able to travel to such places as Haiti

B) After many years of hard work Steinbeck with his wife were finally able to travel to Scotland

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) After many years of hard work Steinbeck with his wife were finally able to travel to Sweden

B) Steinbeck never received the Pulitzer Prize

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) As a journalist for a New York newspaper John Steinbeck was fired

B) John Steinbeck studied with long intervals in between classes

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) As a journalist for a New York newspaper John Steinbeck was imprisoned

B) Steinbeck’s last work was published after his death

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Cannery Row a dogma

B) Cannery Row is the gathered and lost

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Cannery Row a habit

B) Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a song

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Cannery Row a nostalgia

B) Cannery Row is tin, pin and bin

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Cannery Row a quality of fight

B) Cannery Row a dream

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Cannery Row a quality of light

B) Cannery Row a power

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Cannery Row a ringtone

B) Cannery Row is weedy lots and junk heaps

Which of the two assertions were truly made by the author and which are made up?

A) Cannery Row a tone

B) Cannery Row a box of chocolate