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Assignment to Chapter 6: End of a Picnic
1. Find answers to the following questions.
1. Who did Bobby receive a letter from?
2. What is Bobby’s father’s reaction?
3. What is the second letter that Bobby receives regarding?
4. What does Mr. Jones think of this letter?
5. What does Bobby decide to do?
6. What does Frankie think of Bobby’s decision?
7. What does Bobby say when Frankie invites him to visit her in
London?
8. What does Frankie reply?
9. What does Bobby do after Frankie leaves?
10. Did Bobby think of Frankie?
11. What happens when Bobby is out?
2. Pay attention to the following notes to understand the text better.
Enthusiasm (p. 24): intense feeling for a cause, eagerness
Irresponsible (p. 25): lacking in responsibility, not accountable
Biased (p. 26): to act prejudicially, to slant or weigh rhetorically in
one direction
Assets (p. 26): a valuable quality or possession, the property of a
business that can be used to cover liabilities
Stammer (p. 27): to make involuntary halts or repletion of a sound
or syllable when speaking
Inferiority complex (p. 27): belief that you are lower in rank than
another
Condescend (p. 28): to speak to another as if they are below you,
to look down upon
Satisfaction (p. 29): anything which brings about a happy feeling,
the fulfilment of a need