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Assignment to Chapter 9: Concerning Mr. Bassington-
ffrench

1. Find answers to the following questions.
1. What does Frankie ask her father about?
2. Where does Frankie go and visit?
3. Who receives Frankie?
4. What does the agent tell Frankie?
5. How does she discover his address?
6. She says that it must be his cousin, not her friend. Why did she say
this? What does Frankie think of all this?
7. What is wrong still?
8. Who does Frankie visit next?
9. What does she ask Inspector Williams about? She says that she
heard there were three, is it true?
10. How does Frankie find out what was in Alex’s pockets?
11. What else does Frankie speak with Inspector Williams about?

2. Pay attention to the following notes to understand the text better.
 Tomfoolery (p. 40): foolish behaviour; silliness; nonsense
 Esq. (p. 42): short for esquire
 Acknowledgment (p. 43): recognition or favourable reception of
an act or achievement
 Homicidal maniac (p. 43): somebody who kills another

3. Make sure to know the following items:
to enjoy contradicting, to spring up, property, clear and aboveboard,
tracking down, to exaggerate, vicinity.

4. Find the English equivalents. Use them in your own sentences or in their
context:
прагнути, спадкоємиця, задумливість, докори сумління,
грабувати, передбачливий, признання.