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Assignment to Chapter 14: Dr. Nicholson

1. Find answers to the following questions.
1. Why does Frankie pretend that she has met Alan Carstairs?
2. Does she receive any additional information?
3. Who had Carstairs been travelling with?
4. Why does Frankie think Alan Carstairs was the real victim that fell
off the cliff?
5. Why was Frankie trying to be discreet in her questioning? Who
came to visit that day at the house?
6. What was Dr. Nicholson like? What was his wife like?
7. What did Frankie speak with Dr. Nicholson about?
8. Was Henry at dinner?
9. Why does Dr. Nicholson ask Frankie about culture?
10. What is Mrs. Nicholson’s first name?
11. What does Dr. Nicholson bring up about the car accident that he
thinks is odd?
12. How does he know this?
13. Why did Frankie think Dr. Nicholson was a sinister man?
14. What did Frankie notice about Mrs. Nicholson?
15. What does Frankie say when Roger asks her about the
Nicholson’s?
16. What does Sylvia say about Dr. Nicholson’s?
17. Did Dr. Nicholson come to Tommy’s birthday party?
18. What did Frankie do before she went to bed?

2. Pay attention to the following notes to understand the text better.
 Fatal (p. 62): fateful, deceasing; causing death
 Bust it up (p. 63): to break, smash; to bring to an end
 Twitched (p. 65): to move or pull with a sudden motion
 Next to nothing (p. 65): not any thing; no thing
 Catechize (p. 65): to teach systematically, esp. by using question
and answer