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Assignment to Chapter 1: The Accident

1. Find answers to the following questions.
1. How does the story open?
2. What does Bobby think he hears?
3. Did Dr. Thomas hear anything?
4. Describe the setting where Bobby thought he heard the cry.
5. How does Bobby find the body?
6. What does Dr. Thomas think?
7. What happens when Bobby stays with the body?

2. Pay attention to the following notes to understand the text better.
 Club (p. 5): a stick or bat used to hit a ball in golf and other games
 Fairway (p. 5): the part of the golf course between the greens and
putting tees
 Bunker (p. 5): a golf course hazard that is an area of sand-covered
bare ground with one or more embankments
 Green (p. 5): part of the golf course
 Niblick (p. 5): a heavy, iron-headed golf club
 Teed his ball (p. 5): to put the golf ball on a tee, the tee holds the
ball off the grass
 Slice (p. 5): to take a poor swing, cutting down into the grass
 Hacks (p. 6): slang term for a golfer who has slices
 Distinctly (p. 6): separate from all others, different
 Embedded (p. 6): to fix or enclose tightly in a surrounding mass
 Abyss (p. 6): a deep crack or gap
 Drop was sheer… (p. 6): a drop that is very steep, almost
perpendicular
 Scramble (p. 6): to move very quickly, with panic
 Ominous (p. 7): foreshadowed by an omen or by a presentiment of
evil, threatening
 His number’s up (p. 7): slang phrase for saying he is dead, he died