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Assignment to Chapter 34: Letter from South
America

1. Find answers to the following questions.
1. Who did Frankie receive a letter from?
2. What had Moira been doing when Bassington-ffrench met her?
3. Why did Carstairs become involved?
4. Who killed Carstairs?
5. Who insisted Bobby must be “put out of the way”?
6. Who killed Henry? How?

2. Pay attention to the following notes to understand the text better.
 “wrong ‘un”(p. 154): wrong one
 Concoct (p. 155): to devise or plan
 Incredulous (p.155): unbelievable
 Tall stories (p. 157): exaggerated, almost unbelievable
 Knight-errantry (p. 157): behaving like a knight, gallantly

3. Make sure to know the following items:
a lapse, accomplished, immense, a snapshot, incredulous, vast, to
rattle, to wipe.

4. Find the English equivalents. Use them in your own sentences or in their
context:
злість, кмітливий, зневажливо висловлюватись, загроза, петарда,
характер.

5. Reproduce the situations where the following is used:
p. 154 to shatter the plans
to make a match of smth
p. 155 to concoct a plan
to ring true to smb
p. 156 to poke about smth
to be suppressed