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Choose the right preposition: . Already and privately for some years I have been guessing that I was set apart ___ the common run, but this of the needle attested the fact to my whole public. George, Kathleen, and Skinny

Choose the right preposition: . The next Saturday I looked out ___ him, and at last there he was, without Kathleen, half-wor ried, half-hopeful

Choose the right preposition: . We look lovely and it was a great day at the time, but I would not care for it all over again. From that day I was known ___ Needle

Choose the right preposition: After seeing George taken away home ___ Kathleen that Saturday in the Portobello Road, I thought that perhaps I might be seeing more of him in similar circumstances

Choose the right preposition: All the same, George was relieved when the inquiries were over without the marriage ___ Matilda being disclosed

Choose the right preposition: And George was haggard. His eyes seemed to have got smaller as if he had been recently ___ pain

Choose the right preposition: And most extraordinary, ___ that morning as I spoke, a degree of visibility set in

Choose the right preposition: As for myself, the main attraction of marrying Skinny was his prospective expeditions ___ Mesopotamia

Choose the right preposition: But I recognized Kathleen, my friend; her features had already begun to sink and protrude in the way that mouths and noses do in people destined always to be old ___ their years

Choose the right preposition: But a couple ___ months later he did escape. It was a Monday

Choose the right preposition: But the marriage didn’t come out - who would think of looking up registers in the Congo? Not that this would have proved any motive ___ murder

Choose the right preposition: Creams, toothpastes, combs, and hankies, cot ton gloves, flimsy flowering scarves, writing-paper, and crayons, icecream cones and orangeade, screwdrivers, boxes of tacks, tins of paint, ___ glue, of marmalade; I always liked them but far more now that I have no need of any

Choose the right preposition: Finally we three com posed ourselves ___ George’s picture

Choose the right preposition: George thought this a little foolish. They checked up ___ his life in Africa, right back to his living with Matilda

Choose the right preposition: He ad vanced up the road ___ Kathleen on his arm, letting himself lurch from side to side with his wife bobbing beside him, as the crowds asserted their rights of way

Choose the right preposition: He looked in my direction, rooted ___ the midst of the flowing market-mongers in that convivial street. I thought to myself, “He looks as if he had a mouthful of hay.” It was the new bristly maize-coloured beard and moustache surrounding his great mouth suggested the thought, gay and lyrical as life

Choose the right preposition: He was away down a side-street and along another street and down one more, zig-zag, as far and as devious as he could take himself ___ the Portobello Road

Choose the right preposition: Her long stiff-crooked fingers pounced to select a jade ring ___ amongst the jumhle of brooches and pendants onyx, moonstone and gold, set out on the stall

Choose the right preposition: I might have been inspired to say more ___ that agreeable morning, but he didn’t wait

Choose the right preposition: I saw her shoving in her avid manner from stall to stall. She was always fond ___antique jewellery and of bargains

Choose the right preposition: I stood silently among the people, watching. As you will see, I wasn’t ___ a position to speak to Kathleen

Choose the right preposition: I wondered that I had not seen her before in the Portobello Road ___my Saturday-morning ambles

Choose the right preposition: Kathleen was a little younger than me, but looked much older. She knew her chances were diminishing but ___ that time I did not think she cared very much

Choose the right preposition: Kathleen was more interested ___ marriage than I thought

Choose the right preposition: Kathleen, speaking from that Catholic point of view which takes some getting used to, said, “She was ___Confession only the day before she died — wasn’t she lucky?”

Choose the right preposition: Kathleen, to prove that George had absolutely no motive, told the police that she was engaged ___ him

Choose the right preposition: Like me, she had racketed around a good deal ___ the war; she had actually been engaged to an officer in the U. S. navy, who was killed

Choose the right preposition: My desire to marry him had to be stimu lated ___ the continual reading of books about Babylon and Assyria; perhaps Skinny felt this, because he supplied the books and even started instructing me in the art of deciphering cuneiform tables

Choose the right preposition: Nevertheless he was back again next week. Poor Kathleen had brought him ___ her car

Choose the right preposition: Not another soul passed by as he pressed my body into the stack, as he made a deep nest ___ me, tearing up the hay to make a groove the length of my corpse, and finally pulling the warm dry stuff in a mound over this concealment, so natural-looking in a broken haystack

Choose the right preposition: One Saturday in recent years I was mooching down the Portobello Road, threading among the crowds ___ marketers on the narrow pavement when I saw a woman

Choose the right preposition: One day in my young youth ___ high summer, lolling with my lovely companions upon a haystack I found a needle

Choose the right preposition: Really I should not care to be so young ___heart again

Choose the right preposition: She had a haggard careworn wealthy look, thin but for the breasts forced-up high like a pigeon’s. I had not seen her ___ nearly five years

Choose the right preposition: She left it ___ the top of the street and got out with him, holding him tight by the arm

Choose the right preposition: She too was getting on ___ years

Choose the right preposition: Shortly afterwards the byre-hand emigrated to Canada to start afresh, ___ the help of Skinny who felt sorry for him

Choose the right preposition: Sometimes as occasion arises on a Saturday morn ing, my friend Kathleen, who is a Catholic, has a Mass said ___ my soul, and then I am in attendance as it were at the church

Choose the right preposition: That is how I came to be ___the Portobello Road that Saturday morning when I saw George and Kath leen

Choose the right preposition: That is my thought every time I turn over my old papers and come across the photograph. Skinny, Kathleen, and myself are ___ the photo atop the haystack

Choose the right preposition: The poor byre-hand who sold us the milk was grilled for hour after hour ___ the local police, and later by Scotland Yard. So was George. He admitted walking as far as the haystack with me, but he denied lingering there

Choose the right preposition: The remainder of our families ___ Scotland were hinting that it was time we settled down with husbands

Choose the right preposition: There is a pleasurable spread of objects on the counters which I now perceive and exploit ___ a certain detachment, since it suits with my condition of life

Choose the right preposition: They took him ___ a nursing home. He was fairly quiet, except on Saturday mornings when they had a hard time of it to keep him indoors and away from the Portobello Road

Choose the right preposition: When Saturdays are fine I go instead ___ the Portobello Road where formerly I would jaunt with Kathleen in our grown-up days

Choose the right preposition: “You hadn’t seen your friend ___ ten years?” the In spector asked him

Correspond the left and right parts

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: A ___ came to Mr. Ferraro to take a real holiday, and he nearly told his chauffeur to drive to Richmond Park

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: After an early lunch—a simple one in a City chop-house which concluded with some Stilton and a glass of excellent port—Mr. Ferraro visited Christie’s. Maverick was satisfactorily on the spot and Mr. Ferraro did not bother to wait for the Bonnard and the Monet which his agent ___ advised him to buy

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: And what had she been doing with her office time—those long hours of pilgrimage? She had ___ taken a whole week-end at Walsingham

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Before leaving for his office at nine-thirty Mr. Ferraro as a matter of courtesy would telephone to his wife in the other ___. “Father Dewes speaking,” a voice would say

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: But he always preferred, if it were possible, to combine business with pleasure, and it occurred to him that if he drove out now to Canon Wood, Miss Saunders should be arriving about the same time, after her lunch ___, to start the afternoon’s work

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: But he had not been mistaken, and suddenly a terrible doubt came to him how often in the last ___ years Miss Saunders had betrayed her trust

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: But then an arm circled her ___, a young man’s face looked down into the street, a hand pulled a curtain across with the familiarity of habit

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Canon Wood was one of those new suburbs built around an old ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Even her qualifications were special: she had been ___ girl at the Convent of Saint Latitudinaria, Woking, where she had won in three successive years the special prize for piety—a little trip tych of Our Lady with a background of blue silk, bound in Florentine leather and supplied by Burns Oates & Washbourne. She also had a long record of unpaid serv ice as a Child of Mary

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Even his doctor had to submit to a sudden counter-check from a rival consultant. “I think,” he said to Hopkinson, “this after noon I will drop in to Christie’s and see how Maverick is getting on.” (Maverick was employed ___ his agent in the purchase of pictures)

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: For this reason her wing for the last ten years had invariably housed some Jesuit or Dominican priest with a taste for good ___ and whisky and an emergency bell in his bedroom

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: God has made man in his image, and it was not unreasonable for Mr. Ferraro to return the com pliment and to regard God as the director of some ___ business which yet depended for certain of its operations on Ferraro & Smith

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He couldn’t believe that. Surely a few of that vast total of 36,892 days must still be valid. But only Miss Saunders could tell him how ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He did this the more readily because he was accustomed to make unexpected ___, and woe betide the employee who failed him

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He never wasted a word ___ to tell his name until that was required of him by the rules

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He retained the firm ___ on practical affairs that had enabled his grandfather, who had been a fellow exile with Mazzini, to found the great business of Ferraro & Smith in a foreign land

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He sat ___ in his Daimler waiting for something to happen

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: I noticed just now that your estimate for May is lower than your April ___, and your estimate for June is nearly down to the March level

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: If a friend could have seen Mr. Ferraro that evening ___ the steps of Montagu Square, he would have been surprised at how he had aged

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: In his office he unlocked the drawer and took ___ the special file

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: In the terraces behind dubious girls leant against the railings, and a street band blew harshly round a corner. ___. Ferraro found the house, but he could not bring himself to ring the bell

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: It became obvious to Mr. Ferraro that not even the conditions for an indulgence had been properly ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: It was almost as though he ___assumed during the long afternoon those 36,892 days he had thought to have saved during the last three years from Purgatory. The curtains were drawn, the lights were on, and no doubt Father Dewes was pouring out the first of his evening whiskies in the other wing

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: It was not very onerous, for Mr. Ferraro had the ___ quality of being able to delegate responsibility

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Miss Saunders ___ in. She gave the impression of moving close to the ground

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Mr. Ferraro did not ring the ___, but let himself quietly in. The thick carpet swallowed his footsteps like quicksand. He switched on no lights: only a red-shaded lamp in each room had been lit ready for his use and now guided his steps

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Mr. Ferraro drove into the dreary waste of Bayswater: ___ family houses had been converted into private hotels or fortunately bombed into car parks

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Mr. Ferraro looked after his salvation in more independent ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Mr. Ferraro thought at first that it was the warmth of the ___ that had caused her to be so inefficiently clothed, as she slid the window a little wider open

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Mr. Ferraro, having telephoned from his bedroom, where he took his breakfast, would walk rather as God walked in the Garden, through his library lined with the correct classics and his drawing-room, on the walls of which hung one of the most expensive art collections in private ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: On this particular Monday morning it was also May the first. The sense of spring had come punctually to London and the sparrows were noisy in the dust. Mr. Ferraro too was punctual, but unlike the seasons he was as reliable as Greenwich ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: One ___ was occupied by his wife, who believed herself to be an invalid and obeyed strictly the dictate that one should live every day as if it were one’s last

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: One indulgence of three hundred days will compensate for many ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: She laid a typed list on Mr. Ferraro’s desk: in the first column the date, in the second the church or place of pilgrimage where the indulgence was to be gained, and in the third column in red ___ the number of days saved from the temporal punishments of Purgatory. Mr. Ferraro read it carefully

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: She was about thirty years old, with indeterminate hair and eyes of a startling clear blue which gave her otherwise anonymous face a re semblance to a ___ statue

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: She was described in the firm’s books as “assistant confidential secretary” and her duties were “special” ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The day remained warm and sunny, but there were confused sounds from the direction of Trafalgar Square which reminded Mr. Ferraro that it was ___Day

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The estate was now a public park, the house formerly famous as the home of a minor Minister who served under Lord ___ at the time of the American rebellion was now a local museum

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The new recruit had ___with the gang since the beginning of the summer holidays, and there were pos sibilities about his brooding silence that all recognized

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The strength of a ___ is in its weakest link, and Mr. Ferraro did not forget his responsibility

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: There was something inappropriate to the sun and the early flowers under the park trees in these processions of men without ___ carrying dreary banners covered with bad lettering

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: They squatted in the ruins of the room and ___. unwanted sandwiches. Half an hour for lunch and they were at work again

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: What better could be done on a fine May afternoon than check on Maverick? He added, “Send in Miss Saunders,” and drew forward a personal ___ which even Hopkinson was not allowed to handle

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: When he said “Trevor” ___ was a statement of fact, not as it would have been with the others a statement of shame or defiance

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Where one man would treasure a single Degas, Renoir, Cezanne, Mr. Ferraro bought wholesale — he had six Renoirs, four Degas, five Cezannes. He never tired of their presence; they represented a sub stantial saving in death ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: William Ferraro, of Ferraro & Smith, lived in a great ___ in Montagu Square

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: With his confidential secretary — a man called Hopkinson — he went ___ the schedule for the day

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: ___ did anyone laugh except Mike, who finding himself without support and meeting the dark gaze of the newcomer opened his mouth and was quiet again

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “April is a very good month for indulgences, sir. There is Easter. In May we can depend only on the fact that it is Our ___’s month. June is not very fruitful, except at Corpus Christi. You will notice a little Polish church in Cambridgeshire…”

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: “As long as you remember, Miss Saunders, that none of us is getting younger. I put a great deal of trust in you, Miss Saunders. If I were less occupied here, I could attend to some of these indulgences ___. You pay great attention, I hope, to the conditions.”

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: A row of old iron beds each with a tumble of dark blanket rugs, no sheets. Raymond was ___ at the sight and hoped that Lou was not feeling upset

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Elizabeth had not been very pleasant. She had ___ admiration for Lou’s hat, bag, gloves and shoes which were all navy blue, but she had used an accusing tone

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He knew very well Elizabeth had a decent living income from a number of public sources, and was simply a ___, one of those who would not help themselves

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: It was not till they had reached Victoria Park that Lou felt the full force of the fact that everything would be different from what she had ___. ‘It may have gone down since I was last there,’ she said to Raymond who had never visited Elizabeth before

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Lou could not tell him how she had petitioned the ___ of Oxford St. John. But when she got a letter from Henry Pierce to say he was improving, she told Raymond, ‘You see, we asked for Henry to get back the Faith, and so he did. Now we ask for his recovery and he’s improving.’

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Lou had ___that people sometimes came from neighbouring parishes to pray at the Church of the Sacred Heart because of the statue

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Outside the underground station at Victoria Park, where they stopped to ask the way, Lou felt a strange sense of panic. Elizabeth lived in a very downward quarter of Bethnal Green, and in the past nine years since she had seen her Lou’s memory of the ___ ground-floor rooms with their peeling walls and bare boards had made a kinder nest for itself

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Raymond at the wheel kept saying, ‘Poor Elizabeth - eight kids,’ which ___ Lou, though she kept her peace

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Raymond did not like being called Ray, but he made no objection for he knew that Lou had been under a ___

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Sending off the postal order to her sister each week she had gradually come to picture the habitation at Bethnal Green in an almost monastic light; it would be ___ but well-scrubbed, spotless, and shining with Brasso and holy poverty

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: She had vaguely ___, in previous numbers, various references to the Black Madonna, how she had granted this or that favour

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Some said they came from all over England, but whether this was to admire the art-work or to pray, Lou was not ___. She gave her attention to the article in the parish magazine

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The floorboards gleamed. Elizabeth was grey-haired, lined, but neat. The children well behaved, sitting down betimes to their broth in two rows ___ an almost refectory table

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The house had been smelly and dirty. ‘I’ll show you round,’ Elizabeth had said in a tone of ___ refinement, and they were forced to push through a dark narrow passage behind her skinny form till they came to the big room where the children slept

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: There was a lopsided double bed in the corner, and beside it a table cluttered with mugs, tins, a comb and brush, a number of hair curlers, a framed photograph of the Sacred Heart, and also Raymond ___ what he thought erroneously to be a box of contraceptives

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: They ___ their London holiday, but it was somewhat marred by a visit to that widowed sister of Lou’s to whom she allowed a pound a week towards the rearing of her eight children. Lou had not seen her sister Elizabeth for nine years

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: They had pulled up outside the house where Elizabeth lived on the ground floor. Lou looked at the chipped paint, the dirty windows and torn grey-white curtains and was reminded with startling clarity other hopeless childhood in Liverpool from which, miraculously, hope had lifted her, and had come true, for the nuns had ___ her that job; and she had trained as a nurse among white-painted beds, and white shining walls, and tiles, hot water everywhere and Dettol without stint

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: They went to her one day towards the end of their holiday. Henry sat at the back of the car beside a ___ suitcase stuffed with old clothes for Elizabeth

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: When she had first married she had wanted all white-painted furniture that you could wash and liberate from germs; but Raymond had been for oak, he did not understand the ___ of hygiene and new enamel paint, for his upbringing had been orderly, he had been accustomed to a lounge suite and autumn tints in the front room all his life. And now Lou stood and looked at the outside of Elizabeth’s place and felt she had gone right back

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: You should hear her cheeking up to the teachers.’ Elizabeth’s bones ___ with laughter among her loose clothes.

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: A hand first supported him and then pushed him ___

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: A voice spoke to him softly through the star-shaped hole in the door. “Don’t worry, Mr. Thomas,” it said, “we won’t hurt you, not if you ___ quiet.” Mr. Thomas put his head between his hands and pondered

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: After a while it seemed to him that there were sounds in the silence — they were ___ and came from the direction of his house

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Even the fan-light had been left ___ by the bomb’s blast. Somewhere somebody whistled. Old Misery looked sharply round

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He didn’t trust whistles. A child was ___: it seemed to come from his own garden

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He didn’t want to ___ his house, which stood jagged and dark between the bomb-sites, saved so narrowly, as he believed, from destruction

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He had noticed that there was only one ___ in the car-park, and he felt certain that the driver would not come for it before the morning

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He stood up and peered through the ventilation-hole — between the cracks in one of the shutters he saw a light, not the light of a lamp, but the wavering light that a candle might ___

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He stumbled on the path, but the boy caught his elbow and ___ him. “Thank you, thank you, my boy,” he murmured automatically

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: His bag hit his feet. A hand ___ the key out of the lock and the door slammed

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: His head ...the opposite wall and he sat heavily down

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I don’t mind you playing ___ the place Saturday mornings. Sometimes I like company

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I’ve got to go careful. There’s ___ stones here. Give me your hand

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Mike had gone home to bed, but the ___ stayed. The question of leadership no longer concerned the gang

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Next morning the serious destruction ___. Two were missing—Mike and another boy whose parents were off to Southend and Brighton in spite of the slow warm drops that had begun to fall and the rumble of thunder in the estuary like the first guns of the old blitz

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Nobody could hear him from the road in front, and the lane at the back was seldom ___. Anyone who passed there would be hurrying home and would not pause for what they would certainly take to be drunken cries

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Old Misery came limping off the common. He had ___ on his shoes and he stopped to scrape them on the pavement’s edge

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Somebody shouted again through the dark. “I’m coming, I’m coming,” Mr. Thomas called. He said to the boy beside him, “I’m not unreasonable. Been a boy myself. As long as things are done ___

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Sometimes people came from London especially to see the Black Madonna, and ___ were not Catholics; they were, said the priest, probably no religion at all, poor souls, though gifted with faculties

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The driver again became aware of somebody ___. It came from the wooden erection which was the nearest thing to a house in that desolation of broken brick

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The new town of Whitney Clay had a large proportion of Roman Catholics, especially among the nurses at the new hospital; and at the paper mills, too, there were many Catholics, drawn inland from Liverpool by the new housing ___, likewise, with the canning factories

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Then they sawed through the joists and ___ into the hall, as what was left of the floor heeled and sank

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: They began again on the first floor picking up the top floor-boards next the outer wall, leaving the joists ___

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: They came, as if to a museum, to see the line of the Black Madonna which must not be ___ by vestments

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: They had learnt with practise, and the second floor ___ more easily. By the evening an odd exhilara tion seized them as they looked down the great hollow of the house

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: They ran risks and ___ mistakes: when they thought of the windows it was too late to reach them. “Cor,” Joe said, and dropped a penny down into the dry rubble-filled well. It cracked and span among the broken glass

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: When he climbed out the whole landscape had suddenly ___. There was no house beside the car-park, only a hill of rubble

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: When the Black Madonna was ___ in the Church of the Sacred Heart the Bishop himself came to consecrate it

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: With nails, chisels, screwdrivers, anything that was sharp and penetrating they moved around the ___ walls wor rying at the mortar between the bricks

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: “Let me ___,” he called, and heard the key turn in the lock. “A serious crash,” he thought, and felt dithery and confused and old

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: A pound a week I’ve (to be) sending up to now, that’s fifty-two pounds a year. I would never have done it, calling herself a Catholic with birth control by her bedside

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: A voice spoke to him softly through the star-shaped hole in the door. “Don’t worry, Mr. Thomas,” it said, “we won’t hurt you, not if you (to stay) quiet.”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: After a while it seemed to him that there were sounds in the silence — they (to be) faint and came from the direction of his house

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: And she told me she (to go) to Mass every Sunday, and all the kids go excepting James

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Better book a private ward, we’ll (to manage) the expense

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: But whatever conclusion you come to, please don’t (to upset) your wife at this stage. She has already refused to feed the child, says it isn’t hers, which is ridiculous.

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Even the fan-light had been left (to unbreak) by the bomb’s blast. Somewhere somebody whistled

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He sat by her bed, (to bewilder). Presently a nurse beckoned him from the door

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He stood up and peered through the ventilation-hole — between the cracks in one of the shutters he saw a light, not the light of a lamp, but the wavering light that a candle might (to give)

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: He thought of burglars — perhaps they had employed the boy as a scout, but why should burglars (to engage) in what sounded more and more like a stealthy form of carpentry? Mr. Thomas let out an experimental yell, but nobody answered

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: I (to notice) the baby was red,’ said Raymond

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: In fact, it was a very easy birth, a girl. Raymond was (to allow) in to see Lou in the late afternoon

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: It (to be) then they heard Mike’s whistle at the back

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: I’m terribly sorry, Mr. Thomas. One of us got (to take) short, and we thought you would’t mind, and now he can’t get out

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Lou could never (to be) sure if that was what she heard from the doorways and landings as she climbed the stairs of Cripps House, the neighbours hushing their conversation as she approached

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Lou gave up most of her church work in order to sew and (to knit) for the baby

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Mr. Thomas put his head between his hands and pondered. He had noticed that there was only one lorry in the car-park, and he felt certain that the driver would not (to come) for it before the morning

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Next day he (to find)Lou in a half-stupor. She had been given a strong sedative following an attack of screaming hysteria

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Next morning the serious destruction (to start)

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: No wonder he’s (to get) into trouble with an example like that. I might have known, with her peroxide hair

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Oh, the red will go. It (to change), you know. But the baby will certainly be brown, if not indeed black, as indeed we think she will be. A beautiful healthy child

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Old Misery looked sharply round. He didn’t trust whistles. A child was (to shout): it seemed to come from his own garden. Then a boy ran into the road from the car-park

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Raymond gave up the Reader’s Digest. He applied for promotion and got it; he (to become) a depart mental manager

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: She (to have) decided to go into the maternity wing of the hospital like everyone else. But near the time she let Raymond change her mind, since he kept saying, ‘At your age, dear, it might be more difficult than for the younger women

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Summers was restive. “Haven’t we (to do) enough?” he said. “I’ve been given a bob for slot machines. This is like work.”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: That’s something you must (to work) out for yourselves. I’d have a word with the doctor if I were you

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: The Sister appeared, a tall grave woman. Raymond thought her to be short-sighted for she seemed to look at him fairly closely before she bade him (to follow) her

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: The flat was now a waiting-room for next summer, after the baby was born, when they would (to put) down the money for a house

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: The noise could not even (to have) reached his enemies.

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Then he thought he (to hear) the sound of hammering and scraping and chipping

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: There must be a mix-up. You must (to have) mixed up the babies

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: There’s no question of mix-up,’ said the matron sharply. ‘We’ll soon (to settle) that. We’ve had some of that before

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: They began again on the first floor (to pick) up the top floor-boards next the outer wall, leaving the joists exposed

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Two were missing — Mike and another boy whose parents (to be) off to Southend and Brighton in spite of the slow warm drops that had begun to fall and the rumble of thunder in the estuary like the first guns of the old blitz

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Yes, indeed we think so, indeed I must (to say), certainly so’, said the matron. ‘We did not expect your wife to take it so badly when we told her. We’ve had plenty of dark babies here, but most of the mothers expect it

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Your wife is (to upset) about her baby,’said the matron. ‘You see, the colour. She’s a beautiful baby, perfect. It’s a question of the colour’

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “I’m coming, I’m (to come),” Mr. Thomas called

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “Something’s wrong,” Blackie (to say). They could hear his urgent breathing as they unlocked the door

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: ““We’ve hardly started,” T. said. “Why, there’s all the floors left, and the stairs. We haven’t (to take) out a single window. You voted like the others. We are going to destroy this house. There won’t be anything left when we’ve finished.”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form:Then they sawed through the joists and retreated into the hall, as what was (to leave) of the floor heeled and sank