C) Use the above expressions in situations based on the book.

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Exercise 2. a) Paraphrase:

1. In turn you will go to the bran tub and fish for your cracker...

2. But I am by no means a puritan in these matters. 3. .. .but he was
speaking to a deaf woman. 4. He looked at me with the same appeal.
5. ...I felt as though Anna-Luise had withdrawn her hand from
mine...

b) Translate into Russian:

1."Taxwise," Doctor Fischer said... 2. Richard Deane stood stiffly to attention. 3. I used to play at Russian roulette with a cap pistol. 4. You aren 't in the picture.

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c) Comment or explain:

1. A form of Russian roulette. 2. Dutch courage never did anyone any harm. 3. You are just greedy for death. I'm not interested in that sort of greed. 4. He gave me one of his dangerous smiles. "After all, Jones, I have hopes of fitting you in the picture.' 5. I wasn't lonely any longer - they were the lonely ones, the Divisionnaire and Doctor Fischer... 6. This, I thought, was the bit of rubbish I had once compared in my mind with Jehova and Satan.

Exercise 3. Get ready to answer the questions:

1 . What did the crackers contain? How did each of the Toads react to the news that they would receive checks? What arguments against and in favour of the idea did they provide? What did Dr. Fischer say when the problem of moral dignity was mentioned?

2 Why did Dr. Fischer call his final party "a Bomb Party"? Why did he organize it? What arguments did he provide in favour of his idea? What did he suggest they should do with the money?

3 How did each of the Toads react to the idea of participating in a kind of Russian roulette? Why was Mrs. Montgomery the first to hurry up to the bran tub? What made Richard Dean go to the tub? What did each of the Toads want to with the money?

4 What excuses did the Divisionnaire give to explain his unwillingness to pull out a cracker? What measures did Dr. Fischer threaten to take if he did not go to the bran tub? Why
did Mr. Jones fish for a cracker? What did he do with his check? Why?

5 What did Mr. Jones feel when he was walking away with the last cracker? Why did he feel disappointed and humiliated a few minutes later? Who did he meet in the garden? What had brought Mr. Steiner to Dr. Fischer's garden?

6 What did Dr. Fischer say he should have done years before? What was the disease he caught when Mr. Steiner entered his life? Why wasn't Dr. Fischer sure he wanted to live? Why did he take his life?

7 Why did Mr. Jones never dare to follow Anna-Luise? Why did he claim that "death was no longer an answer - it was an irrelevance"? How was his remembrance of Anna-Luise
manifested? Why did he regularly meet Mr. Steiner? Why did he never talk to him about his wife?

Exercise 4. a) Discuss the following:

1. "Hate isn't contagious. It doesn't spread. One can hate one man
and leave it there. But when you begin to despise like Doctor Fischer, you end up by despising all the world."

2. "Courage is sapped by day-to-day mind-dulling routine, and despair deepens so much every day one lives, that death seems in the end to lose its point."

b) Write a paragraph on either problem. !