Exercises to chapters 13-14

Chapters 1-2

1. How did the preliminary assessment of Mitchell McDeere look like?

2. What was the firm’s primary occupation and what was its recruitment policy?

3. Why has the firm decided to delegate one associate among the recruitment committee?

4. What education did the other two members of the committee get?

5. What was the overall atmosphere of the interview?

6. What was suspicious about the interview?

7. Why was the firm interested in family relations and religious affiliation of its employees?

8. What was the topic of the preliminary chitchat?

9. Did Mitch behave wisely when his turn to ask came?

10. Was he strong enough to regain the composure on hearing the sum of his salary?

11. What were the stages of the upward career at the firm and what were the turnover rates there?

12. What were the savvies of the firm to entice the employees?

13. Describe the type of marriage and the living conditions of the McDeeres.

14. How did the family celebrate the proposal of the firm and what was their vision of their new life?

15. What was the outdoors and indoors policy of Bendini, Lambert & Locke?

16. How was the initiation into the firm conducted?

17. What were Mitch’s observations?

18. What were the vacation policy and the retirement plan of the firm?

19. What were usual occupations of the affluent wives of the firm?

20. What new details of the firm’s fraternity did Abby get to know?

21. How did Mitch like the southern cuisine?

Exercises: Consider the list of the vocabulary and compose an exercise suggesting

1. to fill in the gaps (5 sentences);

2. to provide the synonyms (5 words) in the suggested sentences;

3. to provide derivatives (5 words);

4. to paraphrase (5 phrases);

5. to match the beginning and the end of the phrase/sentence (5 sentences).

Chapters 3-5

1.What were the results of the spying on the McDeeres?

2.What was the deal with Kozinsky?

3.Why the firm was under pressure of New York?

4.What kind of assets did the McDeeres posses?

5.How did Memphis meet its new residents?

6.How did Kozinsky and Hodge end up?

7.What was the Quins’ reaction to the news?

8.Did Lamar throw more light on the story?

9.What was the summer like in Memphis?

10.What kind of pair were the McDeeres?

11.What was the beginning like at the firm?

12.Whom was Mitch assigned to and what were his primary duties at the firm?

13.how did Avery Tolar treat the money?

14.what was the first lesson Avery gave to his assistant?

15.Why was first lunch with Avery very important for Mitch?

16.What were working hours of the firm’s personnel?

17.How did Mitch’s new office at Bendini, Lambert & Locke look like?

18.What were Lamar’s instructions on billing and how did he treat his profession?

Exercises: Consider the list of the vocabulary and compose an exercise suggesting

1. to substitute the underlined words by the suggested in the list (10 sentences);

2. to find the use of given phrases other than in the text (5 phrases);

3. suggest antonyms to the given words (5 words);

4. to insert the prepositions required (5 sentences).

Сhapters 6-8

1.What was Mitch’s intention on the working schedule?

2.What was eye catching in the new acquaintance of Mitch Mr.Locke?

3.What was the first deal with Avery Tolar?

4.In what way did the firm cope with the leakage? What were they suspicious of?

5.What was the suggestion of the Chicago office to keep the nonpartners in line?

6.What was the structure of the bar examination to be upheld? What did the meeting with the tutors result in?

7.What was the fuss in the Tolar’s office about?

8.What was the purpose of Mr.Lambert’s invitation to his office?

9.What were Mitch’s duties to handle the case of Sonny Capps?

10.What was Abby occupied with? How did she treat Mitch’s late hours of work and the first round the clock stay there?

11.Was Mitch’s first rendering an account successful?

12.How meticulously was the house of McDeeres bugged?

Exercises to chapters 6-8: Consider the list of the vocabulary and compose an exercise suggesting:

1. filling in the correspondent prepositions (5 sentences or phrases);
2. matching English and Ukrainian judicial terms (10 words and phrases);
3. matching the clichés and the situations they can be used in (7 clichés);
4. odd man out with judicial terms only, previous chapters possible (5 triads).

Сhapters 9-12

1. How was Mitch getting through with his bar examination?

2. What were the eulogies at the firm meeting devoted to?

3. What other people were in a row with Kozinsky and Hodge? What were there obituaries?

4. What was Mitch’s new time schedule? What did he tell to the Black Eyes about the interest in the portraits of the deceased?

5. How was the dinner with the Sutherlands? Did they improve their family relations?

6. In what way was Mitch informed of his status as a full-blown associate of the firm?

7. Where and how did the first encounter with the special agent happen?

8. Why were the partners of this firm built by uncompromising ethics so agitated about Mitch’s encounter with the FBI agent?

9. What did the partners arrive at after Mitch’s interrogation?

10. What ideas sprang to Mitch’s mind after his questioning?

11. Where did Mitch’s brother appear to be?

12. Where the brothers alike? Did they have much to talk about?

13. Was Abby willing to come? What were Ray’s plans for the nearest future?

14. What information did Mitch elicit about Ray’s excellmate?

15. What new facts are added by DeVasher’s filing on Roy McDeere?

16. What are the nearest plans of the firm on Mitch McDeere?

17. What did the advertisement of Eddie Lomax, as a private investigator claim?

18. Was Mitch received at once? What conclusions about the investigator’s office did Mitch arrive to?

19. Why was he spellbound by the smoking of the secretary? How does the author describe the scene?

20. What was Mitch’s first impression on Eddie Lomax? What are the basic principles of Eddie’s work?

21. On what terms did Mitch and Eddie agree to cooperate? What or who became the target of the investigation?

Exercises to chapters 9-12: Consider the list of the vocabulary and compose an exercise suggesting:

1. matching collocations (10 phrases)
2. matching types of delinquencies with their definition (5 phrases)
3. translation of the sentences with the essential vocabulary (7 sentences)
4. completing phrases by qualifiers or intensifiers from the suggested list(7 phrases) (e.g. --- received the award, can’t recall it ---- etc [verbatim, quickly, awkwardly etc])

Сhapters 13-14

1. What did the firm claim by being so preoccupied with the marriage life of its lawyers?

2. What the usual scenario for a rookie’s overworking?

3. Why were the Caymans considered the tax haven? Was Avery exaggerating dubbing Swiss banks blabbermouths comparing with Cayman banks?

4. Was the easing atmosphere of the Caymans welcoming chasing women and drinking?

5. How much did Avery clarify the matter of the unwritten rules of the firm?

6. How much did Mitch get to know about the ventures of the clients and thus of the firm?

7. How much savvy did it require to dig the information about the scuba divers missing?

8. How did Mitch get to Abanks Dive Lodge and where was it set?

9. Think of as many words and expressions describing the accident with scuba divers at sea?

10. What new facts did Mitch clarify from his talk with the boat owner?

11. Did Mitch opt for living a lie? What was plan B about?

12. Did Mitch’s suspense of him being followed closely turn out true? Why did the firm needed to compromise Mitch?

Exercises to chapters 13-14

Consider the list of the vocabulary and compose an exercise suggesting:

1. matching types of taxation with their definitions (4 phrases);

2. filling in the gaps by the idioms and set expressions from the list (4 sentences);

3. filling in the chart with the derivatives of the given words (5 words);

4. odd man out (4 words)

Сhapters 15-17

1. How did Kay Quin cultivate her friendship with Abby? What was their usual spot?

2. What is Abby’s attitude towards Mitch’s relationships with her parents? Is she capable of maintaining her present state of the wife?

3. How did Kay comfort Abby about their husbands working regime? Did Abby listen to Kay’s words of comfort and firm’s preferences on the family life of the employees?

4. Do the McDeeres plan to have kids in the nearest future?

5. Describe the cold weather in Memphis using as many words and phrases referring to the aforecited frame?

6. What were the results of Eddie Lomax’s investigation? Was the firm playing for keeps?

7. How did Mitch conspire with Abby? Where have they find the secluded corner to have a whispered conversation?

8. Why did Mitch lay bare his relations with FBI agents? What did he tell Abby?

9. How did Abby react to the news?

10. Was Mitch successful to persuade Abby to proceed with the ordinary life for the time being?

11. What was the first Christmas at Memphis like? Where did the members of the family head to?

12. What did Mitch’s visit to Panama City Beach? Did he dare talking to his mother? Why?

13. What was the deal of the late night visitor of Eddie Lomax? Was he paid worthily for the job?

Date: 2015-12-17; view: 872