PENGUIN READERS Level 5 Tales of Mistery and Imagination (Answer Key).pdf

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Penguin Readers Answer Key
level
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Answers to book activities
1–2
Open answers.
3
Possible answers:
a
Because they don’t enjoy
travelling alone.
b
To protect their eyes while they
are using dangerous tools.
c
Because someone who was
close to them has died.
d
Because the namesake is
damaging their good name by
his/her bad behaviour.
e
To mend a hole in a silk shirt.
f
To see the stars.
g
Because they are cold or
frightened.
20 a
A government minister (‘D–’)
has stolen it from a royal lady. It
is very important to her that the
letter should be kept secret
from a third person (probably
her husband), so D– now has
power over the lady.
b
Without the letter, the thief will
lose his power over the lady.
c
The thief is often away, and the
police have keys that can open
any door in Paris.
d
He has ‘hidden’ it in a different
envelope in a letter holder, the
most obvious place for a letter.
e
He takes the letter and puts
another one in its place–a
message for D–.
21–22
Open answers.
23 a
shutter
b
orangutang
c
stable
24
25
Open answers.
Possible questions:
a
Who are killed?
b
Where is the daughter’s body
found?
c
How has the old lady’s throat
been cut?
d
Where are keys found?
e
How does the orangutang get in
and out?
f
Where has the animal come
from?
g
How does Dupin find the
orangutang’s owner?
h
Where does the owner take it
after he finds it again?
UPPER-INTERMEDIATE
‘The Barrel of Amontillado’ and
‘The Whirlpool’
1
(a) Fortunato is very
proud
of his
knowledge of wine.
(b) Montresor thinks he has
bought Amontillado but he has
his
doubts.
(c) Fortunato says that his cough
will not
kill
him.
(d) Montresor ties Fortunato to
the wall with a
chain.
(e) Montresor places
eleven
rows
of stones across the entrance.
2
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
Helseggen
Vurrgh
Jonas Ramus
Lofoden
Moskoe-ström
5
4 a
Incorrect. A determined person
doesn’t give up easily.
b
Correct.
c
Incorrect. Mercy is an act of
kindness.
d
Correct.
e
Incorrect. It is the bones in your
head.
f
Incorrect. A tale is a story that
you read, hear or tell.
g
Incorrect. People want to find
treasure.
5–7
Open answers.
8 a
immense
b
shield
c
disturb
9 a
They are twins, they have no
other relatives, and they have
always been close companions.
b
She is very weak, and her heart
keeps stopping.
c
He keeps it in a small, dark
room under the house.
d
Because he has locked his
sister in a box underground
while she is still alive.
e
Roderick dies of shock when
his sister falls on him. Madeline
dies of her illness a moment
later.
f
It cracks and falls into ruins.
Then the deep dark lake closes
over the ruins.
10–12
Open answers.
13
Possible answers:
a
We cut the logs up and made
barrels from the wood.
b
When we reached the top of the
slope, we could see as far as
the horizon.
The conditions are: The
wrongdoer must know that he is
being punished, and by whom.
It must be impossible for him to
hit back. (And Open answers.)
‘The Pit and the Pendulum’ and
‘The Stolen Letter’
1
(a) He walks around his cell from
a fixed point marked with a
piece of cloth.
(b) The prisoner is given bread
and water and some meat.
(c) The figure of Father Time is
painted on the ceiling.
(d) He rubs meat into the bands
tied across his body so that
the rats come and chew
through them.
(e) He is rescued by General
Lasalle.
2
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
Monsieur G____ to Dupin.
The narrator to Monsieur G____.
Dupin to the narrator.
Dupin to Monsieur G____.
The narrator to Dupin.
Dupin to the narrator.
26–31
Open answers.
Answers to Factsheet activities
Activities before reading the book
‘William Wilson’ and ‘The Gold-Bug’
1
(a) False. He went to school in a
village in England.
(b) True.
(c) False. He went to Oxford
University.
(d) False. It was William Wilson
who cheated at cards.
(e) True.
2
(a) –– (iv)
(b) –– (v)
(c) –– (i)
(d) –– (ii)
(e) –– (iii)
‘The
Fall of the House of Usher’ and
‘The Red Death’
1
(g), (c), (e), (f), (b), (a), (d)
2
(a) He invited a thousand of his
lords and ladies to join him.
(b) They heated and melted the
locks of the gages of the
castle.
(c) The light came from fires
outside the windows.
(d) The dancing stopped because
the clock struck to mark the
hour.
(e) Prince Prospero tried to kill
him with a sword.
‘Metzengerstein’ and ‘The Murders
in the Rue Morgue’
1
(a) False. The Berliftitzings and
the Metzengersteins had been
fighting for centuries.
(b) True.
(c) False. The horse had the
initials WVB on its head.
(d) True.
(e) False. There was a fire in the
Palace of Metzengerstein.
2
(a) –– (iv)
(b) –– (v)
(c) –– (vi)
(d) –– (ii)
(e) –– (i)
(f) –– (iii)
14
15–17
Open answers.
18
You are not at all sure, but you
suspect it.
19
Open answers.
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