Q: CHAPTER VIII

KIPPS ENTERS SOCIETY

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Submission to Inexorable Fate took Kipps to the Anagram Tea.

At any rate he would meet Helen there in the presence of other people and be able to carry off the worst of the difficulty of explaining his little jaunt to London. He had not seen her since his last portentous visit to New Romney. He was engaged to her, he would have to marry her, and the sooner he faced her again the better. Before wild plans of turning socialist, defying the world and repudiating all calling for ever, his heart on second thoughts sank. He felt Helen would never permit anything of the sort. As for the Anagrams he could do no more than his best and that he was resolved to do. What had happened at the Royal Grand, what had happened at New Romney, he must bury in his memory and begin again at the reconstruction of his social position. Ann, Buggins, Chitterlow, all these, seen in the matter-of-fact light of the Folkestone train, stood just as they stood before; people of an inferior social position who had to be eliminated from his world. It was a bother about Ann, a bother and a pity. His mind rested so for a space on Ann until the memory of these Anagrams drew him away. If he could see Coote that evening he might, he thought, be able to arrange some sort of connivance about the Anagrams, and his mind was chiefly busy sketching proposals for such an arrangement. It would not, of course, be ungentlemanly cheating, but only a little mystification. Coote very probably might drop him a hint of the solution of one or two of the things, not enough to win a prize, but enough to cover his shame. Or failing that he might take a humorous, quizzical line and pretend he was pretending to be very stupid. There were plenty of ways out of it if one kept a sharp lookout....

Answer the following questions:
1. Who did he meet?
2. Where was he returning from?
A: 1. Helen
2. London

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER VIII

"A shade more to the right, please. There, just as you are now! Don't move! In five minutes I shall have finished for the day."

Isobel smiled.

"I think that your five minutes," she said, "last sometimes for a very long time. But I am not tired--no, not at all. I can stay like this if you wish until the light goes."

"You are splendid," Mabane murmured. "The best sitter--oh, hang it, who's that?"

"There is certainly some one at the door," Isobel remarked.

Mabane paused in his work to shout fiercely, "Come in!" I too looked up from my writing. A woman was ushered into the room--a woman dressed in fashionable mourning, of medium height, and with a wealth of fair, fluffy hair, which seemed to mock the restraining black bands. Mrs. Burdett, visibly impressed, lingered in the background.

The woman paused and looked around. She looked at me, and the pen slipped from my nerveless fingers. I rose to my feet.

"Eil--Lady Delahaye!" I exclaimed.

She inclined her head. Her demeanour was cold, almost belligerent.

"I am glad to find you here, Arnold Greatson," she said. "You are a friend, I believe, of the man who murdered my husband?"

"You have been misinformed, Lady Delahaye," I answered quietly. "I was not even an acquaintance of his. We met that day for the first time."

By the faintest possible curl of the lips she expressed her contemptuous disbelief.

"Ah!" she said. "I remember your story at the inquest. You will forgive me if, in company, I believe, with the majority who heard it, I find it a trifle improbable."

1. Who is being told to stay still?
2. Who was the painter?
3. What interrupted him?
4. Who walked in?
5. Who was the woman glad to see?
6. What was her husband's fate?
7. Who did she think was friendly with his killer?
8. Was she correct?
9. How long had they known each other?
10. Did the widow trust in his words?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Isobel
2. Mabane
3. the door,
4. Lady Delahaye
5. Arnold Greatson
6. murdered
7. Arnold Greatson
8. You have been misinformed
9. Just that day
10. No

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

Hero

Carl West is an unassuming all-American 24 year old . You might think that because he works in a convenience store that he's not the brightest guy you're likely to meet. Yet this slightly scruffy young man in his Nike sneakers , was smart enough to break a fake story that successfully fooled the world for 35 years . "I guess I just got lucky," West smiles. " It just goes to show you don't have to finish high school to be smart."

Forty Years' Study

"I've spent 40 years in astronomical study, and 20 years of that specifically in Satellite Systems study. I have a University chair in three major Universities and sat on 5 different governmental committees on Space Exploration. Hell, I wrote a research paper on the Lunar Landings that took 18 months to research, then a further 3 months just to correct it." Steven pauses to scratch his head. "Yet not once did it occur to me to wonder who filmed Armstrong as he stepped onto the moon. How could I have been so stupid? "

The Evidence

* If Armstrong was the first to walk on the moon, then who filmed him walking down the ladder?

* There's no gravity on the moon, so why didn't the astronauts just float away?

* It's really hot on the moon, so Armstrong should have died of thirst.

* The deadly radiation belts around the Earth turn everyone radioactive and make your eyes boil unless you are wearing 18 inches of lead . So how did they get through it?

1. Who spend many decades studying space?
2. How long?
3. How many years studying satellite-related things?
4. Does he have prestige at colleges?
5. How many different schools?
6. Has he written papers on outer space-related things?
7. How long did he take to write one?
8. What did he never question?
9. Who was the one who thought of it?
10. How old is he?
11. Does he have prestige at colleges?
12. Where does he work?
13. Is he clean shaven?
14. How old was the false information he was responsible for breaking?
15. Did he believe it was hard work that caused this result?
16. What then?
17. How many pieces of proof are cited?
18. What doesn't the moon's environment have?
19. What would be the result of that?
20. Is it cold on the moon's surface?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Steven
2. 40 years
3. 20
4. Yes
5. three
6. Yes
7. 21 months
8. who filmed Armstrong
9. Carl West
10. 24
11. No
12. in a convenience store
13. No
14. 35 years old
15. No
16. he just got lucky
17. four
18. gravity
19. the astronauts would just float away
20. No