PART 1

1. THE GIRLS AND THE DEMON FOX

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Who? two girls usually known by their surnames.

When? During the First World War 1914-18. The Daylight Saving Bill was inrodced in May 1916.

Where? Bailey Farm a little homestead, quite a distance from the White Horse .

What? The two girls had taken the farm together intending to make a living from chickens, as well as keeping other animals. But things haven't gone well.   

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Banford

Physically: height:small

               build: thin, delicate

Money:main investor (her father's money)

Father: a tradesman in Islington, north London

Health:

Marital status: unmarried

Skills: Her grandfather was a farmer

Age: near 30

Attitude to the chickens: did not see them

March

Physically:height/ build: the man about the place, straight

Money: Little or no money

Health: robust

Marital status: unmarried

Skills: carpentry and joinery

Age: near 30

Farm clothes: puttees and breeches, a belted coat, loose cap

Movements: easy and confident

Appareance: like some graceful loose-balanced young man.

Face: very feminine

Eyes: big and wide and dark

Hair: crisp dark

Manner: strange, shy and sardonic at the same time; as if in pain and irony; somethin odd and unexplained- i.e. mixed with her pleasure at the chickens there is a touch of dangerous in her eyes and, odd whims and tendencies

Attitude to chickens: although she has a favourite(Patty), the narrator mentions "an almost satirical flicker" in her eyes  when with the cickens, also towards Patty. Fowls are "" 

Things they have in common:

1. Personaity traits: gallant, enterpreising

2. Attitude to mistakes on the farm: Life was not made merely to be slaved away; they disbelieved in lving for work alone.

3. Hobbies: reading and cycle- riding. March also loves paint curvilinear swans on porcelain and cabinet work.

b)

Banford and March, who are the main characters in this chapter of the story, are two girls living tgether at Bailey Farm. The two girls present some differences between them, that the writer underlines in their description.

Both of them are near 30 years old and unmarried but Banford, physically spaking, is more delicate and small in respect of te other girl; in fact, she is described by the writer as "the man about the place"

The writer describes more aspects about March than about Banford;he tells the reader about her clothes, which are ovviously farm clothes, her apparence, like a graceful young man, on the contrary her face is very feminine.

Her manners are strange, on the one hand she is shy but on the ther one she is also sardonic.

c) My first impression of them is that they have different ways to act and that te writer wants to make the reader aware of these differences.

d) My opinion is that the description of Violet seems to be very similar in respect of the description of March.   

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a) true

b) conversational

c) adverbs

d) admiration

e) informed

f) amused

g) repetition

h) exaggerated

i)

j)

k) beliefs

l)

m)

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evil= countable noun

6 d)

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a)Bailey

b)homestead

c)ancient

d)edge

e)

f) hollow

g) hills

h) August

i) brownish

j) green

k)

l) pine

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a)best

b) nervous

c) warm

d) generous

e) absent

f) magnamity

g) solitude

h) irritable

i) one another

j)

k) sharply

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a) the two girls were usually known by their surnames: Banford and March

b)

c) March's role consists in works regarding carpentry and joinery.

d)

e) March's clothes are puttees and breeches, a belted coat and a loose cap

f) They blieved tha life was not made merely to be slaved away, they disbelieved in living for work alone.

g) She's artistic in painting and crocheting

d) She likes curvilinear swans on porcelain wiyh green background or else make a marvellous fire-screen.

e) They lived in a railway-carriage that was deposited as a sort of out-house. 

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a) half

b) half

c) consciously  present

d) consciousness

e) held back

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a)

b)

c) phsycological

d) passionatly

e) same

f) think

g) touches

h) logical

i) pain

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2A 3B 5C 2D 4E 6F

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a) she said that the dark evenings came in the heavy and dark November

II THE YOUTH AND THE FOX

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a)

Age: not over 20

Face: ruddy, roundish

Hair: fairish, rather long

Eyes: blue, bright and sharp

Cheeks: fresh, ruddy skin

Equipment, etc: heavy sack, a gun

Stance:

Travel: He came from Salonica

Health:

Appetite: He ate largely and quickly voraciously

Place of birth and upbringing: Cornish

Previous life at Bailey Farm:

Name: always called Henry

b)

c)

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a) lifted

b) stood

c) opened

d) said

e) took

f) cried

g) asked

h) said

i) stared

j) dinging

k) stood

l) seeing

m) thought

n) made

o) watched

p) kept

q)

r) offering

s) talking

t) ate

III A PLEASANT CHAT ABOUT THE FARM

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a) curious about the girls/exactly

b) those of a farm youth

c) acute, practical, a little mocking

d) their attitude to their losses

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a)

b) believe in living for nothing but work

c) laugh

d) ourselves out for landworkers

e)

f) hold on a bit longer

g)

h) softly

i) care what you say

j) consider ourselves quite efficent

k)

l) going to do farming you must be at it from morning to night

m) aren't

n) want some of our time for ourselves

o) scorn

p) silently

q) tickled

r) a better opinion of the nature of the fowls then, than we had now

s) nature all together

t) delighte laughter

u) out

v) heifers

w) yap

x) her face

y) don't mind

z) pleased

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a) laughter

b) scorn

c) amusement

d) curiosity

e) simplicity

f) pleasure

g) fascination

h) charm

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PLACE                                    PROBLEM                           

The Swann                            they have influenza

Bailey Farm            

proprierty from the point of view of Banford not March or the naive Henry 

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a) Banford was pleased as if she had her own young brother home from France

b) It gave her just the same kind of gratification t attend on him, to get out of the bath

c) Her naturl warmth and kindless had now an outlet. And how does the youth respond?

d) He luxuriated in her sisterly attention and was slightly puzzled that March was silently working for him too.

IV MARCH'S FIRST DREAM

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a)

It comes fro outside

March can't understan

It roams round the house, in the fields and in the darkness

Its effect is so powerful that she felt she must weep

b)

She goes out suddenly knows it was the fox singing

She goes nearer but he runs away and ceased singing

She wants to touch him, so she streched out her hand

He bit her wrist

She draws back, but the fox turning round to bound away, whisks his brush causing her burn on her mouth

V. THE DAY AFTER MARCH'S FIRST DREAM

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a) It is illustrated because she is described as "busy in preparing the house and attending to the fowls"; moreover she went to the village to buy food.

c) Something about the glint of his khaki reminded her of the brillance of her dream- fox 

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a) March

b) It is manifested through his appearance.

c) Yes she did because she asked march why she doesn't speak. 

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a) Because she seems afraid of being imposed upon.

b) Banford

c) He smiles, suddenly ad involuntary   

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a)Banford is quite charmed by him because his speech is s soft and courteous is manner not wanting to impose his ideasbut preferring to her what she had to say and laughing in his quik half-mocking way. He helps,but not too much.

b) Yes I agree

c)I think Banford

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The narrator says Henry is happiest when Banford told him he could stay at the farm.

VI. HENRY'S THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS

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2

3

a)

1 shrewaly

2 arrested

3 amazement / calculate/ acquiescence

4 subtly

5 admitted his intention

6 even from himself

b) The words most negative are: calculate and master 

c) His mind is divided between marry or not marry March.

d) No, it doesn't

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a) Yes, i agree with him

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The present starts to be used.

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a)

It's less what you do than how you feel

You have to be subtle and cunning

Your own fate vertakes and determinates the fate of your quarry

You have to fasten on the quarry's soul even before you see it

It's a strange battle, a subtle, like mesmerism

The soul of the prey fights to escape

You project your own fate into the fate of the prey

It's like a supreme wish, a supreme act of volition, not as a dodge of cleverness

b)

I haven't experiences of hunting.

VII. HENRY'S PROPOSES 

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a) shy

b) lightning

c) sudden

d)

e) paw

f) heard

g) relaxation

h) bending

i) her fine sparks

k) tomfoolery

j) quiver

l) stroking

m) dying

n)

o) mother

p) insistence

q)

r) answer

s) marry her

t) seem

u) pain

v) shoulder

w) chin

x) killed

y) cruelly

z) child