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| − | =Two main Characters: Personality, Family, Career= | + | ===Questions on the text=== |
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| − | == Morris Zapp ==
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| − | * 40 years old
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| − | * smoker
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| − | * he never left america so far
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| − | * long gorilla-like arms
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| − | * professor of English
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| − | * cannot swim
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| − | * light-headed
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| − | * veteran of long distance flying
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| − | * he exaggerates
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| − | * he's got a wife
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| − | == Philipp Swallow==
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| − | * afraid of flying
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| − | * 40 years old
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| − | * unaccustomed to traveling
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| − | * unconfident
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| − | * infinitely suggestable
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| − | * observes other people
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| − | * conservative/traditional
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| − | * married too
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| − | * good imagination
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| − | * professor of English
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| − | * excited about flying/travelling
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| − | =University Life and Academical System=
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| − | == Euphoric State University ==
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| − | * colloquially known as Euphoric State
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| − | * replica of the leaning Tower of Pisa (white stones, twice the original size)
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| − | * very good paid professors
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| − | * small but populus state between North and South California
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| − | * mountains, lakes, rivers, redwood forests, blond beaches, incomparable bay
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| − | * one of America's major universities
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| − | * most distinguished scholars, laboratories, libraries, research grants, longlegged secretaries
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| − | * not too diffucult to obtain a bachelor's degree
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| − | * students have to work a lot on their own
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| − | * necessary credits are accumulated at free time
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| − | * it's easy to cheat at this school
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| − | == Rummidge ==
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| − | * replica of the leaning Tower of Pisa (red bricks, to scale)
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| − | * bad paid professors
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| − | * large, graceless industrial city, in the English midlands, at intersection of 3 motorways, 26 railway lines, 6 stagnant canals
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| − | * the values changed from old to new => lost prestige
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| − | * disgruntled and discouraged mood
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| − | * middle size university
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| − | =Life in the USA vs. Life in Britain= | + | |
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| − | == USA ==
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| − | * violent country
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| − | * revolts on the universitie
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| − | * campuses in revolt
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| − | * growing cities and devastated countryside
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| − | * it isn't legal to abort
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| − | * melodramatic and violent country
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| − | * politicians get killed sometimes
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| − | ==Britain==
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| − | * school system is not easy
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| − | * bad weather
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| − | * high-level language
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| − | * Rummidge is one of many industrial cities in the Midlands
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| − | * tea time
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| − | * it is legal to abort
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