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Roald Dahl

READING CHECK

1. The protagonist’s name is __________________________. He is also the narrator of the story.


2. He earns his living as a _________________________.
3. The narrator describes himself as a person who likes travelling regularly to work. In other
words, he is a contented _____________________.
4. Every day he used to travel by ______________________ in order to go to work.
5. _______________________ was the day his routine was disturbed.
6. There was a stranger on the platform and he used to carry a ______________________
instead of an umbrella. He also used to smoke a ______________________.
7. While the narrator read _________________, the stranger read the ____________________.
8. The appearance of the stranger brought back old school memories. The stranger was in fact
_______________________, a school prefect.
9. His nickname was __________________________.
10. He was called that way because he used to come ____________ forward to ________ the
boys.
11. The narrator became his personal _____________ while attending the public school.
12. The narrator suffered enormously at the hands of the stranger. So deep was his pain that he
even considered _________________________.
13. One of the worst punishments he had to endure was _______________________________.
14. Nearly fifty years have passed since those school days and the narrator decides to take some
_______________________.
15. He intends to embarrass the stranger and expose his acts but he was the one who became
embarrassed when the stranger denied being _____________________.
KEY
1. William Perkins
2. solicitor
3. commuter
4. train
5. Tuesday
6. cane; pipe
7. The Times; Daily Mail
8. Bruce Foxley
9. Galloping Foxley
10. galloping; hit
11. slave
12. committing suicide
13. the caning
14. revenge
15. Bruce Foxley

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