Quiz Show (S. Faulks "A Week in December")

Who is depicted in this image?

Each of these words can be translated into Russian as "афера". But which one is used in the text?

• scam

• con trick

• fraud

• crook business

Literery setbacks came in many shapes, and Tranter _ all of them

Choose the right preposition: Veals preferred to steer them towards the "_ the counter" method, where deals were made privately

• over

• from

• on

• below

Sedley's combination of private-school manners and iron _ had eventually broken the reserve of even the most world-weary

She neither _ nor repined over him

The only way to make monet was to have an _

It had started when he submitted some reviews _ spec to a small magazine

• in

• on

• with

• by

The information that leaked through the bank's flimsy _ walls

In Arabic this word means "unbeliever" and it is used in the novel by the group of Muslims to name the citizens