Ch+1

**Exercises:**
1. What was wrong with each of the three young men? 2. How did patent medicine advertisements affect Jerome? 3. What did Jerome go to the British Museum one day for? 4. What did Jerome feel after he had glanced half down the list of the premonitary symptoms of various diseases? 5. What was the only malady Jerome had not got? What kind of malady was it? 6. Why did Jerome consider himself an interesting case from a medical point of view? 7. Why did he try to examine himself and how did he do it? 8. In what state did he walk into the reading-room? Why did he feel a wreck when he left it? 9. Why was Jerome sure that he would da his doctor a good turn by consulting him? 10. How did the doctor examine him? 11. What happened when Jerome took the prescription to the chemist's? 12. What was the symptom Jerome had suffered since his early childhood? 13. What did the doctors put it down to? 14. What did each of the young men think of the maladies of the other two? 15. What was their unanimous opinion as to the cause of their sufferings and the remedy needed? 16. Why did Jerome strongly object to a sea trip? 17. What did he remember of his brother-in-law's short sea trip? 18. What happened to another fellow he knew? 19. What anecdotes did Harris tell them? 20. Why did the fellow who was seasick wish he were overboard? 21. What preventive did Jerome discover against sea-sickness? 22. What did the three friends finally decide to do to restore their health? 23. Who was the only one who did not care for a river trip? Why? 1. What do you think the matter was with Jerome, George and Harris? 2. Do you like to read medical books? How do you think they usually affect people? 3. Jerome seems to think that poor sailors are always unwilling to admit that they had ever been sea-sick. Do you think Jerome is right?
 * I. ** **Write out the names of the diseases mentioned and their symptoms. Use them in your answers to the questions (Ex. V).**
 * II. ** **Translate the preface into Russian in written form.**
 * III. ** **Pick out a short passage (about half a page) for oral translation in class.**
 * IV. ** **Pick out sentences with a touch of humour. Comment on. the character of humour.**
 * V. ** **Answer the following questions;**
 * VI. ** **Answer the following questions and motivate your answers:**
 * VII. ** **Retell the chapter close to the text.**
 * VIII. ** **Give a précis of the chapter.**
 * IX. ** **Make up dialogues between:**
 * 1) Two elderly women who are discussing their ailments, each of them sure that it is she who is more seriously ill.
 * 2) Two poor sailors boasting of their never being sea-sick.
 * 3) A perfectly fit young man and a doctor whom he tries to persuade to give him a sick leave certificate.

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JEROME K. JEROME. THREE MEN IN A BOAT[|1]