I. Comprehension check

1. How would you determine the narrow genre of the story:

- a piece of grotesque;

- an ironical caricature of people of the theatre;

- a funny sketch for pleasure reading an amusing proof of the sayings “Beauty lies in lover’s eyes”;

- other

2. Complete the story map with the information from “The Supreme Illusion”

Setting: Main characters: Author’s goal or motif: Dominating mood: Plot: Outcome:

3. Choose the most suitable variant to complete the utterance:

1) Having come to Paris, the story-teller:

a) put up at his usual favourite hotel room

b) was annoyed at not being able to find a room in a hotel fast enough

c) had some difficulty about finding a room in a hotel

2) The porter at the Hotel Terminus:

a) was very polite and obliging to the story-teller

b) gave all his attention to their guests

c) had to engage all his time and the help of two page-boys to serve a woman-guest

3) The female guest from Hotel Terminus

a) was young and charming

b) attracted attention by her neurotic barbaric behaviour and ugly appearance

c) was an elderly helpless millionaire

4) The female guest from Hotel Terminus

a) had much luggage but a small car

b) had much luggage, a very big expensive car and a maid to help her

c) one bag and no car

5) Telling his former classmate, the story-teller

a) was unpleasantly struck

b) was not surprised at all

c) was glad to meet him after many years

6) The story-teller

a) expected Boissy Minor to be the most fashionable author in Paris

b) had an idea of possible connection of his business and his old acquaintance only when he saw him

c) understood that he had met a wrong person

7) When the story-teller learned about the real authorship of the play “Nature Dame de la Gune”:

a) he could not conceal his deep amazement

b) he was relieved

c) he didn’t believe this fact

8) Octare Boissy was

a) a modest author

b) doing well and shy because of it

c) a very wealthy man

9) Octave Boissy’s neurosthemia was

a) a usual disease of a hard-working person

b) a very eccentric and extraordinary neurotic state which is difficult to imagine

c) silly and pretentious.

10) Octave Boissy’s serious simplicity was

a) the main trait of his character

b) an eccentric mask of the favourite of the crowd

c) a disguise to conceal his real self.

11) Blance Lemonnier was

a) a new starlet previously unknown

b) the best known actress in Paris

c) a beginner during her first season in the theatre

12) Boissy wrote famous and fashionable plays because

a) he wanted to please Blance Lemonnier

b) he loved theatre and would not live without it

c) he wanted to become famous

13) Boissy refused from his favourite occupation of engineering because

a) he could not earn enough money

b) he decided to write plays for Blanche

c) he got tired of engineering

14) For Boissy “ to live” meant

a) to earn much and to be wealthy

b) to be very famous and much talked about

c) to enjoy the pleasure of Blanche Gemonnier’s company and to see her pleased

15) Blanch Lemonnier became known

a) some time before for her talent and beauty

b) only through her acting in Boissy’s plays

c) when she was very young

16) At the and of the story the narrator

a) was astonished at what he learned

b) admired Boissy’s powerful love and its creative nature

c) inwardly laughed at people’s fobbies

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