Questions and discussion

1. Vanessa Veals. How is Vanessa Veals depicted in this chapter? Does she approve of her husband’s attitude towards children?

2. Mrs Veals says: ‘But lately he seems to have lost interest’ (100). What is the meaning of her statement? Find more examples in the text to justify your answer.

3. What does Mrs Veals crave for? Why?

4. Why is Vanessa so nostalgic about her youth? Describe the language the author uses in that episode.

5. Why do you think John Veals ‘seemed so exactly suited to the world’?

6. What do you know about Veals’ background?

7. How does the language of the narration change when Vanessa Veals starts reasoning about business world?

8. What intrigued Vanessa about John Veals? Why did she find all her psychological classes to be useless?

9. Find some facts on the Internet about the following quotation: “What you have done for the City of London, we now intend to do for the entire British economy”. Who was the author of these words?

10. Summarize Chapter 1.

11. What were the qualities of Allah that Farooq Knocker-al-Rashid was interested in?

12. What was the prevailing atmosphere of Hassan’s childhood? What truth did he learn after an accident at school? (107)

13. How do you understand the statement ‘Hassan tried on different disguises’ (107). Find examples in the text.

14. What kind of life did Nasim have before her meeting with Farooq?

15. Did Hassan succeed in school?

16. Make a summary about what Hassan heard at a meeting of the Left Student’s group?

17. Comment on the statement: ‘Power expressed through money. But really just power’. (111)

18. What do you get to know about the American and British occupation of Iraq from the text? (113) How was this problem viewed in European press?

19. Who is Jason? What is peculiar about the way he speaks? Find examples in the text.

20. What was the main reason of Hassan to begin a blog on the site YourPlace?

21. Once Hassan’s homepage had a ‘jab’. Who was Grey_Rider? How did he look like? Give examples. What was peculiar about his behaviour? What, do you think, was Salim’s real intention?

22. Summarize Chapter 2.

Part 3

Chapter 3 (119-131)

1. Find the meaning of the culture words below.

the Royal Courts of Justice (120), the Embankment (121), Michael Caine (122), S.Bellow (122), Philip Roth (122), J.Updike (122), BBB (126), Klondike (127)

1. Look up the meaning of the following words and phrases. Find the sentences in which these words are used. Translate the sentences into Russian.

1. to brief smb (120)
2. to scintillate on matters of jurisprudence (121)
3. a human outcome of persecution and upheaval (122)
4. the panoply of law (123)
5. to clam up (123)
6. a pin-up (124)
7. to suspend credit lines (125)
8. a mortgage holder (125)
9. iffy mortgage (126)
10. a ravenous demand (127)

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