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Choose extracts from the story that illustrate the character of the people listed in the table given below. There are some words given to help you. You may add words of your own. One has been done as an example: vain jealous competitive shrewd manipulative stingy materialistic spiteful Character Extract from the story What this tells us about the character Mrs. Packletide (i) The compelling motive for her sudden deviation towards the footsteps of Nimrod was the fact that Loona Bimberton had recently been carried eleven miles in an aeroplane by an Algerian aviator, and talked of nothing else; only a personally procured tiger-skin and a heavy harvest of Press photographs could successfully counter that sort of thing Competitive (ii) Mrs. Packletide had offered a thousand rupees for the opportunity of shooting a tiger without over-much risk or exertion, _____________ (iii) Mrs. Packletide faced the cameras with a light heart, and her pictured fame reached from the pages of the Texas Weekly Snapshot to the illustrated Monday upplement of the Novoe Vremya. _____________ Louisa Mebbin (i) "If it's an old tiger I think you ought to get it cheaper. A thousand rupees is a lot of money." _____________ (ii) Louisa Mebbin adopted a protective elder-sister attitude towards money in general, irrespective of nationality or denomination _____________ (iii) "How amused everyone would be if they knew what really happened," said Louisa Mebbin a few days after the ball. _____________ (iv) Louisa Mebbin's pretty week-end cottage, christened by her "Les Fauves," and gay in summer-time with its garden borders of tiger-lilies, is the wonder and admiration of her friends _____________ Loona Bimberton (i) As for Loona Bimberton, she refused to look at an illustrated paper for weeks, and her letter of thanks for the gift of a tiger-claw brooch was a model of repressed emotions _____________ (ii) there are limits beyond which repressed emotions become dangerous. _______________

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Choose extracts from
the story that illustrate the character of the people listed in the
table given below. There are some words given to help you. You may
add words of your own. One has been done as an example:























vain



jealous



competitive



shrewd



manipulative



stingy



materialistic



spiteful



























































Character



Extract from the story



What this tells us about the
character



Mrs. Packletide



(i) The compelling
motive for her sudden deviation towards the footsteps of Nimrod
was the fact that Loona Bimberton had recently been carried eleven
miles in an aeroplane by an Algerian aviator, and talked of
nothing else; only a personally procured tiger-skin and a heavy
harvest of Press photographs could successfully counter that sort
of thing




Competitive






(ii) Mrs. Packletide had offered a thousand rupees for the
opportunity of shooting a tiger without over-much risk or
exertion,




_____________






(iii) Mrs. Packletide faced the cameras with a light heart, and
her pictured fame reached from the pages of the Texas Weekly
Snapshot to the illustrated Monday upplement of the Novoe Vremya.




_____________



Louisa Mebbin



(i) "If it's an
old tiger I think you ought to get it cheaper. A thousand rupees
is a lot of money."




_____________





(ii) Louisa Mebbin
adopted a protective elder-sister attitude towards money in
general, irrespective of nationality or denomination




_____________





(iii) "How
amused everyone would be if they knew what really happened,"
said Louisa Mebbin a few days after the ball.




_____________





(iv) Louisa Mebbin's
pretty week-end cottage, christened by her "Les Fauves,"
and gay in summer-time with its garden borders of tiger-lilies, is
the wonder and admiration of her friends




_____________



Loona Bimberton



(i) As for Loona
Bimberton, she refused to look at an illustrated paper for weeks,
and her letter of thanks for the gift of a tiger-claw brooch was a
model of repressed emotions




_____________





(ii) there are limits beyond which repressed
emotions become dangerous.



_______________




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