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Lesson Seven Miss Bill By Katherine Mansfield A. Answer the following questions on the text : 1. What was the day like when Miss Brill went to the public park that Sunday ? 2. How did she feel about her fur ?Explain . 3. Why did Miss Brill think the band sounded louder and gayer ? 4. Why was the disappointed when she found that the old couple sitting beside her was silent? 5. How did she feel towards those sitting on the beches and green chairs ?Who were those people ? 6. What kind of woman do you think the ermine toque was ? What makes you think so ? 7. What did Miss Brill discover from the scene around her that made her so joyous ? 8. What work did Miss Brill do to make a living ? 9. Why did she go straight home that Sunday afternoon ? 10. How did she feel when she put the necklet back to its box ? Key A 1. it was brilliantly fine ---- the blue sky powdered with gold and the great spots of light splashed over the park . The air was motionless and it was a faint chill . 2. She liked her fur very much . She thought it was very nice to feel it . She had put it in the box . Only this afternoon she had taken it out of its box, shaken out the moth ---powder and given it a good brush . 3. Because the season had begun .she had a good spirit and a very happy feeling that afternoon . 4. Because she was always looking forward to the conversation . 5. She thought they were nearly always the same and there was something funny about nearly all of them . They were old , odd and silent . She thought they were coming from dark little rooms. Those people were the same as her who came to the park on Sundays . 6. She was kind of woman who wanted to attract and lure the man . When the man breathed a deep puff into her face and walked on while she still talked and laughed . When she was alone , she smiled more brightly than ever . Soon she turned to a much nicer person . 7. She found that the funny old man with long whiskers hobbled along in time to the quick music and was nea