Read chapters from 10 to 13 and answer the following questions:

1. How does the author describe the living conditions in Greenland? Refer to the attitude of the expedition members to the Eskimos, describe their ways. Comment on the phrase “Peary defined the virtues of Esquimos as loyalty and obedience, roughly the same virtues one sought in the dogs”.

2. Refer to the new president of the US, define how his personality affected the American society.

3. Describe further events of Evelyn’s life and her divorce case.

4. Where did Tateh and his little girl appear in the final run after their wanderings? Describe their way.

5. Explain the roots of Harry Houdini’s depression? Why was he dissatisfied with his career? What way out did he finally find?

Look up the dictionary for the following words and statements:

Berth (n)

Walnut (n)

Idleness (n)

Hunting sorties (n)

Musk ox (n)

Harness (n), (v)

Snow blindness (n)

Esquimo (n)

Guerrilla (n)

Prank (n)

Hallucinate (v)

Fastidiousness (n)

Grooming (n)

Aft (adj., adv.)

Misshapen (adj.)

Fulmar (n)

Auk (n)

Chirp (v)

Nudge (v, n)

Diffidence (n)

Formidable (adj.)

Resent (v)

Trailbreaker (n)

Backbreaking labor (n)

Hack away (v)

Pickax (n)

Haul (v)

Precipitous descents

Sled (n)

Wait out (v)

Inex­plicable (adj.)

Unassimilable (adj.)

Caribou (n)

Brittle (adj.)

Arduous effort (n)

Pemmican (n)

Lag (n), (v)

Extremities (n)

Thaw out (v)

Fraternity (n)

Halt (n)

Sextant (n)

Floe (n)

Due north, due south

Stubby (adj.)

Paleocrystic (adj.)

Offal (n)

Broiled fish (n)

Purgative (n)

Induce­ment (n)

Sinuously (adv.)

Illustrateds (n)

Calves (n)

Resolute (adj.)

Impeccable (adj.)

Dabble (v)

Magnification (n)

Guffaw (v)

Lewd (adj.)

Flawlessly (adv.)

Bailiff (n)

Alienist (n)

Plea (n)

Contrition (n)

Vellum (n)

Stationery (n)

Remand (v)

Barbarity (n)

Mutilate (v)

Dole out (v)

Whim (n)

Reminiscent of (adj.)

Musty (adj.)

Pantograph (n)

Sultry (adj.)

Duck (n)

Frock (n)

Terminus (n)

Abustle (adv.)

Yank (v)

Frayed (adj.)

Lope (v)

Tumbrils (n)

Visionary (n)

Sandhog (n)

Flinty (adj.)

Buttress (n)

Babushka (n)

Escapologist (n)

Stolid (adj.)

Oaf (n)

Lithe (adj.)

Gangplank (n)

Varnish (n), (v)

Throttle (v)

Airborne (adj., adv.)

Casern (n)

Aloft (adj., adv.)

Whir (v)

Heir (n)

Cultural notes for chapters 10 -13:

P layer piano - is a self-playing piano, containing a pneumatic or electro-mechanical mechanism that plays on the piano action pre-programmed music via perforated paper rolls.

I gloo shelter - An igloo is a dome-shaped Eskimo shelter, usually made from blocks of snow.

Mathew Henson - Matthew Alexander Henson (August 6, 1866 – March 9, 1955) was an African American explorer and associate of Robert Peary during various expeditions, the most famous being a 1909 expedition which claimed to be the first to reach the Geographic North Pole.

W illiam Howard Taft - (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th President of the United States and later the 10th Chief Justice of the United States.

Three hundred and thirty-two pounds – about 150.592667 kilograms.

V oisin biplane - The Voisin Biplane was a French design which saw very limited use in the U.S. The great magician Harry Houdini was a Voisin aviator, although it appears he never flew in the U.S. However, he did make what is recognized as the first aeroplane flight in Australia.

F ranz Ferdinand (18 December 1863 – 28 June 1914) was an Archduke of Austria-Este, Austro Hungarian and Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia, and from 1889 until his death, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne. His assassination in Sarajevo precipitated Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia.

The Countess Sophie - Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (Czech: Žofie Marie Josefína Albína hraběnka Chotková z Chotkova a Vojnína, German: Sophie Maria Josephine Albina Gräfin Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin); 1 March 1868 - 28 June 1914) was the morganatic wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. Their assassination sparked World War I.

The Wrights - The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur were two Americans who are generally credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903.

Read chapters from 14 to 17 and answer the following questions:

1. Describe the circumstances of Father’s return? What did he notice to have changed dramatically over the year of his wanderings?

2. What was the root of Mother Younger Brother deepest depression, how did he attempt to handle his grief?

3. What new peculiarities of the Little Boy’s character do we get from the fifteenth chapter? How did his family perceive his oddities? Who was the member of the family having closest relationship with the boy and why? What notions was he constantly concerned with? Quote the text to prove it.

4. Where did winter catch Tateh and his girl? What was Tateh afraid of both in terms of his daughter growing up and protecting her life?

5. Characterize the attempts of the strikers to get their way and the response of the authorities to that. Explain the essence of the so called “the children's crusade” invented by the strikers?

6. How come Tateh began to conceive of his life as separate from the fate of the working class?

Look up the dictionary for the following words and statements:

Withdrawn (adj.)

Derelict (adj.)

Clavicle (n)

Tusk (n)

Alerted (adj.)

Vigorously (adv.)

Devious (adj.)

Loom (n)

Con­valescent (adj.)

Beef tea (n)

Crisply (adv.)

Firecracker (n)

Combustion (n)

After-concussion (n)

Whitecap (n)

Discard (v)

Sagging socks (n)

Declamation (n)

Volatile (adj.)

Forfeit (v)

Vanity (n)

Gaunt (adj.)

Lassitude (n)

Recompose (v)

To divert somebody from something (v)

Fall victim (v)

Dismal (adj.)

Tenement (n)

Overjoyed (adj.)

Trudge (v)

Complicity (n)

Wobbly (adj., n)

Stetson (n)

Inflamed (adj.)

Threadbare (adj.)

stoke the fire (v)

Serene (adj.)

Stratagem (n)

Storefront (n)

Elicit from (v)

Commotion (n)

Turmoil (n)

Pagoda (n)

Out of harm's way

For one’s own good

Chord (n)

Guardrail (n)

Pry (v)

Bestir oneself (v)

Editorial (n)

Satchel (n)

Hair clasp (n)

Emporium (n)

Man­nequin (n)

Egret feather (n)

Gimcrack (adj.)

Novelty (n)

Practical joke (n)

Paperweight (n)

Amiable (adj.)

Cultural notes for chapters 14 -17:

V ictrola - The record player, phonograph or gramophone was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the late 1870s until the late 1980s.

The Motor Boys books - The Motor Boys were the heroes of a popular series of adventure books for boys at the turn of the 20th century issued by the Stratemeyer Syndicate under the pseudonym of Clarence Young. This series was issued with dustjackets and glossy frontispiece. Howard Garis wrote many, if not all, of these stories.

Ovid - Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17 or 18), known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who wrote about love, seduction, and mythological transformation.

I WW - The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union currently headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. At its peak in 1923 the organization claimed some 100,000 members in good standing, and could marshal the support of perhaps 300,000 workers. Its membership declined dramatically after a 1924 split brought on by internal conflict. IWW membership does not require that one work in a represented workplace, nor does it exclude membership in another labor union.

The IWW contends that all workers should be united as a class and that the wage system should be abolished. They may be best known for the Wobbly Shop model of workplace democracy, in which workers elect recallable delegates, and other norms of grassroots democracy are implemented.

Shtetl - A shtetl (Yiddish: diminutive form of Yiddish shtot "town", pronounced very similarly to the South German diminutive "Städtle", "little town";) was typically a small town with a large Jewish population in pre-Holocaust Central and Eastern Europe

The Internationale - The Internationale (L'Internationale in French) is a famous socialist, communist, social-democratic and anarchist anthem and one of the most widely recognized songs in the world.

The Internationale became the anthem of international socialism. Its original French refrain is C'est la lutte finale / Groupons-nous et demain / L'Internationale / Sera le genre humain. (Freely translated: "This is the final struggle / Let us group together and tomorrow / The Internationale / Will be the human race.") The Internationale has been translated into many of the world's languages. It is sung traditionally with the hand raised in a clenched fist salute. The Internationale is sung not only by socialists but also (in many countries) by communists or social democrats, as well as anarchists.

India ink - (or Indian ink in British English), or less commonly called Chinese ink since it may have been first developed in either India or China, is a simple black ink once widely used for writing and printing, and now more commonly used for drawing, especially when inking comics and comic strips. Indian ink tends to clog fountain pens if not used for long time; it then becomes necessary to use water to unclog it.

REO - The REO Speed Wagon was a motor truck manufactured by REO Motor Car Company. It was an ancestor of the pickup truck. REO are the initials of the company's founder, Ransom E. Olds, also the founder of the Oldsmobile (company later sold to General Motors and the brand retired in 2004).