Respuestas De Las Actividades De El Libro " Strangers On A Train"

Questions on the text

Chapter 1

1- Mark was like a father to Ricky. Give examples.
* Mark taught Ricky how to throw s football and ride a bike. He warned him against drugs and protected him from other aggressive children in the school.
2- What did the fat, bald man do after he got out of the car?
* The man was holding a hose and he put one end of it into the tail pipe ofcar.
3- How did the man react when Mark tried to save his life?
* The man puts Mark into the car with violence and tried to kill him, later the man said Mark to kill him and at last the man talked to Mark about your life.
Chapter2
1- What happened when Mark took the gun?
- He left his fingerprints in the gun.
2 - Why did Clifford think Muldanno wanted to kill him?
*Because Clifford knows where is the body of senator Boyette and Muldanno works for Mafia and kill Boyette.
2- Describe briefly what Romey did after he got out of the car and began to cry.
* Romey got his gun and he puts his gun in the mouth and pulls the trigger and die.

Chapter 3

1- What was Ricky’s reaction immediately after Clifford shot himself?
* He began to making strangenoises, trembling and cry in the sofa.
2- Why did Mark call 911 to report the suicide?
* Because he thought that it is what it had to do
3- What two lies did Mark tell Hardy?
* He said that it saw the corpse of the gentleman Romey and said too ,his blow in the face did it in the school.
Chapter 4
1- Why was it a good thing that Muldanno’s trial might be a postponed?
-Because the only person that knew where it was the body was Romey and now was died.
2- What did Foltrigg do to find out if Clifford had told anyone about the localization of the body?
* Romey called Foltrigg for talk to him at night; Romey insinuated he knew where is the body of Boyette but at last he prefers not tell more.
Chapter 5
1- Why was Mark worried on his way to the cafeteria?* Because went with Hardy and though happened with Ricky is his fault.
2- How did Hardy help Trumann?
* Hardy bought Mark a Coca-Cola and Mark left his fingerprints in this and Hardy take the can and he analyzed if they were the same that in the pistol.

3- Why did Mark decide to keep the lawyer’s business card that found?
* Because he did not want to go to the jail for themurder that he did not commit and decided that he wanted to be defended by a lawyer.
Chapter 6
1- What did Foltrigg hope to find out from talking to Mark?
* He hopes Mark said to him where the body of senator Boyette was.
2- How did Mark react when he discovered that an FBI agent wanted to talk to him?
* Mark didn’t want to speak with them for he knew that they would ask him whereBoyette's body was and would threaten him.
Chapter 7
1- What was unusual about Reggie’s office and why was this so?
* Reggie’s office had children’s books and some toys on the desk because her treated involved abuses children.
2- Why was Reggie’s frightened and what advice did she give Mark?
* Mark did not want to say anything because if he said anything the Mafia it might kill himand Reggie said to him that he should not say anything.
Chapter 8
1- Why did Reggie provide Mark with a tape recorder?
* For to record the whole conversation that had with the FBI.
2- What did Trumann lie to Reggie about?
* Trumann said to Mark that there did not need lawyer who was defending him that it was better to do without the lawyer. Lawyers were a problem.

Chapter 91- Why were the FBI convinced that Mark had been in the car with Clifford?
* Because Romey’s car had fingerprints of Mark and FBI analyzed these fingerprints and they knew that they belonged to Mark.
2- Why did Trumann like the idea of putting Mark and this family in the Federal Witness Protection Programme?
* Because the Mafia was chasing Mark since they knew that he knew where...