THE ELEPHANT MAN BY TIM VICARY

Reading verification workshop

FULL NAME: _________________________ DATE: ________________

A. Answer these questions. (IN ENGLISH, NOT IN SPANISH)

1. Dr. Treves saw a picture of a man in the window of a shop near the hospital
2. His legs were deformed like his arm, and a faulty hip made Merrick walk only with a stick.
3. Dr. Treves gave Merrick a business card before sending him back.
4. The hospital lacked the necessary resources and facilities to provide care for "incurables."
5. Dr. Treves spoke with the hospital director, Mr. Carr Gomm, about Merrick. He listened
attentively and then wrote a letter to the editor of The Times newspaper. The readers of
The Times are very kind people. They were moved and donated a lot of money. After a
week, they had £50,000, so Merrick could live in the hospital for the rest of his life.
6. She screamed, dropped the food on the floor, and ran out of the room.
7. Merrick stopped talking about the lighthouse because Dr. Treves encouraged him to
socialize, and a visit from a kind woman made him happy at the hospital.
8. The Elephant Man's first Christmas present was a picture of Queen Alexandra and a
Christmas card, which deeply moved him and prompted him to write his first letter to the
Queen.
9. Merrick wanted to leave the theatre because it was very difficult for him; he didn't want the
people in the theatre to see him.
10. Because he wanted to sleep on his back, he tried to do so, but his heavy head slipped off
the bed, and he broke his neck.

B. Put the following events in the story in the right order. Number them 1–5.

a. 2
b. 3
c. 5
d. 1
e. 4

1. d There was a man in the shop. He was a dirty man in an old coat with a cigarette in
his mouth.
2. a. The next day, the doctor looked in the shop window again, but the picture was not
there.
3. b … Dr Treves gave Merrick two rooms at the back of the hospital.
4. e … They went to the theatre in a cab with dark windows.
5. c … The doctor saw that the skin on his face was blue, so he knew he was dead.

C. Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?

1. True
2. True
3. True
4. False
5. True
6. False
7. False
8. True
9. False
10. True