2. "kugler, ferdinand was a thief before his tenth year and an inveterate liar." habitual believable undetectable entertaining 3. "but really, why don’t you…why don’t you yourself do the judging? " kugler asked pensively. regretfully eagerly happily thoughtfully 4. "the council has forbidden itinerant entertainers to stop on municipal property. acrobatic acting country traveling 5. [we] … began to talk about the weather again, … and other banal and insoluble questions. trite critical controversial unexpected 6. "though another of mohammed’s commandments—the one on alcoholic drinks—was broken (and without constraint, as i know now) no latitude was allowed with regard to pork." argument sharing leeway expense 7. the people in eugene ionesco’s story start to turn into wingspanroaches. monkeys. rhinoceroses. giraffes. 8. the "black sheep" in italo calvino’s fable causes problems because he is honest. gullible. dishonest. cruel. 9. andrei voznesensky compares a young girl’s first disappointment to "first " spring. raindrops. frost. skylark. 10. the muslim narrator in "forbidden fruit" prides himself on his appetite. driving. handwriting. abstinence. true or false 11. in "the last judgment," a murderer learns that he will receive not divine but human justice. true false 12. boris pasternak was allowed to accept the nobel prize for doctor zhivago when it was awarded. true false