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1. 'On Approval' deals with the penniless artist Gebhard Knopfschranck. His pictures all show animals in unpopulated London scenes. When the fellow patrons of the Restaurant Nuremberg think that he has sold a picture to an American millionaire, they rush to buy his pictures, although previously he has not been able to sell a single one. Which picture does not sell?
2. In 'The She-Wolf' Clovis, bored with a fellow guest's boasts of his mastery of 'Siberian Magic', borrows a she-wolf to pretend to turn his hostess, Mary Hampton, into a wolf. When the trick succeeds, what does Lord Pabham use to lure the subsequent wolf into the game larder?
3. In 'Fur', Suzanne asks her friend Eleanor to help her inveigle her enormously rich distant cousin to buy her a really expensive birthday present. Eleanor comes up with a really clever scheme, and then asks Suzanne to do her a small favour in return. However, for Suzanne, 'the sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them'. Needless to say, Eleanor manages to turn the tables on Suzanne and by the end of the story a cloud has fallen over the two girls' friendship. As far as Eleanor is concerned the cloud has a what lining?
4. In 'The Boar-Pig', a couple of ladies try to gatecrash the garden party of the season. However, they are spotted by the young lady of the house, Matilda, who is in disgrace because she force-fed her young cousin, Claude, raspberry trifle. She promptly lets Tarquin Superbus, a huge Yorkshire boar-pig, into the locked paddock with the ladies. She then bribes them out of ten shillings for the Fresh Air Fund to lure him away. One of the ladies remarks viciously that she doesn't 'believe the Fresh Air Fund will see a penny of it!' Does it?
5. In 'The Lumber-Room', Nicholas was in disgrace because 'he had refused to eat his wholesome bread-and-milk on the seemingly frivolous grounds that there was a ____ in it'. What did Nicholas claim was in his bread-and-milk?
6. In 'The Brogue' Toby Mullet sells the horse (The Brogue) to their neighbour, Mr. Penricarde, before he realises that Mr. Penricarde is going to propose to one of his six unmarried sisters. This could be a disaster, as the Brogue is an unmanageable rogue, and Jessie could be a widow before she becomes a bride. What is something that does not upset The Brogue?
7. In 'The Story-Teller', a bachelor, in a successful bid to keep three children in a railway carriage quiet, tells them a story about a 'horribly good' little girl who is eaten by a wolf because her medals for being obedient, punctual and good behaviour clink together and reveal her hiding place. The children think it's a wonderful story, but the aunt describes it as what?
8. In 'The Stalled Ox', a painter who specialises in cattle (Theophil Eshley) is asked by his neighbour, Adela Pingford, to remove an ox from her garden. Unfortunately, his efforts merely drive it into the morning-room. Adela is not impressed and is very sarcastic, driving Theophil to sit and paint it in situ. "Ox in a Morning-room, late Autumn" is a great success and two years later one of his paintings is hung at the Royal Academy. What is the name of this RA exhibit?
9. Ronnie Attray is an incorrigible gambler. In the story 'The Stake', what is the only thing that he gambles with and wins his bet?
10. In 'The Lull', how does Vera stop Latimer Springfield from dwelling on politics all night?
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