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The slave’s Russian descendants believe that the slave A15 1) had Russian royal blood in him. 2) was Peter the Great’s godfather. 3) belonged to the royal family in his native land. 4) was a close friend of the English royal family. According to the narrator, the biography of Pushkin’s ancestor turned into a novel because Pushkin A16 1) didn’t like the true biographical facts he had discovered. 2) found it impossible to stick to the facts that were doubtful. 3) could not do without describing fictional events. 4) found the true facts of the slave’s biography uninspiring. The narrator’s objective in writing the book was to A17 1) write a new version of the novel “The Negro of Peter the Great”. 2) continue the story from where it was left unfinished. 3) interpret the storyteller’s attitude to his ancestor. 4) prove that Pushkin’s ancestor was an African prince. A18 The narrator says that his research for the book 1) brought him to Russia to work as a journalist. 2) made him go to the war in Afghanistan. 3) led him to take part in the war in Africa. 4) brought him to a river bank in Africa. The lesson that the narrator learnt from his arrest was A19 1) not to use a camera and compass at the frontline. 2) to avoid speaking to people in his best posh English accent. 3) not to distort information about real events. 112
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