Around the World

in Eighty DaysChapter 17

Contextual Assessment

1.What would happen to Mr. Fogg if he lost the wager?

Mr. Fogg ….

2.Why was Passepartout blaming himself for Mr. Fogg’s loss of the wager?

Passpartout ….

3.Why did Mr. Fogg seclude himself in his room?

He wanted ….

4. Why did Mr. Fogg call to see if Aouda was ready to receive him?

He said “………………………….”

Contextual Assessment

5. Mr. Fogg in return apologised to Mr. Fogg for ….

6. Aouda in retun apologised to Mr. Fogg for ….

7.Why were the gentlemen the Reform Club sure that Mr. Fogg had lost the wager?

It was because ….

8. What were the first words that Mr. Fogg uttered as he entered the Reform Club?

He said “ ……………………

True / False Statement

Statements True (T) / False (F)

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When Mr. Fogg first arrived in London, he thought that he had lost the wager by five minutes.

2 Aouda was the first to realise that they had gained by one day because they were travelling eastward.

3 Mr. Fogg remained in his room and tended to his business alone.

4 Passepartout was anxious to know if Mr. Fogg was all right behind the closed door of his room.

5 Passepartout was asked to go to the Custom’s Office to se if Reverend would conduct the marriage ceremony for Mr. Fogg

True / False Statement

Statements True (T) / False (F)

6. They arrived at the Reform Club and there was a large crowd waiting to witness the ending of the wager.

7 Mr. Fogg lost the wager.

8 Mr. Fogg was successful in proving that travelling around the world in eighty days was possible.

9 Aouda asked if Mr. Fogg would marry her even when she knew that he had become poor.

10

Aouda and Mr. Fogg were married a month later.

ANSWERS

CONTEXTUAL ASSESSMENT 1. would be totally ruined2. thought that he was the reason for Mr Fogg’s delay 3. to put his affairs in order4. to talk to Aouda5. Bringing her to England6. following him and perhaps be the cause of his delay and ruin7. the name of Phileas Fogg was not among the list of8. passengers on the steamer from New York Here I am, gentlemen!

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