The Phantom of the Opera 5 It Opened with an Instrumental Architect and Had Worked on the Afraid of His Face

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Gaston Leroux Page 23 – Exercise 1 4 ‘The table is too heavy for me to 1 M 2 N 3 A 4 I 5 H 6 L 7 C 8 B carry alone,’ said the scene- 9 E 10 G shifter. B1.2 5 ‘He often gives me some Page 24 – Exercise 2 money,’ said Meg’s mother. The Phantom 1 policeman – They are all theatre 6 ‘The audience has never heard jobs. such a beautiful voice,’ said the 2 body – They are all parts of the journalist. of the Opera body. Page 33 – Exercise 3 3 speech – They are all related to singing. A 8 B 3 C 1 D 2 E 9 F 6 G 7 H 4 4 ghost – They are all adjectives I 5 related to emotions. KEY TO THE EXERCISES AND EXIT TEST Chapter Four Page 24 – Exercise 3 1 B 2 B 3 A 4 B 5 B 6 A 7 A 8 A Page 40 – Exercise 1 9 A 10 A 1 To see her father’s grave. 8 He had been found dead, hanging. The Life and Career 2 Sweden. of Gaston Leroux Page 13 – Exercise 2 Chapter Three 3 He travelled from village to 1 La Sorelli is the dancer who danced village playing for people. Page 6 – Exercise 1 Page 26 – Exercise 1 at the gala performance. 4 Raoul went into the sea to bring 1 B 2 B 3 A 4 A 5 B 6 A 7 A 8 A 2 Meg’s mother is the woman who is 1 B 2 A 3 B 4 B 5 B back Christine’s scarf. 5 Stories about ghosts. in charge of Box 5. Page 30 – Exercise 1 Chapter One 3 That is the ghost who has a head 6 Only those who heard the Angel 1 A 2 D 3 B 4 B 5 D of Music. Page 8 – Exercise 1 like a skull. 4 Joseph Buquet was the man who Page 31 – Exercise 2 7 That he would send the Angel of A 4 B 1 C 2 D 3 Music to her. began the rumours about the ghost. A1 Sorelli said that she knew the Page 8 – Exercise 2 5 The scene-shifters are the people 8 Because he was an aristocrat and Persian. she was just a singer. 1 a ghost 2 rumours 3 one of the who move the stage scenery. 2 Meg said that her mother had 9 The Angel of Music. audience 4 a body 5 accident 6 He saw a head of fire that had no never seen him. 10 He gave her singing lessons. 6 seen 7 frightened body. 3 She said that someone had 7 The Persian is the man who has 11 Christine’s father’s favourite Page 13 – Exercise 1 found his body in the cellar. piece of music, The Resurrection the evil eye. 4 Raoul said that she looked so ill. 1 He was a quiet hard-working man. of Lazarus. Page 14 – Exercise 3 5 He said that he was the little 2 He was a scene-shifter. boy who had gone into the sea Page 40 – Exercise 2 3 He was the chorus-master 1 D 2 C 3 A 4 A 5 B 6 A 7 B 8 A for her scarf. 1D Monsieur Debienne and Monsieur 4 The evil eye 9 D 10 A 11 C 6 The man’s voice said that the Poligny retired from the Opera in 5 His head was like a skull, and he angels had wept to hear her order not to see the ghost was wearing a dress suit. Chapter Two that evening. anymore. 6 She was a box-keeper Page 16 – Exercise 1 B1 ‘I am going out this evening,’ 2C Raoul went to the concert in 7 She said that the ghost didn’t like said Erik. order to hear Christine. people talking about it, and that 1 B 2 B 3 A 4 A 5 B 6 A 7 B 8 B 2 ‘I have never been so frightened 3A The Opera Ghost wrote the new Box 5 was the ghost’s. in my entire life,’ said Meg. managers a letter in order to get 3 ‘I will love you forever,’ said Jack. his box back.

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4B The managers sent the guard to Christine years ago. We became Chapter Six Page 67 – Exercise 4 Box 5 in order to ask the people friends when I went into the sea to Page 55 – Exercise 1 1 when he went into the sea to get to be quiet. get her scarf, but I felt that I her scarf. 5H Monsieur Moncharmin called the couldn’t marry her because she 1 B 2 B 3 A 4 C 5 C 6 A 2 the Angel of Music guard into his office in order to was only a singer. But when I saw Page 64 – Exercise 1 3 a skull with terrible eyes discover what had happened in her recently, I realised that I love 4 sing the part of Margherita 1 Because he thought that she was Box 5. her as much as ever. 5 croak like a frog. in love with another man. 6F The Opera Ghost always gave the Unfortunately, she has a 6 chandelier fell 2 Because she invited him to the box-keeper some money or mysterious singing teacher – the 7 masked ball masked ball. chocolate in order to thank her ‘Angel of Music’. I saw him once at 8 take off his mask and 3 ‘Do not touch me! I am the Red for the footstool. her father’s grave and he is 9 a wedding ring Death!’ 7E Raoul went into the sea in order horrible. This ghost or phantom 10 a man’s voice and 4 A skeleton hand. to get Christine’s scarf back. has some hold on her, and until I 5 Because she wanted to help her discover what it is, Christine can Page 41 – Exercise 3 Angel of Music. Chapter Seven never be mine. 1 sung 2 should 3 goal 4 brought 6 To Christine’s dressing room. Your faithful friend, Page 68 – Exercise 1 5 creature 6 daughter 7 true 7 A wedding-ring. 1 A 2 B 3 B 4 A 5 B 6 A 7 A 8 cries 9 spoke 10 build 11 spelled Raoul 8 He heard her say, ‘Poor Erik.’ 12 seen 13 bird 14 beers B Personal response 9 Raoul followed her and then the Page 76 – Exercise 1 room began to spin around and he Page 49 – Exercise 4 1 B 2 A 3 D 4 B 5 B 6 A Chapter Five saw eight images of Christine. 1 boring 2 heavy metal 3 emotions Finally, he was alone in the room. Page 77 – Exercise 2 Page 48 – Exercise 1 4 jewellery 5 didn’t like it 6 on 1 normal 2 remember 3 loudly Page 64 – Exercise 2 1 Because they could not find television 7 operas 8 the Night 4 same 5 unhappy 6 none 7 light anything unusual in Box 5. 9 sometimes listens to 10 favourite 1 teacher 2 talent 3 performance 8 failed 9 discourage 10 boring 4 award 5 chance 6 successful 2 He reacted impatiently. Page 50 – Exercise 5 11 noisily 12 fake 3 Because she did not want Christine 7 popular 8 romantic 9 both A 2 B 4 C 1 D 6 E 3 F 5 1 forget 2 successful 3 loudly to sing in her place. Page 66 – Exercise 3 4 noisily 5 unhappy 4 In Box 5. The Paris Opera House 23 5 It made her sound like a frog. Page 78 – Exercise 3 Page 54 – Exercise 1 1 P E A C E 6 Some strange magic. 1 If the chandelier falls, it will 45R G 6 7 He told her to try and sing again. 1 Napoleon III. kill somebody. 8 The chandelier fell on her. 2 Renaissance, Baroque and A C I A R 2 If you go in Box 5, the ghost Classical. Page 48 – Exercise 2 7 S U P E R S T I T I O U S will tell you to go away. 3 So that the Emperor could drive D L O N M 3 If Carlotta sings, a tragedy 1 didn’t receive 2 was carried away 8 directly into the main hall of the will happen. 3 do not hear 4 would send 5 took I L N 11 O P Opera. 4 If Christine sings, nothing 6 was taught to 7 remember 9 B E H A V E 10 C O S T U M E S 4 Because of the war of 1870 and a bad will happen. 8 audience was N R R K R O fire in 1873. 5 If they pay the ghost, he will Page 49 – Exercise 3 5 Baron Haussmann. C 13 14 U S P not do anything bad. 6 To make the foundations of the A My Dearest Friend Jean-Claude, 12 D E A T H M L L 6 If they do not pay the ghost, Opera safe. O 15 A P P L A U S E it will be war. I am unhappy because I love 7 Music, Lyric Poetry, Lyric Drama Christine, and she is in love with 16 S C A R E D 7 If you hear the Angel of and Dance. Music, you will sing somebody else. I first met S wonderfully. E

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Film and Stage Version Page 91 – Exercise 2 Chapter Nine Page 108 – Exercise 2 of the Novel 1 Mephistopheles is the devil sent by Page 93 – Exercise 1 1 blood 2 torture 3 ghost 4 cruel Satan to Faust. Faust is an old 5 dangerous 6 monster 7 bleed Page 82 – Exercise 1 magician. Margherita is an 1 A 2 B 3 B 4 A 5 A 6 A 8 creature 9 rats 10 Faust 1 It became a horror classic because innocent young girl. Page 98 – Exercise 1 11 trapped 12 horrible the 1925 film based on it was so 2 Because he realizes that he is 1 B 2 B 3 A 4 A 5 B 6 A 7 A 8 A FUMI J BLOODCK successful. never going to be young again. 2 Lon Chaney. 3 He shows him a vision of Page 98 – Exercise 2 GOTORTURECDG 3 When the Phantom takes off his Margherita. A 5 – 1 told OHAADCBHYRAR mask to show his real face. 4 Satan gives him back his youth and B 3 – 2 figure 3 dressing room 4 It is a musical. SOOOYRLKPUNA makes him master on earth, but C 4 – 4 out 5 on 5 Joseph and the Amazing TDHSOUUOQLGC when Faust dies he will be a slave D 1 – 6 marry 7 engaged Technicolour Dreamcoat, Evita, in hell for eternity. E 7 – 8 chamber EUHUTEDMBLER Cats, etc. 5 Personal response. F 6 – 9 mirror 10 passage 6 He needed a lot of time to put his RAPTRLZOLERE 1 who 2 when 3 but 4 and 5 but G 2 – 11 lake 12 mask 13 leave make-up on. FRIGHTENEDOA 6 and 14 afraid 15 let FAAL I CNSECUT Page 93 – Exercise 3 Chapter Eight Lon Chaney RAUTKPETDWSU When I first saw Christine I thought Page 84 – Exercise 1 Page 103 – Exercise 1 IETSSNMEEYRR she was beautiful and wonderful, but 1 B 2 A 3 B 4 B 5 A 6 C her voice was nothing special. 1 D 2 B 3 B 4 A 5 C 6 C GIRLTTYRRPOE Page 91 – Exercise 1 I convinced her that I was the Angel HTRAPPEDHUPS 1 The Persian. of Music that her father had told her Chapter Ten POHORR I BLEKY 2 Because Erik promised that he about. With great patience I taught Page 104 – Exercise 1 her until she became a great singer. would never go there and listen to 1 A 2 A 3 B 4 B 5 A 6 A 7 B 8 B Page 109 – Exercise 3 her conversations. Then a young man from her past 9 B 10 B 11 A 1 The young girls of the corps de 3 That she would sing for him at the appeared so I took her down to my ballet were thrilled by the rumours performance the next day. house under the Opera. But women Page 108 – Exercise 1 will be women: her curiosity became of a ghost. 4 Because it would be cruel and it 1 Because he knew that he was so to strong and she took off my mask. 2 La Sorelli was frightened by the would be the last time. ugly. I wanted to kill her. Gradually, story of the ghost. 5 The wedding-ring. 2 He built special buildings for the though, she showed me that she was 3 The short pieces from Faust and 6 Two red eyes staring at him in the sultan with secret passages where not afraid of me and that she loved Romeo and Juliet were sung by darkness. he could hide, and he also built me. I believed her. I let her go. Now, Christine. 7 He ordered a carriage and made torture chambers for the sultan’s that she is always with that 4 The audience was astonished by sure he had a lot of money. wife. aristocrat I am furious – after all Christine’s singing. 8 Faust. 3 So that he would not work for I gave her a ring and that means – to 5 Christine Daaé’s scarf was brought 9 Not to discuss Erik’s secrets with anybody else. me – that we are married. He will back by Raoul. anyone. 4 Because he knew that Erik was pay for this. He will die slowly, very 6 The conversation between 10 So that Raoul would find out for dangerous. slowly, and Christine will spend the Christine and a mysterious man the detective if his brother had 5 To his house on the lake. rest of her life in my house under the was heard by Raoul. really taken Christine away. 6 Because she was his prisoner. Opera in the middle of a dark and 7 Secret tunnels and passages of the 11 People in the audience stood up 7 Because she loved him. dangerous lake. Opera House were planned by Erik. and began discussing what had 8 He showed him that Christine left 8 The stories about the ghost were happened. the house and came back on her not believed by the new managers. own.

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9 Christine was taken to the lake by 6 He took out all the parts that did chandelier on the audience and man. Well, dear readers, if you have Erik. not relate to the dramatic and planned to blow up our Opera House. ever truly loved, you know that this is 10 The torture chambers of the psychological understanding of Also, we now know that he built indeed payment, in part, for a sultan’s wife were designed by the characters and story. torture chambers in Persia. All this is horrible past. In any case, Erik’s Erik. 7 The Babylonian exile of the Jews horrible, but when we hear that his destiny has already been decided: he by Nebuchadnezzar. own mother gave him no affection or will die soon. Page 110 – Exercise 4 8 The Italians, whose country was love, we can, in some way, forgive Page 124 – Exercise 3 1 most 2 it 3 to 4 but 5 much in part controlled by foreign Erik for his crimes, or at least we can 6 much 7 the 8 that 9 only 10 also nations, identified with the story understand. We also heard that he let A 13 B 7 C 3 D 12 E 6 F 9 G 5 H 11 who 12 until 13 however 14 this of the ancient Jews of this opera. Christine leave and marry another 10 I 4 J 1 K 2 L 8 M 11 1 That all the mysteries about the 9 They told the old folk tales of the ghost are explained in the end, and Germans. the ghost is not really a ghost. 10 It is the opera house in Bayreuth, 2 Because Poe says that horror Germany that was specially built stories should be short and The for the performance of the operas Phantom of the Opera is long. In by Richard Wagner. KEY TO THE EXIT TEST other words, it is not effective as a horror story. Chapter Eleven 3 Overall, he likes it. He thinks it is 1 1 It was the rat-catcher’s lamp. made harmless and the Opera well written and he likes its setting Page 124 – Exercise 1 2 The mirror was actually a kind of would not blow up. 14 Because it in the Opera House. 1 He meant that if she decided not revolving door. 3 Because he was his first kiss. Not even his 4 Personal response. to marry him she would die. wanted to keep an eye on Erik, mother kissed him when he was a 2 He said that he needed love. whom he considered dangerous. child. Opera: the First 3 Because she was tied up. 4 No one. It was an accident. 2 1 False. She had a good relationship International Pop Music 4 Because he was in love. 5 Because he was an aristocrat and with the ‘ghost’, who gave her 5 He wanted to blow up the Opera she was just a singer. 6 The Page 116 – Exercise 1 money and chocolates in return for House. Angel of Music. 7 He said that her help. 2 True. 3 False. He 1 All three of them are types of pop 6 The gunpowder will blow up the only those who heard the Angel of fell in love with Christine when music with stars and adoring fans. Opera House. Music could sing well. 8 He made they were kids. 4 False. Erik Also, all three have a single 7 Water will flood the cellar with the the chandelier fall on the audience taught Christine to sing well. country of origin: opera, Italy; rap gunpowder. of the Opera. 9 Because Erik told 5 True. 6 False. She croaked like and rock, the USA. 8 He did it to please Christine who her that he would leave if she saw a frog. 7 False. He didn’t because 2 More than a million copies. was now his wife. Raoul, and she was afraid of losing Christine begged him not to. 3 He wished to revive ancient Greek 9 It was his happiness. her ‘Angel of Music’. 10 They 8 True. 9 True. 10 True. tragedies, which he believed were both felt very sorry for him even Page 124 – Exercise 2 11 False. She did see his face, and half-spoken and half-sung. though he had done bad things. Erik finally let her go when she We now know just about everything 4 Venice. 11 Because he himself was also an convinced him that she was not about the Phantom of the Opera 5 It opened with an instrumental architect and had worked on the afraid of his face. 12 False. It House, but it seems that we do not overture. There were three acts. construction of the Opera. was Erik who kidnapped her. know what to think about him, Some Much of the dialogue was in 12 Because the Persian had been a 13 False. The Persian took him of our readers see Erik as a victim, recitative, the half-spoken and policeman in Persia where Erik had there. 14 True. 15 False. while others see him as just a half-sung parts, mixed with arias, worked for the sultan and his wife. Christine saved Raoul and the monster. Well, this writer believes the songs of operas. Singers sang 13 So that the gunpowder would be Persian. some duets. It closed with a chorus that he is both. Certainly we cannot of the entire cast. forgive Erik because he dropped a

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1 What in truth was the head of fire that the fireman, Pampin, saw? TF 2 How in truth did Christine suddenly disappear in her dressing room? 1 Meg’s mother was terrified of the ghost. 3 Why was the Persian always walking around the Opera? 2 The Opera Ghost demanded that the new managers keep 4 Who was responsible for Raoul’s brother’s death? Box 5 free for him. 5 At first, why did Raoul not want to marry Christine? 3 Raoul fell in love with Christine the first time he heard 6 Who did Christine say the voice was that Raoul heard in her dressing her sing. room the evening of the gala performance? 4 Christine's father taught her to sing well. 7 What did Christine’s father say about the Angel of Music? 5 The Opera Ghost wanted Christine to sing the role of 8 What horrible thing did Erik do when Carlotta sang instead of Christine? Margherita in Faust. 9 Why did Christine pretend not to know Raoul the first time she saw 6 Carlotta sang Faust wonderfully. him? 7 Raoul pulled off the mask of Red Death. 10 How were Christine and the Persian’s feelings the same for Erik? 8 Christine wore Erik’s wedding-ring. 11 Why did Erik know all the secret passages and places of the Opera? 9 Christine and Raoul pretended to be engaged for a month. 12 Why did the Persian know Erik so well? 10 When Christine first heard Erik singing she thought that 13 Why did water begin filling up the room with the barrels? he was the Angel of Music. 14 Why was Christine’s kiss so important for Erik? 11 Erik let Christine go the first time he kidnapped her because she never saw his face. 12 Raoul’s brother kidnapped Christine during her last performance. 13 The detective took Raoul to Erik’s house on the lake. 14 Erik was going to blow up the Opera if Christine did not marry him. 15 The detective saved Raoul and the Persian.