Antiquities

Agatha Christie (1891-1976) was an English writer of detective stories. She wrote
about a hundred books and plays, many of which were international successes. Some
of her books became popular movies, such as Murder on the Orient Express and Death
on the Nile. Her most famous play, The Mousetrap, opened at a London theater in
1952 and it is still running, after nearly 60 years! The Mousetrap has been thrilling
audiences for as long as Elizabeth II has been on the throne. She became Queen of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1952. In 1930, when Agatha Christie was already
thirty-nine years old, she married Max Mallowan, an archeologist who made his name
excavating in Mesopotamia. When they returned from the Middle East, somebody
asked the writer how she felt about being married to a man whose main interest was
antiquities. An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have, she said. The
older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
(Adapted from: CERF, Bennet. The Life of the Party. New York: Doubleday, 1956 and FADIMAN, Clifton (Ed.) The Little, Brown
Book of Anecdotes. Boston: The Little, Brown & Company, 1985.)

1. Onde Max Mallowan, esposo de Agatha Christie tornou-se famoso como arquelogo?
a. Middle East
b. Nile
c. Mesopotamia
d. Orient

2. An archeologist is a man ___work is the study of ancient things.

a. who
b. how
c. whose
d. whos

3. Quantos anos tinha Agatha Christie quando casou:

a. thirty-six years old
b. forty-five years old
c. thirty-nine years old
d. thirty-seven years old

4 . Agatha Christie escreveu estrias sobre:

a. success
b. nature
c. murder
d. rivers

GABARITO
1. c; 2. c; 3. c. 4. C.