1. Father and son went to Denmark to pay a visit to their old friends.

2. They happened to stay in the very inn where father had once been thirty years before.

3. When they went to have a drink, they saw the woman with whom father had been madly in love.

4. Father had planned to marry that girl.

5. A few days later father changed his mind and broke the date with the young lady.

6. This story took place in a Danish inn, where Father met his old lover unexpectedly.

7. The girl’s father did not object to her love because her lover was an American.

8. Father went back to America to borrow some money to get married on.

9. The girl did not wait for Father. She got married soon after Father went back to America.

10. Father did not keep the date because of a misunderstanding: people from different countries read the date differently.

11. Father felt disappointed when the woman did not recognize him.

1. Father’s attitude on recognizing the woman as his old lover was one of .

A) great joy

B) great sadness

C) mild shock and surprise

D) regret

2. When the woman went to fetch beer, father mopped his face with a handkerchief because .

A) he didn’t want to see her

B) he feared that she might recognize him

C) he felt sorry that he had not kept the date

D) he was puzzled why she hadn’t recognized him

3. Which of the following can best complete the son’s words “Dad, you don’t have to …”?

A) tell the truth

B) be worried

C) tell mother

D) explain

4. How was the woman when father and son saw her at the inn?

A) She had forgotten all about her youthful romance.

B) She was rather happy.

C) She was angry that she had been cheated by that young American.

D) She was tired of her life in Denmark

5. Which of the following can support your choice in Question 4?

A) Now she was stout and her hair was untidy.

B) She had married a local innkeeper.

C) The woman’s words: “A wonderful country, America.”

D) The woman’s words: “It’s much better here.”

6. The woman’s father objected to her romance because .

A) the young man was an American who had no job

B) the young man wouldn’t make a good husband

C) the young man would take his daughter away

D) the young man could not speak Danish