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Police found  a mysterious letter inside a bag
                                                                     a in Kaspar Hauser's  room, after his death.
           The order of the questions  usually fol[ows the content of  b in the  place where Kaspar Hauser died.
           the text. Read the questions  first, then the text and ifyou  c near a river in Bavaria.
           are not sure of the answer,  eliminate the options  which
                                                                     d in the place where Kaspar Hauser was attacked.
           are definitely  incorrect first. This should  help  you to
                                                                     Most historians  today believe that Kaspar Hauser
            narrow  down  your ariswers  and focus your reading.
                                                                     a was the son of a Bavarian  prince.
                                                                     b was one of the most mysterious people in history.
       3  Read the exam strategy  and choose  the correct answers.   c invented the story of his tife.
          1 People in Nuremberg  took Kaspar Hauser to the police    d did not really  die from the knife wound.
            station because
            a he was carrying  two letters.                     4  !@EMil  Match the hightighted phrasalverbs in the
            b he said he wanted to be a soldier.                  text with the definitions  below.
            c he was acting strangely.                             1 to study or investigate something
            d he had no possessions.                               2 to visit somebody
            Before  Kaspar  totd his story, some peopte  believed that  3 to recover from something
                                                                   4 to try to find something
            he had grown up
            a in prison.                                           5 to take care of somebody or something
            b with his father, in a forest.                        5 to find somebody or something  by chance
            c without any people around him.                      D  VOCRBULARY  BUILDER 6.3: PAGE 732 @
            d in a normaI  home.
            According  to his story, Kaspar spent  the first years  of  5  fif'#mflF  Which of these events from  Kaspar Hauser's life
            his tife                                               do you find strangest? lf his story wasn't  true, how would
            a in a darkcettwith  a mysterious man.                you exptain them?
            b in a dark cetlwith  absolutety nothing  in it.       1 He was found wandering the streets alone.
            c in thd garden  of a mysterious stranger.             2 He could only say a few words when they found  him.
            d alone and always  indoors.                           3 He was found with a knife wound.
            Some  people suggested  that Kaspar Hauser was         4 He was attacked in a garden  and died three days later.
            a from another country.                                5 A note containing  a mysterious message was found after
             b reatly an artist.                                     his death.
            c the son of a schoolteacher.                       6
            d from a wealthy famity.                              fffi?TffiB  Work in pairs. Discuss whether  you think  Kaspar
                                                                   Hauser's  story  is true. Then  have a class vote.
             Between  7829  and 1833,  Kaspar Hauser suffered
            a two knife wounds,  but they weren't  serious.
                                                                7  ffiffif;fffl Work in pairs. Look at the film posters.  Do you
             b two knife wounds, one small and one fatal.
                                                                   know any of these fitms  in which the main character's
             c two very serious knife wounds.
                                                                   true identity is kept secret? Discuss  (a) Why you think the
             d two knife wounds on the same occasion.
                                                                   character's  identity needs to b'e a secret, and (b) other
                                                                   possible  reasons  for hiding  your true identity.































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