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English Listening Quizzes: Excerpt from Jack London's "Nothing That Ever Came To Anything"

Click on the Audio Symbol below. Listen and answer the questions based on what you hear. The story is repeated twice.

  1. Why did the author originally go to the shop?
  2. Where did he want to buy after entering the shop?
  3. Why couldn't the shopkeeper and the author communicate?
  4. How did the author try to communicate what he wanted?
  5. According to the author, what did the people think of him?
  6. Who finally understood him?
  7. Where did the boy lead the author?
  8. When was the boy going to bring leopard skins to the author?
  9. Who did the leopard skins belong to?
  10. What did the boy bring instead of leopard skins?
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