MAN HUNT, Richard MacAndrew CUP

Answer the following questions:

CHAPTER 1
1. Different sections of the text in each chapter are printed
in different ways. Why did the author do that?
2. Why did the murderer choose the particular place to
kill the walker?
3. How did the murderer feel after he had killed the
walker? Why?
4. Why did he kill this man?
5. Why do you think the killer put the playing card in the dead man’s wallet?
What does the policeman say about it later?
6. What do you find out about the dead man?

CHAPTER 2
The killer did these things in the second killing, True or False?
a) he drove his car to the place of the killing
b) he walked on the paths
c) he stopped to enjoy the beautiful views
d) he used a knife
e) he talked to his victim before killing her
f ) he didn’t leave a playing card on her body
g) he didn’t enjoy this murder as much

CHAPTER 3
1. Match the beginnings and endings.
a) The killer sent the text message
b) The killer doesn’t tell us
c) The killer wants some people to know
d) The killer says that some people
e) The killer says that he wants to
1) that he is successful at what he does.
2) strangle his third victim.
3) to the journalist.
4) prevented him from achieving his ambitions.
5) how he knows the journalist’s phone number.

2. Which of these things did Neville, Scott and Russell discuss?

a) The fact that both victims were at Avon University, Bristol.
b) The fact that both of the victims were walkers.
c) Whether the female victim’s husband might be the killer.
 d) Why they haven’t found the killer’s car or clothes.
e) Jonathan Greene’s journalism.

CHAPTER 4
Put the following events in the order in which they happen:
a) Scott talks to Jonathan Greene in the pub.
b) Russell tells Neville and Scott she thinks it is the act of killing which is
important for the
murderer.
c) The police visit the scene of the crime.
d) Greene says that he is investigating something to do with soldiers.
e) Russell, Neville and Scott have a meeting.

CHAPTER 5
Who said these things and to whom?
a) ‘The first car behind the tractor is the one to watch. I think our man is
driving it.’
b) ‘He’s looking at the effects of active service on soldiers who have been
out in the Middle
East and the Gulf.’
c) ‘That means he must have used his own car to come out here for the
first two
murders.’
d) ‘You’ve got the list of soldiers. Go over to Catterick. Talk to them.
e) ‘first check the CCTV to see if you’ve got him coming back into
Richmond yesterday.’

CHAPTER 7
What do these things refer to?
a) red Ford Focus KV06EUU
b) seven thirty in the morning
c) a part-time gardener
d) a Tariq nine-millimetre
e) four years
f) unnaturally tidy
g) Barney Beck

CHAPTER 8
Are these things True or False?
a) Russell went with Scott and Neville to Barney Beck.
b) Neville made Russell stay in the car.
c) When Scott looked over the wall Terry was drowning a woman.
 d) Terry Reid pointed a gun at Scott.
e) Reid hit the woman on the head with a stone.

AFTER READING:
Choose one of the characters and write a few paragraphs about them
describing what sort of person they are.