The Istanbul Run Comprehension Questions and Answers

Multiple Choice Section 1

1-B: Why did Tom go to Istanbul? He went to meet his fiancée and have a holiday. 2-D: How did Tom know where to meet Angela? She wrote him a letter. 3-A: By taxi. 4-C: He was studying at the university. 5-C: For two months. 6-A.

Multiple Choice Section 2

1-C: How long was Angela planning to stay in Istanbul? Not for much longer. 2-D: Why did Kemal give Tom his telephone number? Because they got on well and he wanted to help. 3-D: At Angela’s apartment. 4-A: Because it is easier to find a big hotel. 5-B: He saw her going into a...

Multiple Choice Section 3

1-D: What did Julie tell Tom about Angela’s death? She said she thought... 2-B: What did Julie say about Angela’s boss? Just before her accident... 3-C: In the men’s toilet. 4-A: He sold him some onyx ashtrays. 5-D: Onyx table... 6-D: Smuggling drugs. 7-B: To his villa. 8-D: Dunya shot... 9-C: Because she had found out that Dunya... 10-A: Because he had contacted the Turkish Police.

At American Bar: Word Completion Exercise

• 2: American
• 3: View
• 4: Looking
• 5: Ships
• 6: Russia
• 7: Little
• 8: Distance
• 9: See
• 10: Exciting
• 11: Watch
• 12: Nearly
• 13: Walked
• 14: People
• 15: Hotel
• 16: Anywhere
• 17: Bar
• 18: Beer
• 19: Himself
• 20: Late
• 21: Inside
• 22: Raincoat
• 23: Table
• 24: Coffee
• 25: Cigarettes
• 26: Open
• 27: Front
• 28: From
• 29: Newspaper
• 30: Watching

What Happened Next: Sequence of Events

2. First, he went to Angela’s apartment.
3. He knocked on the door, but there was no answer.
4. Then, he found a room at the Ankara Hotel.
5. The next day, he went to the export office where Angela worked.
6. He spoke to Mr. Dünya, the owner of the export company.
7. Mr. Dünya said that he had some very bad news.
8. He told Tom that Angela had been killed in an accident a week before.
9. Tom said, ‘But that’s impossible! I saw Angela yesterday.’
10. Mr. Dünya gave Tom Mr. David Pennington’s telephone number.

Making Sentences: Question Formation

• 2: What did Kemal offer to do?
• 3: Who was David Pennington?
• 4: Who had tried to contact Angela’s parents? / Who had Mr. Pennington tried to contact?
• 5: How did Angela die?
• 6: What did the police say?
• 7: Why was it difficult to identify Angela’s body?
• 8: Why did they believe the dead person was Angela?
• 9: What did Mr. Pennington advise Tom to do? / What advice did Mr. Pennington give to Tom?
• 10: Why did Tom go to the airport?

Possible Answers and Plot Analysis

1. Dünya may have killed an enemy or business rival, or he may have used the body of someone who was already dead. 2. Possibly not, because then Tom would not have seen her and he would probably have gone back to England. 3. Because she/they knew too much about his business. 4. He put opium inside table lamps and exported them to England. Then someone took the drugs out of the lamps and sold them – so there were people working with him in England.