Portuguese Memory Book by William F. Harrison

Author:William F. Harrison [Harrison, William F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1996-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

FINAL EXAMINATION

Each of the 50 jingles below contains the sounds of a Portuguese word that you have learned from this book. The jingles themselves you have not seen before. They are constructed just like those in the text. Find and underscore the consecutive syllables that approximate the sound of the Portuguese word.

When you have finished the test, turn to page 78 and check your answers. If your answers are all correct, you can congratulate yourself on a not inconsiderable achievement.

1. The happy scene around your swimming pool

Is like our lovely hostess—calm and cool.

2. Roving scholars, drawn by curiosity,

Called our school’s new wing a sheer monstrosity.

3. Moll, you feed on garlic, catfood, worms.

Whoever sees such self-indulgence squirms!

4. He very often managed to be seen

Dancing attendance on the Campus Queen.

5. Tyrant, you have shut the door on reason.

May pain pursue you in and out of season!

6. In the hospital I drank a liter of the stuff.

The doctor there forgot to say a teaspoon was enough!

7. Ah, Lou, new students always seem to find

Our school’s a splendid place to rest the mind.

8. I paid Ramona fifty cents

To throw no stones at my front fence!

9. Now roar a while, O dragon, but don’t be too insistent,

For since the dawn of common sense we’ve known you’re non-existent!

10. You broke our party into factions.

The town won’t tolerate such actions!

11. In fabled Oz a tale I heard him sing—

A snow-white sea-bird with a broken wing.

12. —Say, does Eva rate a date with Jim?

—If he says No, I’ll take a switch to him!

13. O Paul Revere, light lamps for me,

One if by land, two if by sea.

You’ll come by air? Resort to three!

14. Moll abides by just one rule: When you’re lost in Istanbul,

Grip your suitcase, keep your cool!

15. —Your love, the Bey, must treat you rather well.

—He opened up the gates of Heaven and Hell!

16. A true assertion may be indiscreet,

So don’t proclaim your doctrines in the street!

17. So mark my words, and, maybe, since it’s you,

From time to time I’ll let you add a few.

18. Coe, heed a warning ere you raise your banners.

I fear you’ll never win a race for manners.

19. Though bruised and sore, Chiquita had the luck

To shoot the villain ere the man could duck.

20. Some plaintive Scottish lays the wandering minstrels sang

Until some just-invented law declared the troupe a gang!

21. In town new comrades let me know

What makes the people hate me so.

22. Should I keep my mouth shut? I hate to cause you pain,

But I just saw your latest beau cavorting with Elaine.

23. She will not pay, she slithers like a fish

That makes its silent exit with a swish.

24. Do take a day, Ramona, to think before you marry.

Just find a seat and brood all night if you’re considering Harry!

25. That Inca lords it over the tribe,

But rouses heat when he won’t imbibe.

26. Ma simply wouldn’t eat the food I had.

Her after-Christmas appetite was bad.

27. Duncan ate a meal, and paid again

With half a dozen scratches of his pen.

28. In a garden Sue will not deny you

Unless her rival’s set herself to buy you.

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