Darmowe konto pozwoli wrócić do niego później.

Bloomsbury Group. The group comprised writers, artists and intellectuals.

On February 7th, 1910, they played the most famous hoax in British military history. At the time

the HMS Dreadnought was the most heavily armed ship in the Royal Navy. 5.1. _____ Given

such a chance, his companions, with Virginia among them, instantly agreed to take part. They

were to sneak aboard the HMS Dreadnought, disguised as the Emperor of Abyssinia and his

courtiers. Why risk the anger of the Royal Navy? Because it was funny!

The jokers sent a telegram informing the ship’s commander about their visit, and then they

simply showed up aboard. Amazingly, it worked. 5.2. _____ Despite the intentionally

amateurish accessories, including one moustache that began falling off in the rain, the party

stayed in character for the entire tour. When they spoke, it was in an invented language, a

mixture of Latin, Swahili, and babble. 5.3. _____ The real reason was different, they refused

because they were afraid that their makeup would come off.

The tour ended without the crew suspecting a thing. But then someone called reporters and

British papers published a story about it. The Dreadnought sailors were soon teased in the

streets and King Edward expressed his displeasure with the incident. In the face of such

humiliation, the Navy was forced to take action. Two of the male jokers were punished.

5.4. _____ After a while, however, public attention turned to other events and to everyone’s

relief, the incident aboard the ship stopped being a front-page story.

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A. At one point, they declined a meal saying that the food had not been prepared to their

specifications.

B. To one of the most eccentric jokers in the circle, poet William Horace de Vere Cole,

it seemed like the perfect place for the Bloomsbury Group to play a trick.

C. Knowing that no women were allowed on board, Virginia Woolf decided to trick the British

Navy into giving her and her companions an exclusive tour of their flagship.

D. Wearing turbans, gold chains and lots of makeup on their faces, the “Abyssinians” were

welcomed with an honour guard and a red carpet.

E. Woolf was shown mercy because she was a woman, even though the presence of a female

on the ship was the greatest source of the Navy’s embarrassment.

PRZENIEŚ ROZWIĄZANIA NA KARTĘ ODPOWIEDZI!

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