EAP 2 Timed Reading Quiz The Secrets of a Pickpocket Part 1

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Instructions: Click the grey box following the questions, and choose the best answer to the question. When you are finished, check your number correct on the first try, found in the small box in the top right corner of the page.

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Part 1 Comprehension Questions
This passage is about:
select answer how to be a pickpocket. why it is wrong to steal how to protect yourself from a pickpocket. what you can do when you go to London.
"Anyone can burgle a house, but 'dipping' takes skill." What does 'dipping' mean in this sentence?
select answer chewing tobacco emersing temporarily lowering and raising pickpocketing
When did the author begin pickpocketing?
select answer When he was 25. When he was 8. When he was 14. He doesn't say.
What is a dipper's partner called?
select answer staller loafer guard detective
Which of the following is easy for a pickpocket to steal from?
select answer a fanny pack a new leather handbag a handbag with a clasp and a zipper an old handbag with only a zipper

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