The Broken Mirror, The Black Cat, and Lots of Good Luck

Choose the correct ending:  Especially good things or especially bad things ...

• aren’t happening to Nikos 
• didn’t happen to Nikos 
• won’t happen to Nikos
• wouldn’t have happened to Nikos 

Complete: 
Nikos wasn’t a _______man.

• rich
• logical
• superstitious
• rational

Choose the correct ending: Nikos didn’t believe that ...

• his luck could be changed by superstitious events
• his luck was changed by superstitious events 
• his luck should be changed by superstitious events
• his luck would be changed by superstitious events

Complete:
Nikos didn’t  __________ in superstitious ideas. 

• believes
• believe
• believed
• belief

Choose the correct ending: 
 Nikos didn’t know much about sport so ... 

• he couldn’t try betting
• he didn’t try betting
• he hadn’t tried betting
• he shouldn’t have tried betting 

Complete:
Nikos’ friend suggested that he was lucky because he was _______ and for no other reason. 

• handsome
•  self-confident
• intelligent
• rational

Choose the correct ending: Some people say that if you break a mirror ...... 

• it brings seven years’ bad luck
• it could have brought seven years’ bad luck
•  it should bring seven years’ bad luck
• it would bring seven years’ bad luck

Choose the correct ending: If Nikos hadn’t broken the mirror perhaps ...

• he couldn’t have been so lucky
• he hasn’t been so lucky 
• he shouldn’t have been so lucky
• he wouldn’t have been so lucky