Sveva Caetani
Comprehension

Cloze Exercise - Leone: The Handsome Prince

The following paragraph comes from the Sveva Caetani vignette. After reading the story, see if you can fill in the blanks from memory.


Sveva said that her (1)______________had an adventurous spirit. He believed that people had more (2)_______________ in Canada, so he decided to move his family to (3) _________ _________ when they left Italy. Thirty years before, in 1890, Leone and an Italian friend came to BC on a (4)____________ trip. The two men spent several months in the Kootenays hunting (5)________ ______. (6)_______ was impressed by the scenic beauty and the simple lifestyle he saw there. When he was ready to move to Canada, he asked friends in England where the
(7) __________ place was to live in BC. They told him the
(8)____________ ____________. He chose the town of
(9)_________________ by randomly pointing his finger at
a (10)_________________ of the Valley!



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