Jack and Napoleon Jack was a university student. He studied history. At the end of his first year, his history professor failed him in his examinations and he was told to leave the university. The next day, Jack’s father went to see the professor. He urged the professor to let Jack continue his studies in the following years. “He is a good boy,” said Jack’s father, “And if you let him pass this time, I’m sure he’ll improve a lot next year and pass the examination at the end of the year well.” “No, no! That’s quite impossible”, replied the professor. “Do you know, last month I asked him when Napoleon died, and he could not answer it.” “Please, Sir. Give him another chance,” said Jack’s father. “You see, we don’t subscribe any newspaper in our house, so none of us even knew that Napoleon was ill.” “And if you let him pass this time…(paragraph 2)” The underlined pronoun refers to…

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