Atenção: Para responder às questões de números 36 a 39 considere o texto abaixo.

Coleman hadn't been on the Athena campus for two years and by now no longer went to town at all if he could help it. He didn't any longer hate each and every member of the Athena faculty, he just wanted nothing to do with them, fearful that should he stop to chat, even idly, he'd be incapable of concealing his pain [...]. A few days after his resignation, he'd opened new accounts at the bank and the supermarket up in Blackwell, a depressed mill town on the river some eighteen miles from his home, and even got a card for the local library there, determined to use it, however meager the collection, rather than to wander ever again through the stacks at Athena.

(Adapted from Philip Roth. The Human Stain. p. 82)

In indirect discourse, the correct continuation of this sentence is "Jim Richardson wrote that the thing