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WorksheetsPaper Menagerie part 2
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is the cause of the mother's death?
brain tumor
cancer
heart attack
old age
While his mother is dying...
Jack's finishing college/university
Jack's working a job
Jack is still in high school
Jack is in the army
Qing Ming (pronounced 'Ching Ming') is the Chinese
new year
feast of the dead
easter
national holiday
Who re-introduces the tiger Lao Hu into Jack's life?
mother
father
girlfriend Susan
a friend
Where does the letter from his mother come from?
it was in the box with the paper animals
it's Lao Hu, the tiger
it arrived by mail
he reads it in a dream
Reorder the following:
Mom dies
Susan discovers the menagerie
Lao Hu lives again
Jack discovers the letter
Looking for a Chinese tourist
"The paper animals did not move. Perhaps whatever magic had animated them stopped when Mom died. Or perhaps I had only imagined that these paper constructions were once alive. The memory of children could not be trusted."
What happens next, show that the last sentence is (a) .
How did the mother learn origami?
the whole village made these animals
from a book
from an old wise man
she just had a natural talent
The mother's life story, there is a constant problem
war
hunger
an agressive father
child labor
How is Jack able to read the letter?
he can read Chinese
he goes out and finds somebody who can translate
he asks a translation agency
“Your grandparents were both from very poor peasant families with few relatives.”
slave
merchant
farmer
“We made paper birds to chase grasshoppers away from the fields, and paper tigers to keep away the …”
mouses
mouse
mice
mices
“In the suburbs of Connecticut, I was lonely."
center of the city
outside the city center
dangerous part of the city
skyscrapers
“I snuck away one night and climbed onto a freight train going south.”
The infinitive of this verb is...
to snuck
to snick
to sneak
to snack
Your review for this story:
Your review for reading performance by Levar Burton
What do you think about the level of English?
(speed, accent, vocabulary)
I missed certain parts
I could follow the story
I thought it was easy to understand and follow
How did you experience listening to this story?
I found it hard to concentrate
I could concentrate
I was drawn into the story.
