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Please read the provided script and answer the questions below:
Question 1: What was the date for the rest of the family’s arrival to Shanghai?
a.
Last Sunday of October
c. this Sunday
b.
first Sunday of October
d. Last Sunday of the year
Question 2: Who picked up Aunt Baba, Ye Ye, and the rest of the children from the station ?
a.
Father and the Niang
c. The chauffeur by himself
b.
Father and the Ye Ye
d. Father and the chauffeur
Question 3: Adeline was very happy with the family reunion happening and described her little
sister‘s appearance on that day. Go back to the script (refer to paragraph 2) and describe what the
little sister looked like.
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Question 4: Why didn’t the little sister want to go to Niang’s side even though she is her mother?
? (refer to paragraph 3 in the script)
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Question 5: What was the trick that Aunt Baba used to help Niang and little sister become closer?
Did it work? (refer to paragraphs 4 and 5 in the script)
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Question 6: What was Niang’s reaction to little sister tipping the candy on the floor? (refer to
paragraphs 7, 8, 9 in the script)
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Question 7: What was Adeline’s reaction to Niang’s beating her little sister? (refer to paragraph 10
in the script)
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Question 8: How did Niang react after Adeline tried to stop her little sister’s beating? (refer to
paragraph 10 in the script)
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Question 9: answer the following with True ( T ) or ( F ):
1- Adeline was not excited for the coming family reunion.(
)
2- Third brother had obviously become taller and thinner during this time. (
)
3- Adeline’s little sister was separated from her mother when she was only six months. (
4- Adeline’s little sister loved Aunt Baba and would often come to her side. (
)
)
5- The perfume that Niang was wearing that day was very strong and Adeline could smell it from metres
away. (
)
6- Niang was wearing a string of tiny pearls around her neck. (
7- Niang was impatient with her baby girl’s behaviour. (
)
)
8- Father, Aunt Baba and Ye Ye all objected to the assault and stopped Niang from beating her child. (
9- Niang calmed down and stopped the assault when Adeline asked her to stop beating her little sister. (
)
)
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10- Adeline understood that after Nai Nai’s death, Niang is now in charge of the house and the family. (
11- Niang became very angry at Adeline because she objected to the beating of little sister. (
12- Niang said that she will never forgive Adeline for her arrogance. (
)
)
Question 10 ( Vocabulary): Find and highlight these words in the script , then write down their
meaning. Use these words in a meaningful sentence:
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2. Beribonned plaits:
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3. beckoned :_________________________________________________________________
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5. vied :___________________________________________________________________
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6. cloying : ___________________________________________________________________
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7. entice: ___________________________________________________________________
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8. distinct: ___________________________________________________________________
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9. howling: ___________________________________________________________________
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10. contorted: ___________________________________________________________________
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11. futilely: ___________________________________________________________________
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12. melee: ___________________________________________________________________
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13. exasperated:
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14. earnest: ___________________________________________________________________
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15. deliberately: _________________________________________________________________
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16. viciously: ___________________________________________________________________
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17. compelled: ___________________________________________________________________
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18. quaking: ___________________________________________________________________
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19. midst: ___________________________________________________________________
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20. frenzy: _____________________________________________________________________
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21. prominent: ___________________________________________________________________
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22. panic-stricken:
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23. malice: ___________________________________________________________________
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24. Fuming with rage:
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25. arrogance: ___________________________________________________________________
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