## Answers to the Exercises for The Song from the Tree

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A. How much did you understand?

The right order of the sentences is 2, 1, 3

The woman was very sad. She didn't like living alone.

But the woman loved Shigosh. She wanted to marry him.

The woman heard his song, and she smiled.

The right order of the sentences is 3, 1, 2

"Come on, sisters. We must make a plan."

They took some bark from a tree and put it in water.

They hid his body under the leaves of the big tree.

The right order of the sentences is 1, 3, 2

Then the woman heard the noise of flies.

The woman looked up again. She could see her youngest daughter's face through the leaves.

But the tree fell on top of the youngest daughter and broke the bone in her thigh.

B. What where they feeling?

1. When the woman's husband died, she was very sad.
2. The woman's daughters laughed at Shigosh. They were rude and angry.
3. Their mother was afraid of them.
4. The girls' mother was happy with Shigosh in their hiding place under the tree.
5. The girls' mother was worried when her daughters called to her.
6. The girl's mother was very sad and very angry with her wicked daughters.
7. When the youngest girl did not come down from the tree, her mother was very, very angry.
8. Everyone said that the girls were cruel.