## Answers to the Exercises for The Monks' Blessing

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A. How much did you understand?

The right order for these headings is 4, 2, 5, 1, 3

The young man leaves home to find work.

The young man works for many years in a monastery.

Robbers attack two travellers on the road.

The young man stays in an old man's house.

The young man sees his father fighting with his son.

B. What's in the story?

These sentences are not true.

Part 1

The young man did not love his wife.

Part 2

The young man wanted to become a monk, but the monks refused.

Part 3

The two men attacked the young man and robbed him.

Part 4

The old man's servant girl wanted to run away with the young man.

Part 5

An old man and a young boy were fighting, and the young man ran to them and tried to stop them.

C. How much, how many, how long?

1. For how many days did the young man travel before he reached the town?
   Two days
2. For how long did the young man want to stay at the monastery?
   A few months
3. For how long did the young man stay and work with the monks?
   Ten years
4. How much money did the monks owe to the young man?
   Four hundred dollars
5. How much money did they give him?
   One hundred dollars
6. For how many nights did the young man stay with the old man and the blind girl?
   One night
7. How many sacks did the cruel old man give to the young man?
   One sack