## Answers to the Exercises for The Holy Man and the Guava

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A. How much did you understand?

The right order of these sentences is 3, 5, 2, 4, 7, 1, 6

The holy man left the city to look for a quiet place to pray.

The holy man ate a guava that had come out of an orchard.

The holy man asked the owner of the orchard to forgive him for eating the guava.

The owner of the orchard asked the holy man to marry his blind daughter.

The owner of the orchard did not let the holy man see his daughter.

The holy man took off his wife's veil and he saw that she was beautiful.

The owner of the orchard was very happy with his son in law.

B. Where?

Choose the right answer to these questions from the list below.

1. When the holy man lived in the city, where did he usually go to pray?
   To the mosque
2. Where did the holy man find the guava?
   In the stream outside the orchard
3. Where was the orchard?
   Behind a high wall
4. Where was the owner of the orchard's big house when the holy man first met him?
   Coming out of the house in the middle of the orchard
5. Where did the owner of the orchard's daughter never walk?
   In bad places