## Answers to the Exercises for The Baboon Child

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A. How much did you understand?

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

He planted pumpkins and corn for his food.

“Go away!” he shouted, "Don't steal my food! Leave my field alone!"

One day, the man saw the baboons in his field.

The right order of the sentences is 6, 5, 4

"Don't pick up the seeds. Don't eat them.”

“They will grow and we will have food to eat.”

"Watch me," the man said to her. "Put the seeds in the earth, like this."

The right order of the sentences is 8, 9, 7

The baboon child helped the man. She weeded the field and brought in the harvest with him.

They worked in the field. The family could grow more food now.

They planted more fields, and moved to many new places.

B. When...

1. 1/b. When the man left his field and went away, the baboons came and ate the man's food.
2. 2/c. One day when the baboon child was big enough, the man took her to the field with him.
3. 3/a. When the son and the daughter grew up, they married each other.

C. Who was watching?

1. Who were the baboons watching?
   They were watching the man.
2. Who was the man watching?
   He was watching the baboon child.
3. Who was the baboon child watching?
   She was watching the man.