2nd Reading Comprehension Quiz

SARA SAYS NO! - By Norman Whitney

INSTRUCTIONS
✓ Let’s read the instructions carefully!
✓ Let’s do the activities below!

1. Put the events in the order they happen in the story.

a. A boy buys some apples. 3
b. A young woman buys some oranges. 4
c. It’s Monday and it’s market day. 1
d. It’s Monday evening and Sara is angry with her father. 5
e. Mr. Fruit is at the market. 2
f. Mr. Fruit touches the fruit. It goes bad. 9
g. On Tuesday her father sells the correct weight. 6
h. Sara prays for a miracle. 8
i. Sara sells fruit. Her father stays at home and cleans. 10
j. Some customers come back. Their fruit is bad. 7

2. Read the sentences. Circle T (true) or F (false)

a. On Monday Mr. Fruit is honest. T F
b. Sara is happy working with her father. T F
c. On Tuesday some of the fruit isn’t fresh. T F
d. Sara is Mr. Fruit’s only child. T F
e. When Sara touches the fruit it goes bad. T F
f. Sara is good at selling fruit. T F

3. Complete the sentences with a word from the box:

busy cheat fresh honest lonely polite

a. Everybody is at the market. The market is busy.

b. Mr. Fruit is polite. He is friendly.
c. Today Sara’s father is selling the correct weight. He is honest.
d. Sara is her father. Today, she is poud of her father.
e. “Look Mr. Fruit! Your fruit isn’t fresh today.
f. Sarah goes to bed. She is honest. She’s unhappy.
g. Sara doesn’t cheat. She always sells the correct weight.
 4. What’s the message behind this story?
• This text tell us a story, which is about Mr. Fruit; who works in the market in the company of
his daughter Sara. This was an unfair and greedy seller, as he deceived his customers. Sara
is a just girl, for this reason she seeks to teach her father a lesson, whith help of the prayer to
God. whit this punishment Mr. Fruit achieve to reflect and switch. The message that it transmit
this story is that being ambitious and dishonest, never leads us to anything Good and late or
early, we Will receive a lesson, also ensing us that so much man like woma have the same
capacity for perform any activity. In this way it promote eradication of the machismo.

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1. Abanto Linares, Selene Zadith.
2. Hernández Vargas, Silvia Celeste.
3. Medina Medina, Yanela Estéfany.
4. Pintado Alvarado, Consuelo Dayana.
5. Zaquinaula Guerrero, Lesly Enit.