Answers to the Exercises for The Good Wife Part Four
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A. How much did you understand?
The right order of these sentences is 3, 1, 2
After a year Hariri had a son.
"Now I want you to give me a promise."
The old king died, and Delibis became king.
The right order of these sentences is 5,6,4
Suddenly, four men jumped out from behind a tree.
"Let him go. It's the king!"
"Give me one last wish before I die."
The right order of these sentences is 9,8,7
"There's a black cow in my herd of cattle."
"There's a black mat on the roof of my house."
"I have four camels. Tell my wife to keep two of them."
The right order of these sentences is 11,10,12
"Where did you meet him?"
"You know everything!'
"This means that two of these men killed him, but two tried to save his life."
B. Who?
- "There are bad men in the town."
Hariri - "The camels have returned from the wadi."
A servant - "We want to save our own lives."
The first two robbers - "We must take the king's message to his wife."
The third and fourth robbers. - "Where did you meet him?"
Hariri - "We left him under a tree."
The first robber - "Catch these men!"
Hariri - "You know everything!"
The first robber - "Kill the murderers!"
The brothers - "He was a great king."
All the people
C. What, where, when?
Find the answers to these questions in the story.
- When did Hariri have a son?
After a year - Where was the most dangerous place?
The wadi - Where was everyone, when Delibis went to the wadi?
At home in their own houses - What did Delibis go out to look for?
A camel - Where did the robbers put Delibis's body?
Under a tree - Where did the robbers go when they had killed Delibis?
Delibis's house - What were Hariri's seven sons carrying?
Spears - What did Hariri put on, when Delibis died?
White clothes