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A. How much did you understand?

The right order of the headings is 4, 5, 1, 6, 2, 3, 7

Hannah's old neighbour comes to ask for some coffee.

The little girl in the story visits her friend, because her father has gone to the market.

The little girl's friend shows her the body of her mother.

The little girl tells her father that the pot with the chip is really her dead mother.

The little girl's father invites his friends and family to a ceremony, and borrows his neighbour's pots.

Everyone learns about the man with the evil eye, and he brings the dead woman back to life.

Hannah's father tells her that the story isn't true.

B When, where, who, what

1. Her aunt
2. Hannah was in her house beside her mother. The family sat together, and looked into the fire.
3. A little chip was broken from her front tooth.
4. They went to the market.
5. In the roof
6. One year after her death
7. Piles of injera and many dishes of delicious food
8. Tala
9. The men of his family
10. Many years ago

C. Questions with WHY and answers with BECAUSE

1. 1/g. Hannah's old neighbour was sad because her husband and her little daughter had died and her other children had gone away.
2. 2/d. The big girl didn't welcome the little girl into her house because she had seen the little girl's dead mother in her house. 
3. 3/h. The big girl told the little girl to go home because her father was coming.
4. 4/e. The little girl's father believed his daughter's story about her dead mother at last because she told him about the chip at the top of the pot.
5. 5/a. The neighbour didn't want to lend his pots to the little girl's father because he didn't want anyone to find out the truth about the pot with the chip in the top.
6. 6/f. The little girl went with her father to fetch the stick from the neighbour's house because she had to show her father where it was.
7. 7/c. The neighbour tried to move away when everyone saw the body of the dead woman because he was frightened. 
8. 8/b. Hannah stopped being frightened of the old woman because she understood that she was sad and old and lonely.