On Loan

(By Anne Brooksbank)

Questions
By Group 3 (Mam Sothun)
Teacher: Chhim Kimly












On Loan
Chapter 3
I. Who said in the following sentences? Then put the sentences in the
chronological order.
Order Speaker
a. But look what else he says. Hes a Viet Cong.
b. But you still knew I was someone else.
c. Did he have a machine gun?
d. He can come. We wont try and stop him. You can see him.
e. Go to the Immigration Department, get them to cancel the
visa.
f. I am sorry, I dont understand.
g. I think we have to try Im going to try.
h. I want you to do something for me. I want you to send he a
telegram.
i. Its my doll. Its Su-Su.
j. Well, if you lost him, you know in war.
k. Well, well take her away. Take her on a trip so he wont find
her.
l. What are you trying to say?
m. You might have to go Hes your real father.
n. Your older brother died in the fighting.

II. Which sentences are true (T) and which are false (F).
a. Lindy became quitter and more thoughtful as if she failed her
exam.
b. According to the letter, Lindys father was a farmer at the
present.
c. Talking to Geoff in the bedroom, Marj cried.
d. Marj told Lindy that she considered her as their real child.
e. Marj called Lindy to call her father not to come to Australia.
f. Lindy told Julie that Marj was always irritating and sad.
g. ... Lindys dolls name was Su-Su which was brought all the way
here from Vietnam.

III. Answer the questions below according to what you have learnt from the
story.
1. Why does Lindy often loiter past the new Vietnamese restaurant, looking
in at the people?
2. Why did a woman talk to Lindy in Vietnamese? How did Lindy feel then?
3. What does the letter from Vietnam tell Lindy about?
4. What was the atmosphere like while Lindy and Julie were at the pool?
5. On one morning Marj asked Lindy to do one thing for her. What was it?
Why was that?
6. Having heard tough talk between mother and daughter, Geoff took his
final stand and agreed to let Lindy meet her father but had to come along.
Why he do like that?