ACTIVITY 6 : COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

Comprehension questions
1. Who wrote the story?

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2. Where is the story set?

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3. Who are the characters?
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4. How are these characters related to each other? Identify their
relationship in the table.
Mr. Li
Ah Ma
Ying
Helen
Character
Relationship
Mr. Li
Ah Ma
Ying
Helen
5. What did Mr. Li buy for his mother? Why?

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6. What did she hope to use the binocular for?

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7. Ah Ma and Ying had different attitude towards something in
the story. What was that?
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8. From the text , give one old practise that Ying did not agree
with.
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9. Why Mr. T.W. Li could not perform prayers t the altar after his
mothers death?

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10.
Lets assume you have a son or daughter. Will you stay
with him or her when you become old? Why? Give a reason.
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ANSWERS FOR COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS.

1. Minfong Ho
2. Tanjong Rhu , Singapore
3. Mr. Li, Ah Ma, Ying and Helen
4.
Mr. Li

Ah Ma

Ying

Helen

Relationship
Mr. Li
Ah Ma

mother

son
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Ying

daughter

Husband
Mother in
law
Daughter

Helen

wife

grandmothe
r
Daughter in
law

father
grandmothe
r
mother

Character

5. Binoculars
6. She hoped to be able to see her husbands shipyard in Tanjong Rhu
7. Ancestors worship
8. Giving burial clothes to the sick
9. He could not find the key for the drawer
10.
Accept any suitable answer.