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Lesson Ten Thank You Ma’am Answer the questions on the text. P273-274 1. Q: What happened to the big women one dark night when she was walking alone home? A: A boy ran up behind her and tried to snatch her purse. 2. Q: The boy didn’t succeed, did he? Why not? A: No, he didn’t. The strap came off. He pulled so hard that he lost his balance and fell. And the women seized him by his T-shirt. 3. Q: What did the boy try to snatch the purse for? What did he say at first? A: He wanted to find money in it to buy a pair of suede shoes. At first he said it was a joke. 4. Q: What did the woman do? Where was she dragging the boy? A: She held on to the boy tightly and questioned him closely. She then started dragging the boy to her home. 5. Q: On the way, why did the boy try to get away? Where he think the woman was taking him? A: He was afraid the woman would punish him. He thought she was taking him to the police. 6. Q: What do you learn about the woman of her home and of her dinner? Was she well-off? A: The woman was probably single. She lived in a room with a sink and a small gas stove in it. The food for dinner was cheap. All this shows she was poor, not at all well-off. 7. Q: What was the first thing the woman told the boy to do when they got to her home? Why? A: She told him to wash his face. Because it was very dirty, also she wanted the boy to feel at home by treating him as if he was her son. 8. Q: The boy had an opportunity to run away while Mrs. Jones was preparing dinner, but he didn’t. Why? A: He had a chance to run away, but he didn’t because he knew the woman trusted him and he didn’t want to let her down. 9. Q: The woman didn’t ask the boy any question about his family. Why didn’t she? A: She didn’t do that because she didn’t want to embarrass him. She sensed that the boy’s family wasn’t a happy one. 10. Q: What did the woman do when they had finished eating? What did she say to the boy? A: She gave the boy ten