Anh & The Monastery — Quiz 3: The Garden

Anh & The Ancient Monastery

Quiz 3 — The Garden

📖 Level A1 🏮 Lesson 3 🎯 Adjectives — describing nouns

10 Questions

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Quiz 1 ✓ Quiz 2 ✓ You know: a noun is a thing, person, or place. A proper noun is a special name. Now — what kind of thing? What colour? What size? What condition? Let's find out.

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The Garden

Chapter 3 of Anh's story

A After breakfast, Brother Toan takes Anh outside. They walk through a low, narrow door and into the garden. Anh stops and looks. The garden is not big. But it is very beautiful. There are tall trees, green plants, and a long, thin path made of flat, grey stones.

B At the end of the path there is an old wall. The wall is made of dark stone. On the wall there is a small, wooden sign. The sign says: "Be still. Be here." Anh reads the words slowly. He does not fully understand them. But he feels something quiet inside him.

C Brother Toan points to a large tree near the wall. "Every morning," he says, "we sit under this tree. We sit still. We breathe. We listen." He points to a round, flat stone under the tree. "This is your stone," he says. "Anh's stone." Anh looks at the cold, grey stone. It is small — but it feels important.

D Near the tree there is a wooden rack with tools. There is a heavy bucket, a long, wooden rake, a soft broom, and a broken pot in the corner. "We use these every day," says Brother Toan. "The garden needs our hands. And we need the garden."

E Brother Toan gives Anh the soft broom. "Sweep the path," he says. "Slowly. Do not rush." Anh begins to sweep. The dry leaves move across the flat stones. The sound is very soft. Anh sweeps slowly and carefully. For the first time since he arrived, his mind feels quiet.

F After some time, Brother Toan says, "Good. Now look at the path." Anh looks. The flat stones are clean now. The dry leaves are in a small pile. Brother Toan nods. "The garden teaches us," he says. "One small thing at a time." Anh looks at the clean path and smiles — for the first time since he arrived at the monastery.

noun

proper noun

adjective

New Words

narrow — not wide; thin

path — a small walkway

rake — a tool to move leaves

broom — a tool for sweeping

rack — a frame to hang things on

sweep — to clean with a broom

pile — a small heap of things

still — not moving; very quiet

flat — smooth; not bumpy

rush — to move too fast

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YES or NO?

Is the word a noun — a thing, person, or place?

Question 1

Is "path" a noun — a thing, person, or place?

There are tall trees, green plants, and a long, thin path made of flat, grey stones.

Question 2

Is "heavy" a noun — a thing, person, or place?

There is a heavy bucket, a long wooden rake, and a soft broom.

Noun or Adjective?

Noun — a thing: tree, stone, broom

Adjective — describes a noun: tall, old, heavy, green (we call this an adjective)

Question 3

What is the word "old"?

At the end of the path there is an old wall.

Question 4

What is the word "broom"?

Brother Toan gives Anh the soft broom.

Question 5

What is the word "broken"?

There is a broken pot in the corner.

Find the adjective.

Read the sentence. Which word describes the noun?

Question 6

Which word describes the wall?

The wall is made of dark stone.

made

stone

dark

Question 7

Which word describes the leaves?

The dry leaves move across the flat stones.

move

across

dry

Find all the adjectives.

Tick every word that is an adjective — a word that describes a noun. There are 3 correct answers.

Question 8

Which words are adjectives?

There is a heavy bucket, a long wooden rake, and a soft broom.

heavy

bucket

long

rake

soft

broom

Write the adjective.

Find the adjective in the story. Write one word that describes the noun.

Question 9

What adjective describes the wall? (write one word)

At the end of the path there is an ____ wall.

Question 10

What adjective describes the stones at the end of the story? (write one word)

The flat stones are ____ now. The dry leaves are in a small pile.

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📋 Answers

YES — path is a noun"Path" is a thing — a place you walk on. Things and places are nouns.

NO — heavy is not a noun"Heavy" tells us what kind of bucket it is. It describes the noun — we call this an adjective.

Adjective"Old" describes the wall. It tells us what condition the wall is in — that is an adjective.

Noun"Broom" is a thing — a tool for sweeping. You can touch it and hold it. Things are nouns.

Adjective"Broken" describes the condition of the pot. It tells us what kind of pot — that is an adjective.

C — dark"Dark" describes the colour of the wall — it is an adjective. "Made" is a verb. "Stone" is a noun.

C — dry"Dry" describes the condition of the leaves — it is an adjective. "Move" is a verb. "Across" is a preposition.

heavy, long, softThese three adjectives describe the bucket, the rake, and the broom. "Bucket," "rake," and "broom" are the nouns.

oldParagraph B: "an old wall." "Old" tells us the age and condition of the wall — it is an adjective.

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cleanParagraph F: "The flat stones are clean now." "Clean" describes the condition of the stones — it is an adjective.

🏮 Next — Quiz 3.1: More of the Garden A closer look at the garden passage. You will practise simple inference — reading between the lines to understand what the writer does not say directly.

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