Anh & The Monastery — Quiz 3.1: The Garden — Reading Between the Lines

Anh & The Ancient Monastery

Quiz 3.1 — The Garden

📖 Level A1 🏮 Lesson 3 — Bonus 🔍 Reading between the lines

10 Questions

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Quiz 1 ✓ Quiz 2 ✓ Quiz 3 ✓ Same story as Quiz 3. This time, a new skill — the answer is not given to you directly. Read carefully, think, and find the right word.

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New skill: Making inferences. Each question describes something. You read the story to find the word that matches. The description comes from you — the word comes from the story.

Find a:

Noun— a thing, person, or place

Adjective— a word that describes a noun

Proper noun— a special name with a capital letter

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The Garden

Chapter 3 of Anh's story — read again carefully

A After breakfast, 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 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 Toan. "The garden needs our hands. And we need the garden."

E 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, Toan says, "Good. Now look at the path." Anh looks. The flat stones are clean now. The dry leaves are in a small pile. 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.

common noun

proper noun

adjective

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Find the noun.

Read the description. Find the word in the story that matches. Remember — a noun is a thing, person, or place.

Question 1

You use this to sweep the floor. It has a long handle. In the story it is described as soft. Which noun is it?

Look in paragraph D or E → Find a noun

rake

bucket

broom

Question 2

This carries water. It is heavy. Which noun is it?

Look in paragraph D → Find a noun

pot

bucket

stone

Question 3

This is a flat piece of wood or stone on a wall. It has words written on it. Which noun is it?

Look in paragraph B → Find a noun

wall

sign

stone

Find the adjective.

Read the description. Find the adjective in the story that matches. Remember — an adjective describes a noun.

Question 4

The leaves have been on the path for a long time. No rain has come. Which adjective describes these leaves?

Look in paragraph E → Find an adjective

green

small

dry

Question 5

At the start, the stones have leaves on them. Anh sweeps. All the leaves are gone. Which adjective describes the stones now?

Look in paragraph F → Find an adjective

flat

clean

grey

Question 6

The wall has been there for a very long time. It was not built recently. Which adjective describes this wall?

Look in paragraph B → Find an adjective

dark

wooden

old

Question 7

The garden is not big. But Anh stops and stares. He thinks it is wonderful to look at. Which adjective describes the garden?

Look in paragraph A → Find an adjective

tall

green

beautiful

Find the proper noun.

Read the description. Find the name in the story that matches. A proper noun is a specific name — always with a capital letter.

Question 8

This person arrived at the monastery at the beginning of the story. He is twelve years old. He is learning to be still. Which proper noun names him?

Look in paragraph C → Find a proper noun

Toan

Anh

Minh

Question 9

This person shows Anh the stone and says "This is your stone." He is one year older than Anh. Which proper noun names him?

Look in paragraph C → Find a proper noun

Anh

Minh

Toan

Put it together.

This question uses two paragraphs. Read both carefully before you answer.

Question 10

Before Anh sweeps, the stones have leaves on them. After he sweeps, the leaves are in a small pile and the stones are clean. Anh then looks at the path and does something he has not done before. Find the noun in paragraph F that names what Anh does.

Look in paragraph E and F → Find a noun

pile

monastery

smile

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📋 Answers

C — broom (noun)You sweep with a broom. In Paragraph D it is described as "soft." A rake moves soil, not leaves. A bucket carries water.

B — bucket (noun)A bucket holds water and is described as "heavy" in Paragraph D. A pot is broken. A stone does not hold water.

B — sign (noun)A sign has words written on it. In Paragraph B the sign says "Be still. Be here." A wall is too large. A stone has no writing.

C — dry (adjective)Leaves that have been on the ground a long time with no rain are dry. In Paragraph E: "the dry leaves." Green describes colour. Small describes size.

B — clean (adjective)After Anh sweeps all the leaves away, the stones are clean. In Paragraph F: "The flat stones are clean now." Flat and grey describe shape and colour — not the change Anh made.

C — old (adjective)A wall that has been there for a very long time is old. In Paragraph B: "an old wall." Dark describes colour. Wooden describes material — not age.

C — beautiful (adjective)Something wonderful to look at is beautiful. In Paragraph A: "it is very beautiful." Tall and green are also in the paragraph — but they describe the trees, not the garden as a whole.

B — Anh (proper noun)Anh is twelve years old and arrived at the monastery at the start of the story. In Paragraph C: "Anh's stone." Toan is one year older. Minh is not in Quiz 3.

C — Toan (proper noun)Toan gives Anh his stone and is one year older. In Paragraph C: "This is your stone" — Toan speaks. He is thirteen. Anh is twelve.

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C — smile (noun)In Paragraph F, Anh "smiles — for the first time since he arrived at the monastery." A smile is new — it tells us Anh is beginning to feel at home. Pile and monastery are also nouns, but they are not what Anh does.

🏮 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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