Anh's Adventure
Anh & The Ancient Monastery
Quiz 9 — The Hill Path
15 Questions
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Quizzes 1–8 ✓
You know nouns, adjectives, noun phrases, adverbs, and subjects. Today — a new skill: verbs. A verb tells you what the subject does.
New skill: Verbs. A verb tells you what the subject does — or what happens. Every sentence needs a verb.
Minh pushed the door. — WHAT did Minh do? He pushed. That is the verb.
The door moved slowly. — WHAT did the door do? It moved. That is the verb.
Anh recognised the shape. — WHAT did Anh do? He recognised. That is the verb.
Question types:
Verb
Adverb
Subject
Comprehension
Fill in
Inference
A
The morning bell rang at six. After their tasks were done, Anh found Minh and Toan waiting at the garden gate. Minh held the copied map in one hand. He said nothing. He simply unfolded it, looked at the red path, and began to walk. Toan caught Anh’s eye and grinned. They followed.
B
They found the gap in the garden wall — a narrow space between two old stones, almost invisible from the path. On the other side, a track led up into the trees. The track was overgrown (plants and roots had grown across it and over it, slowly covering it from anyone who did not know to look) — but the shape of it was still there, pressed into the earth. Minh followed it steadily. The trees closed around them. The light became green and low.
C
The path grew steeper. Anh’s legs ached. Behind him, Toan breathed more loudly with each step. Minh moved ahead without stopping, checking the map, looking up, checking again. Once or twice the path disappeared completely under a thick tangle of roots. Each time, Minh found it again — a faint line in the earth, a gap where the trees stood apart.
D
They heard it before they saw it. A different sound — not leaves or wind, but stone. Anh pushed through the last branches and stopped. There it was: a small stone building, almost completely hidden by moss, hanging roots, and the long arms of the trees around it. If you did not know it was there, you would walk right past it. Anh looked at Minh’s map, then at the building, then at the map again. The shape matched exactly.
E
The door stood slightly open — just a hand’s width, as if someone had left in a hurry and had not had time to close it. Minh put both hands flat against it and pushed. The door moved slowly, scraping across the stone floor. Inside: a single room, empty except for one thing. On the far wall, set into the stone, was a tablet. Anh did not know the word — but looking at it, he understood: a flat piece of stone, smooth on the face, with letters carved deep into it. A message left in the wall itself.
F
Minh stood before the tablet and read slowly. His lips moved. He read it once, then a second time. The room was very quiet. Then he turned and looked at Anh and Toan. His face showed something — not surprise, exactly. More like recognition. Like finding a word you have been trying to remember for a long time. “I know who built the library,” he said.
verb
adverb
Word Help
overgrown — covered by plants that have grown over it
tablet — a flat stone with writing carved into it
tangle — a mass of roots or branches twisted together
recognition — the feeling of knowing something you have seen before
faint — very light, hard to see or hear
scraping — moving slowly with a rough sound against a surface
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Find the verb.
A verb tells you what the subject does. Ask: what does [subject] do?
“Minh pushed the door.” — What did Minh do? He pushed. That is the verb.
Verbs can be in the past (“pushed”), present (“pushes”), or other forms (“was pushing”).
Question 1
Which word in this sentence from Paragraph A is a verb?
“Toan caught Anh’s eye and grinned.”
Paragraph AVerb
A
AnhB
grinnedC
eyeQuestion 2
Which word in this sentence from Paragraph C is a verb?
“The path disappeared completely under a thick tangle of roots.”
Paragraph CVerb
A
completelyB
rootsC
disappearedQuestion 3
Which word in this sentence from Paragraph F is a verb?
“His face showed something — not surprise, exactly.”
Paragraph FVerb
A
showedB
faceC
surprise2
What does the verb tell you?
A verb does more than name an action — it tells you something about the character or situation. Read carefully.
Question 4
In Paragraph C, Minh “checks the map, looks up, checks again.” What does this sequence of verbs tell you about Minh?
Paragraph CVerb
A
He is carefully comparing the map to what he sees in front of himB
He has lost the path and is panickingC
He is checking that Anh and Toan are still following him closely and have not got lost among the treesQuestion 5
Complete this sentence using one verb from Paragraph E.
Minh put both hands flat against the door and ___.
Paragraph EFill in
Question 6
In Paragraph F, Minh “read” the tablet twice. What does reading it twice tell you?
Paragraph FVerb
A
He wanted to be certain he had understood it correctly before speakingB
The writing was too small and the room was too dark to read easily on the first attemptC
He was reading it aloud for Toan and Anh, slowly, so they could follow along with every word as he spoke3
Revision — adverbs and subjects.
Use what you know from earlier quizzes.
Question 7
In Paragraph D, the shape of the building “matched exactly.” What kind of word is “exactly”?
Paragraph DAdverb
A
A verb — it describes the matchingB
An adverb — it tells you how closely the shapes matchedC
An adjective — it describes the shape of the buildingQuestion 8
In Paragraph A, “He simply unfolded it, looked at the red path, and began to walk.” Who is “he”? What is the subject of this sentence?
Paragraph ASubject
A
ToanB
AnhC
Minh4
What does the story say?
The answer is stated in the story. Read the paragraph carefully.
Question 9
In Paragraph D, what made the building so hard to see?
Paragraph DComprehension
A
It was underground, with only the roof showing above the earthB
Moss, hanging roots, and the long arms of the trees around it covered it almost completelyC
It was very small and built from the same dark stone as the hillsideQuestion 10
Complete this sentence using one word from Paragraph E.
The door moved slowly, ___ across the stone floor.
Paragraph EFill in
Question 11
In Paragraph A, how does the group know which way to go?
Paragraph AComprehension
A
Toan remembered the path from a previous visit to the hillB
Minh follows the copied mapC
They follow a trail of old footprints left in the earth by the scholarsQuestion 12
In Paragraph E, what did Anh find on the far wall inside the stone building?
Paragraph EComprehension
A
More maps, drawn in the same ink as the ones in the library belowB
A stone tablet with letters carved deep into itC
A second locked book, smaller than the one in the library5
Read between the lines.
The answer is not stated directly. Use the clues to work it out.
Question 13
In Paragraph E, the door stood “slightly open, as if someone had left in a hurry.” What does this tell you?
Paragraph EInference
A
The scholars left this building in a hurry, just as they left the libraryB
The door was broken and could not close properlyC
Someone came to the building recently and forgot to shut the door behind them when they leftQuestion 14
Complete this sentence using one word from Paragraph F.
Minh’s face showed something — not surprise, but more like ___.
Paragraph FFill in
Question 15
At the end, Minh says “I know who built the library.” How does this change what they know about the library’s story?
Paragraph FInference
A
The mystery is completely solved — there is nothing more to find outB
Now they have a name or group, the question becomes: what happened to them?C
Minh is surprised🔮
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📋 Answers
Q1
B — grinnedAsk: what did Toan do? He grinned. That is the action — the verb. “Anh” is a proper noun. “Eye” is a common noun. Neither names an action.
Q2
C — disappearedAsk: what did the path do? It disappeared. That is the verb. “Completely” is an adverb — it tells you how completely it disappeared. “Roots” is a noun.
Q3
A — showedAsk: what did his face do? It showed something. That is the verb. “Face” is the subject — a noun. “Surprise” is also a noun.
Q4
A — carefully comparing the map to what he seesChecking, looking up, checking again — this is the pattern of someone comparing two things. He is matching what the map says to what he sees in front of him. He is not panicking; he finds the path each time.
Q5
pushedParagraph E: “Minh put both hands flat against it and pushed.” Pushed is the second verb in the sentence — it is what Minh’s action produced: the door moved.
Q6
A — he wanted to be certain before speakingMinh reads twice, is quiet, then turns and speaks with certainty. This is the pattern of someone making sure before saying something important. Options B and C add details not in the text.
Q7
B — an adverb“Exactly” tells you how closely the shapes matched — it describes the verb “matched.” That makes it an adverb. An adjective describes a noun; a verb names an action.
Q8
C — MinhParagraph A: Minh held the map, said nothing, then simply unfolded it and began to walk. “He” refers back to Minh — the person who arrived at the gate with the copied map.
Q9
B — moss, hanging roots, and the trees’ long arms covered itParagraph D: “almost completely hidden by moss, hanging roots, and the long arms of the trees around it.” Options A and C add details that are not stated in the passage.
Q10
scrapingParagraph E: “The door moved slowly, scraping across the stone floor.” Scraping describes the sound and action of the door as it moved — a rough, slow drag against stone.
Q11
B — Minh follows the copied mapParagraph A: Minh unfolded the map and began to walk. The map — the copy he made in Quiz 8 — is what guides them up the hill. Options A and C are not mentioned in the story.
Q12
B — a stone tablet with letters carved into itParagraph E: “On the far wall, set into the stone, was a tablet — a flat piece of stone, smooth on the face, with letters carved deep into it.” Options A and C are not in the text.
Q13
A — the scholars left this building in a hurry, just as they left the libraryThe journal said they left quickly — suddenly (Day 181). A door left slightly open fits the same pattern: no time to close it. This connects the two places and the same event.
Q14
recognitionParagraph F: “not surprise, exactly. More like recognition.” Recognition is the feeling of knowing something you have seen before — Minh was not surprised by what he read. He recognised it.
Q15
B — now they have a name, the question is: what happened to them?Knowing who built something does not end a mystery — it opens the next question. The library was abandoned, the journal stopped mid-sentence, the door was left open. Who were they? And what happened on Day 181?