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Songs from the Soul:

Stories from Around the World

Retold by Jennifer Bassett

1   In which story can you find these things? Complicity, The Luck of Four, Chinna and Muthu, The Deceivers, Treason.

a  A yellow butterfly. ………………

b  A little goat. ………………

c  A fat chicken. ………………

d  A lottery ticket. ………………

e  A computer. ………………

Setting

Choose the best answer.

1   In The Evening Train, Keshto lives _____.

a [  ] on a large farm b [  ] in a noisy city c [  ] in a small town d [  ] in a quiet village

2   Keshto makes and cooks delicious _____ cakes.

a [  ] rice b [  ] potato c [  ] tea d [  ] chocolate

3   Emma and Jimmy in Complicity visit a _____ with their mother.

a [  ] farm b [  ] shop c [  ] mine d [  ] house

4   In The Luck of Four, Chai goes into Samy’s _____ shop.

a [  ] book b [  ] clothes c [  ] coffee d [  ] cake

5   In Chinna and Muthu, there has been no _____ in the village for a long time.

a [  ] rain b [  ] work c [  ] milk d [  ] hot weather

Changing their Skies: Stories from Africa

Retold by Jennifer Bassett

1   Which story do these sentences come from? The Rubbish Dump, Cardboard Mansions, Leaving.

a  She began to think again about Stanger, and the past, and her friend Ratnadevi. ……….

b  He saw Mazambezi sitting by the side of the pit looking down into it. ……….

c  There were no fruit trees, no birds calling and   flying in and out of the trees. ……….

d  Some weeks later answers to the letters began arriving with big shiny prospectuses. ……….

e  Near the house he stopped and hid the plane under his shirt. ……….

f   That was the first time I saw her as a person, and not just as our mother. ……….

g  All through the journey he stood by the window, with his nose against the glass. ……….

h  It was a hard life, with five children and no husband. ……….

i   Why did people vomit when they were flying in a plane? ……….

j   She waited for the boy, pulling the end of her old green cotton sari over her head. ……….