The Gentleman of Rio en Medio
Two Marks Questions
Answer:
* His coat was old, green, faded.
* His gloves were old & torn.
* He bowed to the Americans and removed his hat and gloves slowly and carefully.
Answer:
* They offered the old man more money for extra land.
* They spoke to the children softly.
Answer:
*Don Anselmo tilled the same land his people had tilled.
* He was principled and generous because he refused to take more money.
* He was fond of the children because he planted a tree, whenever a child was born.
Answer:
* They discovered the old man had extra land.
* They offered him double money for it.
Answer:
* His house was small, wretched and quaint.
* A little creek ran through the land.
* Trees were gnarled and beautiful.
Answer:
* They overran property and built play fences.
* They played under trees and took blossoms.
Answer:
* The Americans approached each person of the village.
* They convinced them and got their sign.
Answer:
* He refused to take extra money.
* He said the trees belonged to the children
Three Marks Questions
Answer:
a. The Americans.
b. The old man had an extra land.
c. The Americans offered Anselmo double money.
Answer:
a. Don Anselmo.
b. To the children.
c. Whenever a child was born, he planted a tree.
d. He thought they belonged to the children.
Answer:
a. Don Anselmo\the old man.
b. When Americans offered double money.
c. He was a man of principles.
Answer:
a. The author said to Don Anselmo.
b. Good people.
c. They were ready to give him double money.
Answer:
a. Don Anselmo.
b. When the story teller complaint against the children.
c. The children of his village.
d. Whenever a child was born in the village he planted a tree.
Answer:
a. Don Anselmo.
b. The story teller.
c. The other person offered him double money for double land.
d. He decided not to take extra money.
Answer:
a. Don Anselmo. OR
The author.
b. For taking more money for extra land.
c. The old man refused to take more money.
Answer:
a. Don Anselmo.
b. The Americans.
c. He thought they belonged to children.
Answer:
a. Don Anselmo.
b. The trees in the orchard.
c. Whenever a child was born, he planted a tree.
Answer:
a. Don Anselom.
b. Charlie Chaplin’s style.
c. At the writer’s office.
Answer:
a. Don Anselmo.
b. To sign the deed.
c. Senator Catron.
Four Marks Questions
Answer:
* When the Americans found an extra land, they offered the old man double money.
* The old man did not accept double money.
* He asked them to give only 12 hundred dollars.
* When ever a child was born in the village, he planted a tree.
* He did not sell the trees because he thought they belonged to the children.
