After familiarizing the characters in the story, let us see how much you've
understood the story you have just read.
As you know, the author of the story had introduced some influences in the
selection
Below are some excerpts from the selection you have just read. The excerpts
depict how the story is influenced by the author's life experiences and also by various
aspects mentioned.
Match the situation in column A with the response in column B. Choose the
letter of your answer and write it in your English activity notebook.
COLUMN A
COLUMN B
SITUATION
RESPONSE
1. The rich man's servants were frying A. The family has the natural knack of
and cooking something good and the joking, everyone was made to laugh with
room of the food was wafted down to them.
us from the window of the big house.
2. Father's farm had been destroyed in B. The poor family was forced to transfer in
1918 by one of our sudden Philippine town though they would have preferred in
floods.
the countryside.
3. “May I walk to the room across the hall C. The poor neighbors enjoyed the smell
and stay there for a minute, Judge?" and huddled near their window to savor
Father asked.
them imaginatively.
This made the rich father mad, thinking they
stole the spirit of their food.
4. My sister started it. The rest of us D. The judge was curious so with
followed them and soon the
everyone what plans the poor father has.
spectators were laughing with us, This was his way of paying their stealing of
holding their bellies and bending over the spirit of the food.
the chairs and the laughter of the
Judge was the loudest of all!​