1. The man and the boy were waiting for the birds. a. early in the morning.

b. towards the evening.

C. in the early afternoon.

2. Why was the boy there with the man?

a. because they usually hunted together.

b. because the boy wanted to watch the birds

c. because the man was teaching the boy to hunt

3. How did they feel when they saw the birds in the sky?

a. The man didn't feel anything but the boy was completely filled with wonder.

b. They were both pleased and got ready to shoot.

c. The man prepared to shoot but the boy was unable to decide.

4. How did the two shoot?

a. The man showed his experience but the boy was rather slow.

b. The man was not successful but the boy was probably lucky on his first attempt.

c. The man rushed through and missed; the boy was more careful and succeeded

5. The man says, "You'll have to look after it.” This shows that

a. the man realised that the boy wanted to take the live bird home.

b. the boy was hoping that the man would look after the bird.

c. the man wanted the live bird to be thrown away.

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant