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.
COLUMN A
COLUMN B
SITUATION
RESPONSE
1. The rich man's servants were frying A. The family has the natural knack of joking, everyone
and cooking something good and the was made to laugh with them.
room of the food was wafted down to
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 the
floods.
countryside.
3. "May I walk to the room across the hall C. The poor neighbors enjoyed the smell and huddled
and stay there for a minute, Judge?" near their window to savor them imaginatively,
Father asked.
This made the rich father mad, thinking they
stole the spirit of their food.
4. My sister started it. The rest of us
followed them and soon the
D. The judge was curious so with everyone what plans
the poor father has. This was his way of paying their
stealing of the spirit of the food.
spectators were laughing with us,
holding their bellies and bending over
the chairs and the laughter of the
Judge was the loudest of all!​