Read the following passage carefully.
My mother took my sister and me to see a play at the arts center. The play was about an Indian chef who liked to make pies. It was an exciting play to watch because a thief took a pie from the chef’s house. This made the chef sad. The chef was filled with grief over the pie being taken and he told his friends he was very sad.
Then the chef and thief decided to have a cooking contest to see who could make the best pie. The thief made a pie. The thief wanted to ‘tie’ for first place with the chef. But the chef made the best pie and won the prize.
The thief did not win, but he went home with his pie and told his wife a lie that he had won the pie-cooking contest. The thief’s wife did not see a prize. There was no prize money or ribbon for a prize. This was a clue that her husband did not ‘tie’ with the chief in the pie contest and that his story was just not true.
The wife asked her husband (the thief) for the money that was due as he had borrowed her money to buy to ingredients needed for the pie. ‘Yes!” she smiled, you need to pay me back the money that is due And when he did that, the thief and his wife had a piece of pie!
Now answer the following questions.
1) What lie did the thief tell his wife and why did he lie?
2) How did the wife know the thief was not telling the truth?
3) In the text, what did the chief like to do?
a) He liked to bake cakes.
b) He liked to make cakes.
c) He liked to ride horses.
4) What did the thief steal?
a) a bag of gold b) money
c) a pie from the chef’s house
5) Who among the following to won the ‘cooking pie’ contest?
a) the thief
b) the chef
c) wife of the thief
