Exercise 1: Divide the text of chapter 6 into the following parts.
1. In a school library, Omri reads the book “On the trail of the Iroquois”.
2. Omri sneaks out to Yapp’s shop to buy a plastic chief at lunchtime.
3. At the handicraft lesson, with a lot of patience Omri achieves to make a patched tepee.
4. At home, a wonderful sight meets Omri’s eyes – Little bear makes a longhouse.
5. Plastic chief Indian dies when Omri tries to make a plastic bow, plastic arrows, and a plastic feather real.
6. Omri goes to a hardware shop to buy a new seed tray and seeds for his angry father.
Exercise 2: Answer the following questions. They will help you to spot the important details of the story.
Why did Omri read the book in the library and not at home?
Omri was not a great reader, was he? Why?
What was the difference between the two tribes – Iroquois and Algonquins?
What vegetables were called “the three sisters”?
Why the two tribes, Iroquois and Algonquins, were keen on scalping?
When was it allowed for school children to go out for lunch?
Why did Omri decide to go shopping during the lunchtime? Why couldn’t he do it after school?
How many lessons did Omri and Patrick have in the afternoon? What were they?
Sewing had always bored Omri rigid, didn’t it?
Why is it more difficult to tell lies to a mother?
How long does normal dawdling from school home take time?
How was Omri spared from his mother’s questioning?
What brought Omri in utter fascination when he was watching the Little Bear?
Why did Little Bear choose to build a longhouse for himself and disliked the tepee that Omri made for him?
Why did the Indian become very happy after the death of the chief?
Omri was not about to be turned into the Indian’s slave, was he?
Omri’s father was the sort to pry into his children’s secrets, wasn’t he?