Grade+5

Kaddo’s Wall

1. What killed Kaddo? 2. What is mortar? 3. Why did the hundred girls do what Kaddo asked? 4. Why only girls? 5. What does melancholy mean? 6. Why wouldn’t he share any extra corn with the poor? 7. Why was he still an important man if he mistreated everyone? 8. Why was Kaddo happy as he sat on the gate to his wall? 9. Why did he make bricks of his corn? 10. What is millet beer? 11. How old was Kaddo? 12. Why did Kaddo disagree with all of his servant’s suggestions? 13. What is a bursting granary? 14. What does it mean to “hoe up a field”? 15. Where are Gana and Tandella? 16. Why aren’t the grandchildren rich? 17. What does it mean to have your crops fail? 18. Did they wear shoes? 19. What are cowry shells (p20)? 20. Why didn’t Kaddo eat more of the wall more quickly? 21. What does it mean to be “less fortunate” (p19)? 22. What is a spring (p19)? 23. What is a Mangy donkey (p21)? 24. What did the person mean by ‘it is against humanity’ (p19)? 25. Why did Kaddo think that Sogol’s corn seen would grow when his didn’t? 26. Why didn’t Kaddo like any of the people’s suggestions? 27. Why did Sogol have a skin put on the ground next to him (p22)? 28. What did Kaddo’s daughter do when she found him dead? 29. Why did Kaddo build a wall out of flour? 30. What does protested mean? 31. Why does he repeat the word “once” on p 24? 32. Why did he eat the seed corn if he knew he had to plant it?