Reading Guide 1 – The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency

Reading Guide 1 – The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency

Read chapters 1 to 4 and answer the following questions. Bring your answers to class week 4.

Reading Comprehension:                                                                /34

1.What kind of business is operated by Mma Ramotswe in Botswana?

A detective agency.

2. What is the distinction held by this firm?
       it’s the only female

3. What did Mma Ramotswe's father do?
     he was miner

4. Who is Mma Ramotswe's first successful case?
         happy bapetski

5. How does Mma Ramotswe disguise herself to solve this case?
   nurse

6. Who invades Happy's life, requiring her to seek Mma Ramotswe's aid?
       man claiming to be her father

7. What prevents Mma Ramotswe's father from offering his opinion regarding the decision she makes to open a detective agency?

8. How is Mma Ramotswe's work ethic described?
(a) She gets all that she can out of her clients.
(b) She is cold and heartless.
(c) She only charges her clients if she is successful.
(d) She is ruthless and unstoppable.

9. What kills Obed Ramotswe?


10. What does Precious tell the man who is living with Happy?

11. What is Happy supposedly in need of?


12. What did Obed invest all of his money in?

13. What does Obed witness?

14. What is the outcome of the event Obed witnesses?

15. Where does Obed return to?

16. Who comes to look after Precious as a child?

17. Why does Obed's cousin come to look after Precious?

18. What does Obed's cousin teach Precious?

19. Where does Precious learn about men?

20. What always strikes Precious as suspicious?

21. What does the teacher at Sunday school teach them that boys and men are ridiculously proud of?

24. What kind of competition is Precious selected to enter?

25. Why is Precious upset when she sees her painting hanging in the Museum in Gaborone?

26. At what age does Precious leave home?

27. Where does Precious go when she leaves home?

28. What kind of work does Precious secure as her first job?

29. Why are her fellow employees resentful of her?

30. What does she discover in the course of her employment at the trucking company?

31. Who does Precious meet and fall in love with?

32. What does he do for a living?
33. Why is Precious determined to marry him?

34. What happens that enables Precious to open her agency?

Grammar:                                                                                /6

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