He is building a small house in the backyard for when their baby is old enough to use it as a fort or clubhouse or getaway, and he wants to have three walls up before his wife gets home. She is at her mother's house because her mother has slipped on the ice – a skating party, Christmas-themed – and needs help with preparations for her holiday party, planned before the accident. It's snowing lightly, and the air is cold enough to see. He is working on the small house with a new drill he's bought that day. It's a portable drill, and he marvels at its efficiency. He wants to prove something to his wife, because he doesn't build things like this often, and she has implied that she likes it when he does build things, and when he goes biking or plays rugby in the men's league. She was impressed when he assembled a telescope, a birthday gift, in two hours, when the manual had said it would take four. So when she's gone during this day, and the air is gray and dense and the snow falls like ash, he works quickly, trying to get the foundation done. Once he's finished with the foundation, he decides that to impress her – and he wants to impress her in some way every day and wants always to want to impress her – he will need at least three walls up on the house by the time she gets home.

Circle the correct letter A, B, C, or D:

1. The purpose of the small house is to …

A. allow the man a fort to escape to.

B. appease the man’s wife who is forcing him to the build it.

C. provide a clubhouse for the man’s child.

D. make the man’s wife happy.



2. His wife likes it when he does all of the following EXCEPT:

A. building things

B. skating

C. biking

D. assembling telescopes



3. From the text, we can infer that to marvel is to:

A. admire

B. question

C. examine

D. use



4. He wants to build the small house quickly because …

A. he must build it as quickly as he built the telescope.

B. he told his wife he would complete it while she helped her mother.

C. he wants to impress his wife.

D. he wants to finish it before the weather gets worse.



5. We can assume that …

A. the husband and wife are competitive.

B. the husband and wife like to spend time apart.

C. the wife thinks the husband is fat.

D. the husband and wife like to do things for each other.
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