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A. How much did you understand?

The right order of these sentences is 3, 2, 1.

"Don't open the door. Listen for my voice.”

So every day the cubs stayed inside the house.

But one day a hyena passed the fox's house, and he heard the cubs’ voices. 

The right order of these sentences is 5, 6, 4

The hyena was waiting. He ran up to the door of the foxes’ house and knocked on it.

He ate some honey and his voice became sweet.

"That is our mother’s voice," said the fox cubs. "It's soft and sweet.”

The right order of these sentences is 9, 7, 8. 

In the dust by the door she saw the marks of the hyena’s feet. 

The next day, she made a big hole in the ground and she put a goatskin over it.

So the hyena sat on the goatskin and he fell down into the hole.

B. Who sings?

1. Who sings it the first time?
   Mother Fox
2. Who calls it out  the second time?
   Mother Fox
3. Who calls it out the third time?
   Mother Fox
4. Who says it the fourth time? 
   The hyena
5. Who calls it out the fifth time? 
   The hyena

 C. Endings

The right endings are 1/c, 2/a and 3/b.

1/c. So every day the cubs stayed inside the house and their mother hunted for food.

2/a. He ran up to the door of the foxes’ house and knocked on it.

3/b. So the cubs opened the door, and the hyena ran into the house and ate both of them.