Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

I bought a jasmine plant for my office. When I bought it, I was told it would bloom and the sweet smell would fill my office. I had the plant for two months, and every day I looked at it, but there weren't any flowers or pleasant smell. I was not happy, so I gave the plant to my friend Linda. One day, another friend Mary called and invited me to her office. When I walked in, her jasmine flowers surprised me. I reached out to touch the flowers. Mary cut some and gave them to me. I couldn't help smelling them. Surrounded by the sweet smell of only a handful of these flowers, I suddenly understood something. Mary bought her plant the same time I did. It took a year for her jasmine to bloom. I was so impatient for mine to bloom; regretfully, I gave it away. In a way my life is like the jasmine plant. I need to be patient and let things happen. Last Sunday Linda told me that she was going abroad the next week. Before she left, she returned the plant to me. This time I am going to wait. I have learned that when we want something in our life, we have to be patient. I am slowly learning to have that patience to wait for my jasmine to bloom.

1. Who did I give the jasmine to?
2. Why?
3. What did I buy it for>
4. What was she told the plant would do for her office?
5. How long did she keep it?
6. How often did she check it?
7. Why did Linda give it back?
8. When?
9. When did she tell her about the trip?
10. When did she give the plant back?
11. Who else has a plant like this?
12. When did Mary get her plant?
13. What is different about Mary's?
14. How long did it take?
15. Where does she keep her plant?
16. How does it smell?
17. Why did she cut some?
18. What could she not resist doing?
19. How does she feel now about giving hers away?
20. What has she learned from these plants?

Numbered answers:
1. Linda
2. she was impatient for it to bloom
3. her office
4. fill it with a sweet smell
5. two months
6. every day
7. she was going abroad
8. next week
9. Last Sunday
10. Before she left
11. Mary
12. at the same time as her
13. it had bloomed
14. a year
15. her office
16. sweet
17. to give to her
18. smelling them
19. regretful
20. to be patient