When this story happened, they were working around a very large house. Their job was to do the cleaning. It was not a difficult job, but sometimes it was a little dangerous, because they had to walk below where workmen were working. Often these workmen dropped something from the top of the house many meters high to the ground. One morning Joe was working near the house with a cigarette behind one of his ears. Suddenly somebody on the top shouted, "Look out!" But Joe did not "look out". He looked up. And as he did so, a long knife missed Joe's head, but it cut off one of his ears. At once he put his hand to one side of his head and cried out, "I've lost an ear. Help! Help!" Jeff ran up to help his friend. "Look for my ear," Joe told him. "It must be on the ground somewhere." Jeff looked everywhere for the missing ear. At last he found an ear on the ground. He picked it up and carried it to Joe. "Here you are," he said, "I've found it." Joe looked at it. "No, that's not my ear." he said, "Mine had a cigarette behind it."

What are the answers to this following set of questions:

1. What were they doing?
2. Doing what?
3. Was it easy?
4. Why?
5. What would happen?
6. Where was Joe?
7. What did he hear?
8. What did he do instead?
9. What went by his face?
10. What did it do?
11. What did he do next?
12. Who helped him?
13. Where did they search?
14. Did they find it?
15. But did he think it was his?
16. Why?

Numbered answers:
1. working on a house
2. Cleaning
3. Yes, but a bit dangerous
4. They had to walk under the workmen
5. The workmen would drop things from the top of the house
6. Joe was close to the house
7. A shout of "look out"
8. Joe looked up
9. A long knife
10. The knife cut off one of his ears.
11. He put his hand to his head and cried out
12. Jeff
13. On the ground first, then everywhere
14. Yes
15. No
16. His had a cigarette behind it