Mahmoud Gaafar

Comparative and superlative

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Answers to activities

A poor couple steal some vegetables from their neighbor, an old woman. She takes their baby, whom she calls Rapunzel and keeps her in a tower. A prince sees the old woman climbing up the tower using Rapunzel’s long hair, and he too climbs up secretly. They fall in love. The old woman hears their plans to escape, and she becomes very angry. She cuts Rapunzel’s hair and uses it to trick the prince into climbing up. She drops the hair, and the prince falls into a thorny bush and becomes blind. Rapunzel escapes and looks for her prince, singing a sad song. One day he hears her singing, and they meet again; she cries for joy, and her tears cure his blindness. They get married and never see the old woman again. Penguin Young Readers Factsheets