Anne bakes a cake for Mrs. Allan but makes a mistake by using liniment instead of vanilla due to having a cold. When Mrs. Allan tastes the cake, her expression shows something is wrong but she eats it without saying anything. Marilla tastes it and realizes the mistake. Later, Mrs. Allan comforts Anne and assures her the liniment was not poisonous.
Anne bakes a cake for Mrs. Allan but makes a mistake by using liniment instead of vanilla due to having a cold. When Mrs. Allan tastes the cake, her expression shows something is wrong but she eats it without saying anything. Marilla tastes it and realizes the mistake. Later, Mrs. Allan comforts Anne and assures her the liniment was not poisonous.
Anne bakes a cake for Mrs. Allan but makes a mistake by using liniment instead of vanilla due to having a cold. When Mrs. Allan tastes the cake, her expression shows something is wrong but she eats it without saying anything. Marilla tastes it and realizes the mistake. Later, Mrs. Allan comforts Anne and assures her the liniment was not poisonous.
Anne bakes a cake for Mrs. Allan but makes a mistake by using liniment instead of vanilla due to having a cold. When Mrs. Allan tastes the cake, her expression shows something is wrong but she eats it without saying anything. Marilla tastes it and realizes the mistake. Later, Mrs. Allan comforts Anne and assures her the liniment was not poisonous.
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ANNE BAKES A CAKE
determined to make her cake despite having
Understanding the Text caught a cold from playing in the spring the A. 1. “Avonlea opened its heart to them from previous evening. She drew a long breath the start—everyone liked the cheerful young when she shut the oven door, showing how man and the bright, gentle lady who was his breathlessly she had been working on the wife.” 2. Yes. Marilla must have been cake and how anxious she was for it to turn bored by them because when Anne tells out well. 6. “Anne felt that Mrs Allan’s her she asked her teacher a lot of questions, approving smile was almost too much Marilla says ‘I believe you’. 3. Marilla happiness for this world.” 7. No, she wants to invite Mr and Mrs Allan home didn’t, because the text says Anne was red because she has heard that they had been with embarrassment after tasting the cake everywhere else in the neighbourhood but and she didn’t expect the cake to taste the hadn’t visited the Cuthberts’ home yet. way it did. 8. Not only had the cake Marilla took a lot of trouble to make great turned out badly due to Anne using preparations because hosting the minister Anodyne Liniment instead of vanilla, but and his wife to tea was an important also Anne had failed to smell the contents of matter and Marilla did not want to be the bottle before using them, due to her outdone by any of the other Avonlea cold. housekeepers. 4. Anne is nervous and 9. Anne jumped up because she realised that often doubts her own ability whereas Diana the person she had been talking to was not is confident that things will turn out well Marilla but Mrs Allan. 10. No, because and is reassuring. Anne is imaginative and Anne ‘permitted herself to be led down and rather high-strung whereas Diana is calm comforted’. The paragraph also says that she and logical. 5. Anne couldn’t sleep that had enjoyed the evening more than she had night and got up early, at sunrise. She was expected. B. 1. a. plenty of cake and other things to eat, without Anne’s layer cake b. The problem was of the possibility of Anne’s cake not rising. C. c. Marilla’s view was that Anne’s cake was not very important nor necessary, as there were other things to eat, but Anne was worried that if the cake didn’t rise, she would fail to bake a nice cake for Mrs Allan. 2. a. Marilla saw Mrs Allan’s expression. It was a strange expression indicating that there was something wrong with the cake. b. Marilla guessed that there was something wrong with the cake. She quickly tasted the cake to confirm her guess. c. Anne did not notice it probably because Mrs Allan did not say a word and ate the cake steadily. Also, Anne hadn’t eaten the cake herself yet. 3. a. Mrs Allan’s kindly voice, speaking to Anne, in Anne’s bedroom. b. Tell Mrs Allan that the liniment Anne had put into the cake by mistake was not poisonous.