Answer the following questions based on the reading passage. 1. Where was Maria Montessori born?(Choose the correct answer and rewrite it) 2. Where did Maria open the first school for normal children? 3. What does “Casa Di Bambini” mean in the passage? 4. When is a child completely absorbed in learning things, according to Maria? 5. How did her method of teaching become effective on children? 6. Why are the children not given punishment? Answer: 1. Maria Montessori was born in Chiaravalle, in Italy. 2. Maria opened the first school for normal children in the slums of Rome. 3. “Casa Di Bambini” in the passage means Children’s House 4. A child is completely absorbed in learning things when it is really interested in the exercise it had chosen. 5. Her method of teaching made children become self–reliant and independent. 6. The children are not given punishment because even if they behaved badly at first, when they became engrossed in the activity of their choice, they would be quiet and settle down.