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Coyote Places the Stars Comprehension
Contributed by: Moore
  • 1. This story is most like a _______.
A) fairy tale
B) legend
C) tall tale
D) riddle
  • 2. When does this story take place?
A) many years in the past
B) recently
C) during a full moon
D) after a bad storm
  • 3. Coyote shoots one arrow after the other at the sky because he _______.
A) is connecting arrows to make a ladder
B) is practicing his shooting
C) can't carry arrows to the moon
D) is showing off for Bear
  • 4. Which event happens first?
A) Coyote returns to Earth.
B) Coyote makes a picture of Bear from stars.
C) Coyote hits a star with an arrow and makes it move.
D) Coyote begins to howl.
  • 5. Where does Coyote get his ideas for most of the star pictures he draws?
A) by thinking of himself and his friends
B) from the ideas that Bear gives him
C) from the stars
D) by looking at shapes on the moon
  • 6. To the other animals in the story, Coyote's howl is ________.
A) angry
B) unhappy
C) mysterious
D) cruel
  • 7. Which group do the words, whoofing, whiffing, screeching, and squawking belong to?
A) ways arrows may fly
B) things that Coyote does
C) sounds animals make
D) dives that birds make
  • 8. According to the story, Coyote makes animal-shaped pictures because ______.
A) all the animals vote for them
B) stargazers in the future will think of all the animals
C) the moon orders him to
D) they are the easiest to make
  • 9. The animals give a great feast because ____.
A) it is the end of the summer
B) they want to honor Coyote
C) Eagle tells them to do so
D) they are all hungry
  • 10. Which word best tells about Coyote?
A) musical
B) dangerous
C) imaginative
D) fearful
  • 11. What is the purpose of this story?
A) to tell how to shoot a bow and arrow
B) to explain the appearance of the night sky
C) to give facts about coyotes
D) to describe desert animals
  • 12. Name two things that show how clever Coyote is.
  • 13. "Rabbits hippity-hopped" when they went to see Coyote. List three other animals in the story and tell how each moved.
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