A) Mrs. O'Leary
B) Daniel Sullivan
C) Chicago firefighters
D) Mrs. O'Leary's cow

A) fable
B) nonfiction
C) fantasy
D) science fiction

A) He went to feed his mother's cow.
B) He went to get hay for his cattle.
C) Daniel lived in the hay loft in the barn.
D) He went to get a lantern.

A) Daniel knocked over a lantern.
B) Mrs. O'Leary dropped a match on the hay.
C) Daniel dropped his pipe.
D) The cow knocked over a lantern.

A) They tried to warn Daniel that Mrs. O'Leary was coming out to the barn.
B) They were hungry and wanted to be fed.
C) The cows needed milking.
D) They were trying to wake Daniel up.

A) an entire week
B) two days
C) just a few hours
D) from sunrise to sunset

A) shops
B) churches
C) business buildings
D) houses

A) the lake
B) the town square
C) the region along the hillside
D) the grassy meadow

A) The wind blew it out.
B) A gentle rain began to fall.
C) The horses trampled the fire with their hooves.
D) People began to put out the fire with blankets.

A) tired
B) frustrated
C) excited
D) angry

A) exclamatory
B) declarative
C) imperative
D) interrogative

A) The fire from Daniel's pipe caught the hay on fire.
B) Mrs. O'Leary's barn burned to the ground.
C) Nobody knew that Daniel really started the fire.
D) Fire burned most of the city.

A) become a fireman
B) rebuild the barn
C) reward the firemen
D) throw away his pipe

A) Mrs. O'Leary came into the barn and found it for him.
B) He got burned on his finger.
C) The hay caught on fire.
D) Daniel woke up.

A) He led the animals out of the barn.
B) He fell asleep.
C) A fire began to spread throughtout the barn.
D) He fed his mother's cow.

A) a heavy object
B) to become a problem
C) a silly song
D) a pile or large amount

A) confusion
B) awful
C) instead
D) impossible

A) Half a city burned down.
B) Daniel smoked inside the barn.
C) People blamed the cow for setting the city on fire.
D) Mrs. O'Leary's cow explained how the fire started.