Coyote Places the Stars Comprehension
  • 1. This story is most like a _______.
A) tall tale
B) legend
C) fairy 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) can't carry arrows to the moon
B) is showing off for Bear
C) is connecting arrows to make a ladder
D) is practicing his shooting
  • 4. Which event happens first?
A) Coyote makes a picture of Bear from stars.
B) Coyote returns to Earth.
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 stars
C) by looking at shapes on the moon
D) from the ideas that Bear gives him
  • 6. To the other animals in the story, Coyote's howl is ________.
A) cruel
B) angry
C) unhappy
D) mysterious
  • 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 are all hungry
C) they want to honor Coyote
D) Eagle tells them to do so
  • 10. Which word best tells about Coyote?
A) dangerous
B) musical
C) fearful
D) imaginative
  • 11. What is the purpose of this story?
A) to explain the appearance of the night sky
B) to describe desert animals
C) to give facts about coyotes
D) to tell how to shoot a bow and arrow
  • 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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