Coyote Places the Stars Comprehension
  • 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 practicing his shooting
B) is showing off for Bear
C) can't carry arrows to the moon
D) is connecting arrows to make a ladder
  • 4. Which event happens first?
A) Coyote makes a picture of Bear from stars.
B) Coyote returns to Earth.
C) Coyote begins to howl.
D) Coyote hits a star with an arrow and makes it move.
  • 5. Where does Coyote get his ideas for most of the star pictures he draws?
A) from the ideas that Bear gives him
B) by thinking of himself and his friends
C) by looking at shapes on the moon
D) from the stars
  • 6. To the other animals in the story, Coyote's howl is ________.
A) unhappy
B) mysterious
C) cruel
D) angry
  • 7. Which group do the words, whoofing, whiffing, screeching, and squawking belong to?
A) ways arrows may fly
B) sounds animals make
C) dives that birds make
D) things that Coyote does
  • 8. According to the story, Coyote makes animal-shaped pictures because ______.
A) all the animals vote for them
B) they are the easiest to make
C) the moon orders him to
D) stargazers in the future will think of all the animals
  • 9. The animals give a great feast because ____.
A) they are all hungry
B) Eagle tells them to do so
C) they want to honor Coyote
D) it is the end of the summer
  • 10. Which word best tells about Coyote?
A) musical
B) dangerous
C) fearful
D) imaginative
  • 11. What is the purpose of this story?
A) to describe desert animals
B) to tell how to shoot a bow and arrow
C) to explain the appearance of the night sky
D) to give facts about coyotes
  • 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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