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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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