Coyote Places the Stars Comprehension
  • 1. This story is most like a _______.
A) fairy tale
B) riddle
C) legend
D) tall tale
  • 2. When does this story take place?
A) many years in the past
B) during a full moon
C) recently
D) after a bad storm
  • 3. Coyote shoots one arrow after the other at the sky because he _______.
A) is showing off for Bear
B) is practicing his shooting
C) is connecting arrows to make a ladder
D) can't carry arrows to the moon
  • 4. Which event happens first?
A) Coyote begins to howl.
B) Coyote makes a picture of Bear from stars.
C) Coyote hits a star with an arrow and makes it move.
D) Coyote returns to Earth.
  • 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) mysterious
C) cruel
D) unhappy
  • 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) stargazers in the future will think of all the animals
B) all the animals vote for them
C) they are the easiest to make
D) the moon orders him to
  • 9. The animals give a great feast because ____.
A) they want to honor Coyote
B) they are all hungry
C) it is the end of the summer
D) Eagle tells them to do so
  • 10. Which word best tells about Coyote?
A) fearful
B) dangerous
C) musical
D) imaginative
  • 11. What is the purpose of this story?
A) to explain the appearance of the night sky
B) to give facts about coyotes
C) to tell how to shoot a bow and arrow
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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