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

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

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

A) Daniel dropped his pipe.
B) The cow knocked over a lantern.
C) Mrs. O'Leary dropped a match on the hay.
D) Daniel 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) from sunrise to sunset
B) just a few hours
C) two days
D) an entire week

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A) He fell asleep.
B) A fire began to spread throughtout the barn.
C) He led the animals out of 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) instead
B) impossible
C) awful
D) confusion

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