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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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