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

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

A) He went to feed his mother's cow.
B) He went to get a lantern.
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) Mrs. O'Leary dropped a match on the hay.
C) The cow knocked over a lantern.
D) Daniel knocked over a lantern.

A) The cows needed milking.
B) They were trying to wake Daniel up.
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) two days
D) an entire week

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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