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Sayings We Share Comprehension
  • 1. According to the selection, you learn much about life from ________.
A) brothers and sisters
B) teachers and coaches
C) characters in books
D) older family members
  • 2. Another name for common sayings is _______.
A) fairy tales
B) fables
C) rhymes
D) proverbs
  • 3. Oral traditions are usually stories or sayings that different cultures ________.
A) say each year at holiday time
B) pass down from generation to generation
C) require the young to memorize
D) use to teach their young about art
  • 4. Proverbs from around the world may use different words, but many of the ________ are the same.
A) locations
B) ideas
C) stories
D) sentences
  • 5. Which American saying is similar to the Vietnamese saying "Even with two hands, one cannot catch two fish at one time"?
A) As a crab walks, so walks its children.
B) Don't spread yourself too thin.
C) Silence is golden?
D) One today is worth a thousand tomorrows.
  • 6. The moral of a story is the _______ that the story teaches.
A) expression
B) generation
C) lesson
D) tradition
  • 7. Arnold Lobel uses the tale of the rooster to teach that in order to succeed, you ________.
A) must yell loudly
B) must be grown up
C) need sunshine
D) may fail at first
  • 8. What is the meaning of "he who lays down with dogs shall rise up with fleas"?
A) A sleeping cat cannot catch the rat.
B) The dogs are looking for their pet fleas.
C) A person is known by the company he keeps.
D) It is difficult to raise a family of fleas.
  • 9. The lazy mouse goes hungry because she _______.
A) had a hard time finding snakeskin at night
B) didn't run for help in time
C) doesn't understand how to gather beans
D) played when she should have worked
  • 10. "Slow and steady wins the race" is the moral for the fable _________.
A) "The Hare and the Tortoise"
B) "French Fable"
C) "Two Mice"
D) "American Fable"
  • 11. Aesop's fables were written _________.
A) in present times
B) over 2,000 years ago
C) in Spanish
D) about the future
  • 12. This selection is most like a _________.
A) news story
B) magazine article
C) journal entry
D) biography
  • 13. My grandmother has very modern ideas for someone from another ___________.
A) summoned
B) illuminated
C) fortunate
D) generation
  • 14. If you work ______________, you will obtain your goal.
A) fortunate
B) summoned
C) generation
D) persistently
  • 15. The holiday lights _______________ the whole town.
A) persistently
B) illuminated
C) faithful
D) fortunate
  • 16. Mr. Rose came quickly when he was ______________ to the office.
A) faithful
B) fortunate
C) summoned
D) illuminated
  • 17. Kim is an old and _______________ friend whom I can always count on.
A) summoned
B) generation
C) faithful
D) persistently
  • 18. We are _____________ that we have good health.
A) faithful
B) summoned
C) generation
D) fortunate
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