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