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