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