Sayings We Share Comprehension

1. According to the selection, you learn much about life from ________.

A) characters in books
B) older family members
C) teachers and coaches
D) brothers and sisters

2. Another name for common sayings is _______.

A) fairy tales
B) proverbs
C) fables
D) rhymes

3. Oral traditions are usually stories or sayings that different cultures ________.

A) require the young to memorize
B) use to teach their young about art
C) say each year at holiday time
D) pass down from generation to generation

4. Proverbs from around the world may use different words, but many of the ________ are the same.

A) sentences
B) locations
C) ideas
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) tradition
B) lesson
C) generation
D) expression

7. Arnold Lobel uses the tale of the rooster to teach that in order to succeed, you ________.

A) may fail at first
B) must yell loudly
C) need sunshine
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) The dogs are looking for their pet fleas.
C) A sleeping cat cannot catch the rat.
D) A person is known by the company he keeps.

9. The lazy mouse goes hungry because she _______.

A) doesn't understand how to gather beans
B) played when she should have worked
C) didn't run for help in time
D) had a hard time finding snakeskin at night

10. "Slow and steady wins the race" is the moral for the fable _________.

A) "American Fable"
B) "The Hare and the Tortoise"
C) "French Fable"
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) journal entry
C) news story
D) magazine article

13. How are fables and proverbs alike?

14. How are the dog and the wolf in the French fable different?

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