A) Mrs. O'Leary
B) Chicago firefighters
C) Daniel Sullivan
D) Mrs. O'Leary's cow

A) fable
B) realistic fiction
C) fantasy
D) science fiction

A) He went to get a lantern.
B) He went to feed his mother's cow.
C) Daniel lived in the hay loft in the barn.
D) He went to get hay for his cattle.

A) The cow knocked over a lantern.
B) Daniel dropped his pipe.
C) Mrs. O'Leary dropped a match on the hay.
D) Daniel knocked over a lantern.

A) They were trying to wake Daniel up.
B) The cows needed milking.
C) They tried to warn Daniel that Mrs. O'Leary was coming out to the barn.
D) They were hungry and wanted to be fed.

A) two days
B) an entire week
C) from sunrise to sunset
D) just a few hours

A) shops
B) churches
C) houses
D) business buildings

A) the town square
B) the grassy meadow
C) the lake
D) the region along the hillside

A) People began to put out the fire with blankets.
B) The wind blew it out.
C) The horses trampled the fire with their hooves.
D) A gentle rain began to fall.

A) angry
B) frustrated
C) excited
D) tired

A) declarative
B) imperative
C) interrogative
D) exclamatory

A) Mrs. O'Leary's barn burned to the ground.
B) Nobody knew that Daniel really started the fire.
C) The fire from Daniel's pipe caught the hay on fire.
D) Fire burned most of the city.

A) rebuild the barn
B) become a fireman
C) throw away his pipe
D) reward the firemen

A) Daniel woke up.
B) Mrs. O'Leary came into the barn and found it for him.
C) The hay caught on fire.
D) He got burned on his finger.

A) He led the animals out of the barn.
B) He fed his mother's cow.
C) He fell asleep.
D) A fire began to spread throughtout the barn.

A) a silly song
B) a pile or large amount
C) to become a problem
D) a heavy object

A) instead
B) confusion
C) impossible
D) awful

A) Half a city burned down.
B) Daniel smoked inside the barn.
C) People blamed the cow for setting the city on fire.
D) Mrs. O'Leary's cow explained how the fire started.