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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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