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Sayings We Share Comprehension - Quiz
Contributed by: Goers
(Original author: Moore)
  • 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) fables
B) fairy tales
C) rhymes
D) proverbs
  • 3. Oral traditions are usually stories or sayings that different cultures ________.
A) pass down from generation to generation
B) require the young to memorize
C) say each year at holiday time
D) use to teach their young about art
  • 4. Proverbs from around the world may use different words, but many of the ________ are the same.
A) locations
B) ideas
C) sentences
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) As a crab walks, so walks its children.
D) Silence is golden?
  • 6. The moral of a story is the _______ that the story teaches.
A) lesson
B) expression
C) tradition
D) generation
  • 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 be grown up
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) A person is known by the company he keeps.
C) A sleeping cat cannot catch the rat.
D) It is difficult to raise a family of fleas.
  • 9. The lazy mouse goes hungry because she _______.
A) had a hard time finding snakeskin at night
B) didn't run for help in time
C) doesn't understand how to gather beans
D) played when she should have worked
  • 10. "Slow and steady wins the race" is the moral for the fable _________.
A) "French Fable"
B) "American Fable"
C) "Two Mice"
D) "The Hare and the Tortoise"
  • 11. Aesop's fables were written _________.
A) in Spanish
B) in present times
C) about the future
D) over 2,000 years ago
  • 12. This selection is most like a _________.
A) magazine article
B) biography
C) journal entry
D) news story
  • 13. My grandmother has very modern ideas for someone from another ___________.
A) summoned
B) fortunate
C) generation
D) illuminated
  • 14. If you work ______________, you will obtain your goal.
A) generation
B) persistently
C) fortunate
D) summoned
  • 15. The holiday lights _______________ the whole town.
A) illuminated
B) fortunate
C) faithful
D) persistently
  • 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) faithful
B) generation
C) persistently
D) summoned
  • 18. We are _____________ that we have good health.
A) generation
B) faithful
C) summoned
D) fortunate
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