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Sayings We Share Comprehension
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) fairy tales
B) rhymes
C) fables
D) proverbs
  • 3. Oral traditions are usually stories or sayings that different cultures ________.
A) require the young to memorize
B) pass down from generation to generation
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) ideas
B) locations
C) stories
D) sentences
  • 5. Which American saying is similar to the Vietnamese saying "Even with two hands, one cannot catch two fish at one time"?
A) One today is worth a thousand tomorrows.
B) Silence is golden?
C) Don't spread yourself too thin.
D) As a crab walks, so walks its children.
  • 6. The moral of a story is the _______ that the story teaches.
A) generation
B) tradition
C) lesson
D) expression
  • 7. Arnold Lobel uses the tale of the rooster to teach that in order to succeed, you ________.
A) must be grown up
B) must yell loudly
C) need sunshine
D) may fail at first
  • 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) didn't run for help in time
B) had a hard time finding snakeskin at night
C) played when she should have worked
D) doesn't understand how to gather beans
  • 10. "Slow and steady wins the race" is the moral for the fable _________.
A) "French Fable"
B) "The Hare and the Tortoise"
C) "Two Mice"
D) "American Fable"
  • 11. Aesop's fables were written _________.
A) in Spanish
B) in present times
C) over 2,000 years ago
D) about the future
  • 12. This selection is most like a _________.
A) magazine article
B) news story
C) biography
D) journal entry
  • 13. My grandmother has very modern ideas for someone from another ___________.
A) illuminated
B) generation
C) summoned
D) fortunate
  • 14. If you work ______________, you will obtain your goal.
A) summoned
B) persistently
C) generation
D) fortunate
  • 15. The holiday lights _______________ the whole town.
A) fortunate
B) illuminated
C) faithful
D) persistently
  • 16. Mr. Rose came quickly when he was ______________ to the office.
A) fortunate
B) faithful
C) illuminated
D) summoned
  • 17. Kim is an old and _______________ friend whom I can always count on.
A) generation
B) faithful
C) summoned
D) persistently
  • 18. We are _____________ that we have good health.
A) faithful
B) summoned
C) fortunate
D) generation
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