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Coyote Places the Stars Comprehension
Contributed by: Moore
  • 1. This story is most like a _______.
A) legend
B) fairy tale
C) tall tale
D) riddle
  • 2. When does this story take place?
A) during a full moon
B) recently
C) after a bad storm
D) many years in the past
  • 3. Coyote shoots one arrow after the other at the sky because he _______.
A) is showing off for Bear
B) is practicing his shooting
C) can't carry arrows to the moon
D) is connecting arrows to make a ladder
  • 4. Which event happens first?
A) Coyote returns to Earth.
B) Coyote hits a star with an arrow and makes it move.
C) Coyote makes a picture of Bear from stars.
D) Coyote begins to howl.
  • 5. Where does Coyote get his ideas for most of the star pictures he draws?
A) from the ideas that Bear gives him
B) by thinking of himself and his friends
C) from the stars
D) by looking at shapes on the moon
  • 6. To the other animals in the story, Coyote's howl is ________.
A) angry
B) unhappy
C) cruel
D) mysterious
  • 7. Which group do the words, whoofing, whiffing, screeching, and squawking belong to?
A) dives that birds make
B) ways arrows may fly
C) sounds animals make
D) things that Coyote does
  • 8. According to the story, Coyote makes animal-shaped pictures because ______.
A) stargazers in the future will think of all the animals
B) they are the easiest to make
C) the moon orders him to
D) all the animals vote for them
  • 9. The animals give a great feast because ____.
A) they want to honor Coyote
B) it is the end of the summer
C) Eagle tells them to do so
D) they are all hungry
  • 10. Which word best tells about Coyote?
A) imaginative
B) musical
C) dangerous
D) fearful
  • 11. What is the purpose of this story?
A) to describe desert animals
B) to explain the appearance of the night sky
C) to give facts about coyotes
D) to tell how to shoot a bow and arrow
  • 12. Name two things that show how clever Coyote is.
  • 13. "Rabbits hippity-hopped" when they went to see Coyote. List three other animals in the story and tell how each moved.
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