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Sayings We Share Comprehension
Contributed by: Moore
  • 1. According to the selection, you learn much about life from ________.
A) characters in books
B) brothers and sisters
C) teachers and coaches
D) older family members
  • 2. Another name for common sayings is _______.
A) fables
B) rhymes
C) proverbs
D) fairy tales
  • 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) stories
B) sentences
C) ideas
D) locations
  • 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) Silence is golden?
D) As a crab walks, so walks its children.
  • 6. The moral of a story is the _______ that the story teaches.
A) lesson
B) generation
C) expression
D) tradition
  • 7. Arnold Lobel uses the tale of the rooster to teach that in order to succeed, you ________.
A) must be grown up
B) may fail at first
C) need sunshine
D) must yell loudly
  • 8. What is the meaning of "he who lays down with dogs shall rise up with fleas"?
A) A person is known by the company he keeps.
B) The dogs are looking for their pet fleas.
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) doesn't understand how to gather beans
B) didn't run for help in time
C) had a hard time finding snakeskin at night
D) played when she should have worked
  • 10. "Slow and steady wins the race" is the moral for the fable _________.
A) "The Hare and the Tortoise"
B) "American Fable"
C) "Two Mice"
D) "French Fable"
  • 11. Aesop's fables were written _________.
A) over 2,000 years ago
B) in Spanish
C) in present times
D) about the future
  • 12. This selection is most like a _________.
A) news story
B) magazine article
C) biography
D) journal entry
  • 13. How are fables and proverbs alike?
  • 14. How are the dog and the wolf in the French fable different?
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