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Sayings We Share Comprehension
Contributed by: Moore
  • 1. According to the selection, you learn much about life from ________.
A) brothers and sisters
B) characters in books
C) older family members
D) teachers and coaches
  • 2. Another name for common sayings is _______.
A) proverbs
B) fairy tales
C) rhymes
D) fables
  • 3. Oral traditions are usually stories or sayings that different cultures ________.
A) require the young to memorize
B) use to teach their young about art
C) say each year at holiday time
D) pass down from generation to generation
  • 4. Proverbs from around the world may use different words, but many of the ________ are the same.
A) locations
B) sentences
C) stories
D) ideas
  • 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) Silence is golden?
C) One today is worth a thousand tomorrows.
D) As a crab walks, so walks its children.
  • 6. The moral of a story is the _______ that the story teaches.
A) expression
B) lesson
C) tradition
D) generation
  • 7. Arnold Lobel uses the tale of the rooster to teach that in order to succeed, you ________.
A) need sunshine
B) must be grown up
C) must yell loudly
D) may fail at first
  • 8. What is the meaning of "he who lays down with dogs shall rise up with fleas"?
A) A sleeping cat cannot catch the rat.
B) A person is known by the company he keeps.
C) It is difficult to raise a family of fleas.
D) The dogs are looking for their pet fleas.
  • 9. The lazy mouse goes hungry because she _______.
A) didn't run for help in time
B) played when she should have worked
C) had a hard time finding snakeskin at night
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) "Two Mice"
C) "American Fable"
D) "The Hare and the Tortoise"
  • 11. Aesop's fables were written _________.
A) about the future
B) in Spanish
C) in present times
D) over 2,000 years ago
  • 12. This selection is most like a _________.
A) news story
B) journal entry
C) magazine article
D) biography
  • 13. How are fables and proverbs alike?
  • 14. How are the dog and the wolf in the French fable different?
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