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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) fables
B) rhymes
C) proverbs
D) fairy tales
  • 3. Oral traditions are usually stories or sayings that different cultures ________.
A) use to teach their young about art
B) require the young to memorize
C) pass down from generation to generation
D) say each year at holiday time
  • 4. Proverbs from around the world may use different words, but many of the ________ are the same.
A) stories
B) ideas
C) sentences
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) Silence is golden?
B) One today is worth a thousand tomorrows.
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) tradition
B) generation
C) lesson
D) expression
  • 7. Arnold Lobel uses the tale of the rooster to teach that in order to succeed, you ________.
A) may fail at first
B) must be grown up
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) It is difficult to raise a family of fleas.
B) A person is known by the company he keeps.
C) A sleeping cat cannot catch the rat.
D) The dogs are looking for their pet fleas.
  • 9. The lazy mouse goes hungry because she _______.
A) played when she should have worked
B) didn't run for help in time
C) doesn't understand how to gather beans
D) had a hard time finding snakeskin at night
  • 10. "Slow and steady wins the race" is the moral for the fable _________.
A) "The Hare and the Tortoise"
B) "American Fable"
C) "French Fable"
D) "Two Mice"
  • 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) journal entry
B) biography
C) magazine article
D) news story
  • 13. How are fables and proverbs alike?
  • 14. How are the dog and the wolf in the French fable different?
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