A) Mrs. O'Leary
B) Mrs. O'Leary's cow
C) Daniel Sullivan
D) Chicago firefighters

A) fable
B) science fiction
C) nonfiction
D) fantasy

A) He went to feed his mother's cow.
B) He went to get hay for his cattle.
C) He went to get a lantern.
D) Daniel lived in the hay loft in the barn.

A) Daniel knocked over a lantern.
B) Daniel dropped his pipe.
C) The cow knocked over a lantern.
D) Mrs. O'Leary dropped a match on the hay.

A) They were hungry and wanted to be fed.
B) They tried to warn Daniel that Mrs. O'Leary was coming out to the barn.
C) They were trying to wake Daniel up.
D) The cows needed milking.

A) an entire week
B) two days
C) just a few hours
D) from sunrise to sunset

A) shops
B) houses
C) business buildings
D) churches

A) the region along the hillside
B) the grassy meadow
C) the town square
D) the lake

A) A gentle rain began to fall.
B) The wind blew it out.
C) People began to put out the fire with blankets.
D) The horses trampled the fire with their hooves.

A) angry
B) excited
C) tired
D) frustrated

A) imperative
B) exclamatory
C) declarative
D) interrogative

A) Nobody knew that Daniel really started the fire.
B) Mrs. O'Leary's barn burned to the ground.
C) The fire from Daniel's pipe caught the hay on fire.
D) Fire burned most of the city.

A) reward the firemen
B) become a fireman
C) throw away his pipe
D) rebuild the barn

A) He got burned on his finger.
B) Mrs. O'Leary came into the barn and found it for him.
C) Daniel woke up.
D) The hay caught on fire.

A) He fed his mother's cow.
B) A fire began to spread throughtout the barn.
C) He fell asleep.
D) He led the animals out of the barn.

A) to become a problem
B) a heavy object
C) a pile or large amount
D) a silly song

A) impossible
B) instead
C) awful
D) confusion

A) Daniel smoked inside the barn.
B) Half a city burned down.
C) People blamed the cow for setting the city on fire.
D) Mrs. O'Leary's cow explained how the fire started.