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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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