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Sayings We Share Comprehension
  • 1. According to the selection, you learn much about life from ________.
A) older family members
B) brothers and sisters
C) characters in books
D) teachers and coaches
  • 2. Another name for common sayings is _______.
A) proverbs
B) fables
C) fairy tales
D) rhymes
  • 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) sentences
C) locations
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) Silence is golden?
B) Don't spread yourself too thin.
C) As a crab walks, so walks its children.
D) One today is worth a thousand tomorrows.
  • 6. The moral of a story is the _______ that the story teaches.
A) generation
B) lesson
C) tradition
D) expression
  • 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) must yell loudly
D) need sunshine
  • 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) had a hard time finding snakeskin at night
B) didn't run for help in time
C) played when she should have worked
D) doesn't understand how to gather beans
  • 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 present times
C) in Spanish
D) about the future
  • 12. This selection is most like a _________.
A) biography
B) news story
C) journal entry
D) magazine article
  • 13. My grandmother has very modern ideas for someone from another ___________.
A) summoned
B) generation
C) fortunate
D) illuminated
  • 14. If you work ______________, you will obtain your goal.
A) summoned
B) persistently
C) generation
D) fortunate
  • 15. The holiday lights _______________ the whole town.
A) illuminated
B) persistently
C) fortunate
D) faithful
  • 16. Mr. Rose came quickly when he was ______________ to the office.
A) faithful
B) illuminated
C) summoned
D) fortunate
  • 17. Kim is an old and _______________ friend whom I can always count on.
A) summoned
B) generation
C) faithful
D) persistently
  • 18. We are _____________ that we have good health.
A) summoned
B) generation
C) faithful
D) fortunate
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