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Sayings We Share Comprehension
  • 1. According to the selection, you learn much about life from ________.
A) teachers and coaches
B) brothers and sisters
C) older family members
D) characters in books
  • 2. Another name for common sayings is _______.
A) rhymes
B) proverbs
C) fairy tales
D) fables
  • 3. Oral traditions are usually stories or sayings that different cultures ________.
A) pass down from generation to generation
B) require the young to memorize
C) use to teach their young about art
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) locations
B) sentences
C) ideas
D) stories
  • 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) One today is worth a thousand tomorrows.
C) As a crab walks, so walks its children.
D) Silence is golden?
  • 6. The moral of a story is the _______ that the story teaches.
A) tradition
B) expression
C) generation
D) lesson
  • 7. Arnold Lobel uses the tale of the rooster to teach that in order to succeed, you ________.
A) need sunshine
B) must yell loudly
C) must be grown up
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) The dogs are looking for their pet fleas.
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) doesn't understand how to gather beans
C) didn't run for help in time
D) played when she should have worked
  • 10. "Slow and steady wins the race" is the moral for the fable _________.
A) "Two Mice"
B) "The Hare and the Tortoise"
C) "French Fable"
D) "American Fable"
  • 11. Aesop's fables were written _________.
A) about the future
B) over 2,000 years ago
C) in Spanish
D) in present times
  • 12. This selection is most like a _________.
A) news story
B) biography
C) magazine article
D) journal entry
  • 13. How are fables and proverbs alike?
  • 14. How are the dog and the wolf in the French fable different?
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