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Coyote Places the Stars Comprehension
Contributed by: Moore
  • 1. This story is most like a _______.
A) legend
B) riddle
C) fairy tale
D) tall tale
  • 2. When does this story take place?
A) many years in the past
B) recently
C) during a full moon
D) after a bad storm
  • 3. Coyote shoots one arrow after the other at the sky because he _______.
A) is practicing his shooting
B) is showing off for Bear
C) is connecting arrows to make a ladder
D) can't carry arrows to the moon
  • 4. Which event happens first?
A) Coyote hits a star with an arrow and makes it move.
B) Coyote begins to howl.
C) Coyote returns to Earth.
D) Coyote makes a picture of Bear from stars.
  • 5. Where does Coyote get his ideas for most of the star pictures he draws?
A) from the stars
B) by thinking of himself and his friends
C) from the ideas that Bear gives him
D) by looking at shapes on the moon
  • 6. To the other animals in the story, Coyote's howl is ________.
A) cruel
B) unhappy
C) mysterious
D) angry
  • 7. Which group do the words, whoofing, whiffing, screeching, and squawking belong to?
A) things that Coyote does
B) sounds animals make
C) dives that birds make
D) ways arrows may fly
  • 8. According to the story, Coyote makes animal-shaped pictures because ______.
A) stargazers in the future will think of all the animals
B) the moon orders him to
C) they are the easiest to make
D) all the animals vote for them
  • 9. The animals give a great feast because ____.
A) Eagle tells them to do so
B) they are all hungry
C) it is the end of the summer
D) they want to honor Coyote
  • 10. Which word best tells about Coyote?
A) fearful
B) dangerous
C) imaginative
D) musical
  • 11. What is the purpose of this story?
A) to tell how to shoot a bow and arrow
B) to give facts about coyotes
C) to describe desert animals
D) to explain the appearance of the night sky
  • 12. Name two things that show how clever Coyote is.
  • 13. "Rabbits hippity-hopped" when they went to see Coyote. List three other animals in the story and tell how each moved.
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