Lesson 24- Half Chicken Comprehension

1.

Multiple Choice

45 sec

1 pt

How can readers tell that "Half-Chicken" is a folktale?

It has maps and charts to teach about a subject.

It is an old story that has been told many times.

It has headings and words printed in a box..

It tells about a real person from the past.

2.

Multiple Choice

45 sec

1 pt

Which idea does this story explain?

why roosters crow

why chickens sit on eggs

why chickens have feathers

why weather vanes look like roosters

3.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Half-Chicken is special MAINLY because of

the way he looks.

the way he sounds.

the things he does.

the things he says.

4.

Multiple Choice

2 mins

1 pt

What happened JUST AFTER Half-Chicken gets to the palace?

Half-Chicken finds a blocked stream.

One of the guards laughs at Half-Chicken.

Half-Chicken finds the wind tangled in bushes.

The fire asks Half-Chicken to stay a while.

5.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Why do fire, water, and wind help Half-Chicken escape from the cook?

because the cook is their enemy

because the guards order them to help

beause Half-Chicken once helped them

because they feel sorry for Half-Chicken

6.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

How can Half-Chicken BEST be described?

silent

greedy

helpful

complaining

7.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Which lesson can be learned from this story?

Help others, and they will help you.

Do not be afraid to say, "I'm sorry."

Always share if you have plenty.

Never tell a secret to a friend.

8.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

How are the stream, the fire, and the wind ALIKE?

All are blocked with branches.

All are tangled in the bushes.

All need to be fanned.

All ask to be helped.

9.

Multiple Choice

45 sec

1 pt

What problem does the mother hen have at the beginning of the story?

Her chicks litter the ranch with their empty shells

Most of her chicks have to many wings and feathers

All the animals are saying mean things about her chick

Her chicks run loose while she is still hatching her last egg

10.

Multiple Choice

45 sec

1 pt

All the ranch animlas gather around the mother hen because-

they want to help the chicks hatch

they want to see her strange half-chick

they want to see thirteen chicks at once

they want to hear her grandmother's story

11.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What makes Half-Chicken become very vain?

He hears he is famous in Mexico City

He is the center of attention on the ranch

He knows he is smarter than the other chicks.

He has a gift for telling which way the wind blows.

12.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

The reader can tell that Half-Chicken decides to go to Mexico City so he can-

See the Great Plaza

meet the palace cook

become a weather vane

show off how unique he is

13.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Why does the stream ask Half-Chicken for help?

Fire is drying up its waters

Branches are blocking its way

No one is stopping to swim and play

It needs to find the way to Mexico City

14.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Why doesn't Half-Chicken stay and warm up by the fire?

He is afraid the fire will burn him.

He is in a hurry to get to Mexico City

He knows the fire will soon go out again.

He doesn't feel cold because he has feathers

15.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Half-Chicken helps the wind by-

fanning it with his wings

leading it to Mexico city

pointing the way it should go

untangling it from some bushes

16.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

The guard in front of the palace laughs because-

he thinks Half-Chicken's voice sounds funny

he thinks the joke that Half-Chicken tells is funny

he thinks the viceroy would like to meet a chicken

he thinks that Half-Chicken belongs in the kitchen

17.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What saves Half-Chicken from being cooked?

The viceroy asks to meet him

Fire and water repay favors he did for them

The ladies-in-waiting play a joke on the cook.

The cook feels sorry for him and turns off the fire

18.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What is this story mostly about?

What makes the wind blow

Why chickens never do favors

How weather vanes came to be

How chickens got their feathers

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