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