Read the Passages and Then Answer the Questions
READING
Read the passages and then answer the questions
3.6 February
The Lad Who Went to the North Wind
Adapted from a Scandinavian tale
Once upon a time, there was a woman who had one son. They lived alone in a small house. Although they worked hard, they were very poor and had little to eat. One day the lad took a tin cup and went outside to get some oats from the grain barrel in the shed. He bent down and scraped the last of the oats from the bottom of the barrel.
The lad held the tin cup filled with the last of the oats. He walked carefully back toward the house. He was almost there when---Whoosh! Along came the North Wind and blew the oats out of the tin cup. They scattered all over the ground.
At first, the lad was so surprised he just stood there with the empty tin cup in his hand. Then he remembered that there was nothing left for his mother or for him to eat. So, he set off to find the North Wind and get the oats back.
He walked and he walked and he walked. Finally, he came to the home of the North Wind and he knocked on the door.
“Who’s there?’ called the North Wind.
“It is I” called the lad. “I want the oats that you blew away. I have rights to them.”
“I don’t have your oats, “said the North Wind. “But I do have a magic ram that spits gold coins when you tell it to.”
“Very well,” said the lad. And he took the ram.
It was too dark to keep walking, so the lad stopped at an inn for the night. The innkeeper saw the ram spit gold. When the lad was asleep, the innkeeper stole the lad’s ram. He put one of his own rams in the magic ram’s place.
Of course, when the lad got home, the ram did not spit gold. So the lad went a second time to the North Wind to ask again for his rights. The North Wind gave him a magic tablecloth that served up wonderful food. The same innkeeper stole that too.
A third time the lad went to the North Wind. This time the North Wind gave the lad his last magic thing. It was a stick that would obey the lad. The lad took the stick and went to the inn a third time. This time the lad only pretended to sleep.
When the innkeeper tried to steal the stick, the lad cried out, “Get him, stick!” The stick started to beat the innkeeper and chase him out to the barn. There in the barn, the lad found the magic ram and the magic tablecloth.
The lad took his magic ram and his magic tablecloth and his magic stick back to his mother. They lived happily ever after.
The March Wind
By Anonymous
I come to work as well as play;
I’ll tell you what I do:
I whistle all the live-long day.
“Woo-oo-oo-oo” Woo-oo!”
I toss the branches up and down
And shake them to and fro,
I whirl the leaves in flocks of brown,
And send them high and low.
I strew the twigs upon the ground,
The frozen earth I sweep,
I blow the children round and round
And wake the flowers from sleep.
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Student’s Name: ______
Teacher: ______Date:______
Multiple-choice questions:
The Lad Who Went to the North Wind and the March Wind
CIRCLE YOUR ANSWER
1. Read the sentence from the passage “The Lad Who Went to the North Wind.”
“At first the lad was so surprised he just stood there with the empty tin cup in his hand.”
What caused the tin cup to become empty?
a. The lad dropped the cup.
b. The cup had a hole in it.
c. The North wind blew them.
d. The lad ate the oats.
2. In the passage “The Lad Who Went to the North Wind,” what caused the lad to walk and walk to the North Wind?
a. He was running away from home.
b. He wanted his oats back.
c. He was looking for his ram.
d. It was going to be dark soon.
3. In the passage “The Lad Who Went to the North Wind,” they lived happily ever after. What caused them to live happily ever after?
a. The lad went home
b. The innkeeper ran from the barn
c. The mother went to the Inn
d. The lad found the magic ram, stick and tablecloth
4. In the passage “The Lad Who Went to the North Wind,” what caused the stick to beat the innkeeper?
a. It was angry with the innkeeper.
b. A magician at the Inn
c. The lad told it to.
d. The North wind blew it.
5. In the passage “The Lad Who Went to the North Wind,” which sentence would the lad in the passage most likely agree with?
a. Go to find the North wind.
b. Keep your eyes open and get what belongs to you.
c. Watch out for magic rams.
d. Don’t let the wind blow too hard.
6. In the passage “The Lad Who Went to the North Wind,” which sentence best describes the lad’s mother?
a. She went with him to find the North Wind.
b. She told him to find the North Wind.
c. She lived with her other son.
d. She was not poor at the end of the story.
7. Read the line from the poem The March Wind.
I blow the children round and round
Which sentence uses blow in the same way it is used in the poem?
a. Lea might blow up at her brother if he breaks her toys again.
b. We should blow up that picture of Aunt Sue.
c. The batter hit the ball with a powerful blow.
d. To make it dry faster, blow on it.
8. The author of the poem says that the wind “wakes the flowers from sleep, “this is an example of
a. Exaggeration
b. Fact
c. Personification
d. Opinion
9. In the poem, The March Wind the speaker compares the wind to
a. a person who whistles
b. a vacuum cleaner
c. a bird
d. a fan
10. One way that the wind in the “The Lad Who Went to the North Wind” is different from the wind in “The March Wind,“ is that it
a. acts like a person
b. gives magical things
c. blows things away
d. isn’t very strong
OPEN ENDED SCORE: ______
Turn over for open ended
READING OPEN-ENDED ITEM FOR
“The Lad Who Went to the North Wind” and “The March Wind”
Give at least two ways “The Lad Who Went to the North Wind” and “The March Wind” are alike and one way they are different, using specific examples from each passage to support your answer.
MC Answer Key:
THE LAD WHO WENT TO THE NORTH WIND AND THE MARCH WIND 3.6
1. C
2. B
3. D
4. C
5. A
6. D
7. D
8. C
9. A
10. B
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