Question

A) What is true about stories from a culture’s oral tradition? (1 point)
They involve a person going on a long journey.
They involve problems that are unresolved.
They still use structures that will be familiar to modern readers.
They will be uninteresting to people from other cultures.

A)
Use the story to answer the question.
The Little Mice
Once upon a time a prairie mouse busied herself all fall storing away a cache of beans. Every
morning she was out early with her empty cast-off snake skin, which she filled with ground beans
and dragged home with her teeth.
The little mouse had a cousin who was fond of dancing and talk, but who did not like to work. She
was not careful to get her cache of beans and the season was already well gone before she
thought to bestir herself. When she came to realize her need, she found she had no packing bag.
So she went to her hardworking cousin and said:
"Cousin, I have no beans stored for winter and the season is nearly gone. But I have no snakeskin
to gather the beans in. Will you lend me one?"
"But why have you no packing bag? Where were you in the moon when the snakes cast off their
skins?"
"I was here."
"What were you doing?"
"I was busy talking and dancing."
"And now you are punished," said the other. "It is always so with lazy, careless people. But I will let
you have the snakeskin. And now go, and by hard work and industry, try to recover your wasted
time."
What does the first mouse think of her cousin?
(1 point)
She is helpful.
She is smart.
She is a good dancer.
She is lazy.

A)
Use the story to answer the question.
The Black Horse
I had been riding my black horse through the thickets of pitahaya from early morning until past
midday. I had no water and the sweetness of the pitahaya honey caused me great thirst. There
was no place within one hundred and sixty kilometers where I could get any water. I was getting
desperate, thinking I might die any minute.
But at that moment some great, beautiful clouds formed. I looked at those clouds and jumped on
my horse and rode to the top of a hill. I carried a long stick with a fork on the end of it. When I got
there, I kicked my horse with my wooden spurs and he gave a great jump up toward the clouds,
and I, with my forked stick, made a stab at the cloud. My aim was good. As we came down, we
were followed by a torrent of freshwater.
I drank and also my horse drank and we both bathed. Water ran in all the washes. It ran deep in
Sabino arroyo. From that time on there has been water in Sabino arroyo, for which we all have to
thank my wonderful horse.
The structure of the story, “The Black Horse” features which type of structure?
(1 point)
sort and classify
compare and contrast
cause and effect
problem and solution

A)
Use the story to answer the question.
The Black Horse
I had been riding my black horse through the thickets of pitahaya from early morning until past
midday. I had no water and the sweetness of the pitahaya honey caused me great thirst. There
was no place within one hundred and sixty kilometers where I could get any water. I was getting
desperate, thinking I might die any minute.
But at that moment some great, beautiful clouds formed. I looked at those clouds and jumped on
my horse and rode to the top of a hill. I carried a long stick with a fork on the end of it. When I got
there, I kicked my horse with my wooden spurs and he gave a great jump up toward the clouds,
and I, with my forked stick, made a stab at the cloud. My aim was good. As we came down, we
were followed by a torrent of freshwater.
I drank and also my horse drank and we both bathed. Water ran in all the washes. It ran deep in
Sabino arroyo. From that time on there has been water in Sabino arroyo, for which we all have to
thank my wonderful horse.
What is the problem faced by the rider of the black horse?
(1 point)
The skies are cloudy, and it is about to rain.
His horse is tired of carrying the rider.
The rider is thirsty, and there is no water.
The arroyo is going to overflow its banks.

A) Words such as loot, safari, and cartoon are words found in the English language. However, these
words are actually from heritage languages. What are these words called? (1 point)
inherited words
original words
root words
borrowed words

Answer 1

1) They still use structures that will be familiar to modern readers.

2) She is lazy.

3) Cause and effect.

4) The rider is thirsty, and there is no water.

5) Borrowed words.