Question

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

Question 2

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 smart.
She is lazy.

She is helpful.
She is a good dancer.

Question 3
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)
problem and solution
compare and contrast
cause and effect
sort and classify

Question 4
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 rider is thirsty, and there is no water.
The skies are cloudy, and it is about to rain.
The arroyo is going to overflow its banks.
His horse is tired of carrying the rider.

Question 5
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)
original words
borrowed words
inherited words
root words

Answer 1

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

2) She is lazy.

3) problem and solution

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

5) borrowed words