Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XXIII: Paddy The Beaver Does A Kind Deed

Paddy the Beaver listened to all that his small cousin, Jerry Muskrat, had to tell him about the trouble which Paddy's dam had caused in the Laughing Brook and the Smiling Pool.

"You see, we who live in the Smiling Pool love it dearly, and we don't want to have to leave it, but if the water cannot run down the Laughing Brook, there can be no Smiling Pool, and so we will have to move off to the Big River," concluded Jerry Muskrat. "That is why I tried to spoil your dam."

There was a twinkle in the eyes of Paddy the Beaver as he replied: "Well, now that you have found out that you can't do that, because I am bigger than you and can stop you, what are you going to do about it?"

"I don't know," said Jerry Muskrat sadly. "I don't see what we can do about it. Of course you are big and strong and can do just as you please, but it doesn't seem right that we who have lived here so long should have to move and go away from all that we love so just because you, a stranger, happen to want to live here. I tell you what!" Jerry's eyes sparkled as a brand new thought came to him. "Couldn't you come down and live in the Smiling Pool with us? I'm sure there is room enough!"

Paddy the Beaver shook his head. "No," said he, and Jerry's heart sank. "No, I can't do that because down there there isn't any of the kind of food I eat. Besides, I wouldn't feel at all safe in the Smiling Pool. You see, I always live in the woods. No, I couldn't possibly come down to live in the Smiling Pool. But I'm truly sorry that I have made you so much worry, Cousin Jerry, and I'm going to prove it to you. Now you sit right here until I come back."

1. Who had caused the beaver some trouble?
2. What had he done?
3. What was the beaver's name?
4. What was his relationship to the other animal?
5. Where was the problem caused?
6. Where else?
7. Were the residents of the pond fond of it?
8. Did they want to depart?
9. Where did the water for the pond have to traverse?
10. Could the pond survive without it?
11. Where were the residents moving to?
12. What was in the beaver's expression when he answered?
13. Was he smaller than the muskrat?
14. What did he say he could do to the plan?
15. Did the muskrat know what to do?
16. Had the beaver been living there long?
17. What did the smaller animal invite the larger one to do?
18. Did the larger animal agree?
19. Why not?
20. Where did he prefer to reside?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Jerry Muskrat.
2. tried to spoil his dam
3. Paddy.
4. cousin
5. the Laughing Brook
6. the Smiling Pool.
7. Yes.
8. No.
9. the Laughing Brook
10. No.
11. the Big River
12. a twinkle
13. No.
14. Stop it.
15. No.
16. No.
17. come down and live in the Smiling Pool
18. No
19. there isn't any of the kind of food he eats
20. in the woods

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

There once was a spider name Thomas. Thomas lived in North Carolina. Thomas was traveling to see his grandmother. His grandmother did not live in North Carolina. She lived in Georgia. Georgia was far from Thomas's house, so he had to take a train. He bought a ticket for the train ride. The ticket was five dollars. Before he got on the train, Thomas the spider packed his bag. He packed his blanket, two shirts, and two pairs of pants. He did not pack any books or toys. His grandmother had toys for him to play with. She also had books for him to read. Thomas likes to read and play with toys. Thomas used the phone to call his grandmother to tell her he was coming to visit. She was very excited. Thomas took his bag and went to the train. At the train Thomas looked at the snacks. He wanted vanilla pudding. They did not have vanilla or chocolate, so Thomas got strawberry. He took his bag and strawberry pudding and got on the train.

1. what was Thomas
2. Where did he live?
3. who was he visiting?
4. Did she live in the same state?
5. Where did she live?
6. Could he walk there?
7. How did he get there?
8. how much did it cost?
9. how many items did he pack?
10. did he pack toys?
11. why not?
12. what else did she have?
13. Did he like reading?
14. How did he contact his grandma?
15. How did she feel?
16. What snacks were available?
17. was that hius first choice?
18. what flavour did he want?
19. Did he buy the snack on the train?
20. Did he have a suitcase?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. a spider
2. North Carolina
3. His grandma
4. no
5. Georgia
6. no
7. ,by train
8. Five
9. Five
10. no
11. She had some already he could play with
12. books
13. Yes
14. by phone
15. very excited
16. strawberry pudding
17. no
18. vanilla
19. no
20. no

Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

CHAPTER XXIX

"Guess I'll have to wash my hands of him," Collins told Johnny. "I know Del Mar must have been right when he said he was the limit, but I can't get a clue to it."

This followed upon a fight between Michael and Collins. Michael, more morose than ever, had become even crusty-tempered, and, scarcely with provocation at all, had attacked the man he hated, failing, as ever, to put his teeth into him, and receiving, in turn, a couple of smashing kicks under his jaw.

"He's like a gold-mine all right all right," Collins meditated, "but I'm hanged if I can crack it, and he's getting grouchier every day. Look at him. What'd he want to jump me for? I wasn't rough with him. He's piling up a sour-ball that'll make him fight a policeman some day."

A few minutes later, one of his patrons, a tow-headed young man who was boarding and rehearsing three performing leopards at Cedarwild, was asking Collins for the loan of an Airedale.

"I've only got one left now," he explained, "and I ain't safe without two."

"What's happened to the other one?" the master-trainer queried.

"Alphonso--that's the big buck leopard--got nasty this morning and settled his hash. I had to put him out of his misery. He was gutted like a horse in the bull-ring. But he saved me all right. If it hadn't been for him I'd have got a mauling. Alphonso gets these bad streaks just about every so often. That's the second dog he's killed for me."

1. What did Collins say he had to do?
2. Who did Collins say it to?
3. Who did he say was right?
4. What did he say he was like?
5. Who fought?
6. Who fought a guy he didn't like?
7. Was Collins rough with him?
8. How do they describe his customer?
9. Where was he performing?
10. How many does he have leftover?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. Wash his hands of him.
2. Johnny.
3. Del Mar.
4. A gold-mine.
5. Michael and Collins.
6. Michael.
7. No.
8. As a tow-headed young man.
9. Cedarwild
10. One.