Answer the questions at the end based on the text.

What could a poem writer and a movie director share? More than you think! Langston Hughes began writing poems in high school and soon became one of America's greatest writers. Most of his writing is about his experiences as an African American. He wrote poems about people who worked hard through life but still found things to be happy about. He wrote plays and books about justice for all people, and he wrote kids' books, too. The Sweet and Sour Animal Book is a book of his animal poems. Pictures and photos were used in the book. "Hold fast to dreams" is a line in a famous Hughes poem. That's exactly what he did throughout his life. When Steven Spielberg was in middle school, he wanted to make a film. He had an idea for a movie, but no money. He started a tree-planting business and made his film with the money he earned. Spielberg never stopped making films, even after many film schools refused him. Today he is one of the most popular and important filmmakers in the world. His movies are about people who are adventurous , brave, kind. His characters often fight for what is good. Some of his films are about his Jewish background, such as Schindler's List. Spielberg once said, "I don't dream that much at night because I dream for a living." In different ways, both Hughes and Spielberg have encouraged people of all ages to reach for their dreams.

1. What is the writers name?
2. What were most his writings about?
3. Did he write about justice?
4. For whom?
5. Who else did he write books for?
6. What was a famous line mentioned in his children's book?
7. What book was this line from?
8. Who wanted to make a film while in middle school?
9. Why couldn't he make one?
10. How did he earn money?
11. Did he stop making films?
12. Where is he now considered most popular?
13. What is his background?
14. Were his movies about this backgroud?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Langston Hughes
2. his experiences
3. Yes
4. all people
5. kids
6. Hold fast to dreams
7. its a line in a famous Hughes poem
8. Steven Spielberg
9. no money
10. He started a tree-planting business
11. No
12. the world.
13. he has a Jewish background
14. Schindler's List

Question: Bill dug a small hole and placed the seed inside. Then, he covered up the hole with dirt, and poured some water on it. It was such a small seed, and it was hard to believe that it would turn into a giant pumpkin.

Every day, Bill went out to the garden to check on the seed. Some days, if the ground was dry, he poured more water on it. After a few days, a tiny green plant started coming out of the ground. Bill kept checking every day, and the plant kept getting bigger and bigger.

Soon, there were tiny leaves on the plant. As the summer went on, the whole plant kept getting bigger and bigger. Soon, he could see tiny fruits starting to grow. They kept getting bigger and bigger. Eventually, he could tell that they were pumpkins!

That fall, the pumpkins were really big. Bill picked the biggest one and brought it to the fair. He got a blue ribbon for the biggest pumpkin!

Bill's parents had other plants in their garden. They had strawberries, tomatoes, cucumbers, and many other fruits and vegetables. But they all started as tiny seeds. 1. Who did some planting?
2. What was his first step?
3. What did he put in there?
4. What kind of seed was it?
5. What did he hope for?
6. Did he forget about his seed after he planted it?
7. What did he do with it then?
8. Anything else?
9. Did the seed die out?
10. What did it grow into?
11. What kind of plant? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Bill.
2. Digging a hole.
3. The seed.
4. Pumpkin.
5. unknown
6. No.
7. Check on the seed.
8. Some days, if the ground was dry, he poured more water on it.
9. No.
10. A plant.
11. A pumpkin plant.

Q: CHAPTER XVI Old Man Coyote is Very Crafty.

Coyote has a crafty brain; His wits are sharp his ends to gain.

There is nothing in the world more true than that. Old Man Coyote has the craftiest brain of all the little people of the Green Forest or the Green Meadows. Sharp as are the wits of old Granny Fox, they are not quite so sharp as the wits of Old Man Coyote. If you want to fool him, you will have to get up very early in the morning, and then it is more than likely that you will be the one fooled, not he. There is very little going on around him that he doesn't know about. But once in a while something escapes him. The coming of Paddy the Beaver to the Green Forest was one of these things. He didn't know a thing about Paddy until Paddy had finished his dam and his house, and was cutting his supply of food for the winter.

You see, it was this way: When the Merry Little Breezes of Old Mother West Wind first heard what was going on in the Green Forest and hurried around over the Green Meadows and through the Green Forest to spread the news, as is their way, they took the greatest pains not to even hint it to Old Man Coyote because they were afraid that he would make trouble and perhaps drive Paddy away. The place that Paddy had chosen to build his dam was so deep in the Green Forest that Old Man Coyote seldom went that way. So it was that he knew nothing about Paddy, and Paddy knew nothing about him for some time.

1. yes
2. no
3. old Granny Fox
4. Old Man Coyote
5. get up very early in the morning
6. probably not
7. very little
8. once in a while
9. Paddy the Beaver
10. came to the Green Forest
11. when Paddy had finished his dam and his house
12. the Merry Little Breezes
13. they were afraid he would drive Paddy away
14. by making trouble
15. deep in the Green Forest
16. no
17. Old Man Coyote seldom went that way
18. cutting his supply of food for the winter
19. over the Green Meadows
20. to spread the news

Numbered questions:
1. Is coyote creative?
2. Is anyone more creative than him?
3. who is he compared to?
4. who is smarter?
5. how can you trick him?
6. will it work?
7. how often does something get past him?
8. when has it happened?
9. like who has done it?
10. what did he do?
11. when did coyote find out?
12. who didn't want him to find out?
13. why?
14. how?
15. where is Paddy's dam?
16. would it be easy for coyote to find?
17. why?
18. what else was Paddy doing while making the dam?
19. where did the Merry little Breezes travel?
20. why?