Reading Lit The Moon

The Moon

Read the passage and then answer the questions!

Multiple Choice

What is the main message of the poem?

• Many living things enjoy the moon.

• Moonlight is scarier than morning sunlight.

• The moon shines on streets, fields, and harbours.

• Some people climb garden walls at night, but others sleep in their beds.

Multiple Choice

Which line from the poem describes the moon?

• "The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;"

• "All love to be out by the light of the moon."

• 'Cuddle to sleep to be out of her way;"

• "Till up in the morning the sun shall arise."

Multiple Choice

According to the speaker of the poem, which belongs to the day?

• cat

• thieves

• bat

• flowers

Multiple Choice

What does the moon do in the poem?

• The moon becomes a clock in the hall.

• The moon shines on the streets and fields.

• The moon listens to the cats and dogs.

• The moon watches children cuddle to sleep.

Multiple Choice

Read the line below from the poem.

"The squalling cat and the squeaking mouse,"

What is squalling?

• a place

• a noise

• a color

• an animal

Multiple Choice

Read the line below from the poem.

"The bat that lies in bed at noon,"

What does this mean?

• The bat flies at night.

• The bat likes to sleep.

• The bat belongs to the night.

• The bat sleeps during the day.

Multiple Choice

What does the third stanza add to the poem?

• It tells how the moon shines on different parts of the city.

• It tells that the sunlight is better than the moonlight.

• It shoes that everything does not belong to the moon.

• It shows that certain animals sleep during the day.

Multiple Choice

Based on the third stanza, children could be described as hitting the hay when the sun goes away.

What are the children doing when they are "hitting the hay"?

• going to sleep

• beating on the hay

• planting flowers

• making a pile of hay

Multiple Choice

Where are the words "all love to be out by the light of the moon" in the poem?

• line two

• stanza two

• line three

• stanza three

Multiple Choice

According to the poem, bats and thieves live in a sunless world. Based on the suffix -less, what does "sunless" mean?

• below the sun

• above the sun

• beside the sun

• without the sun

Multiple Choice

A child suspects that bats are out at night and knows that the sun will rise in the morning.

Based on the meanings of suspect and know, which is the most certain?

• that a bat is out at night

• that the sun will rise at night

• that a bat is out in the morning

• that the sun will rise in the morning