Damon & Pythias

How do you know from reading the play that Damon and Pythias are very good friends?

• The two men discuss their great friendship.
• Other characters talk about the friendship.
• The narrator tells your about their friendship.
• A soldier comments on their friendship.

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CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.3

The king punishes Pythias because he

• wants to lead a rebellion
• speaks against the king
• attacks a soldier
• works as a theif

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.K.6

What character trait is Damon demonstrating when he offers to take Pythias' place in prison?

• loyalty
• honesty
• wisdom
• carefulness

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CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

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What does the king wish that he had at the end of the play?

• more gold and precious jewels
• a friend like Damon and Pythias
• the loyalty of his people
• a more powerful army

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CCSS.RL.3.10

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

After reading the text, what do you think the word tyrant means?
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• prisoner
• dictator
• soldier
• rebel

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CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

Damon and Pythias are known throughout Sicily because of their

• great friendship
• great wealth
• dislike of the king
• skills in government

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CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

How do you know in this play that Pythias struggles to free himself after robbers tie him to a tree?

• the first robber watches Pythias struggle
• The scene is acted out in dialouge.
• The narrator describes the event.
• Pythias tells Damon about it. 

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CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the definition for a theme of a story?

• how characters feel in a story
• the time and place of a story
• what characters learn in the story
• the moral of the story

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CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

After reading the story, you can determine that the work proclaim means
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• recommend
• announce
• discover
• forbid

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CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.K.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

After reading the story, you can determine that the work harsh means
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• rough
• wise 
• old
• strange

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CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.K.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4