Greyling

Who is the author of "Greyling"?

• Roald Dahl
• Jane Yolen
• Dr. Suess
• J.K. Rowling

The fisherman and his wife wanted nothing except a ______________.

• New cottage
• Fishing boat
• Child to love
• Pet dog

The fisherman found and wrapped a/an ____________ in his shirt and carefully took it home to his wife.

• Baby
• Bear cub
• Otter
• Seal pup

Greyling stood by the shore longing for something, but he did not know what.
What was Greyling longing for? 

• His lost father
• An amazing adventure
• His true home in the sea
• His long lost sister

While the villagers watched all they saw was a boy diving into the water, then farther out a large seal swimming toward the boat that wallowed in the sea.
What happened to the boy?

• He sloughed his skin and became a seal
• He got hurt on the rocks and lay quietly in the beach
• The sea swallowed him up
• His mother punished him for jumping in the water.

"Now the fisherman was also sad that they had no child but he kept his sorrow to himself...".
Why did he hide his own sorrow?

• So his wife would not double her grief knowing he was sad.
• So the villagers wouldn't know he was sad.
• So that no one bothered him
• Because he didn't like the way people looked at him for feeling sorry for himself.

Greyling was never allowed to go into the ____________.

• Fishing boat
• Sea
• Village
• Cottage

When the fisherman came home with the seal pup wrapped in his shirt and he gave it to his wife, "She uncovered the wrapping and gave a loud cry."
Why did she cry loudly?

• She thought she dropped it
• There was a child, not a seal pup in the shirt
• The pup was all bruised and injured
• The seal pup wasn't breathing

"It's a _________________", the fisherman cried. "I have heard of them, they are men upon the land and seals in the sea."

• Selchie
• Seal Pup
• Human baby
• Sea Lion

The setting for "Greyling" is...

• A small fishing village in Scotland
• A large city near the sea
• Mountains overlooking a lake
• The mouth of a big river