The Elves and the Shoemaker

What is the theme of the passage?

• People who have good values will usually have a good end result.
• If you are poor you will always get help.
• If you work hard you will make a lot of money.
• Honest people are always successful.

How do the actions of the shoemaker and his wife support the theme "people with good values usually have a good end result"?

• They got up every morning to see if the elves made more shoes.
• They made new clothes as a thank you present for the elves.
• They hid behind a curtain. 
• They made sure to put our enough material for the elves to work with. 

How do the shoemaker and his wife respond to the kindness shown by the elves?

• They decide to put out more leather for the elves.
• THey hide behind the curtain to see who keeps coming in their house at night.
• THey make new clothes for the elves.
• How can we thank the little elves.

Which key detail would be included in a summary of the passage?

• Once more he cut out the shoes and left them on the bench.
• They never came back anymore, but from that day they gave the shoemaker and his wife good luck.
• They were so happy.
• Happily he cut the out, as it was late, he left the pieces on the bench ready to sew in the morning. 

How does the story being told from the narrator's point of view affect the way the shoemaker and his wife's financial condition improves later in the story?

• She contrasts the shoemaker and his wife's sadness at the beginning of their happiness at the end. 
• She contrasts the amount of leather for one pair of shoes available to the amount of leather for more shoes available.
• She contrasts the hard working elves to the hardworking shoemaker. 
• She contrasts watching the elves workgin to watching the shoemaker working. 

Tap! Tap! Went the littler hammers; stitch, stitch went the thread, and the little elves were hard at work. 
What do the words "Tap! Tap!" and "stitch, stich", suggest about how the elves were working?

• The elves were bored as they worked. 
• The elves were focused on the task.
• The elves were loud.
• The elves were speaking and working. 

Contrast the shoemaker and his wife's feelings BEFORE they found out about who was making the shoes to AFTER they found out it was the elves. 

• Before they were poor and then they became rich after they found out.
• Before they were confused and after they were grateful. 
• Before they were always sad and after they were happy.
• Before they were lacking supplies to make shoes, but after they had an abundance of supplies. 

Which event caused the elves to give good luck to the shoemaker and his wife?

• The shoemaker and his wife were honest. 
• The shoemaker and his wife were prosperous. 
• The shoemaker and his wife always left out just the right amount of material.
• The shoemaker and his wife showed gratitude by making the elves new clothes. 

Read the sentence from the passage.
Then the little creatures whisked away out the window.
What does the phrase "whisked away" mean in the sentence above. 

• swiftly disappeared
• slowly climbed
• forcefully jumped
• shook and ran