Folktales Assessment

A ____________________________ usually takes place in a magical land that is ruled by royalty.

• Fairy Tale

• Tall Tale

• Fable

• Legend

• Myth

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CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

A short story with human-like animals that teaches a lesson is a ________________________

• Fairy Tale

• Tall Tale

• Fable

• Legend

• Myth

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CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

A _________________________ is a story that explains how something mysterious in the world came to exist.

• Fairy Tale

• Tall Tale

• Fable

• Legend

• Myth

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CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

A __________________________ is a story that tells of a great success or conquest of a real historical person.

• Fairy Tale

• Tall Tale

• Fable

• Legend

• Myth

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

A ___________________________ is a humorous story that includes extreme exaggerations.

• Fairy Tale

• Tall Tale

• Fable

• Legend

• Myth

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Robert Heller was the fourth of six sons born to his parents. He grew up poor and always kept the plight of those who didn't have much in the back of his mind. When he became the mayor in 1910, his first official act was to instruct the city police to visit the poorest neighborhood in the city and provide every family with a crisp twenty-dollar bill and take down all the names of the children. The next day, he established a school in a neighborhood every other politician had abandoned. Because of Mayor Heller's generosity, dozens of children who might otherwise have died of malnutrition grew up to become doctors, teachers, and business owners. Heller's act single-handedly changed the face of the city.

• Fairy Tale

• Tall Tale

• Fable

• Legend

• Myth

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Narcissus was a handsome young boy, so handsome that almost everyone who met him commented on his remarkable good looks. One day, he met a nymph named Echo in the forest. Echo, of course, fell immediately in love with Narcissus. Sadly, Narcissus cruelly rejected her, pushing her away and running into the forest. Stung by the boy's cruelty, Echo used magic on Narcissus so that he could love no one but himself. Day after day, he sat by the river bank staring at his own reflection. Eventually, he was transformed into a flower with a bright yellow face. Those walking by the banks of a river can still see the ancestors of Narcissus, leaning over the water, staring at their reflection.

• Fairy Tale

• Tall Tale

• Fable

• Legend

• Myth

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

John Henry was born with a hammer in his hand. A freed slave, he was the most powerful steel driver in the land and worked tirelessly driving steel posts into rocks to make way for tunnels so that the railroad could run from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans. One day, a group of men brought out a steam-powered hammer that they claimed could hammer steel into stone faster than John Henry. The race was on, man against machine. John Henry hammered so fast, fire flashed from the rocks, while the machine moved behind him, getting closer and closer. His hammer caused lightning to flash from the skies and thunder to rumble in the clouds. The rocks bowed down to his hammer but fought against the machine, Finally when the time was up, John Henry had won.

• Fairy Tale

• Tall Tale

• Fable

• Legend

• Myth

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Once upon a time, an evil witch moved to a magical kingdom near the sea. She had heard of the king and his beautiful daughter, and she believed with magic and deception, she could convince the king, whose wife had died many years before, to marry her.

• Fairy Tale

• Tall Tale

• Fable

• Legend

• Myth

When Abraham Lincoln was a young man, he worked as a clerk in a grocery store. One day, a customer overpaid Lincoln four cents when he was setting his bill. Lincoln didn't notice the error until the man had left in his horse and carriage. Lincoln walked four miles to return those four cents, and earned the nickname, "Honest Abe."

• Fairy Tale

• Tall Tale

• Fable

• Legend

• Myth

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9