The Golden Axe: Based on a Fable by Aesop

The first paragraphs explain how the woodcutter uses his axe because:

• The author wanted to show that the woodcutter was a busy man.

• The author wanted to explain how axes are used in hunting.

• The author wanted readers to know how important axes are to everyone's life.

• The author wanted to establish the reason for the woodcutter's emotional response.

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The relationship between Mercury and the woodcutter could best be described as:

• painful

• responsible

• uncomfortable

• respectful

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What lesson is best illustrated by the fable?

• Hard things get easier with time

• Honesty is the worst policy

• Honesty is the best policy

• None of these.

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The story could have ended after the woodcutter received all 3 axes. Why does the author include the story of the deceitful woodcutters?

• To explain that the woodcutter should have lied

• To explain that the woodcutter and Mercury were friends

• To show that Mercury was a fair god

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Another fable by Aesop was

• The Chicken and the Egg

• The Boy Who Cried Elephant

• The Tortoise and the Hare

• None of these

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Abyss means

• deep, bottomless hole or body of water

• great sorrow

• a deep roar

• none of these

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Bellowed means

• great sorrow

• misleading or deceiving others

• a long journey on foot

• none of these

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A plight is a difficult situation or problem.

• True

• False

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Trekked means you travel a long journey, usually on foot

• True

• False

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If you thwack, you

• You laugh loudly

• You strike or hit something forcefully

• You roar in pain or anger

• None of these

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