Folktale: Two Legs or One?
Authored by Valencia [AMS]
English
7th - 8th Grade
CCSS covered
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This quiz focuses on reading comprehension and literary analysis of a folktale, targeting essential skills for middle school English Language Arts students at the 7th and 8th grade levels. Students must demonstrate deep understanding of folktale characteristics, including recognizing traditional storytelling elements, moral lessons, and character archetypes like the trickster figure. The questions require sophisticated analytical thinking as students identify literary devices such as figurative language, tone, and setting, while also making inferences about character motivation and relationships. Students need strong vocabulary skills to determine word meanings through context clues and must understand how authors use minimal settings to focus reader attention on character development. The quiz culminates with practical grammar application, requiring knowledge of comma usage with introductory phrases, which reinforces the connection between reading comprehension and writing mechanics. Created by Valencia [AMS], an English teacher in the US who teaches grades 7 and 8. This assessment serves multiple instructional purposes, functioning effectively as a formative assessment tool to gauge student understanding of literary analysis skills, or as a comprehensive review activity following a folktale unit. Teachers can deploy this quiz as a warm-up to activate prior knowledge about traditional storytelling elements, assign it as independent practice to reinforce close reading strategies, or use it as homework to extend classroom discussions about character analysis and theme identification. The varied question formats, including multiple-choice and multi-select options, allow students to demonstrate different levels of textual analysis while building the critical thinking skills emphasized in Common Core standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.2, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.3, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.4, and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.7.2, which focus on theme analysis, character development, figurative language interpretation, and proper punctuation usage.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Which sentence best describes the characteristics/elements that make this story a folktale?
It is the epic story of a man named Goha and recounts his adventures.
It is the humorous story of a man named Goha who makes extreme over-statements and has a surprise ending.
It is the traditional story of a man named Goha that details the customs of his people.
It is imaginary tale of a man named Goha and also contains a life-changing lesson.
Tags
CCSS.RL.1.10
CCSS.RL.2.2
CCSS.RL.3.2
CCSS.RL.K.5
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which of these statements best explains the lesson the author wanted to teach with this folktale?
Truth always wins.
People who tell white (little) lies should be prepared to face dire consequences.
Lying to one's spouse unless leads to unnecessary fights.
Some people will try to win an argument at any cost.
Tags
CCSS.RL.1.10
CCSS.RL.2.2
CCSS.RL.3.2
CCSS.RL.K.5
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which phrase from the first two paragraphs helps the reader understand the meaning of the word scurried as used in paragraph 1?
He grew increasingly hungry with every second that passed by.
finally he bought them
I'll go back to the store and by rice
cook these as quickly as you can
Tags
CCSS.RI.7.4
CCSS.RI.8.4
CCSS.RL.6.4
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.8.4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
In paragraph 3, what does the phrase: "the smell of them was sweeter to her than any rose" help the reader to sense?
How hungry it made Goha’s wife when she thought about roses
How nice it was when Goha finally gave his wife roses for working hard in the kitchen
How much Goha’s wife loved the smell of roses
How irresistible the smell of roasted calf legs was to Goha’s wife
Tags
CCSS.RI.7.10
CCSS.RI.8.10
CCSS.RL.6.10
CCSS.RL.7.10
CCSS.RL.8.10
5.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which two statements help the reader to infer that Goha’s wife cared for Goha, despite their argument?
She worried about admitting she was greedy.
She cooked the calf legs right away as Goha requested.
he tasted the food very thoroughly.
She burst into tears when she thought he died.
She thought he was tricking her when he fell to the floor.
Tags
CCSS.RI.7.1
CCSS.RI.8.1
CCSS.RL.7.1
CCSS.RL.7.2
CCSS.RL.8.1
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What tone does the dialogue in paragraphs 8–14 create in the selection?
tense
somber
arrogant
humorous
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.2.6
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
This story’s minimal and bare setting allows readers to —
imagine for themselves what the setting may have looked like
read to the end of the story more quickly and fluently
Keep the focus on the words and actions of the characters rather than being distracted by lesser things
understand how bare and pitiful Goha’s house was
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.3
CCSS.RL.5.3
CCSS.RL.6.3
CCSS.RL.7.3
CCSS.RL.9-10.3
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