OW Fables Quiz Review

What is a short tale that teaches a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters?

• myth
• legend
• fable
• folktale

What kind of story is a fable?

• fiction
• non-fiction

Fables ____________.

• teach us a lesson
• are non-fiction stories
• tell a funny story
• show us how to draw

Normally fables have _______ as characters?

• children
• bugs
• animals
• teachers

What is a moral? 

• a fact
• an opinion
• a lesson
• a direction

Which describes the length of a fable?

• Has many chapters
• Short stories
• 1-2 sentences only
• Fables are pictures

What is the name of the man most famous for creating fables?

• Allen

• Aesop

• Atwood

• Cynthia Rylant

A lion was about to eat a mouse, when the mouse pleaded, "Let me go, and someday I may help you." Laughing, the lion let the mouse go. Later, hunters caught the lion in a trap. The mouse, seeing what happened, came to chew the ropes that bound the lion. The lion escaped. What lesson is this fable trying to teach?

• Respect your elders

• Don't be lazy

• Help others because what goes around comes around

• We are all capable of being better

Long ago a beautiful princess had all beautiful expensive dresses. She bragged about them all the time. The other maidens got so tired of hearing about it that they stopped being friends with her. What is the moral of this fable?

• Eat all your veggies

• Necessity is the mother of invention

• Don't brag; be humble

• Don't judge a book by it's cover

The author's purpose for a fable is to (choose 2)

• entertain

• inform

• teach

• persuade