Davy Crockett Saves the World

What effect does the president have on the plot of the story?

• The president wants to save the world himself

• The president makes a law that bans Hailey's Comet

• The president is determined to find the brave Davy Crockett, so that he can stop Hailey's Comet.

• The president teams up with Sally Sugartree

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Paragraphs 2-3 are important to the story because it shows ____________________________________.

• introduces Halley's Comet

• how America was in trouble

• the historical setting

• how Halley's Comet is going to destroy the Earth

Which events from the story causes Davy Crockett to wring the comet’s tail?

• The comet tried to drown Davy into the Atlantic Ocean

• He was bored

• The comet had already destroyed the Earth

• Sally Sugartree told him to

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What can the reader tell about Sally Sugartree based on this detail from the text?

Then she showed Davy the want ad from the president.

• Sally Sugartee wanted to see Davy defeat the comet

• Sally was determined to help stop the comet

• Sally wanted to please the president

• Sally was doing her job in finding Davy

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What influence does the historical setting have on the plot of the story?

• The tale is based during a time of war.

• The time is based on a real time in history with real life events.

• The tale is in outer space.

• The tale is based during a real time in history when the woodsman Davy Crockett used his bravery for good deeds.

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What did the president want Davy Crockett to do?

• learn how to dance

• climb Eagle Eye Peak

• capture Hailey's Comet

• pull the tail of Hailey's Comet

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Why did Davy Crockett not know about the comet?

• He did not read newspapers.

• He was in a different country.

• He did not listen to the President.

• Sally Sugartree kept the information from him.

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Why was Davy Crockett in the woods at the beginning of the story?

• He was hunting a bear.

• He was trying to learn to dance.

• He was hiding so the president could not find him.

• He was waiting for the comet to come so he could fight it.

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What did Davy Crockett do with the comet after he spun it around seventeen times?

• buried it in the ground

• threw it back into space

• drowned it in the Atlantic Ocean

• threw it in the center of Eagle Eye Peak

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At the end of the story, why did Davy Crockett start wearing a coonskin cap?

• He had no hair.

• Sally Sugartree made it for him.

• He only had tufts of snarled hair.

• He wanted to protect his head from future comets.

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