Aesop's Fables (Study Sync)

Some of the fables have explicit _______. Others you have to figure out.

• Endings

• Characters

• Settings

• Morals

"If you were foolish enough to sing all summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter" is the moral for

• The Ants and the Grasshopper

• The Fox and the Woodcutter

• The Tortoise and the Hare

• The Miser

"A possession is worthy only when we use it" is the moral for

• The Swollen Fox

• The Miser

• The Hen and the Golden Eggs

• The Flies and the Honey Pot

"The foolish pair, thus hoping to become rich all at once, ________ themselves of the gain of which they were assured day by day" .

• fervently

• deprived

• perished

• resolved

enthusiastically or passionately

• perishing

• fervently

• derision

• resolved

Which word means the same as "perish"?

• greedy

• deprive

• moral

• suffer death

Being laughed at or being thought of as silly

• derision

• miser

• resolved

• deprived

Which fable has the moral, "Talk is cheap" or "If you are going to talk the talk, you have to walk the walk"?

• The Swollen Fox

• The Hen and the Golden Eggs

• The Fox and the Woodcutter

• The Cottager and His Wife

In "The Swollen ___", the animal overate and got stuck in a tree.

"Pleasure bought with pain hurts" is a moral for...

• The Fox and the Woodcutter

• The Miser

• The Cottager and His Wife

• The Flies and the Honey Pot