The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket

The author was born in which country?

• Canada

• USA

• China

• Japan

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The author received the Nobel prize in literature for. . .

• Promoting peace through writing

• His description of Japanese culture

• His narrative mastery

• Being an orphan

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What drew the narrator to the playground?

• The cherry trees

• An insect's voice

• The orange tree

• The varicolored lanterns

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What did the narrator see that first caught his interest at the playground?

• Children with lanterns

• A boy showing a girl his grasshopper

• An embankment and a cherry tree

• A bell cricket

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What was special about the lanterns?

• They had many colors

• They were red and made with sturdy cardboard

• They were lit with candles

• They had the children's names crafted on them

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Why did the boy ask the children so many times if they wanted a grasshopper?

• He wasn't sure all could hear him.

• He didn't hear any of the children respond.

• He was waiting for a certain girl to notice.

• He wanted to trick them into thinking the cricket was a grasshopper.

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What did the narrator notice that the children did not?

• The boy's name was Fujio.

• The lanterns reflected the names on the clothing of the two children.

• The bell cricket was singing.

• Fujio and Kiyoko liked each other.

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What was the narrator's "words of wisdom" for the children?

• To remember Kiyoko and the bell cricket.

• To make the most beautiful, varicolored lantern.

• There are not many bell crickets in this world.

• To catch as many grasshoppers as you can.

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What is the narrator advising Fujio about?

• Girls are like grasshoppers.

• Cherish special relationships.

• A girl will break your heart.

• Remember Kiyoko.

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This story is about...

• Love and relationships

• Life and disappointment

• Loneliness and death

• Grasshoppers and crickets

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