A Golden Riddle

What is the message in "A Golden Riddle"?

• A. Fear can make people fail

• B. Taking risks is often dangerous

• C. Wealth makes people powerful

• D. Knowledge is more important than strength

Which detail from the selection supports the idea that the dragon thought he was stronger than the knight?

• A. "Finders keepers," rumbled the dragon

• B. "I will give you back the gold if you an solve my riddle; but if you cannot, I get to keep the chest of gold."

• C. The knight was stumped; everyone knows that dragons love gold more than any other person or thing.

• D. The dragon growled, fire escaping from his mouth.

What inference about the characters can the reader make from the selection?

• A. The knight is loyal to his queen

• B. The queen is afraid of dragons

• C. The cave is not far from the castle

• D. The dragon will steal the gold back

Who is telling the story in "A Golden Riddle"?

• A. The kinght

• B. The dragon

• C. The queen

• D. a third-person narrator

What is the best summary of the story?

• A. A knight is called to the throne room of a castle. The queen tells the knight that a chest of gold has been stolen

• B. A knight goes on an adventure and meets a dragon. The dragon challenges the knight to solve a riddle, and he does.

• C. A knight finds a missing chest of gold in the cave of a dragon. He answers the dragon's riddle and takes back the chest of gold.

• D. A knight goes looking for a stolen chest of gold that belonged to his queen. He finds it in a cave on a mountain top being guarded by a dragon.