The Mouse and the Turnip

This question has two parts. First, answer Part A. Then answer part BPart AWhat is the author’s purpose for writing this selection?

• To entertain the reader with a story about the importance of being helpful

• To provide information to readers about what to plant in a garden

• To convince the reader that planting turnips is not an easy task

• To show the reader how difficult is to pull turnip out the ground

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3.10A

Part B: According to part A, what evidence from the text helped you determine the author’s purpose?

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3.7C

Which of the following belongs in the empty box?

• The old farmer keeps singing to the turnip plant.

• The old farmer asks help from his family members.

• The old farmer’s family sings a song while going home.

• The old farmer lefts food in the garden for his little helper.

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3.8C

What happens after the mouse chews the turnip roots?

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3.8C

How did the setting influence the plot of the story?

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3.8D

The details in paragraph 10 are important to the plot of the story because they help the reader understand —

• How the mouse is able to talk to the farmer

• How animals can survive under moist soil

• How the mouse was able to solve the farmer’s problem

• How animals are able to come back to the farmer’s garden

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3.8C

This question has two parts. First, answer Part A. Then Part B.

Part A: Old farmer’s interaction with the turnip plant in paragraphs 1 and 2 shows that he —

• wants to plant other seeds

• hopes his plant will grow soon

• thinks his plant will not survive

• believes the mouse will help him

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3.8C

3.6F

Part B: What evidence from the story supports part A?

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3.8C

3.6F

Part A: Which sentence states the main theme of the story?

• Help can come in surprising ways.

• Nature can make people feel happy.

• Work can be fun when done with family.

• Problems can be solved by being prepared.

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3.8B

Part B: Which sentence best expresses the theme of the story?

• A mouse can do better than we can.

• And the farmer and his wife, the daughter, and the granddaughters all pulled together.

• They carried it home and all the way they sang this song.

• From that day on, the old farmer always left a little piece of turnip in the corner of the garden for the mouse who was so helpful.

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3.8A