1. Which two sentences explain the benefits and rewards of storytelling?

• "The pull of the story is universal" (paragraph 2)
• "Storytelling is present in many aspects of human life" (paragraph 3)
• "The most wonderful gift of story is the bonding of a group" (paragraph 5)
• "Everyone knows whom the storyteller is talking about" (paragraph 6)
• "Communities and families also may wrap their history in stories in order to remember details of events long past" (paragraph 8)

2. How does paragraph 3 contribute to the development of the author's ideas?

• by persuading readers to see more movies
• by describing how to disprove urban legends
• by explaining that there are three kinds of storytelling
• by providing examples of how storytelling is part of everyone's life

3. Which sentence states an important idea of the introduction?

• Actors make the best storytellers
• Storytelling is part of being human
• Actors were more skilled in the past
• Storytelling is more about entertainment than education

when a person is in a daze or is daydreaming (noun)

• trance
• universal
• integral
• invariably
• nurture

something that occurs again and again or constantly (adverb)

• invariably
• universal
• integral
• trance
• nurture

misfortune or hardship (noun)

• adversity
• universal
• integral
• invariably
• trance

necessary or essential for completeness (adjective)

• integral
• universal
• invariably
• trance
• nurture

to provide love, affection, nourishment, or something else necessary for development (verb)

• nurture
• universal
• integral
• invariably
• trance

very thin; bony (adjective)

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• shuddered
• glumly
• materialized
• mournfully

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• pulverize
• scrawny
• shuddered
• glumly
• materialized