Fields of Riches

What is the central message of the selection?

• People should look before leaping.

• Hard work has its own rewards.

• People should take care of themselves.

• Slow and steady wins the race.

Which sentence from the selection supports the central message?

• After the farmer moved away, his sons began searching for the treasure.

• His brothers agreed that this would be wise, so they planted wheat.

• We have not found the treasure our father told us we would find.

• Then they took them to the market in town and sold the crops for a lot of money.

Which statement from the selection supports the idea that the father cared for his sons?

• There is treasure buried in the land; and though I cannot say where, it is there, if you will only dig for it.

• The brothers dug and dug and dug.

• All summer, the brothers looked after the corn, wheat, beans, and potatoes.

• The brothers returned to the fields and worked together.

Which sentence from the selection supports the idea that all three sons thought that growing crops was a good idea?

• After the farmer moved away, his sons began searching for the treasure.

• They dug and dug and dug but still did not find the treasure that their father had told them about.

• His brothers agreed that this would be wise, so they planted wheat and moved on to the fields in the south.

• As with the fields in the north and the east, the brothers’ digging in the south brought them no treasure.

What do the three brothers learn by the end of the selection?

• The land will bring treasure if a person works hard.

• Digging in the fields is hard work.

• Crops are best harvested in the fall and marketed in the spring.

• The market is a good place to sell crops.