The Wise Old Woman - Test Review

Only one thing can spare you. Bring me a box containing one thousand ropes of ash and I will spare your village.

• the farmer

• young lord

• wise old woman

• Lord Higa

• village people

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

I therefore decree that anyone over seventy-one must be banished from the village and left in the mountains to die.

• the farmer

• young lord

• wise old woman

• Lord Higa

• village people

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Well, my son...the time has come for you to take me to the mountains.

• the farmer

• young lord

• wise old woman

• Lord Higa

• village people

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What a dreadful decree! What a cruel and unreasonable lord we have.

• the farmer

• young lord

• wise old woman

• Lord Higa

• village people

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

My lord, for the past two years I have broken the law of the land. I have kept my aged mother hidden beneath the floor of my house, and it is she who solved each of your problems and saved the village from Lord Higa.

• the farmer

• young lord

• wise old woman

• Lord Higa

• village people

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

“‘Even in such a small village there is much wisdom,’ he declared, ‘and its people should be allowed to live in peace.’”

• the farmer

• young lord

• wise old woman

• Lord Higa

• village people

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“‘How can anyone make a drum sound without beating it?’”

• the farmer

• young lord

• wise old woman

• Lord Higa

• village people

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

“‘You are far wiser than any of the wise men of the village,’ he said, and he hurried to tell the young lord how to meet Lord Higa’s third demand.”

• the farmer

• young lord

• wise old woman

• Lord Higa

• village people

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

“‘What good is your wisdom if you cannot help me now?’”

• the farmer

• young lord

• wise old woman

• Lord Higa

• village people

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

The passage below (paragraph 3) suggests that the villagers don’t stand up against their cruel lord mainly because _____.

“What a dreadful decree! What a cruel and unreasonable lord we have,” the people of the village murmured. But the lord fearfully punished anyone who disobeyed him, and so villagers who turned seventy-one were tearfully carried into the mountains, never to return.

• they generally agree with most of his decisions

• they are afraid of him doing something even crueler

• both A and B

• neither A and B

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2