SETTING, PLOT, CHARACTER

Based on the story, how does the woodman feel?

• happy

• despair

• fired

• relax

Where is the integral setting of the story?

• in the sea

• village

• the edge of pool

• forest

The happy Woodman returned to his home with his treasures, and soon the story of his good fortune was known to everybody in the village. Now there were several Woodmen in the village who believed that they could easily win the same good fortune. They hurried out into the woods, one here, one there, and hiding their axes in the bushes, pretended they had lost them. Then they wept and wailed and called on Mercury to help them.

What are the characteristic of other woodmen?

• honest

• brave

• happy

• dishonest

And indeed, Mercury did appear, first to this one, then to that. To each one he showed an axe of gold, and each one eagerly claimed it to be the one he had lost. But Mercury did not give them the golden axe. Oh no! Instead he gave them each a hard whack over the head with it and sent them home. And when they returned next day to look for their own axes, they were nowhere to be found.

This last paragraph of the text belongs to...

• exposition

• falling action

• climax

• resolution

"Is this your axe?" Mercury asked the Woodman.

"No," answered the honest Woodman, "that is not my axe."

Mercury laid the golden axe on the bank and sprang back into the pool. This time he brought up an axe of silver, but the Woodman declared again that his axe was just an ordinary one with a wooden handle.

Mercury dived down for the third time, and when he came up again he had the very axe that had been lost.

The poor Woodman was very glad that his axe had been found and could not thank the kind god enough.

Which one is the real axe of the woodman?

• golden axe

• special axe with bamboo handle

• silver axe

• ordinary axe with wooden handle

Long ago, the green frog lived with his widowed mother in a small pond. The green frog never listened to his mother, and when she told him to do something, he always did the opposite. If his mother told him to play in the hills, he went to the river. If she told him to go up, he went down. If she told him left, he went right. If she told him this, he did that 

This first paragraph belongs to...

• resolution

• exposition

• climax

• falling action

The mother frog worried about what she would do with her son—he caused her so much distress and embarrassment. “Why can’t he be like other frogs?” she said to herself. “Why can’t he respect his elders and do what he’s told?” She worried about what would happen to him when she was gone. She knew she would have to do something to break his bad habits.

Based on the paragraph, the mother's frog belongs to...

• protagonist

• antagonist

• round

• static

The green frog sat in the pouring rain by the river bank, crying and crying for his mother. And that is why, to this day, the green frogs cry when it rains.

The physical environment of the text is...

• sunny

• rainy

• windy

• cloudy

Four days later, the mother frog died and the green frog was terribly sad. He blamed himself for her death and he was sorry for all the heartache he had caused her. He knew it was too late to undo all of his past misdeeds, but he could become a good frog for her now. He resolved finally to listen to his mother’s instructions. “I always did the opposite of what she told me when she was alive,” he said to himself, “but now I will do exactly as she told me.”

This paragraph belongs to...

• falling action

• rising action

• climax

• exposition

The moral value of green frog story is...

• don't be greedy

• be honest

• don't cry over the spilt milk

• respect our parent