The Storyteller

The aunt is best described as...

• poor and mistreated

• ordinary and unimaginative

• creative but overworked

• clever and determined

All of the following factors make the train ride unbearable for everyone involved except...

• sorrow

• lack of things to do

• boredom

• the humidity and heat

The children consider the aunt's story unsatisfactory because the...

• girl is dreadfully wicked

• story is too long

• story teaches a boring moral lesson

• children have heard the same story before

Readers can infer that the bachelor tells the children a story because he...

• feels sorry for the aunt and wants some peace for the both of them

• is really very fond of children

• rises to the aunt’s challenge and wishes to show her up

• is a professional storyteller

The children are especially pleased with the bachelor’s story because...

• there is a wolf in it

• the Prince is foolish

• the park is filled with beautiful talking parrots

• Bertha is “horribly good”

Readers can conclude that the children liked the bachelor’s story a great deal because...

• the little girl is saved at the end

• they can predict what will happen

• they prefer pigs to sheep

• good is not rewarded at the end

Saki’s story is similar to the bachelor’s story in that both...

• reverse the reader’s expectations

• teach moral lessons

• have happy endings

• please the aunt very much

At the end of the story, the bachelor’s mood is best described as...

• self-satisfied

• apologetic

• thrilled

• unhappy

In this story the author is satirizing (make fun of)...

• people who take children on long journeys

• spoiled children who bother other people

• arrogant people who impose their ideas on others

• sentimental and idealistic children’s stories

All of the following details from the story are humorous except...

• Cyril’s constant questions

• the girl reciting “On the Road to Mandalay”

• the train’s clicking wheels

• Bertha’s conceited attitude