The Empty Pot Comprehension

What is one theme from The Empty Pot?

• Honesty

• Being the Best

• Being strong makes you friends

• Friendship

Who is one main character from The Empty Pot?

• flowers

• Ping

• people in the kingdom

• children

Choose ALL the plot events that happened in the story. (You can choose more than one).

• The emperor decides to choose a successor to the throne.

• Ping plants the seeds given to him by the Emperor

• Ping likes watching things grow

• A whole year passed and Ping's seed did not grow at all

What kind of character is Ping?

• Mean

• Dishonest

• True to his words

• Unkind

Why didn't the seed grow?

• Ping is a bad gardener.

• Ping did not work hard at growing the seed.

• The Emperor gave him bad seeds

• The weather was bad that year

What was the problem in the story?

• The emperor needed to find a successor.

• Ping's seeds did not grow

• Ping lost his land where he grew flowers

• Ping's parents died

What lesson did Ping learn? (What was the theme of the story)?

• To always tell the truth

• To work hard

• Planting flowers is a good way to get rid of stress

• To be kind to others