WorksheetsFolklore: "The Anklet" as Retold by Neil Philip
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
For students NOT in my Google Classroom, read "The Anklet" found at the CommonLit website. To access the story, copy and paste this link into your search bar. https://www.commonlit.org/en/texts/the-anklet
Vocabulary - Questions 1-10
a plant fiber that can be woven to make cloth.
envy
toil
despised
flax
shining or glowing
flax
radiant
fancy
scour
to desire to have a quality or possession belonging to someone else
despised
wheedled
drudgery
envy
hard, menial, or dull work
drudgery
fancy
desoise
radiant
exhausting physical labor
flax
toil
jinni
scour
an intelligent spirit able to appear in human and animal forms
flax
wheedle
jinni
fancy
a feeling; a desire or liking for
scour
fancy
toil
envy
hate
toil
despise
flax
envy
to use flattery to persuade someone to do or give something
wheedle
scour
drudgery
radiant
to look through a place carefully
toil
envy
scour
jinni
Recall and Comprehension:
Questions 11 - End
According to the introduction to "The Anklet', this story is from a collection of _______________________.
short stories
novels
essays
folk tales
"The Anklet" is from One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, a collection of folk tales written and collected in the Middle East during the Islamic Golden Age ____________________.
of the 8th to 14th centuries.
of the 8th to 13th centuries.
of the 8th to 15th centuries.
of the 9th to 15th centuries.
Select all answer choices that are true of Folk Tales.
fiction
part of the oral language tradition
nonfiction
factual
How does the youngest sister feel within her family?
She feels jealous of her older sisters.
She feels beautiful and talented.
She finds complete joy in small things like her plant.
She feels alone and mistreated.
When the youngest sister was at home by herself, she…
pitied herself and felt sad and lonely.
had the jinni give her beautiful things.
pretended to be a member of the royalty.
played games with her little pot.
What happened at the end of the queen’s search?
The youngest sister was caught having snuck into the big party.
The youngest sister was chosen to marry the prince.
The youngest sister lost her favorite anklet for good.
The youngest sister asked the jinni for help finding a husband.
Which of the following is NOT true about the dove on the prince’s window?
She comforted the sad and lonely prince.
She stayed close to him and didn’t seem afraid.
She became the prince’s beloved pet for many years.
She was revealed as his bride, who had been disguised by her cruel sisters.
PART A: Theme - the message the author is trying to convey.
Which statement is the best possible theme of "The Anklet"?
Cruel people are sometimes rewarded, even when they treat others poorly.
If you try to keep someone else down, you'll end up hurting yourself more.
Sometimes you have to hurt others to put your own needs before theirs.
Family members always get along and work together.
PART B:
Which detail from the story BEST supports the answer to
THEME in Part A?
"One day the youngest (sister) went to the market, and, finding herself with a small coin left over, bought a little clay pot to hold flowers."
( Paragraph 2)
"She asked, too, for sparkling rings and turquoise bracelets, and gold anklets studded with diamonds to wear around her slender ankles." (Paragraph 11)
"The older girls had worried away at the poor, trusting girl until they had wheedled the secret of the magic pot from her and they, too, had made requests of the jinni." ( Paragraph 19)
"But the two sisters died of jealousy, poisoned by their own spite." ( Paragraph 24)
Which statement best describes the older sisters' treatment of the youngest sister?
The older sisters are jealous of the youngest sister, so they ignore her.
The older sisters try to learn how to spin from the youngest sister because they admire her skill.
The older sisters try to make the youngest sister feel bad about herself, but they are really jealous.
The older sisters are sometimes willing to share with the youngest sister.
Which evidence from the text best supports the sisters' treatment of their younger sister?
"'You can't come,' they said. 'You would shame us in those rags. You're not fit for such fine company.'" ( Paragraph 10)
"Even her sisters were moved to tears at her grace and charm, and never guessed that this lovely princess was their own despised sister." ( Paragraph 12)
"The two older sisters tried in vain to force the anklet on, but when the queen tried it on the youngest, it fitted perfectly." ( Paragraph 17)
"At last, the day arrived, and the bride was taken to the baths by her sisters, who were to dress her." ( Paragraph 18)
How does the older sisters' use of the jinni contribute to the plot?
It emphasizes their spiteful, unfair treatment of their youngest sister.
It shows their efforts to try to win the prince's heart and change their destinies.
It emphasizes how unfair their situation has been all along.
It shows their efforts to figure out how their youngest sister got the anklet.
How do the events in paragraph 19 contribute to the development of ideas in the story?
It shows that the older sisters want to punish their younger sister for her good fortune, and it shows how she is still willing to trust them even after they have mistreated her for so long.
They want what she has, and this highlights how they have "hated and envied" her since the beginning of the story
Even after all of their mistreatment, the youngest sister is a gives up her secret to them, then they use this secret against her by using "diamond pins the jinni provided" to turn her into a dove and separate her from the prince.
A, B and C all underscore the lengths the older sisters will go to in order keep their sister from being happy.
Who is the protagonist in "The Anklet"?
the prince
the queen
the older sisters
the younger sister
Check ALL reasons some people might treat others badly.
They have a poor self image.
They have a very low opinion of themselves.
They just have a mean nature.
The only way they can be happy is by making others feel bad.
