A hen living on a farm finds some wheat and decides to make bread with it. She asks the other farmyard animals for help planting it, but they refuse. The hen then harvests and mills the wheat into flour before baking it into bread. At each stage, she again asks the animals for help, and they refuse. Finally, the hen has completed her task and asks who will help her eat the bread. This time the animals accept eagerly, but the hen refuses them, stating that just as she made the bread herself, she will eat the bread herself.

Which word would best describe the other farmyard animals?

Which word has the meaning: arrive at a decision/opinion by reasoning

Alice becomes a guest at a "mad" tea party along with the March Hare, the Hatter, and a very tired Dormouse, who falls asleep frequently only to be violently awakened moments later by the March Hare and the Hatter. The characters give Alice many riddles and stories, including the famous "why is a raven like a writing desk?" The Hatter reveals that they have tea all day because Time has punished him by forever standing still at 6 PM (tea time). Alice becomes insulted and tired of being attacked with riddles and she leaves claiming that it was the craziest tea party that she had ever been to.

Which of the following is true about Alice?

What word means: evidence found within a particular text used to support or explain conclusions, opinions, and/or assertions about the text itself

Alice attends a trial where the Knave of Hearts is accused of stealing the Queen's tarts. The jury is made up of various animals, including Bill the Lizard, the White Rabbit is the court's trumpeter, and the judge is the King of Hearts. During the proceedings, Alice finds that she is growing larger. The dormouse scolds Alice and tells her she has no right to grow at such a fast pace and take up all the air. Alice mocks and calls the dormouse's complaint laughable because everyone grows, and she cannot help it. Meanwhile, witnesses at the trial include the Hatter, who displeases and frustrates the King through his indirect answers to the questioning, and the Duchess's cook.

Which of the following is most likely true?

What word means: stated clearly and directly, leaving no room for confusion or interpretation

Three bears – "a little, small, wee bear, a middle-sized bear, and a great, huge bear" – lived together in a house in the woods. They were very good-natured, trusting, harmless, tidy, and hospitable. Each of these bears has his own porridge bowl, chair, and bed. One day they make porridge for breakfast, but it is too hot to eat, so they decide to take a walk in the woods while their porridge cools. An old woman approaches the bears' house. As she has been sent out by her family, she is a disgrace to them. She is bad, ugly, dirty, and a vagrant. She looks through a window, peeps through the keyhole, and lifts the latch. Assured that no one is home, she walks in. The old woman eats the Wee Bear's porridge, then settles into his chair and breaks it. Lurking about, she finds the bears' beds and falls asleep in Wee Bear's bed. The end of the tale is reached when the bears return. Wee Bear finds his empty bowl, his broken chair, and the old woman sleeping in his bed and cries, "Somebody has been lying in my bed, and here she is!" The old woman wakes, jumps out the window, and is never seen again.

Why does the old woman jump out the window?

What word means: a conclusion derived from logical reasoning following an investigation of available evidence

Under a spreading chestnut-tree

The village smithy stands;

The smith, a mighty man is he,

With large and muscly hands,

And the muscles of his beefy arms

Are strong as iron bands.

His hair is crisp, and black, and long;

His face is like the tan;

His brow is wet with honest sweat,

He earns whate'er he can,

And looks the whole world in the face,

For he owes not any man.

(Blacksmith or Smithy - a person who makes and repairs things in iron by hand)

Which word would best describe the Blacksmith in the poem?