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WorksheetsThe Saga of Pecos Bill
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which sentence best tells how the beginning of the play helps the reader understand the rest of the play?
It tells how big the state of Texas is.
It tells what made Pecos Bill an unusual child.
It tells why people used to move West a long time ago.
It tells how Ma and Pa kept forgetting their children’s names.
Ma and Pa could not afford a teddy bear. What does the word afford mean?
sell
make
find
pay for
Why is Cowboy 1 surprised when he first sees Pecos Bill drinking water at the river?
Pecos Bill is acting like a coyote.
Pecos Bill is fighting a grizzly bear.
Pecos Bill is riding a mountain lion.
Pecos Bill is making a lasso out of a snake.
How does Pecos Bill help the cowboys?
He ends a drought.
He watches their cows.
He gets rid of the trees.
He protects them from animals
Why is Pecos Bill’s fight with the tornado important?
It explains why cowboys carry a rope.
It tells how Pecos Bill became a cowboy.
It tells how big tornadoes used to become.
It explains why there are wide open spaces across Texas.
All of the following are characters in the story EXCEPT:
Pecos Bill
Narrator 1
Ma
Cowboy 3
Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word:
Something that is (a) is real and exactly what it appears to be.
Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word:
Alex (a) the hose after he finished watering the plants.
Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word:
My grandfather told me a long detailed story about the heroic events of Pecos Bill, also known as (a) .
Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word:
The tornado whipped and (a) around in circles very quickly.
What does Narrator 3 compare the tornado to?
a bull
a mountain lion
a horse
a snake
At the end of the story, what was created when Pecos Bill fell and hit the ground?
(a)
A (a) , or play, is a story that can be performed for an audience.
