Yeh-Shen & Sootface

What is Yeh-Shen's most precious possession?

• a feathered cloak

• golden slippers

• fish bones

• a fruit tree

Yeh-Shen lives a difficult life because her stepmother ---

• stops Yeh-Shen from keeping many pets.

• takes away the girl’s special fish bones.

• locks Yeh-Shen away from her friends.

• gives her all the unpleasant chores.

Why does Yeh-Shen run away from the festival?

• The king and his troops are pursuing her.

• Her stepsister almost recognizes her.

• Her clothing is turning back to rags.

• The old man warns her to leave.

Yeh-Shen tries to recover her lost slippers because she wants to ---

• become beautiful again.

• gain the attention of the king.

• hear the spirit of the bones again.

• ask the old man more of her questions.

Sootface’s reaction to her sisters’ mistreatment of her is to ---

• make them clothes from things in the woods.

• complain to other people in the village.

• tell her father about their bad behavior.

• do her work while hoping for the future.

Why does Sootface refuse to tell her father about the way her sisters treat her?

• Other people discourage her from telling him because her sisters are pretty.

• She is too afraid of her sisters to tell him about their bad treatment of her.

• She enjoys the hard work that they give her and she wants to do it.

• She knows that her father would tell her to stop complaining.

The two songs that Sootface sings reveal that she is ---

• kind and generous to her family.

• lonely without any friends.

• hopeful about the future.

• talented at writing songs.

Why does the hunter give Sootface the name Dawn-Light?

• Her eyes shine with joy.

• She is generous and kind.

• She has radiantly beautiful hair.

• Her intelligence shines through her.

Which sentence best expresses the universal theme found in the two folk tales?

• Goodness and hope can overcome others’ desire to cause harm.

• Poverty and shabbiness always hide people’s real beauty.

• Supernatural help will always come to those who are mistreated.

• Challenges in life build better families for children.

The universal theme that goodness and hope are rewarded is best shown in the ---

• fates of the sisters and stepmother.

• future lives Yeh-Shen and Sootface will have.

• reactions of the villagers to the girls.

• ways that the girls are treated as children.