Once Upon a Time Review

Select the TWO correct answers:

In the story, Once Upon a Time, what is causing the narrator to listen extra hard

and to feel concerned and paranoid?

• She is remembering previous events in the community that were dangerous.

• She is getting ready to leave and is nervous about going out.

• She is worried that someone has broken into her house and is coming to get her.

• She is nervous that the police are coming to arrest her and take her to jail.

The narrator decides to tell a bedtime story. To whom is she telling the story?

• a little boy

• to her daughter

• to herself

• to a group of children

Select the three main characters in the fairy tale bedtime story the narrator tells from the list below:

• a man

• his wife

• a little girl, their daughter

• a little boy, their son

Based on the details in the fairy tale the narrator is telling, it is obvious that the family in the story is quite poor and struggling to do well.

• TRUE

• FALSE

In the story, a phrase that is repeated frequently that doesn't seem true is______.

• We will be fine as long as we stick together.

• There is nothing to worry about, those things won't happen to us.

• They were living happily ever after.

• It is ok to worry; it is not ok to give up.

The man and his wife keep adding ________ to their property.

• more flowers to brighten things up

• more fun things for their son to do

• more security features to keep them safe

• more servants to take care of them and the property

The ending of the story is_____.

• just like you would expect a fairy tale to end-everything works out for the family.

• not like you would expect a fairy tale to end-there is a huge tragedy in the family.

• rather boring because there are no big events or clear details.

• encouraging because the family escapes all the scary things going on in the town.

The readers are surprised at the end of the story because they don't expect the man to die like that due to trying to protect his family from the dangerous intruders.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Most of the time, when students are really hungry, they do not intend to eat so much that they __________their stomach but it can happen any way.

• distend

• intention

• audacious

• intrusion

• serrated

The manager thought that the customers were being quite _______ because they kept taking extra things with them that were not part of what they ordered.

• distend

• intention

• audacious

• intrusion

• serrated