Fable

What is a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters?

• fairytale

• nonfiction

• fable

• folktale

Who is a fable writer from Greece who wrote a collections of fables.

• moral

• Aesop

• lesson

• character

What is a  lesson contained in a fable to teach the difference between right and wrong

• conflict

• fable

• resolution

• moral

What is an animal or creature acting like a human?

• personification

• moral

• conflict

• resolution

A Greedy Dog
One day there was a big dog that went traveling along a village. The dog looked starving. It wanted to have something to eat. As a result of its hunger, it went toward a butcher and swiped a piece of meat. Then, it ran away with the piece of meat in its mouth.
Now that it didn’t want to be disturbed by any other dog, the dog looked for a safe place to eat the meat. It ran into the direction of a garden. It came to a stream and crossed a narrow bridge over the stream. In the middle of the bridge, the dog stopped walking out of the blue. It looked into the water under the bridge. Another dog came up in the stream. The dog also had a piece of meat. The dog could not resist the temptation to get the other piece of meat in the stream and owing to the temptation, it quickly opened its mouth to take it. Unexpectedly, its own meat fell into the river and finally the dog got nothing.
The moral message of the fable above is ...

• We have to avoid the temptation.

• We do not have to disturb any other people.

• We have to survive to stay alive.

• We do not have to be greedy.

Who are the main characters of the story?

• The hunter and the rope

• The lion

• The mouse

• The lion and the mouse

What is a fable?

• A traditional story that has a moral .

• A real story

A Fox fell into a well, and though it was not very deep, he found that he could not get out again. After he had been in the well a long time, a thirsty Goat came by. The Goat thought the Fox had gone down to drink, and so he asked if the water was good. "The finest in the whole country," said the crafty Fox, "jump in and try it. There is more than enough for both of us." The thirsty Goat immediately jumped in and began to drink. The Fox just as quickly jumped on the Goat's back and leaped from the tip of the Goat's horns out of the well. The foolish Goat now saw what a plight he had got into, and begged the Fox to help him out. But the Fox was already on his way to the woods. "If you had as much sense as you have beard, old fellow," he said as he ran, "you would have been more cautious about finding a way to get out again before you jumped in."

The writer describes the fox as a ... character.

• kind

• smart

• cunning

• simple

What is the moral value from the story of the lion and the mouse?

• A kindness is never wasted.

• Never give up!

• Be happy with what you have.

• Don’t underestimate yourself!

A fable is a short story.

• true

• false