Answer the question using complete sentences. How do you know "Davy Crockett Saves the World" is a tall tale?
Question 9
9.
Answer the question using complete sentences. How is Halley's Comet in "Davy Crockett Saves the World" different from a comet that you would read about in a nonfiction article?
Question 10
10.
Answer the question using complete sentences. What is the author's purpose in writing "Davy Crockett Saves the World"? How do you know?
Question 11
11.
Choose the correct answer. Davy SAUNTERED off to see Sally Sugartree. When Davy SAUNTERED he ________________.
ran quickly
walked slowly
skipped
hopped
Choose the correct answer. Davy had to WRING the comet's tail off before it could destroy the earth. In this sentence, WRING means __________________
shake
brush
cut
twist
Choose the correct answer. When the story opens, the world is in trouble because ___________________.
Davy Crockett has drunk the Mississippi River dry
Davy can't find his pet bear Death Hug
Halley's Comet is hurling itself toward America
the President of the United States is getting huge piles of letters
Choose the correct answer. Sally Sugartree shows Davy______________________.
a picture of the comet's tail
Halley's Comet in the sky
a drawing of the President
an advertisement in the newspaper
Choose the correct answer. Davy's decision to go see the President is an important event in the plot because____________________________.
he will finally get to dance with Sally Sugartree
he will help the President by trying to stop Halley's Comet
he will be able to climb Eagle Eye Peak
he will help the President place an advertisement in the newspaper
Choose the correct answer. After Davy jumps on the back of Halley's Comet, it tries to get rid of him by _______.
diving into a lake from the top of Eagle Eye Peak
jumping into the Mississippi River
diving into the Atlantic Ocean
spinning him around seventeen times and hurling him into space
Choose the correct answer. Davy is finally able to overcome the comet because ___________________.
water puts out the comet's fire and melts its ice
Halley's Comet cannot get Davy off its back
it has grown back to its original size
it is covered with steam
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