Vocabulary
Category 1
Category 2
Category 3
100
A lack of food
famine
100
The raja's ministers ask the raja if they can ______________.
Give rice to the hungry people.
100
How does the raja justify taking all the farmers' rice?
He believes that a raja should not go hungry.
100
Why does the raja keep his promise to Rani to the end?
He believes that is what a raja should do.
200
a great amount
plentifully
200
What happens to the farmers during the famine?
The farmers had no rice to eat.
200
The servant leads the elephant to and from the royal storehouse because ___________.
The raja has decreed a royal feast and needs rice.
200
At the end, what does the raja promise that shows he is truly wise and fair?
To take only as much rice as he needs.
300
a small amount
trickle
300
When the rice grew well, the people gave nearly all of their rice to the raja, but the people ________.
barely had enough to get by.
300
Rani plans to use the rice that she catches in her skirt to ______________________.
return it to the raja's storehouse
300
Why is Rani able to outsmart the raja?
She makes her request sound very small.
400
begged
Implored
400
The story takes place in __________.
India
400
Why does Rani ask for only one grain of rice as a reward?
She know the raja will insist on a better reward.
400
Why doesn't the raja open the storehouses to his hungry people?
Because he thinks a raja needs more food than the people.
500
formally ordered
Decreed
500
Why does the raja tell the rice farmers that they must give nearly all their rice to him?
So that there will be rice for them to eat in bad times.
500
In the beginning, the raja thinks that Rani is _______.
Dumb.
500
Rani asks for the rice to be doubled each day for 30 days. What does she mean?
1 1x2=2 2x2=4 4x2=8
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