Vocabulary
An overstatement of the truth is called ____.
A. exaggeration
B. legend
A. exaggeration
This character was a famous logger who cleared land in the frontier with his blue ox, Babe.
A. Paul Bunyon
B. Pecos Bill
A. Paul Bunyan
The main character in this story was tricked by swindlers into wearing something invisible.
A. The Emperor's New Clothes
B. Beauty and the Beast
A. The Emperor's New Clothes
These types of stories often include talking animals.
Fairy Tale
If you ___ a pet, you try to get it to obey.
A. tamed
B. pursed
A. tamed
A ____ is a person who is well-known for doing something amazing.
A. frontier
B. legend
B. legend
This character is a cowboy who was raised by coyotes, defeated a giant rattlesnake, and tamed a mountain lion.
A. Casey Jones
B. Pecos Bill
B. Pecos Bill
This story is about a girl who was determined to take her merchant father's place for his punishment.
A. Paul Bunyan
B. Beauty and the Beast
B. Beauty and the Beast
These types of stories often have royal characters.
Fairy Tale
Something that is difficult would be a _________.
A. adventure
B. challenge
B. challenge
Something is ___ if it is under a magic spell.
A. enchanted
B. sorrowful
A. enchanted
This character was born with a hammer in his hand.
A. Beauty
B. John Henry
B. John Henry
In this story Sim Webb was a fireman who kept fire going on a train.
A. Casey Jones
B. John Henry
A. Casey Jones
These types of stories are often funny.
Tall Tales
Amazing _________ are hard to do.
A. tracks
B. feats
B. feats
If something is ___, it is very pleasing.
A. charming
B. adventurous
A. charming
This character was an engineer who drove a train so fast and took pride in being on time.
A. Casey Jones
B. John Henry
A. Casey Jones
In this story a magic fish granted wishes to an ungrateful woman.
A. Beauty and the Beast
B. The Fisherman's Wife
B. The Fisherman's Wife
These types of stories often end with "Happily Ever After".
Fairy Tales
If something _________ you, it makes you unhappy.
A. displeases
B. admires
A. displeases
The unexplored parts of America were known as the ___.
A. feats
B. frontier
B. frontier
This character was cursed and lived in an enchanted castle.
A. Beast
B. The Wife
A. Beast
In this story a small child told the truth that no one else would.
A. Rumpelstiltskin
B. The Emperor's New Clothes
B. The Emperor's New Clothes
These stories contain hyperbole.
After someone tastes something very bitter and unpleasant, they might _________ their lips.
A. purse
B. frontier
A. purse