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Vocabulary
The Animals
The Story
Story Details
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The skin of an animal preserved against decay.
leather
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Which animal dropped the feather?
the eagle
100
True or False. This story could happen in real life.
False
100
Why was the cloud black?
It was heavy with rain.
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a native or inhabitant of Africa
African
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Which animals mooed at the big, black cloud?
the cows
200
Is this story fiction or nonfiction?
fiction
200
Because the rains were belated, what did the animals have to do?
migrate
300
thin, small in size
slender
300
What animals did Ki-Pat tend?
cattle or cows
300
Who is the author of Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain?
Verna Aadema
300
At the end of the story, who now tends the cows?
Little Ki-Pat
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to move from one place to another
migrated
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What animal did Ki-Pat look like when he was tending his animals?
a stork
400
What genre (type) of a story is Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain?
African Folktale
400
How does Ki-Pat solve the problem of the drought?
He uses an arrow made from an eagle feather to shoot down the rain from the cloud.
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a period of very dry weather with little or no rain
drought
500
Which animals browsed on the acacia trees?
the giraffes
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What is the main idea of the story?
There is a drought (no rain) in Africa.
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How does the drought change Kapiti Plain?
It makes it dryer, no water is available for the animals.