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About the Poet
Aesop’s Fables is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in Ancient Greece between 620 and
564 bce. A fable is a short story that teaches a lesson, which is called the moral of the story. The central characters of a fable
are animals. They act and talk like human beings. The above poem is one of his fables set in verse.
Time to answer
A. Tick (3) the correct option.
1. Who are the main characters of the poem?
a bear and a carpenter
a farmer and a gardener
a bear and a gardener
a farmer and a carpenter
2. Why did the bear and the gardener decide to form a bond of friendship?
because they both were tired of living alone
because they both were good friends
because they lived near each other in the forest
because they knew each other very well
3. Why did the bear drop a stone on the gardener?
because he wanted to wake up the gardener
because he wanted to drive away the fly on the gardener’s head
because he wanted to break the gardener’s crown
because he wanted to play with the gardener
B. Answer these questions.
1. What did the bear and the gardener promise each other?
2. How did the gardener die?
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