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Time to answer

A. Answer these questions.
1. What kind of weather is depicted in the poem?

humid weather stormy weather

sunny weather scorching weather

2. Why were the kittens fighting?

one of them had a toy and the other one didn’t

one of them had a glass of milk and the other one didn’t

one of them had cheese and the other one didn’t

one of them had a mouse and the other one didn’t

3. Where did the kittens decide to rest after being thrown out of the room?

besides the kitchen door on the mat at the door

on the snow in their basket

B. Answer these questions.

1. What did the two kittens do one night?

2. What did the old woman do when the kittens began to fight?

3. Why did the kittens creep into the room?

4. What prompted the kittens to reconcile with one another in the end?

Reference to the context

Read these lines from the poem and answer the questions that follow.

1. I told you before ’twas a stormy night

When these two little kittens began to fight;

The old woman seized her sweeping broom,

And swept the two kittens right out of the room.

a. Who are the main characters in the poem?
i. the narrator ii. the two little kittens

iii. the mouse iv. the old woman

b. Why did the fight begin?

c. What did the old woman do to stop them from fighting?

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