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There was once a good little girl who lived
with her mother . . .
╚. . . in a little house at the edge of a
village. They were very poor . . .
. . . and though the mother worked as
hard as she could and the little girl
helped as much as she was able . . .
. . . often they did not have enough to eat.
1. ________ lived in the little house at the
edge of the village.
A) A mother and daughter
B) A father and son
C) An elderly couple
(A) A little girl and her mother lived
there.
╚One day, when there was nothing in the house
for dinner, the little girl went out into the
woods to look for berries which they could eat.
╚There in the dark of the woods she met a
strange, bent, little, old woman.
"What is the trouble, little girl?" asked the
old woman, for she could see that the little
girl looked sad and troubled.
"I am trying to find something for my mother
and me to eat," said the little girl politely.
2. The little girl went into the woods to
look for:
A) a bouquet of wildflowers
B) some berries to eat
C) mushrooms to put in a stew
(B) The little girl was looking for berries
to eat.
"Take this pot," said the old woman, pulling
a small iron kettle out from under her cloak.
"Just say to it, 'Cook, little pot, cook,'
and it will cook you a good thick soup.
And when you say, 'Stop, little pot, stop,'
it will stop cooking at once."
The little girl thanked her kind friend,
took the pot . . .
╚. . . and ran home to her mother.
3. ________ gave the little girl a cooking
pot.
A) An old man in the woods
B) A friendly neighbor
C) A bent, little, old woman
(C) The old woman gave the little girl a
cooking pot.
The magic pot did its work well. No
more did the little girl and her
mother have to go hungry . . .
. . . for whenever they wanted to eat,
the little girl had only to say, "Cook,
little pot, cook" . . .
. . . and they would have lots of good
thick soup, steaming hot.
Then the little girl would say, "Stop,
little pot, stop," and the pot would
stop cooking . . .
. . . and they would sit down and eat.
4. When the mother and her little girl
were hungry, the pot would cook
________ for them.
A) porridge
B) stew
C) soup
D) dessert
(C) The pot would "make lots of good
thick soup, steaming hot."
╚One day when the little girl was out
visiting friends at the far end of the
village . . .
. . . some neighbors stopped in to call on
her mother and to see the wonderful pot.
╠Naturally, the mother wanted to show
them how her treasure worked, so she
said, "Cook, little pot, cook."
The little pot began to bubble and steam,
and soon, before the round eyes of the
astonished neighbors, good thick soup
filled the pot.
The mother set the table with bowls and
spoons for her neighbors, and they sat
down to eat.
5. The mother and her little girl ________
the soup from the pot with their neighbors.
A) shared
B) did not share
C) shared the recipe for
(A) They shared the soup with their
neighbors.
By this time the little pot was all but
overflowing. Now the trouble started.
The mother could not remember the words
which made the little pot stop boiling.
"That's enough! No more, please, little pot!
Cool off!" she cried, but the little pot
just cooked and cooked and cooked.
The soup bubbled over the edge of the pot,
flowed across the stove, ran down on the
floor, and streamed across the shoes of
the startled neighbors . . .
. . . and then ran like a river out of the
door and through the village.
6. The words to make the pot start cooking
were ________ and the words to make the
pot stop cooking were ________.
A) "Cook, little pot, cook" . . .
"Stop, little pot, stop"
B) "Stop, little pot, stop" . . .
"Cook, little pot, cook"
(A) "Just say to it, 'Cook, little pot,
cook,' and it will cook you good thick
soup. And when you say, 'Stop, little
pot, stop,' it will stop ."
7. The mother's problem was that she
forgot the words to make the pot
________ cooking.
A) stop
B) start
(A) She had started the pot cooking but
couldn't remember how to get it to stop.
╠Standing on a chair, the mother kept shouting
directions and "Please!" to the pot . . .
. . . but she never could think of the right
words, so the pot just cooked and cooked . . .
╚. . . and the stream of soup kept racing
through the house . . .
. . . and down through the village.
╚At last, with the villagers racing
before it . . .
. . . the stream reached the last house
in the village, where the little girl
was visiting.
8. The pot cooked so much soup that:
A) the neighbors were able to take some
home with them
B) the soup ran through the house and
into the streets
C) the little girl and her mother were
able to fill many extra jars with soup
(B) "The stream of soup kept racing through
the house, and down through the village."
╩Hearing the commotion, she raced to the
window and soon learned what had happened.
Someone brought a boat and she rowed
home through the flooded village.
9. Which of the following is TRUE?
A) The soup from the magic pot flooded
the village.
B) The strange, old woman came and took
the pot back.
C) The little girl and her mother moved
to another town.
(A) The village was flooded with soup.
The girl had to row home to reach her
mother.
╚As soon as she was within earshot
of her home she began to call,
"Stop, little pot, stop!
Stop, little pot, stop!"
╚Soon the villagers saw that the river
had stopped flowing . . .
. . . and they knew that the little pot had
stopped cooking. But to get back to their
homes . . .
. . . the villagers had to eat their way
through a great pool of good, thick soup.
╦And so, the village was saved!
10. The village was saved because:
A) the little girl remembered the words
to stop the pot from cooking more soup
B) everyone in the village ate soup as
fast as they could
C) there was no way to stop the soup
(A) The little girl remembered the words
and stopped the river of soup.
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