Part 1: Comprehension Questions

1. Who is the main character in the story?

2. Why did Alex hurt people with his words?

3. What did Alex's father ask him to do when he got angry?

4. How did Alex realize it was easier to control his anger?

5. What did Alex do when he learned to control his anger?

6. What did Alex's father show him in the backyard?

7. What did Alex learn from his father's lesson?

8. How did Alex change after learning his lesson?

Part 2: True or False Questions

1. Alex was a little girl in the story.

2. Alex's father asked him to hammer nails into the fence to control his anger.
3. Alex realized it was easier to control his anger than to hammer nails.
4. Alex removed all the nails from the fence in one day.
5. Alex's father showed him a beautiful flower in the backyard.

Part 3: Circle the Correct Answer

1. Anger is like a _______. 3. Alex hurt people because he had 5. Alex turned out to be a _______
no control over his _______. and kind little boy.
a) Feather
a) Happiness a) Mean
b) Knife
b) Sadness b) Angry
c) Flower
c) Anger c) Happy

2. Scars from anger always _______.

4. Alex's father appreciated him but 6. The moral of the story is that anger
a) Heal
asked him to look at the _______. is like a _______.
b) Remain
a) Sky a) Knife
c) Disappear
b) Fence b) Feather

c) Playground c) Scar