THE OWL

COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

1.What animal from the neighbouring woods that had entered into the barn of one
of the townsfolk in the night-time?

2.Why did the man-servant go into the barn in the morning?

3.Why did the master and the servant run to the neighbours to ask for help when they
entered the barn?

4.What did the townsmen come armed with when they all marched towards the barn?

5.What did the Valiant Hero and the townsmen chant while facing the owl?

6.What did the burgomaster and the townsmen decide to do to kill the owl in the barn?
 POVERTY AND HUMILITY LEAD TO HEAVEN
COMPREHENSION QUESTION

1. What did the king’s son wish for in his life?

2.What did the poor grey-haired man tell the King’s son to do to get to heaven?

3.What did the King’s son do for 7 years?

4.Why did the servants laugh at the King’s son when he returned to his fathers palace?

5.Where did the King’s son stay in the palace after returning back?

6.When the King’s son was buried what grew in between his grave?

7.How did the King’s son die?

 THE MOON
COMPREHENSION QUESTION

1.What did the countryman answered the travellers about the light?

2.What do they have to do to keep the light on?

3.Where did they hang the moon?

4.What are the two creatures that comes out of their hiding to celebrate the moon?

5.How much is the corresponding parts of the moon divided by each of them when they
die?

6.What did the mayor do when one of the travellers died?

7.What happened to the moon at the end?

 THE MOUSE, THE BIRD AND THE SAUSAGE
COMPREHENSION QUESTION

1.What was the task given for the bird, mouse and sausage?

2.Why did the bird refuse to go to the forest to do his task?

3.What was the new task given to each of them after the bird’s disagreement?

4.Why did the bird decide to go out to the forest in the end?

5.What has happened to the sausage in the forest?

6.When the mouse decided to cook the food, what happened to the mouse?

7.What happened to the bird due to his carelessness?

 DEATH’S MESSENGERS
COMPREHENSION QUESTION

1.Who appeared in front of the giants path?

2.What did the giant do to Death to resist him?

3.What would happen to the world if Death couldn't do his task?

4.Who helped Death to regain his strength?

5.What did Death promise the man as a reward for helping him?

6.What has happened to the man after parting ways with Death?

7.What were the messengers that the man had received from Death to remind him of
his own death?
 THE SEVEN RAVENS
COMPREHENSION QUESTION

1.What task did the father give to one of his sons?

2.What was the father’s wish when he was enraged?

3.How did the maiden know that she had brothers?

4.What did the maiden take with her before going out?

5.Why did the maiden run away from the sun and the moon?

6.What did the maiden do to open the Glass mountain door?

7.What happened to the ravens after they discovered the ring in the glass?
 THE BRIGHT SUN BRINGS IT TO LIGHT
COMPREHENSION QUESTION

1.Why did the tailor’s apprentice travel around the world?

2.What did the tailor’s apprentice do to the jew that he met on the road?

3.How many farthings (currency) does the jew have in his pocket?

4.What were the jewish man's last words before he died?

5.Who was the tailor’s apprentice married to?

6.Why did the tailor’s apprentice confess his crime to the wife?

7.What happened to the tailor’s apprentice fate after his past crime got spread out?
 STRAW, COAL AND BEAN
COMPREHENSION QUESTION

1.Who are the main characters in the story?

2.What did the old woman do to cook the beans?

3.How did the straw, coal and bean prevent their deaths from the old woman?

4.What was the straw’s idea to cross the small stream?

5.Why did the bean laugh until it exploded?

6.Why did the straw caught on fire and coal together with straw fell into the small
stream?

7.How did the tailor put the bean back together?

 THE NAIL
COMPREHENSION QUESTION

1.Where did the merchant sell his wares?

2.What did the stable-boy say to the merchant about the horse?

3.What did the stable-boy suggest to the merchant?

4.Why did the merchant brush off the stable-boy suggestion?

5.Why was the horse limping?

6.Why did the merchant arrive until quite late at night?

 THE LAZY SPINNER
COMPREHENSION QUESTION

1.What item did the wife requested her husband to acquire?

2.Why did the wife follow the man into the forest?

3.What were the words that she uttered to scare her husband?

4.Why was the man unable to get the reel from the forest?

5.How did the couple make the skein?

6.What was another trick the wife did to her husband?

7.What did the husband see in the kitchen when he peeped in the kettle?