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The BoyWho Drew Cats

Directions: Answer the questions in complete sentences. Remember to restate.

1. What is the setting of this story?

2. Who are the members of the family?

3. Why couldn’t the youngest son work in the fields?

4. What do you think an ‘acolyte’ is?

5. The boy tried hard to obey the priest, but the story tells us he had one failing. What was it?

6. Why did the boy have to leave the priest?

7. Why was the temple in the city empty?

8. How did the priest’s advice to “avoid large places, keep to small,” save the boy’s life?

9. Why did the people think that the boy was a hero?

10. The priests would have been happy to have the boy as an acolyte, but he decided to do something else. What occupation did he choose?

11. What would you have decided to do?