Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.
Once upon a time there was a little white hen. She lived in a little blue house, and she
had a little green garden. Every day she worked in the house and garden.
Near her home lived a family of foxes. One day mamma fox said to papa fox, "I want a
fat hen to eat." There was nothing in the pantry for the baby foxes, so papa fox started
out to find something for them all.
He ran down the road until he came to the woods. "Surely I will find something here," he
said, but he found nothing to eat in the woods. As he came near the little green garden
he said, "Oh, I smell fresh cake. Oh, I smell a little white hen."
Sure enough, there was the little white hen eating her cake.
Papa fox snuck up quietly behind her and grabbed her and put her into the bag on his
back; then he ran quickly off down the hill toward his home.
The little white hen was so frightened that she could only whisper, "Oh, dear. Oh, dear.
Oh, dear."
Just then she had to sneeze, and when she put her claw into her pocket for her handkerchief,
she felt her little scissors. Quick as a flash she took them out and cut a little hole in the
bag. Peeping out she saw a great hill just ahead, all covered with stones. As papa fox
stopped to rest on his way up the hill, with his back turned toward her, she cut a big hole
in the bag, jumped out and quickly put a big stone in the bag in her place.
As papa fox kept on up the hill, he thought the bag was pretty heavy, but he said, "Never
mind, she is a fat little white hen."
Mamma fox met him at the front door with all the baby foxes.
"The water is boiling," said she. "What have you in your bag?" asked the baby foxes.
"A fat, little, white hen," said Papa Fox.
As he held the bag over the pot, he said to mamma fox, "When I drop her in, you clap on
the lid." So he opened the bag. Splash! went the boiling water. It spilled all over papa fox
and mamma fox and the baby foxes. Never again did they try to catch the little white hen.
Papa fox said to mamma fox, "______________"
Athe water is boiling.
BWhat have you in your bag?
CWhen I drop her in, you clap on the lid.
DSplash!
