The Lion and the Mouse
Once when a Lion was asleep a little Mouse began running up and down on his face; this soon wakened the Lion, who placed his huge paw upon him, and opened his big jaws to swallow him. "Pardon, O King," cried the little Mouse: "forgive me this time, I shall never forget it: who knows but I may be able to do you a turn someday?" The Lion was so tickled at the idea of the Mouse being able to help him that he lifted up his paw and let him go.
Sometime after the Lion was caught in a net, and the hunters who desired to carry him alive to the King, tied him to a tree while they went in search of a wagon to carry him on. Just then the little Mouse happened to pass by, and seeing the Lion in the net she went up to him and soon gnawed away the ropes that bound the King of the Beasts, and then she said, "Was I not right?"
Answer the questions below based on the text!
1. What is the kind of the text?
2. Who is King?
3. Who cried in this story?
4. What problem did the little mouse have?
5. What problem did the lion have?
6. What did the mouse mean when he said, “who knows but what I may be able to
do you a turn some of these days?"
7. What did the mouse do to help the lion?
8. “…she went up to him and soon gnawed away the ropes that bound the King of
the Beasts, and then she said, "Was I not right …” (last line). What does theunderlined word refer to?
9. What was Lion felt after little mouse began running up and down on his face?
10. What do you think about this story? According to yourself . . . . . .
Answer Key
1. The text is narrative text
2. The King is has Lion
3. Cried is little mouse
4. The lion caught little mouse
5. He was caught in a net
6. The mouse would help the lion some day
7. She gnawed the ropes
8. The lion King of the Beasts
9. Lion soon wakened
10. Example: The story is good
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