Fact Questions for
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Questions for "How the Whale Got His Throat"
Why was there only one small fish left in the sea?(1)
Why are we told "not to forget the suspenders"?
What does the man on the raft have with him?(2)
What does the whale get after he swallows the man?(3)
What's the whale's name?(4)
What does the man do with his knife, the raft and his suspenders inside the whale?(6)
Questions for "How the Camel Got His Hump"
Why did the camel live in the middle of the Howling Desert?(11)
What did the camel say when somebody spoke to him?(11)
What was Djinn(pronounced jin) in charge of?(14)
What does the Djinn want Bubbles to do?(18)
What is the camel able to do with his new "humph."?(18)
In the poem on page 20 what is the cure for having "too little to do"?
Questions for "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin"
What three things did the Parsee have?(21)
How big was the cake the Parsee made?(21)
What is the Parsee's name?(22)
What is the Rhino's name(22)
What is it that the Rhino doesn't have and never will have?(24)
What happens to "Them that takes cakes/Which the Parsee-man bakes"?(24)
Why did the Rhinoceros take off his skin?(24-25)
What did the Parsee fill the Rhino's skin with?(25)
What did the Rhino do to put great folds in his skin(28)?
Questions for "How the Leopard Got His Spots"
Why was the Leopard able to surprise the other animals?(30)
When the Giraffe and Zebra and the other animals went to the High Veldt, why were they hard to see?(31)
Who was the wisest animal in all South Africa?(32)
What does Baviaan tell Leopard and the Ethiopian to do?(32)
Why could Leopard and the Ethiopian smell but not see Zebra and Giraffe?
How did Leopard and the Ethiopian catch Zebra and Giraffe?(36)
How do the Ethiopian and Leopard change their skins?(38-39)
Why did the Leopard need to change his skin?
Questions for "The Elephant's Child":
Why do all the animals keep spanking the Elephant's Child?(44)
Why was the Elephant's Child so curious?
What does the Elephant's Child want to know about the Crocodile?
What happens when the Elephant puts its head down near the Crocodile?
How does the Elephant escape? Who helps him?
What happens to his nose?
What three things does the Elephant use his new nose for?(51-52)
What does the Elephant's Child do to his relatives with his new nose?
Questions for "The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo"
What does the Kangaroo want?
Why do you think he wants this?
Who does the Yellow-Dog Dingo do?
Why does the Kangaroo run?
What changes on the Kangaroo?
Why did the Kangaroo not like the method Nqong used to change him?
©2005-2008 Glen Draeger (all rights reserved)
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