5th grade - 1st bimester READING COMP. exam review
CHALLENGE WORD____________________________5th GRADE____L.N.____
OBJECTIVE: To identify the conflict, plot and solution in a story.
INSTRUCTIONS: Read the story very carefully and answer the questions.
(10 points)
How people got fire: the story of Prometheus
In the beginning of the world, the Titans lived on the earth. There were no people yet, just the Titans and the animals. Prometheus, one of the Titans, used to play with clay and one day he made a lot of little people out of clay. He showed them to Zeus who liked the little people so much he breathed life into them. At first the people were very grateful to Zeus and they often gave him sacrifices. But then Prometheus, who loved jokes, told them how they could play a trick on Zeus. Prometheus said, "When you do a sacrifice, take the bones and guts, the parts you can't eat, and put them in a bag with a nice steak on the top. And in another bag, put all the rest of the steaks, with some bones and guts on top. And ask Zeus to choose which one he wants."
So the people did this, and Zeus chose the bag with the steak on top (The Greeks used this to explain why they ate the meat from animals they sacrificed to the gods). But when he found he had been tricked, he was very angry. To punish people, he took all the fire away from the earth. The people were very cold, and they could not cook their food. They complained to Prometheus that this was all his fault.
Prometheus felt sorry for the cold people. And he felt it was pretty much his fault for suggesting this trick. So he went up to the sky and he broke off a piece of the sun and he brought it back to earth for people, and that is how people got fire.
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