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Gifts of the North Wind
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Gifts of the North Wind:
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1: Why did the boy want to visit the North Wind?
Because he just wanted to see where the wind lived.
Because he wanted his flour back
Because he wanted more wind
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2: Where did the North Wind live?
The wind lived in a cave
The wind lived by the big lake
The wind lived in the woods
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3: Did the North Wind very often get visitors?
Yes, the North Wind got visitors almost every day
No, he just scared the visitors away if they came to see him
No, this was the first time he got a visitor
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4: How did The North Wind react when the Little Viking came?
He got angry and scared him away
He got very happy, because nobody had visited him before
He did not react at all
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5: What did the Little Viking get from the North Wind?
He got a little chair
He got a magic plate
He got a magic tablecloth
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6: Did he walk directly home after the visit?
Yes, he ran as fast as he could
Yes, because his mother phoned him and told him to go directly home
No, he had to stop in a guest house on his way back home
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7: How was the landlady?
She was very nice
She was very mean
She was helpful
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8: What did the landlady do while the Little Viking was fast asleep?
She replaced the tablecloth with one of her own
She took all his money
She also went to sleep
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9: What did the boy do when he discovered that the tablecloth was not magic any more?
He understood what the landlady had done
He went back to the North Wind
He went home
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10: What did he get from the North Wind this time?
He got a goat
He got a pig
He got a sheep
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11: What happened to the sheep when the Little Viking came back to the landlady?
The sheep had to stand outside the entire night
The landlady gave the sheep a lot of nice food
When the landlady saw all the money the sheep could give the llittle boy, she also replaced the sheep with one of her own
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12: What did the Little Viking think when he discovered that the sheep did not give him more money?
He thought that the presents only worked once
He understood what the landlady had done
He got angry at the North Wind
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13: What did the North Wind give the Little Viking the third time?
A magic horse
A magic broom
A magic stick
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14: What happened to the landlady when the boy came the third time?
She got a lot of money
She had to leave her guest house
The boy understood what had happened to all his things, and made the stick beat her
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15: How did the story end?
The landlady sent the boy away
The boy got all his things back
The landlady went to see the North Wind
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