A Skunk By the Tail and other Stories

Great Stories for Kids

Author: Jerry D. Thomas

Copyright: ©1998 by Pacific Press®

Readability level: 4.8

Word count: 52,224

192 pages

1. Mom gave the kids a Christmas present in the summer because they were ______.

a. not going to be home at Christmas / b. bored / c. sick / d. working hard

2. Anthony used ______as bait for his super fly swatter.

a. cheese / b. egg / c. honey / d. peanut butter and jelly

3. Brian had really done a lot of ______.

a. camping / b. football / c. trips to Alaska / d. none of these

4. Austin was upset because his teacher had made him ______.

a. do extra homework / b. come in early from recess / c. stay late / d. talk first

5. Tim's cousins didn't want him to play because he was too ______

a. selfish / b. short / c. young / d. none of these

6. Natalie found the best way to deal with Grant's remarks was to ______him.

a. thank / b. ignore / c. do better than / d. scream at

7. Jessica decided to start being more neat after she saw ______.

a. herself in a mirror / b. her picture / c. a red-headed woman / d. none of these

8. Church is like baseball, different people like______.

a. different parts / b. to be the one doing everything
c. different times / d. different sports

9. When you can do whatever you want, ______.

a. everything can end up in a mess / b. you aren't always happy
c. others can do whatever they want to you / d. all of these

10. Eddie and Chuck taught Devon how to ______.

a. enjoy being with someone who can't do things well / b. make money
c. play basketball / d. all of these

11. The problem with taking a skunk by the tail is that it ______.

a. can bite you / b. has the spray smell on the tail
c. sprays you at once / d. sprays you when you let it go

12. Derrick lashed out because hewas embarrassed about his ______.

a. clothes / b. math score / c. parents / d. reading score

13. Danielle learned the secret password by reading ______.

a. as the teacher typed / b. the teacher's glasses
c. the paper upside down / d. none of these

14. Danielle destroyed her enemy by ______.

a. deleting his computer file / b. heaping coals of fire on his head
b. locking the classroom door / d. putting pencil shavings in his lunch

15. Katie found Tricia hiding ______.

a. above the ceiling / b. behind the door / c. in the closet / d. under the hedge

16. The kids agreed to stop arguing if their father would ______.

a. drive slower / b. stop drinking / c. visit interesting sites / d. all of these

17. An armadillo was "adopted" by a ______.

a. chicken / b. dog / c. horse / d. none of these

18. Dad had trouble skiing because ______.

a. no one had taught him / b. he had never skied before
c. they took him on slopes that were too high / d. all of these

19. Dad didn't want Jessica to sleep over because ______.

a. he didn't know the family / b. some of the people used drugs
c. it was a wild group of kids / c. it was on Sabbath

20. The kids shaved their heads as a ______.

a. joke / b. support for Mitchell / c. both of these / d. neither of these

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