Wednesday, December 26, 2012

The Rose Elf by Hans Christian Andersen

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Book Title: Andersen's Fairy Tales
Story: The Rose Elf
ISBN: 0-517-20573-4


1. What grew in the middle of the garden?
2. What lived in it?
3. Was he tall? Yes or No
4. Can humans see him?
5. What did he look like?
6. Did he have wings?
7. What did he do during the day?
8. One day he was out and it got late.  His rose shut and he couldn’t get in.  True or False
9. He looked all around and he couldn’t find another rose open.  True or False
10. The rose elf was frightened because he had never been out in the night before.  True or False
11. Who was at the arbour?
12. The maiden gave the young man a rose.  The rose elf flew into the _____________________.
13. Why couldn’t the rose elf fall asleep?
14. What happened to the young man as he walked kissing the rose?
15. What happened to the young man’s head?
16. Where did the bad man go?
17. What had fallen on the bad’s man head?
18. What was in that leaf?
19. What did the elf do when the brother left the sister’s room?
20. Where did the girl go after night fall?
21. What did she do when she got there?
22. Did she kiss the head?  Yes or No
23. What else besides the head, did she take from the murder site?
24. What did she do with the head when she got home?
25. Did the girl cry every day at the flower pot?
26. The girl’s wicked brother scolded her for crying at the flower pot.  True or False
27. The young lady died while the elf whispered in her ear sweet dreams.  True or False
28. How did the jasmine tree weep over the girl’s death?
29. What did the brother do with the pot after his sister died?
30. Who lived in the blossoms of the tree?
31. Who did the elves tell the murder story to?
32. Who did the bees tell?
33. What did the queen bee order?
34. What happened the first night after the wicked brother’s sister’s death?
35. What did the spirits do first?
36. What was the second thing they did?
37. What was the third thing they did?
38. What was the last thing the spirits did?
39. Who flew-in in the morning?
40. The wicked brother was still alive in the morning.  True or False
41. Who stood around the bed?
42. Who would not be driven away?
43. Then one man tried to pick up the flower pot.  As he did a bee stung him.  True or False
44. What fell out of the flower pot?
45. What did the humans learn that day about the dead man?
46. Draw a picture and tell me what you learned about this story in 20-30 words.

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