Game Preview

The Giving Tree Comprehension Game

  •  English    13     Public
    Comprehension Questions for the classic story The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
  •   Study   Slideshow
  • Is the boy happy at the end of the story ?
    Explain your answer
  •  15
  • Is the tree happy at the end of the story?
    Explain your answer
  •  15
  • If you were the tree, would you be happy?
    Explain your answer
  •  15
  • Have you ever done something just to make some one else happy ?
    Explain your answer
  •  15
  • What is one way the tree shows her love for the boy?
    Explain your answer
  •  15
  • What is one way the boy shows his love for the tree ?
    Explain your answer
  •  15
  • What does the little boy do with the leaves he gathers in the forest ?
    He makes crowns to play king of the forest
  •  15
  • What game do the tree and the boy play together ?
    Hide and Go Seek
  •  15
  • After a while, the boy comes back, now an adult, and he asks for money. What does the tree give him?
    apples to sell
  •  15
  • The boy comes back as an older man. He tells the tree that he is "too old and sad to play." He tells the tree that he wants a boat to take him far away. What does the tree give him this time? Her _______.
    Her Trunk
  •  15
  • The boy comes back again after a long, long time. He is extremely old. What is the last thing he gets from the tree?
    A place to rest
  •  15
  • And when he was tired, he would sleep in her ________". What's the missing word?
    Shade
  •  15
  • In the end the tree is sad? True or False
    False she is happy
  •  15