THE COUNTRY MOUSE AND THE TOWN MOUSE

An important mouse came from the city to a simple mouse. The simple mouse lived in the field and gave its guest what it had: peas and wheat. The important mouse crunched and said. ‘You are so thin, because your life is poor, come to me and see how we live.’ The simple mouse came to visit. They waited until the midnight. People ate and left. The important mouse brought its guest into the upper room from the hole, and both climbed onto the table. The simple mouse had never seen such food and did not know what to start. She said ‘You are right! Our life is bad. I will also move to the city to live.’ As soon as she said this, the table shook, and a man entered the door with a candle and began to catch mice. They went into the hole with great difficulty. ‘No,’ the country mouse said. ‘My life in the field is better. Even though I have no sweet food, but I don’t even know such fear.’

 

QUESTIONS:

1. What mouse came to visit the country mouse?
2. What did the simple mouse treat its guest?
3. What did the guest say to the country mouse after having eaten?
4. Did the town mouse invite the country mouse to visit it?
5. Where did they wait until people left the room?
6. What room did they climb onto the table?
7. What did the country mouse say about food?
8. Where did they manage to escape from the man?
9. How did the man with the candle change the guest’s decision?
10. What mouse said that its life in the field is better and why?