The Farmer and the Golden Goose

The Farmer and the Golden Goose

1. There once lived a farmer in a particular village with his wife.
2. The family was not very rich except their little farm for
3. The farmer, therefore, used his small harvest from the farm
4. to sell in the market. He saved little each day, and when it was
5. enough, he bought a goose. The farmer
6. then built a right house for the goose and kept her
7. there feeding daily.
8. The goose started laying eggs and
9. on the first day when the farmer went to collect,
10. he found that it was a golden egg!
11. The farmer was pleased, and he went ahead to
12. tell his wife the great news. They decided to sell the eggs
13. and each day the goose laid a golden egg, and they kept on selling
14. They were becoming so rich! One day, the wife greedily
15. suggested to her husband that they find a way to
16. get all the golden eggs out of the goose instead of waiting
17. every day for a new egg.
18. The husband agreed in vanity. On the next day,
19. the husband quietly picked up the goose from
20. her house and slaughtered her. However, they were very disappointed
21. to find that the goose was not different from
22. any other kind of a goose. The family lost both the goose and her daily miracle of a golden egg.
23. They started to become poor once more.

Questions

1. What is the teaching in the story?
2. We should save a lot to buy a goose
3. We should not be greedy
4. The farmer and his wife were foolish
5. A goose lays golden eggs
6. What do you imagine was the reaction to the farmer from line 8-10?
7. That the egg was a miracle
8. That someone put the egg there
9. The goose laid eggs coloured in yellow
10. That he could not believe what he was seeing
11. Where do you think the golden goose came from before the farmer bought it?
12. A mother golden goose
13. From heaven like a miracle
14. From fate to poverty
15. It was a chance for the farmer to reap from his hard work in the farm
16. The word “disappointed” on line 20 can be used to mean the family was?
17. Saddened
18. Angry
19. Excited
20. Surprised
21. After the farmer lost the golden goose, what should be his next step?
22. Blame the wife for misleading him
23. Cook and enjoy the goose meat with his wife
24. Take the goose back to the one that sold it to him
25. Work hard in the farm and start rearing geese for selling