Dragons East and West: teacher key

Dragons and Mythical Creatures, grade 6 edition, written for 6th grade. How Chinese and European storytellers pictured dragons, how old books, bones and tusks fed legends, and how the real Komodo dragon was found.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What did Chinese dragons often bring in old stories?
   • Treasure for kings
   • Rain for crops (answer)
   • Storms for sailors
2. What does the dragon stand for in China?
   • Fear and danger
   • Fishing and farming
   • Wisdom, power and good fortune (answer)
3. What does the Beowulf dragon guard?
   • A pile of treasure (answer)
   • A river
   • A castle gate
4. What was the narwhal's long horn really?
   • A bone
   • A horn
   • A tooth (answer)
5. Why might people long ago have told stories about dragons when they found huge bones?
   • They had seen live dragons
   • They did not know about extinction (answer)
   • They wanted to scare kids
6. Where do wild Komodo dragons live?
   • On a few islands in Indonesia (answer)
   • In China's rivers
   • In Scotland

Words

• zodiac: 12 animal signs
• serpent: snake
• bestiaries: animal books
• narwhal: tusked whale
• fossil: old bones