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The questions assess understanding of travel timing, decisions to discard supplies, clues from a tuft of grass, and lessons drawn from the merchant’s persistence and problem-solving.","Grade 4 Reading Comprehension Worksheet  \nRead the short story. Then answer each question.  \nThe Merchant’s Caravan  \nOnce there was a merchant who sold fine silks and rugs. He needed to send his goods to a country on the other side of the sandy desert.  \nThe merchant owned a large caravan of camels, and he employed many men. Camels were the only animals strong enough to travel over the desert with the heavy loads.  \nFor many days, the merchant and his men had been preparing for the journey. The canvas tents and the poles were placed upon one camel . Great leather bottles of water were loaded on another camel .  \nFirewood and bags of rice and barley meal were placed on still another. It required many camels to carry the merchant's goods.  \nAt last the caravan was ready for the journey. The sun shone  \nsteadily, making the sand so hot that no one could walk upon it in the daytime. At night both men and camels could travel easily.  \nSo the merchant said to the men,“ Be ready to start after sunset tonight. Give the camels plenty of water to drink, and feed them well because we will have a long, hard journey.”  \nGrade 4 Reading Comprehension Worksheet  \nThe merchant and his men traveled all that night. One man was the pilot. He rode ahead because he knew how to navigate by stars , and he could guide the caravan by them.  \nAt daybreak they stopped. They spread the canvas tents and fed the camels. They built fires , cooked the rice , and made cakes of the barley meal . During the day , the men rested in the shade of the tents .  \nAfter the evening meal , the caravan started again on its way.  \nThey had traveled like this for three long, silent nights. Early on the third morning , the camels raised their heads , stretched their nostrils , and hastened eagerly forward.  \nThe pilot cried, “The camels smell water and grass. An oasis is near!”  \nBefore long they could see palm trees with their spreading leaves waving in the soft breeze.  \nJoyfully they rested during the day. The camels drank freely from the cool spring. The men  \nfilled the great leather bottles with freshwater. In the evening , refreshed and happy , the men continued the journey.  \nSo they traveled night  \nafter night, resting during the heat of the day. At last, one morning the pilot said, “We shall soon reach the end of our journey.”  \nGrade 4 Reading Comprehension Worksheet  \nThe men were very glad to hear this because they were weary , and the camels needed rest.  \nAfter supper that night the merchant said, “Throw away the firewood and most of the water. It will lighten the burden on the camels. By tomorrow we shall reach the city.”  \nWhen the caravan started that evening , the pilot led the way as usual , but after a while, weary with many nights of watching , he fell asleep.  \nAll night long the caravan traveled. At daybreak the pilot awoke and looked at the last star fading in the morning light.  \n“Halt!” he called. “The camels must have turned while I slept. We  \nare at the place from which we started yesterday.”  \nThere was no water to drink. There was no firewood to cook the food. The men spread the tents and lay down under them saying ,  \n“The wood and the water are gone. We are lost!”  \nBut the merchant said to himself, “This is no time to rest. I must find water. If I give way to despair , all will be lost.”  \nThen the merchant started away from the tent watching the ground closely. He walked and walked. 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