What is the main idea of the story?

Mina quietly returns a lost button, and her small honest act guides someone else to help. (The plot follows an unwitnessed choice whose example continues through another person's arrow.)

Why does someone draw a second arrow?

The fading first arrow showed that a lost object needed directions. (The final paragraph says another observer notices Mina's mark and renews it.)

What does “vanished” mean in the first paragraph?

disappeared from sight (The crowd prevents Mina from seeing the traveler after noticing the matching coat.)

Where does Mina leave the button?

at the lost-and-found stall (The second paragraph names the place where she deposits it.)

The Chalk Arrow: Level 1 Reading Comprehension Questions

Mina found a silver button beside the market gate. It matched the buttons on a traveler's fine coat. The traveler had already vanished into the crowd.

Mina could keep it. No one had seen her bend down. Instead, she drew a chalk arrow toward the lost-and-found stall. She placed the button there and returned to her fruit basket.

Rain erased the arrow before noon. Near closing time, the traveler found the stall anyway. Someone else had noticed Mina's fading mark and drawn another arrow. Mina never learned this. She only saw the empty tray where the button had rested. A good choice may leave no witness, yet it can still show another person where to point.

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