Note: Since the morals of the fables can be somewhat subjective, there are no technically "wrong" answers, but some are better than others and in some cases more than one is better than others. In the answers below there are some questions with more than one answer so you will have a chance to defend your answer after each question.
1. A miser hid his gold at the foot of a tree in his garden. Every week he dug it up and gloated over his gains. A robber, who noticed this, dug up the gold and stole it. When the miser next came to gloat over his treasures, he found only the empty hole. He tore his hair, and raised such an outcry that all the neighbors came. The miser told them how he used to visit his gold.
"Did you ever take any of it out?" asked one of them.
"No," the miser replied. "I only came to look at it."
"Then come again and look at the hole," said a neighbor. "It will do you just as much good."
Moral:
a. If you're going to hoard, don't gloat over it.
b. If you're going to gloat over your wealth, don't let anybody see you doing it.
c. Hoarding doesn't do anybody any good.
d. A penny saved is a penny earned.
Explain your answer: Though my choice is to not gloat at all, of these choices, the one that I picked felt the most natural. If you have something worth gloating over then it must be worth something to somebody else. If you don’t show it off then people wouldn’t steal from you cause they don’t know if the things you have is worth the trouble of stealing. 2. A horse had a plain entirely to himself. Then a stag arrived to share his pasture. The horse was resentful and asked a man if he would help him to punish the stag. The man said he'd help if the horse would accept a bit in his mouth and agree to carry him. The horse agreed and allowed the man to mount him. From that hour he found that instead of obtaining revenge on the stag, the horse had enslaved himself to the service of man.
Moral:
a. Liberty is too big a price to pay for revenge.
b. Don't change horses in midstream.
c. Share your pasture with your fellow animals.
d. If you need a horse, send a stag into his pasture.
Explain your answer: Revenge isn’t worth the loss of freedom. The horse had several choices to make. The horse could have shared the plain under a new friendship, or even moved to another field on his own. When he picked revenge the horse has now lost the freedom to make any other choice.

3. A drunken man was lying in the road with a bleeding nose, upon which he had fallen, when a pig passed by.
"You wallow fairly well," said the Pig, "but, my fine fellow, you have much to learn about rooting."
Moral:
a. Don't try to root into the ground unless you're sober or a pig.
b. Don't get falling down drunk.
c. Pay no attention to wise-cracking pigs.
d. Don’t try to wallow unless you can also root.
Explain your answer: This was a bit tricky for me to make a choice. I think that the pig can understand both wallowing and rooting since it understands what it is. The drunken man has no control of himself, and doesn’t understand both. You can wallow in your own filth and become a drunken mess, but make sure you have both feet planted. Make sure that you are in control of the situation.

4. A wolf found great difficulty in getting at the sheep owing to the vigilance of the shepherd and his dogs. But one day the wolf found the skin of a sheep that had been flayed and thrown aside, so it put it on over its own pelt and strolled down among the sheep. The lamb that belonged to the sheep, whose skin the wolf was wearing, began to follow the wolf in the sheep's pelt; so, leading the lamb a little away from the flock, he soon made a meal of her, and for some time he succeeded in deceiving the sheep, and enjoying hearty meals.
Moral:
a. Don't follow people who are pretending to be like you.
b. If you're hungry dress up like your food.
c. Don't leave your clothes lying around where your enemies can pick it up.
d. Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing. Explain your answer: Your enemies will find any way to trick you so that they will benefit in your misery. You must be vigilant to not be tricked, and leave nothing for your enemies to use against you.

5. An ass, having put on the lion's skin, roamed about in the forest and amused himself by frightening all the foolish animals he met in his wanderings. At last coming upon a fox, he tried to frighten him also, but the fox no sooner heard the sound of his voice than he exclaimed, "I might possibly have been frightened myself, if I had not heard your bray."
Moral:
a. Clothes may disguise a fool, but his words will give him away.
b. You can publish a daily paper in Santa Rosa but if your editorials sound like the braying of an ass people will lose respect for you.
c. You can be elected Governor of a large state but you can still be an ass.
d. All of the above. Explain your answer: Regardless of how you present yourself to others the truth will come out eventually. It’s like when a fool tries to pass off being intelligent to other foolish people. Others will believe him to be intelligent until a person of real intelligence comes along to show otherwise.

6. A warden of a penitentiary was putting locks on the doors of all the cells one day when a mechanic said to him: "Those locks can all be opened from the inside -- you are very imprudent."
The warden did not look up from his work, but said: "If that is called imprudence, I wonder what would be called a thoughtful provision against the vicissitudes of fortune."
Moral:
a. Don't let stupid questions lead you away from your well-considered plans.
b. Don't get the cart before the horse.
c. Don't accuse people of imprudence until you've asked them what they're doing.
d. Necessity is the mother of invention.
Explain your answer: The mechanics first thought based on the warden’s actions is that the prisoners will be able to get out easily. The mechanic failed to wonder the reasoning behind the actions of the warden. He was too caught up about something which has yet happened. The warden likely has a good reason to have the locks in such a way.

7. The pigeons, terrified by the appearance of an owl, called upon a hawk to defend them. He at once consented. When the pigeons had admitted the hawk into the coop, they found that he made havoc and slew a larger number of them in one day than the owl could pounce upon in a whole year.
Moral:
a. Avoid a cure that is worse than the disease.
b. If you want to take over the flock, first scare them with a minor fright.
c. Beware of people who are too eager to help.
d. All of the above.
Explain your answer: Sometimes the first instinct to battle a threat is to get a stronger threat to win the battle for you, but at what cost. There will always be threats in this world. You can eliminate the smaller threat, but the big threat yet remains. The best course to take is to learn how to battle the threat on your own. This way you will be prepared for any encounter.

8. A man lying at the point of death called his wife to his bedside and asked her for one final proof of her affection and fidelity. "In my desk you will find a crimson candle, which has been blessed by the High Priest and has a special mystical significance. Swear to me that while it is in existence you will not remarry."
The woman swore and the man soon died. At the funeral the woman stood at the front of the funeral, quietly holding a lighted crimson candle till it was wasted entirely away.
Moral:
a. You can't control events after you've died.
b. Don't ask your relatives to swear on ephemeral things.
c. Don't make unreasonable demands on your heirs.
d. Burn all your candles yourself before you die.
Explain your answer: The old man worried about his significance upon his death. His wish was for his wife to not remarry until the candle burned out. Believing that the candle was magical, and would never burn out, the old man worried that she would forget about him. Upon death a person has no control over the matters of future. He should have been worried about the time he had left with his wife.

9. A woman possessed a hen that gave her an egg every day. She often pondered how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of one, and at last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the hen a double allowance of barley. From that day the hen became fat and indolent, and never laid another egg.
Moral:
b. Chickens will always come home to roost.
a. Do not be so greedy that you ruin your source of income.
c. If you're going to double your hen's food, give it something that's not fattening.
d. If you want more eggs, give your chickens growth hormones.
Explain your answer: It is human nature to want more than what we have. It is up to ourselves to have control and be humble to what we have. It’s always better to have a little bit of something than to have nothing.

10. One day the mountains trembled; smoke came belching out of their summits, the earth quaked, trees crashed, and huge rocks tumbled. Something horrible was going to happen. People gathered to see what terrible thing would happen. They waited and they waited, but nothing came. At last there was a still more violent earthquake, and a huge gap appeared in the side of the mountains. They all fell down upon their knees and waited. At last, and at last, a teeny, tiny mouse poked its little head and bristles out of the gap and came running down towards them, and ever after they used to say:
a. The more the show of effort the punier the outcome.
b. Too many cooks spoil the broth.
c. The bigger the committee, the smaller the output.
d. All of the above.
Explain your answer: I will admit that this one was quite puzzling to me. I felt that there was no real natural answer, or that the choices didn’t make any sense to the story. The choice that I did make felt like it fit the best since all these people were sitting there waiting for an horrible outcome. With all these disasters happening, the people just sat and watched without making any decisions. It was like they all stood there on their knees waiting for somebody to make a decision on what to do.