Answer:
What word begins and ends with an E, but only has one letter?
I run around the streets all day. Under the bed or by the door I sit at night, never alone. My tongue hangs out, waiting to be fed during the day. What am I?
When I am alive, people sing. When I am dead, people clap hands. What am I?
What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
I am a word with 5 letters. Bold are the first; true are the second; playful are the third; clever are the fourth; forceful are the fifth.
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.