Vocabulary activity for Chapter 4 of The Indian School by Gloria Whelan!
Choose which word best fits each sentence. When you have answered all of the questions, click the "Check Answer" button. A box will pop-up with your score. Do not close until your score is printed or reviewed by your teacher.
"I heard her tell my uncle, 'She will revert to the way of her ________ people and forget all we have taught her here at school.'"
coax
embroider
limp
pagan
"Another time she made a bird with the dried pod of a ________ for wings.
betray
limp
milkweed
coax
"When I returned to the school, I kept my promise not to ________ Raven."
suspicious
insolent
betray
embroider
"When enough nuts had been gathered, she offered to pick up kindling and pinecones for the fire. My aunt grew ________ ."
pagan
betray
suspicious
limp
"I handed the small, ________ body to Raven.
coax
suspicious
limp
milkweed
"'She is an ________ child,' my aunt said."
coax
limp
betray
insolent
"Now its edges were ________ with ice. I hurried along beside it until I came to the tree."
embroidered
limped
milkweed
betrayed
"No matter how I ________ him, he would not tell me where it had come from."