Farmer Boy

How far away did Uncle Andrew live?
1. 50 miles
2. across the pond
3. 10 miles
4. 5 miles
After Mother and Father left, Eliza Jane wanted to start getting the chores done. Instead, the children decided to make ice-cream. Whose idea was it to make ice-cream instead of doing the chores?
1. Royal's
2. Almanzo's
3. Alice's
4. Eliza Jane's
What is NOT an ingredient that the children used to make ice-cream?
1. ice
2. flour
3. egg-whites
4. milk
True or False:
The children ate the whole cake and almost all of the ice-cream before noon. There was no one to tell them not to eat so much.
1. false
2. true
What did Almanzo do to check if the watermelon was ripe?
1. shook it in the air
2. stuck his nose to it to get a good sniff
3. snapped his finger against it
4. throw it to the ground
What did Almanzo do when Alice went into the house to do the dishes?
1. fed the last of his ice cream to the horses
2. decided to go swimming
3. went to the colt's pasture
4. stole another watermelon
True or False:
Eliza Jane ran to the pasture when she saw Almanzo in with the excited horses.
1. false
2. true
Fill in the Blank:
Almanzo wanted to go and get _____ to eat up the watermelon rinds.
1. Starlight, the colt
2. the barnyard cats
3. Star and Bright, the oxen
4. Lucy, the pig
True or False:
When Eliza Jane called Lucy a dirty old pig, Almanzo argued that pigs were the cleanest animals there were.
1. true
2. false
Why did Eliza Jane say they couldn't make candy that evening?
1. candy was not healthy for them
2. she had promised Mother that they would not eat too many sweets
3. candy-pulls was only for winter evenings
4. they didn't have the ingredients for candy
What was wrong with Lucy the next morning?
1. she had gotten tangled up in watermelon vines
2. Eliza Jane saw the mess that Lucy had made in the front yard
3. she had a tummy ache from eating too much
4. she couldn't eat or drink because her teeth were stuck together with candy
What did Lucy NOT do when she ran through the garden?
1. squashed the ripe tomatoes
2. uprooted the green round cabbages
3. tore through the peas
4. ate the tops off the carrot plants
What did Alice decide she was going to make?
1. pound-cake
2. porkloins
3. fried chicken
4. cookies
Fill in the Blank:
Alice and Almanzo decided to sit _____ even though Eliza Jane told them that they should not.
1. by the pond
2. with the horses
3. in the parlor
4. at the kitchen table
Why was the parlor off limits?
1. it was for company only
2. Eliza Jane wanted to sit by herself in there
3. Father had just re-papered it
4. Mother's sewing machine was in there
When Eliza Jane reminded the children that Mother and Father would be home tomorrow, the children were upset. Select the things that the children still needed to do before their parents returned. (Choose 5)
1. whitewashed the henhouse
2. pick the apples
3. pick the peas and beans
4. weed the garden
5. fix the fence
6. clean the house
7. churn the butter
8. fed the colts
What did Almanzo do that stained the parlor wall?
1. drew a picture of the colts on the wall
2. tossed the can of polish at Alice
3. started a fire in the woodstove with the flue closed
4. threw the blackening-brush at Eliza Jane's head
True or False:
Mother was very upset that the children had eaten all of the sugar. She told them that they would be allowed no more sweets for a week.
1. false
2. true
Almanzo was very worried when Mother showed Mr. & Mrs. Webb into the parlor. He was sure he would be in trouble now. What was the surprise that waited for him there?
1. neither his mother nor his father ever noticed the big black splotch on the wall
2. Royal had re-arranged the pictures on the walls
3. the black splotch had disappeared
4. His father told him that he knew about the splotch and that he must re-paper the room
Who had patched the parlor wall-paper so that Almanzo would not get into trouble?
1. Pierre
2. Eliza Jane
3. Royal
4. Alice