Farmer Boy

Farmer Boy



Quotes Matching

Before taking this test, please read the novel, Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder!

Please answer the questions to the best of your abilities by matching the people on the right to their quotes on the left. 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.
"No, 'Manzo. It's your turn to carry it now, because you're the littlest." (Ch. 1)
"Do you know I'm going home with you tonight? Yes, it's your father's turn." (Ch. 1)
"If the teacher has to thrash you again, Royal, I'll give you a thrashing you'll remember." (Ch. 1)
"Father, Big Bill Ritchie came to school today." (Ch. 2)
"Leave that be, Almanzo. You'll spoil your supper." (Ch. 2)
"Forty below zero, and it will be colder before morning." (Ch. 3)
"Come on, boys!" (Ch. 4)
"When I say, 'Giddap!' you must walk straight ahead." (Ch. 5)
"She's about twenty inches thick." (Ch. 6)
"What would you like best to eat?" (Ch. 6)
"There! Run along with you to bed!" (Ch. 7)
"Mercy on us! Eight o'clock! I must fly!" (Ch. 8)
"Huh! they're not your horses! They're your father's horses. You haven't got a horse, nor even a colt." (Ch. 8)
"Father, I can't go to school today, can I? If I don't work those calves, they will forget how to act." (Ch. 9)
"Sacre bleu! I think you say you drive your calves. They not run away, eh?" (Ch. 9)
"Oh, you've been eating wintergreen berries!" (Ch. 10)
"Whistling girls and crowing hens
Always come to some bad ends." (Ch. 11)
"The tin-peddler's coming! The tin-peddler's coming!" (Ch. 12)
"Over by Saranac, the New York buyers are looking for driving horses. One of them paid two hundred dollars apiece last week for a time not a mite better than these." (Ch. 12)
"I don't see my way clear to pay that." (Ch. 13)
"Now if you had soap in your wool, John, you'd be ready for shearing!" (Ch. 14)
"There's the fleece! I've got it upstairs and you haven't sheared it! I beat you! I beat you!" (Ch. 14)
"Boys, get up! Hurry! The corn's frozen!" (Ch. 15)
"My father gave it to me. My father gives me a nickel every time I ask him." (Ch. 16)
"The boy's too young, Wilder. You can't make a youngster understand that." (Ch. 16)
And don't forget it was axes and plows that made this country" (Ch. 16)
"What's the matter, son? Your eyes bigger than your stomach?" (Ch. 17)
"Let me catch you in that pasture again and I'll whale the hide off you." (Ch. 18)
"Yes. I got the scraps of wall-paper that were saved in the attic, and cut out the patch and put it on with flower-paste." (Ch. 18)
"Ah! That puts heart into a man!" (Ch. 19)
"This one's yours because you're hurt, and I'm not hungry, anyway not very hungry." (Ch. 20)
"That's a fine pumpkin, Almanzo. Don't know as I ever saw a finer." (Ch. 21)
"Poor man's fertilizer." (Ch. 22)
"Well, this is a pretty time to be coming, I must say! Three weeks late, and my children as good as barefoot!" (Ch. 23)
"Now that's a seam! You're feet won't get damp in my boots, even if you go wading in them." (Ch. 23)
"Not even two blades of grass are the same. Everything is different from everything else, if you look at it." (Ch. 24)
"You can depend on me. I'm big enough to take care of you all." (Ch. 25)
"Merry Christmas, Father! Merry Christmas, Mother! It's - it's - thirty minutes to four, Father." (Ch. 26)
"A farmer must know more figuring that that, son. You better go to school." (Ch. 27)
"How much do you want for it?" (Ch. 28)
"Well, this durn boy didn't steal any of it." (Ch. 28)
"A pretty pass the world's coming to, if any man thinks it's a step up in the world to leave a good farm and go to town!" (Ch. 29)

 

 

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Bingham, Illinois
created: September 2013 | updated: June 5, 2016
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