Farmer Boy

Vocabulary activity for Chapters 1-2 of Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder!

Here are some exerts from the story. Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word. 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.

Down a long road through the woods a little boy _____ to school, with is big brother Royal and his two sisters, Eliza Jane and Alice.
1. rapped
2. demolished
3. trudged
Five big boys were _____ in the deep snow by the path.
1. scuffling
2. quivering
3. trudging
They _____ that no teacher could finish the winter term in that school, and no teacher ever had.
1. boasted
2. rapped
3. fidgeted
When he said this, Mr. Corse _____ on his desk with his ruler; it was time for school to begin.
1. gangled
2. rapped
3. trudged
No whispering was permitted in school, and no _____.
1. trudging
2. fidgeting
3. demolishing
The wise, sedate work-horses _____ munched hay.
1. placidly
2. mellowly
3. raply
But the colts ran about excited, on their _____ legs, and stared and wondered.
1. gangling
2. scuffling
3. trudging
There were slabs of tempting cheese, there was a plate of _____ headcheese.
1. rapping
2. quivering
3. mellowing
Almanzo ate the sweet, _____ baked beans.
1. placid
2. mellow
3. rap
He _____ a tall heap of pale mushed turnips, and a hill of stewed yellow pumpkin.
1. trudged
2. demolished
3. quivered