Farmer Boy

Vocabulary activity for Chapters 3-4 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.

Mother and the girls washed the dishes and swept the _____ kitchen, and downstairs in the big cellar Father cut up carrots and potatoes to feed the cows the next day.
1. pantry
2. rousing
3. jostling
Mother _____ the kitchen fire with ashes for the night.
1. swaggered
2. banked
3. jostled
Royal opened its iron door, and with the poker he broke the _____ logs inot a shimmering bed of coals.
1. charred
2. swaggered
3. blubbered
He ran _____ upstairs.
1. blubbering
2. clattering
3. charring
Father was _____ up the young cattle.
1. jostling
2. rousing
3. swaggering
When they came tramping into the schoolhouse they all grinned _____ at Mr. Corse.
1. impudently
2. pantry
3. soberly
When Mr. Corse rapped on the window, they went in _____ and _____ sat down.
1. charly
2. soberly
3. jostly
The big boys came up the path and clattered into the entry, hooting and _____ one another.
1. jostling
2. roused
3. clattered
The door banged open, and Big Bill Ritchie _____ in.
1. swaggered
2. jostled
3. blubbered
He began to bawl like a calf. He _____ and begged.
1. banked
2. swaggered
3. blubbered