Farmer Boy

Vocabulary activity for Chapters 7-8 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.

Royal chopped at it, and when his _____ when through with an oosy thud, the water welled up quickly, because the ice was squeezing it from all sides.
1. hatchet
2. currycomb
3. sedate
An _____ of ice came down with a splintering crash.
1. racket
2. avalanche
3. hatchet
So Royal hit the icicles with both his fists; Almanzo hit them again with the hatchet. The noise was _____.
1. racket
2. immense
3. sedate
"My land! Such a _____ I never heard! Must you yell like Comanches?"
1. racket
2. hatchet
3. immense
Mother was filling the six-quart pan with boiled beans, putting in onions and peppers and the piece of fat pork, and pouring _____ of molasses over all.
1. muss
2. avalanche
3. scrolls
Ten pancakes cooked on the smoking griddle and as fast as they were done Mother added another cake to each stack and buttered it _____ and covered it with maple sugar.
1. lavishly
2. sedately
3. immense
And Alice would mourn; "Oh dear me, my ribbons are _____."
1. mussed
2. racket
3. immense
Then they all walked _____ into the church.
1. sedately
2. immensely
3. lavishly
Father allowed him to brush and _____ and rub down the gentle old work-horses, and to drive them on the harrow.
1. sedate
2. currycomb
3. hatchet
The whole afternoon they sat in the _____ warm dining room.
1. drowsy
2. lavish
3. avalanche