Farmer Boy

Vocabulary activity for Chapters 15-16 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.

Only small children went to the spring _____ of school, and he wished he were old enough to stay home.
1. acre
2. term
3. dapple
He watched the moon _____, for in the dark of the moon in May he could stay out of school and plant pumpkins.
1. anxiously
2. gaily
3. proudly
No one had ever _____ with carrots as he did, because he didn't want to go back to school.
1. termed
2. dappled
3. taken such pains
Two _____ of corn Almanzo hoed, and then he hoed two _____ of potatoes.
1. terms
2. dapples
3. acres
And he nibbled with his teeth the sweet-sour woodsorrel's stems, right up to their _____ lavender blossoms.
1. taken such pains
2. frail
3. term
They passed gray horses and black horses and _____-gray horses.
1. term
2. dappled
3. frail
Almanzo felt solemn and very _____.
1. proud
2. dapple
3. faint-hearted
The music was so _____; the bandsmen in their blue and red and their brass buttons tooted merrily, and the fat drummer beat rat-a-tat-tat on the drum.
1. proud
2. lief
3. gay
Almanzo put his hands in his pockets and said:

"I'd just as _____ ask him if I wanted to."
1. lief
2. dapple
3. anxiously
Almanzo walked slowly toward them. He was _____, but he had to go.
1. proud
2. faint-hearted
3. gay