Farmer Boy

Vocabulary activity for Chapters 21-22 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.

All around the Fair Grounds were acres of wagons and buggies, and people were _____ like flies.
1. clustered
2. delicate
3. pried
The ground there was _____ into deep dust by the crowd of men and boys.
1. clustered
2. heaved
3. trodden
Those long ears stood up above their long, _____ faces, and while Almanzo stared, one of those creatures pointed its ears at him and stretched out its neck.
1. substantial
2. tapered
3. gaunt
Father _____ off the cover of one barrel, and clouds of steam came out.
1. trod
2. heaved
3. pried
He said, "But I would rather get something more _____ for mine."
1. tapered
2. substantial
3. gaunt
Alice put on her _____ and hood, and they rode away with Father in the wagon, to gather the beechnuts.
1. heave
2. cluster
3. cloak
They lay thick on the ground beneath the slim trunks and _____ bare limbs of the beeches.
1. delicate
2. tapered
3. substantial
Then he and Alice _____ down leaves again, while the busy pitchforks made the patch of bar ground larger.
1. clustered
2. trampled
3. pried
As soon as one was killed, Father and Joe and John dipped the carcass into the boiling caldron, and _____ it out and laid it on boards.
1. pried
2. cloaked
3. heaved
There were twelve tubes in a mold. They were open at the top, but _____ to a point at the bottom, and in each point there was a tiny hole.
1. trodden
2. substantial
3. tapered