Vocabulary activity for Chapter 1-2 of Little House on the Prairie 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.
Quite often Laura heard the ringing _____ of an ax which was not Pa's, or the echo of a shot that did not come from his gun.
papoose
trot
thud
He made hickory bows and fastened them _____ to the wagon-box.
miserable
upright
brindle
Pa swung up and sat beside Ma, and Jack, the _____ bulldog, went under the wagon.
bow
papoose
brindle
Pa promised that when they came to the West, Laura should see a _____.
pucker
papoose
bluff
Big _____ of wood stood among the stumps.
brindles
crops
cords
The _____ lake stretched flat and smooth and white al lthe way to the edge of the gray sky.
miserable
smother
enormous
Everything was damp and chill and _____ in the wagon, but they had to stay in it and eat cold bits of food.
enormous
tremble
miserable
All day long Pet and Patty went forward, _____ and walking and _____ again, but they couldn't get out of the middle of that circle.
cropping
cording
trotting
Laura held tight to the wagon _____ and stood up in the jolting wagon.
upright
prick
bow
Then Laura gasped and _____ the wagon bow, for almost under Pet's and Patty's noses there was no more blowing grass, there was no land at all.
puckered
trotted
clutched
In the sunny open spaces that grass grew thin, and deer had _____ it short.
bluffed
smothered
cropped
Then other _____ just like them stood up in front of the wagon.
cords
pricks
bluffs
They _____ their ears forward, looking at the creek.
smothered
bluffed
pricked
Then he pulled the rope at the back, so that the canvas _____ together in the middle.
smothered
trembled
puckered
Ma's arm pulled a _____ blanket over them, heads and all.