Vocabulary activity for Chapter 15-16 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.
We need more _____. I've been sparing with the cornmeal, but it's almost gone and so is the sugar.
shivers
quinine
wails
The wind _____ in the tan grass, and it whispered sadly across the curly, short buffalo grass.
briers
malaria
wailed
Wherever they went among the scratchy _____, mosquitoes rose up in buzzing swarms.
quinine
briers
wail
No one knew, in those days, that fever 'n' ague was _____, and that some mosquitoes give it to people when they bite them.
briers
quinine
malaria
She pulled up Laura's skirt and petticoats to see where her legs ached, and suddenly Laura _____ all over.