Before completing this activity, you must read chapter 8 of On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder!
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What would Pa do now that Mr. Nelson's harvesting was done?
travel east to find work
build the house
go to town to look for work
do his own harvesting
What did he do with the wheat he cut from the small field?
bound it in bundles and stacked them
sold them to Mr. Nelson
stored it in the stable
hauled it to town to sell
What did he do to the prairie grass?
bound it in bundles and stacked it
fed it to Bright and Pete
cut and dried it
sold it to Johnny Johnson for the cattle
What did he do after the hay was dried?
raked it into six big stacks
left it for the cattle to eat
bundled it up
spread it on the field
What did the three strange men do with Pa's wheat?
raked it into big stacks
hauled it off
tossed it into the top of the stable
put it through the threshing-machine
What did Mary and Laura see when they went to play?
the big threshing-machine
the bundles of wheat
the beautiful straw-stack
the pile of threshed wheat
What did Laura and Mary do with the straw-stack?
they wrapped it in bundles
they used it build a play house
they climbed to the top
they fed it to Spot
What did Pa have to do before dinner that night?
bundle up the straw
chase after Pete and Bright
rake all the straw into the stable
pitch up all the loose straw
How did Laura reason that it was ok to approach the straw-stack again?
Pa would never know
Pa didn't say she couldn't smell it
She would rake it back up again
Pa told her to be careful
What was more fun than sliding down the stack?
tunneling through it
running through it
jumping
rolling
True and False: Laura promised that they did not slide down the straw again. They rolled down it.
true
false
True and False: Pa was so angry and Laura and Mary, he made them rack up all the straw by themselves.
false
true
True and False: Pa told the girls that the straw had to stay stacked if it was going to be fit to feed the cattle.