Vocabulary activity for Chapter 9-10 of On the Banks of Plum Creek 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.
"The hornets buzzed around her in _____."
dismay
goad
tawny
"'You know very well what I mean,' Mary said, _____."
crossly
bole
challis
"She held its scaling-rough _____ and shook it."
corn dodger
cross
bole
"The prairie was almost the _____ color of the hay-stacks."
bole
fierce
tawny
"Ma wore her hoopskirts and her best dress, the beautiful _____ with little strawberries on it."
challis
cross
swerve
"Pa took up the ox _____."
goad
swerve
challis
"At noon they ate the _____ and molasses and drank the milk that Ma had left for them."
corn dodgers
boles
goads
"They came up on the prairie and now they saw the _____, big cattle quite near."
fierce
swerve
tawny
"She _____ and ran away across the plowed ground, all the others galloping after her."