Using the Vocabulary from The Witch of Blackbird Pond

A sad person by nature, his smile even had a touch of ______________about it.

• solemn

• solemnly

• solemnness

• none of the above

Without thinking, she __________________grabbed the book from his hands and started reading it aloud.

• solemnly

• timidly

• impulsive

• impulsively

"You mean that, just on an ____________ ,you left your rightful home and sailed halfway across the world?"

• impulse

• impulsively

• impulsive

• any of the above will work in this sentence

"Oh no," she exclaimed in __________________, "I don't want that man to come see me again!"

• impulse

• dismay

• dismiss

• impulsively

It was unbelievable how ______________the winter days were, each day spent doing the same thing as the day before.

• menial

• monotonous

• solemn

• impulsively

The principal walked into the classroom just as _________ broke out with one student throwing up on one side of the room and two students throwing fists on the other side.

• bedlam

• timidness

• impulse

• none of the above

The schoolmaster told Kit to never smile when she was teaching the students. In other words, she had to be ______________all day long.

• menial

• solemn

• solemnly

• impulsive

Kit, Prudence, and Nat all sought _______________in Hannah's house in the meadow.

• menial

• bedlam

• refuge

• linger

Everybody else laughed at the question, but the little girl nodded ___________________________.

• impulsively

• impulse

• solemnly

• solemn

Kit immediately _____________________the ridiculous thoughts from her mind.

• dismiss

• dismissed

• dismay

• dismayed