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WorksheetsLHBW review
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 31mins
During the dance, Laura falls asleep and wakes up _________________.
in Uncle Peter's bobsled
rolled in a blanket near the fireplace
at the foot of Grandma's bed
in her own trundle bed
As the wagon reaches the town of Pepin, Laura catches sight of _______________.
a grove of maple trees
the smooth yellow board on the sides of the church
the blue water of Lake Pepin
a deer and her young fawn
Pa mistakes a burned tree stump for _____________.
a panther
a bear
Sukey
a smokehouse
Both Laura and Mary give Baby Carrie _____________.
dough to make a small loaf of bread
a corncob doll
their candy hearts
half of a cookie
Laura keeps a close watch on Uncle George because____________.
Pa says Uncle George is wild.
He promised to dance a jig with her.
He is carving curlicues in a piece of wood.
He is holding Charlotte on his knee.
When Pa was a boy, Grandpa gave him a good thrashing because ___________.
he took the whetstone
he was lying
he was complaining about Sunday
he stayed too late in the woods and and owl scared him
Prince uses his teeth to pull Aunt Eliza back from _____________.
a bear in the corral
a panther by the stream
snow bank by the door
pig on James' lap
A late snow is called ________________.
a gain harvest
a time for bees to make honey
a berry-picking season
a sugar snow
Pa helps the children go to sleep by __________.
playing his fiddle
playing the trumpet
putting baked potatoes near their cold feet
playing the harp
Pa makes a balloon out of a __________ for Laura and Mary to play with.
cloth
pig's bladder
grated carrot
buckskin bag
What did Pa do to entertain the family on winter evenings?
he played the fiddle
he played mad dog with the girls
Pa told stories
all of the above
Why did Pa's parents have a dance?
They were celebrating Christmas
They were celebrating Pa's birthday
Thy were celebrating the fact that the trees would have extra sap that season to make maple sugar
They were celebrating Cinco de Mayo.
Why didn't Uncle Henry and Pa help Charlie when he stepped on a yellow jacket's nest?
They could not hear him screaming
They assumed that the women would help him
They were too busy laughing
The past few times Charlie screamed for help, there had been nothing wrong with him.
Which of the following descriptions does NOT describe one of the stories that Pa told the children?
When Grandpa was a boy, he and his brothers rode their sled on Sunday and were given whippings for it.
Pa's father barely escaped being attacked by a panther.
When Pa was a boy, he mistook a bear for the family's cow and actually slapped it on its back
When Pa went to town, he attacked a tree trunk that looked like a bear
Why did Pa give Laura a spanking even though she had done nothing wrong?
He blamed her for something her sister had done
Back then, children were spanked when they had done something good and fed candy when they were bad
Pa was irritable because his horse had been stolen
It was Laura's birthday. He gave her one spanking for each year she was alive and one to grow on.
