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Total questions: 39
Worksheet time: 20mins
The family lived ___________________.
on the prairie
in New Baden
on a farm in Illinois
What did Papa play music on for Sarah's birthday?
a CD player
a phonograph
the new radio
What caused the land on the prairie to be so dry?
too much rain
a wagon
a drought
Where did Sarah come from?
Maine
Wesclin
Pennsylvania
Who was Moonbeam?
Sarah's brother
the new dog
the baby calf
Why did the family need to save water?
The firemen used all of the water putting out fires.
The kittens drank all of the water.
There was not much water because of a drought.
Why was Seal getting fatter and fatter?
She swallowed a mouse.
She was going to have kittens.
She was eating scraps of table food.
A period of time where there is no rain
crossly
prairie
drought
A baby cow
calf
mend
granary
A thick blanket with with beautiful patterns
skylark
quilt
prairie
A notebook used for writing our ideas and feelings
journal
prairie
granary
A large building used for storing grain
granary
mend
crossly
A deep place in the ground that holds water
granary
journal
well
Speaking in a mean or angry way
skylark
crossly
mend
To fix something that is broken
mend
crossly
journal
a way to use, manage, or save a natural resource wisely
conserve
prairie
mend
long, heavy pieces of wood
phonograph
timbers
conserve
a fenced in area where horses graze and exercise
mend
fence
paddock
a type of thistle plant that breaks off from the roots at the end of the growing season and are rolled about by the wind
tumbleweeds
paddock
Maine
a device for playing music from the late 1870's until the 1980's
quilt
phonograph
prairie
acting in a harsh manner
calf
mend
sharply
a type of animal similar to a wolf; a member of the dog family
wolf
calf
coyote
the way we feel when we experience a great loss
crossly
void
granary
drooping posture
drought
prairie
slump
a record of events written by a person based on their personal life.
slump
memoir
skylark
ruin or a complete loss
devastate
journal
granary
someone is shaking with fear
well
memoir
trembling
a fenced in area or enclosure for confining or capturing cattle or horses
corral
tumbleweeds
quilt
Papa used a ___________ to check the level of the water in the well.
bucket
rope
dog
When Anna, Caleb and Sarah went to Maine, what did the ride in?
a car
an airplane
a train
Papa sent them _______________when they were in Maine.
letters
kittens
money
Why did Matthew and Maggie pack up their things and move from the prairie?
They got into a fight with Papa and Sarah.
They got new jobs at McDonalds.
Their well went dry.
Why did Sarah, Anna and Caleb go to Maine?
It was too hard to live on the prairie during a drought.
They did not like Papa anymore.
They decided to move in with Matthew and Maggie.
While they were in Maine, Papa wrote to tell them what happened on the prairie?
He bought a new tractor.
Seal got married
It had finally rained.
Papa had lived his whole life on the prairie....his name was "written on the land", so he didn't __________________________.
go with Sarah, Anna and Caleb to Maine.
like living on the prairie.
play basketball during PE.
A fire started in the meadow and burned down Papa's barn, so ___________________________________.
he bought a new one at Walmart.
he had to build a new barn.
he decided to sell all of his land.
What did Sarah tell them about next spring?
She was moving to Tennessee.
She was getting a job at the granary.
She was going to have a baby.
While in Maine, who played music for them?
Sarah's aunts
Sarah's brother
the dogs and cats
Where did Sarah write her name when they got back home?
in the prairie dirt
on the barn
on Caleb's forehead
