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WorksheetsPaul Bunyan - Growing Up
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 9mins
What is a tall tale?
an imaginative fable
a big story
an exaggeration that stretches the truth
a newspaper article
What is a flock, as in flock of sheep?
a gathering of a group of a certain kind of animal
a beautiful dress to be worn at dinner
a wool sweater from the British isles
a barn or shabby house for livestock
What is porridge?
It is a house for poor people (debtors)
It is a mountain ridge
It is a colorful bird
It is oatmeal or a soupy cereal
Paul Bunyan wore Potato sacks as socks because he was
a smelly boy
a big dude
a tough guy
a potato farmer
What does stubborn mean? Paul said that the road was stubborn.
fun
easy to move
hard to move
rough
What is another way to say, stubborn?
headstrong
easy going
long
short
By the time Paul went to school, he wore wagon wheels as buttons. What is the exaggeration?
Paul went to school
Paul has buttons on his shirt
Paul's buttons were wagon wheels
there is no exaggeration here
Paul Bunyan was a lumberjack. What does a lumberjack do?
cuts down trees
paves roads
lays bricks
models flannel shirts
Paul Bunyan wanted to straighten the road because it was
too small
crooked
blocked
not bent
In one of the first jobs, Paul hitched Babe up to a crooked road. What does hitched mean?
ran
fastened
buttoned
unhooked
Prefixes: over means too much. Which word means to "do too much."
overeat
override
overwhelm
overdo
Suffixes come at the end of a word. Which suffix is added to the word piano to make it mean: someone who plays the piano.
ist - pianist
er - pianoer
ful - pianoful
teer - pianoteer
Prefixes: pre- over- de- re-
Which word means to "heat before"
(a)
prefixes: pre- over- de- re-
Add a prefix to the word frost to make it mean "free from ice"
(a)
Inference: What do you think the first teller of the tale, Paul Bunyan, did for a living?
He was a truck driver.
He was a salesman.
He was a lumberjack.
He was an artist.
