WorksheetsSwarms of Terror
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 52mins
How did Laura Ingalls feel when she first saw a strange shadow in the sky?
excited
puzzled
suspicious
frightened
Which line from the article supports your answer to question 1?
"The disaster began as a shadow in the distance, a strange shimmer in the sky."
"But deep in her gut, she knew that something terrible was about to happen."
"Few understood the grim reality of pioneer life..."
"A young girl named Laura Ingalls spotted it on a hot July afternoon in 1875."
The sentence "The entire family was caught in a whirlwind of bugs" helps you imagine ...
where the locusts had come from.
how the locusts looked and felt to the Ingalls family.
what the locusts smelled like to the family.
where the locusts settled on their farm.
What is one way that the locusts affected the prairie farmers' lives?
They were poisonous.
They stung like bees.
They destroyed the crops.
They spread diseases.
What caused the Rocky Mountain locusts to form such large swarms?
tall prairie grass
lack of rain
flood conditions
too much food
Which line from the article supports your answer to question 5?
"They have darkened the skies of every continent but Antarctica."
"The insects...gathered in swarms that were truly monstrous in size."
"In many places, locusts didn't just fly away when they finished eating."
"The Rocky Mountain locust thrived when there was a shortage of rain."
In the sentence "Between droughts, the locusts would migrate back to their original home...," migrate means ____.
crawl
spring
travel
buzz
"Swarms of Terror" is mainly about ...
a locusts attack that struck western Minnesota in the late 1800s.
the life of American writer Laura Ingalls Wilder.
the life cycle of the Rocky Mountain locusts.
efforts by pioneers to settle the American West in the late 1800s.
CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE- Draft a well-organized answer (incorporate R.A.C.E. strategy) using complete sentences and details from the article to support your reply.
*How do descriptive details in the article help you imagine what the locust attacks were like for pioneers? Give two examples.
CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE- Write a well-organized answer (incorporate R.A.C.E. strategy) and use details from the article to support what you say.
*Why do you think Laura Ingalls Wilder never forgot the locust attack that she witnessed as a child?
