WorksheetsI Survived The Children's Blizzard of 1888.
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 13mins
Which is an example of personification?
The trees danced in the wind.
The bull was as strong as a mountain.
What does Franny love to do?
Draw
Play dress-up
Play hide-and-seek
Ride horses
How did Miss Ruell show she was actually really very caring?
She did not give the kids homework
She let them stay after school to play
She saved John during the storm
She took care of animals
John and his sister lived next door to the school. True or false?
True
False
The dirt walls of the soddy helped keep it warm in the winter and cool in the summer. True or false?
True
False
The American Buffalo is now completely extinct. True or false?
True
False
Another word for jabbering is...
whispering
tickling
clapping
babbling
Another word for bickered is...
laughed
argued
thought
smiled
Another word for venom is...
food
medicine
poison
chocolate
Red-rover is a ________.
type of food
game that kids play
wild animal
type of storm
Locusts are ________.
a swarm of grasshoppers
a type of a storm
wild animals that are bigger than a horse
a type of vegetable
What was something John's family did NOT do to prepare for winter?
Go to the grocery store to get a lot of food for winter
Patched the house up
Dug up potatoes
Plowed over the field to prepare for spring
Another word for dreary
sunny
happy
bleak
bright
What is an antonym for early?
later
bright
heavy
morning
If the person who tells the story (the narrator) refers to themselves as I or me, what point of view would a story be written in?
1st person
2nd person
3rd person
4th person
How did Miss Ruell make sure she did not get lost in the snow?
She tied a rope around her waist
The children all held hands together
She went outside with a dog
She left footprints in the snow
A cliffhanger in a story leaves the reader __________.
in a happy place
in suspense
knowing the book just ended
feeling like the story is boring
What did the Children's Blizzard and a hurricane have in common?
High winds over 70 mph
Heavy rainfall
They moved formed over the ocean
Mudlsides
