Worksheets"The Chuck Wagon" Paired Passages
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 11mins
1) What does the photograph of the chuck wagon and its caption help the reader understand?
A) The cooks were the only ones who could access the items in and on the wagon.
B) Chuck wagons were too small for all the cowboys to get into to eat.
C) Water was the only item for the cowboys on the outside of the wagon.
D) Some items were on the outside of the wagon for easy access to the cowboys.
2) What was the most likely reason the author wrote this selection?
F) To describe the cattle drives that took meat to the north
G) To show how chuck wagons made it easier for food to be carried on cattle drives
H) To suggest that cowboys were not able to cook for themselves on the cattle drives
J) To argue that chuck wagons were the only way to ensure cowboys ate on cattle drives
3) Based on the selection, the reader can conclude that a chuck wagon--
A) can be used today when camping or hiking
B) is maintained by the trail boss and the cook
C) provides a way to feed cowboys on long trips
D) requires the army's approval to be built.
4) Why did the author include a sidebar with the selection?
5) The rhythm and rhyme scheme used in the poem contributes to a mood of -
A) determination
B) exhaustion
C) thankfulness
D) hopelessness
6) Which line from the poem best expresses that cattle drives may become a thing of the past?
F) they wrangle with the throng
G) while cattle try to graze
H) sustain these wrangler's lives as long
J) and trains will be the way
7) Read these lines from the poem:
The smell of beans and cabbage rise,
into the night they roam,
the biscuits taste like heaven to
20 these men so far from home.
The imagery in these lines contribute to a sense of -
A) affection
B) gloom
C) longing
D) joy
8) Which lines of the poem would best fit as a caption to the photograph in "The Chuck Wagon?"
9) What do both the selection and the poem describe?
A) A new way to keep cowboys fed on cattle drives
B) The way the chuck wagon came to be
C) Changes that came to cattle drives due to chuck wagons
D) How cowboys used to eat before chuck wagons were invented
10) Which is an action in the poem that is not described in the selection?
F) Using an army surplus wagon to create the chuck wagon
G) Cooking beans, cabbage, and bison to eat
H) Spreading out a bedroll to sleep on
J) Traveling for a long time to move cattle
11) Which statement from the selection is best supported by the poem?
A) In those days, cowboys traveled with only the water and food they could carry in their saddlebags.
B) In 1866, Charles Goodnight rebuilt an army surplus Studebaker wagon into a chuck wagon to provide for the needs of cowboys as they drove their cattle from Texas to New Mexico.
C) Diverse types of bread such as sourdough, quick biscuits, or skillet cornbread were baked over an
open fire.
D) The chuck wagon made it possible to feed a crew of cowboys and wranglers for the three months it took to drive a herd of cattle from Texas to the buyers in the north.
