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General Questions
PSSA Questions
100
Identify the setting of the story.
What is a dugout home in Minnesota?
100
Choose which word you would use to describe how Laura is different from Mary: 1. bolder; 2. smarter; 3. more honest; or 4. less honest.
What is bolder?
100
Identify the problem Pa had as he was coming home.
What is the oxen ran too fast and almost crashed the wagon?
100
Identify the story as real or make believe.
What is make believe?
100
Explain which of these words uses the suffix -ful as in beautiful: awful, cupful, full.
What is cupful?
200
Explain how you know the passage is historical fiction.
What is because it is based on a real time and a real place in the past but other caharacters and details may be imagined?
200
Explain why Laura yelled at Johnny.
What is she wanted him to wake up and watch the cattle?
200
Explain why the girls hug Ma tightly.
What is because they are happy that Ma is safe?
200
Identify the story as fiction or nonfiction.
What is fiction?
200
Identify the vocabulary word on page 169 which means "telling someone they are wrong".
What is contradicting?
300
Explain how you know that Ma thinks going to town is important.
What is she makes a new dress for Carrie?
300
Explain why Laura and Mary argued.
What is because Mary did not want Laura to go by the cattle?
300
Identify the present Pa brought home for the girls.
What is sticks of candy?
300
Identify the author's purpose for writing the passage.
What is to entertain?
300
Explain why Mary and Laura stay away from the swimming hole.
What is because it is too dangerous to swim alone and their parents are not there to watch them?
400
Identify the girls' biggest problem in the passage.
What is the cattle get into the haystacks?
400
Explain how Laura and Mary solved their problem with the cattle.
What is they chased the cattle far away from the hay?
400
Explain why Laura said she liked wolves better than cattle.
What is because it was the cattle who caused all the problems?
400
Identify the main characters of the story.
Who are Laura and Mary?
400
Give your opinion and reason why: Tell whether or not you think Laura and Mary made the right decision to chase the cattle away from the hay. Explain your opinion.
What is they made the right decision because if the cattle ate the hay there would have been no food for the animals in the winter? or What is they made the wrong decision because they could have gotten hurt or killed?
500
Why was it so important to not let the cattle eat the haystacks?
Because there would be nothing left to feed the animals in the winter.
500
Explain why the girls could not tell Johnny what happened.
What is because he didn't speak English, only Norwegian?
500
Find an example of personification on page 169.
What is, " The creek was talking to itself under the yellow willows."?
500
Locate a simile on page 160.
What is, " Carrie looked like a rose"?
500
Identify details from the passage which support Pa's opinion that he knew they could depend on the girls to take care of everything while they were away.
What is they saved the haystacks from the cattle?