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General Questions
Vocabulary
100
Identify the setting of the story.
What is a dugout home on the banks of Plum Creek in Minnesota?
100
Choose which word you would use to describe how Laura is different from Mary: 1. braver; 2. smarter; 3. more honest; or 4. less honest.
What is braver?
100
Identify the problem Pa had as he was coming home.
What is the oxen ran too fast and almost crashed the wagon?
100

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100
When the mouse ran across the kitchen floor, my cat _________ on it.
What is pounced?
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 everyone is safe?
200
Identify the story as fiction or nonfiction.
What is fiction?
200
My little brother is always __________ me when I give my opinions about baseball teams.
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 Mary wants Laura to obey her because she is older?
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
The zoo was so crowded that visitors were _________ each other to see the rare animals.
What is jostling?
400
Identify the girls' biggest problem in the passage.
What is the cattle get into the haystacks?
400
Explain how Laura and Mary tried to solve their problem with the cattle.
What is they chased after them?
400
Explain why Laura said she liked wolves better than cattle.
What is because it was the cattle who caused all the problems?
400

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400
The lizard ________ across the busy road.
What is darted?
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
What does the author mean by, "The creek was talking to itself under the yellow willows?"
What is the creek was making lots of noises.
500
How do the girls solve the problem of the cattle eating the hay?
What is Laura waved her stick at the big red cow, it ran around her and all the other cows followed?
500
To get good grades, one should be __________ in class.
What is attentive?
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