Vocabulary
If you _____, you will feel better.
A. relax
B. imagination
C. plains
D. captured
relax
On the class trip, everyone showed good _____.
A. matador
B. manners
C. plains
D. vacation
manners
Wallace went to his aunt's house aboard a _____.
A. train
B. bus
C. car
D. wagon
train
Roping, riding, and making a fire with sticks are ___.
A. ways to get to his aunt's house
B. things that cowboys do
C. things that cowboys wear
D. ways that his aunt tries to free him
things that cowboys do
When does Wallace write about his adventures in the West?
A. summer
B. fall
C. winter
D. spring
fall
The cat _____ the mouse.
A. matador
B. captured
C. plains
D. vacation
captured
The _____ waved a red flag at the bull.
A. captured
B. imagination
C. vacation
D. matador
matador
Why do Wallace's parents send him out West?
A. They want some time alone.
B. They think that he will be bored at home.
C. They are worried that his imagination is getting too wild.
D. They want his aunt to teach him to read.
They are worried that his imagination is getting too wild.
When does Wallace get to see his aunt?
A. the day he arrives out West
B. the day he becomes a first-rate cowboy
C. the day he falls off his horse
D. the day roundup is over
the day roundup is over
How does Wallace feel about the cowboys after he gets to know them?
He enjoys being their friend and likes being a cowboy.
My family went on a trip for our summer _____.
A. imagination
B. manners
C. relax
D. vacation
vacation
At first, Wallace thinks that the cowboys are _____.
A. wild and loud
B. mean and quiet
C. dirty and mean
D. shy but friendly
wild and loud
What terrible sight does Wallace see at his aunt's house?
A. Aunt Fern cooking a barbecue
B. a bull fight
C. cowhands dancing
D. cattle ready to stampede
cattle ready to stampede
Is Wallace's story real or make-believe? Tell why.
Make-believe because...
Cowboys and cattle live on the _____.
A. matador
B. captured
C. plains
D. manners
plains
Why do the cowboys capture Wallace?
A. they are angry at his aunt
B. they are angry at his parents
C. one of the cowboys is sick
D. one of the cowboys has quit
one of the cowboys has quit
The cattle charge at Wallace. In this story charge means to ____.
A. pay for later
B. rush toward
C. blame someone
D. ask for price
rush toward
The author had a great _____ to write this story.
A. relax
B. manners
C. captured
D. imagination
imagination
Think about Wallace's postcard to his aunt. How does wallace feel aboyt being carried off?
A. not afraid
B. homesick
C. mad
D. scared
not afraid
What does Wallace use for his "new kind of cowboying"?
A. a tablecloth
B. fire
C. a rope
D. his vest