Boom Town Comprehension
  • 1. This selection takes place long ago in _______.
A) gold fields
B) California
C) St. Joe
D) Oregon
  • 2. Pa has brought his family out west because he thinks he'll _____.
A) make his wife happy
B) strike it rich
C) learn to read
D) work all day without pay
  • 3. Who is telling the story?
A) Amanda
B) Baby Betsy
C) Ma
D) Pa
  • 4. In the selection, the phrase "Once in a while a crow flew by" shows how _____ life was.
A) boring
B) happy
C) funny
D) beautiful
  • 5. Because Pa lives in the gold fields during the week, he ______.
A) helps Amanda's pie business get started
B) makes crusts for the pies
C) can't find pans for Amanda
D) picks apples for pies
  • 6. Ma said it was unlikely that Amanda could make pie because ______.
A) Amanda was poor at baking pies
B) there wasn't enough flour for a pie crust
C) there were no pie pans and there was no oven
D) the boys would make fun of her
  • 7. Amanda was ________ about baking pies.
A) grateful
B) foolish
C) persistent
D) angry
  • 8. The main reason Amanda was successful at baking her first pie was that ______.
A) Ma ended up making it for her
B) she learned to solver her problem a different way
C) her brothers finally decided to help
D) Pa came home to encourage her
  • 9. Pa came home with money on Saturday night because he had _______.
A) landed another job
B) sold Amanda's pie
C) struck gold
D) traded his horse
  • 10. Many of the miners decide that ______.
A) only young miners strike it rich
B) living apart from your family is too hard
C) it is easier to get rich doing something else
D) mining for gold is an easy way to get rich
  • 11. The main purpose of this story is to show how a ______.
A) little girl learns to bake
B) family strikes it rich
C) brother and sister can get along
D) town gets its start
  • 12. Why would Amanda and other businesses need a bank in town?
  • 13. Explain what Amanda did, other than bake pies, to turn the little settlement into a boom town.
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