I Have Heard of a Land
Contributed by: Jefferson

  • 1. Being able to speak more than one language allowed Bret to have many job _________.
A) opportunities
B) culture
C) fertile
D) harmony
  • 2. Every spring the leaves on the trees bring shade and beauty to the __________.
A) possibilities
B) arbor
C) harmony
D) culture
  • 3. Our glee club sang several songs in two-part _______.
A) harmony
B) fertile
C) arbor
D) possibilities
  • 4. Today an astronaut might be considered a _______ in space.
A) arbor
B) possibilities
C) pioneer
D) harmony
  • 5. Our flower garden was spectacular this year because the soil is so ___________.
A) harmony
B) arbor
C) fertile
D) pioneer
  • 6. This poem is most like historical fiction because _________.
A) the characters in the poem are not real
B) it has a problem and solution
C) it describes a real time and place of the past
D) it decribes events that could not happen
  • 7. Who is telling the story?
A) a miner
B) a pioneer
C) an astronaut
D) a businessman
  • 8. What is the Oklahoma "land run"?
A) People are running away from Oklahoma
B) Everyone wants to find Oklahoma
C) Oklahoma is a faraway land
D) People can claim the free land in Oklahoma
  • 9. What does the storyteller mean saying,"the coyote's call is a lullaby"?
A) The coyote is gentle like a baby
B) The coyote's call is soft and gentle
C) The coyote sings all night
D) The coyote has a baby to protect
  • 10. What does the storyteller mean by saying,"I have heard of a land where the imagination has no fences....."?
A) It is good to to imagine things we cannot have
B) with imagination, anything is possible in this great new land
C) good things happen only in one's imagination.
D) if you build fences,you won't have an imagination.
  • 11. Where do people go to church there?
A) outdoors
B) in a three-room cabin
C) in a sod hut
D) in a garden
  • 12. According to the selection,childrendo not find life in Oklahoma as hard as the women do because the children have________.
A) to work in the fields with their mothers
B) a chance to swing on swings made for them
C) flapjacks as big as wagon wheels to play with
D) a chance to sing with the crickets chirping
  • 13. Which quotation from thre selection best shows that life in the new land is hard?
A) "Children swing in homemade swings..."
B) "Babies wrapped to their mother's backs in the field..."
C) "They hoist the beams high..."
D) "I make hominy grits from scratch..."
  • 14. In this land,what announces the beginning of spring?
A) coyotes
B) scissortails
C) redbud trees
D) cottonwood trees
  • 15. The winters on the Oklahoma prairies are ___________.
A) snowy and cold
B) filled with scissortails
C) warm and mild
D) hot and humid
  • 16. Where does the storyteller mean by saying "I have heard of a land where the flapjacks spread out big as wagon wheels"?
A) people there make flapjacks in very large sizes
B) In the new land,there is plenty of food
C) pancakes are cooked in round frying pans
D) many people share one pancake
  • 17. What is this selection about?
A) people who like to live where they do everything themselves
B) a land that has cottonwood trees and coyotes
C) Oklahoma,where the land is free
D) a woman who wants to build a new life where anything is possible
  • 18. What does the storyteller mean when she says that a pioneer woman's possibilities "reach as far as her eyes can see"?
A) the possibilities are endless
B) she can see things in the distance
C) she is running out of possibilities
D) only things that are nearby are possible.
  • 19. Some sod huts are made by cutting up squares of soil and piecing them together to make a house.In this selection,what is the sod hut like?
A) it is real big
B) It is dug into the ground or the side of a hill.
C) the hut has grass all on it
  • 20. How did pioneers build their homes?
A) by getting their friends to help them
B) Neighbors worked together-men,women,and their children- to build a cabin,log by log
C) they paid someone to come to town to buld their homes
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Answer Key

1.A  2.B  3.A  4.C  5.C  6.C  7.B  8.D  9.B  10.B  
11.A  12.B  13.B  14.B  15.A  16.B  17.D  18.A  19.B  20.B  

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