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