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