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