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Boom Town Comprehension
Contributed by: 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) learn to read
B) work all day without pay
C) strike it rich
D) make his wife happy
  • 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) beautiful
B) happy
C) boring
D) funny
  • 5. Because Pa lives in the gold fields during the week, he ______.
A) picks apples for pies
B) can't find pans for Amanda
C) helps Amanda's pie business get started
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 were no pie pans and there was no oven
C) Amanda was poor at baking pies
D) there wasn't enough flour for a pie crust
  • 7. Amanda was ________ about baking pies.
A) foolish
B) angry
C) grateful
D) persistent
  • 8. The main reason Amanda was successful at baking her first pie was that ______.
A) Ma ended up making it for her
B) Pa came home to encourage her
C) her brothers finally decided to help
D) she learned to solver her problem a different way
  • 9. Pa came home with money on Saturday night because he had _______.
A) sold Amanda's pie
B) traded his horse
C) landed another job
D) struck gold
  • 10. Many of the miners decide that ______.
A) it is easier to get rich doing something else
B) living apart from your family is too hard
C) mining for gold is an easy way to get rich
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) town gets its start
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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