Q 01/05

In Farmer Boy, what name does Almanzo give the colt his father finally lets him keep?

A) Thunder

B) Starlight

C) Prince

D) Lightning

Answer · why

B) Starlight

Starlight, named for the white star on his forehead, is the reward for choosing farm life over a trade in town. Almanzo had spent the whole book provi...

Q 02/05

Farmer Boy tells the childhood of which member of author Laura Ingalls Wilder's family?

A) Her father

B) Her brother

C) Her grandfather

D) Her husband

Answer · why

D) Her husband

Her husband, Almanzo Wilder, grew up on a prosperous farm in the 1860s. The book steps away from Laura's own pioneer childhood to follow his, a full y...

Q 03/05

In Farmer Boy, what does an angry Almanzo let fly, leaving a black splotch on the parlor wall?

A) A stove-blacking brush

B) An open ink bottle

C) A lump of coal

D) A bottle of boot polish

Answer · why

A) A stove-blacking brush

A stove-blacking brush sails past his sister's head while their parents are away, and she quietly patches the wallpaper. Restorers of the real farmhou...

Q 04/05

In Farmer Boy, what does Almanzo raise on milk and enter at the County Fair to win first prize?

A) A calf

B) A watermelon

C) A pumpkin

D) A lamb

Answer · why

C) A pumpkin

A pumpkin fed on milk grows so huge that Almanzo cannot lift it, or even roll it over. He frets that the judges might call the milk trick cheating, bu...

Q 05/05

In Farmer Boy, what does Almanzo buy with the half-dollar his father hands him in town?

A) A bag of candy

B) A piglet

C) A fishing rod

D) A pocket watch

Answer · why

B) A piglet

A piglet was his father's own suggestion: raised well, she could produce a litter worth far more than fifty cents. Almanzo names her Lucy and feeds he...