10 questions
Why did Jack and Annie decide to check the tree house that day?
A rabbit hopped by
They saw Peanut the mouse
They had lots of time before dinner
Morgan le Fay called them
What are Annie and Jack going to become?
World travelers
Master Librarians
Geographers
Astronauts
What were Jack and Annie going to do with the colt?
Go for a ride on him
Find his owner
Get him a drink of water
Take him to his mother
What did Slim feed Jack and Annie for breakfast?
Pancakes and eggs
B: Cereal
C: Fried rattlesnake
D: Hard biscuits and bitter coffee
What was the answer to the riddle?
A loon, the ghost
B: An echo
C: Lonesome Luke
D: Slim
A sentence in the selection says, "These communities boomed as miners sought gold, silver, copper, or other precious minerals but died out when all of the ore was panned from streams or blasted from rocky tunnels." What does boomed mean?
failed
grew quickly
slowed
made loud noises
What happened to most of the towns if the railroad did not run close by?
Artists and writers moved in
They became farm communities.
People carried the buildings to the railroad.
They became ghost towns.
Which of the following is a statement of opinion?
In cowboy towns, cattle were driven to other towns, then shipped to markets in the East.
The Gold Rush was the best adventure ever!
However, the town lasted only a few months, at least at that site.
The waves of western migration reached a peak between 1860 and 1880.
What genre is The Magic Treehouse: Ghost Towns at Sundown?
realistic fiction
historical fiction
expository nonfiction
fairy tale
What is the best text structure of this book?
Compare/Contrast
Problem/Solution
Description
Inform