Land of Their Own

What is the theme of this passage?

• Hard work is needed to reach goals.

• Reaching goals takes a lot of money.

• All people share the dream of owning land.

• Older children always take care of younger children.

Read this sentence from the passage.

What does the simile as quiet as a mouse mean?

• loudly

• nervously

• sadly

• silently

What word from the passage means "to hold back" and is also the name for a song part that is repeated?

• fabric

• refrain

• scraps

• tightly

Why did the Carpenters want a farm of their own?

• They wanted to try growing new types of crops.

• They thoughts they could make a lot of money as farmers.

• They were bored with working the same land over and over.

• They spend many years working on farms that belonged to others.

Which word from the passage is a homograph for the word defined above?

• cooking

• hack

• jerky

• traveled

Read this sentence from the passage.

Which definition fits forge as it is used in the sentence above?

• move ahead

• make false money

• form metal with heat

• visit a blacksmith shop

Why do the Carpenters want to live in Kansas

• They do not want to be enslaved workers again.

• They want to live where there was never slavery.

• They heard the land was better in Kansas than in Tennessee.

• They do not want to meet any of the enslaved workers they once knew.

What evidence from the text tells you why Althea has to "refrain from crying"?

• The trip to Kansas was long and difficult.

• Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter were born into slavery.

• She knew she may never see her friends again.

• At last, the Carpenter family had land of their own.

Dorothy gave Althea a doll because she

• knows Althea liked dolls.

• wants Althea to remember her.

• has an extra doll that she does not use.

• is giving Althea an early birthday present.

Read this sentence from the passage.

Which definitions fits hack as it is used in the sentence above?

• manage

• cough dryly

• chop roughly

• carry for money