Learning With Little House:
By the Shores of Silver Lake Trivia

"By the Shores of Silver Lake" by Laura Ingalls Wilder was the fourth book in the Little House on the Prairie series and the third book about Laura's childhood. In this book, Laura's family finally settles more permanently and "makes a bet with Uncle Sam".

Questions:

1. Which relative comes to visit the Ingalls family unexpectedly while they are living at Plum Creek?

2. How far can the train that Ma and the girls take to Tracy go in one hour?

3. What do Laura and Lena pick up from the homesteader's wife?

4. What does Lena teach Laura to do in the afternoon?

5. What bird does Pa shoot by mistake?

6. Whose house does the Ingalls family live in for the winter?

7. What is the "prairie cure" supposed to be good for?

8. What two dances does Pa teach Laura and Mary?

9. Why do Laura and Carrie run back to the house after sledding in the moonlight?

10. What is used to trim Grace's Christmas coat?

11. Whose laugh is contagious?

12. What surprise does Mrs. Boast "smuggle" on Christmas Eve?

13. Who tells Mary there is a school for the blind?

14. Who helps Pa file his homestead claim?

15. Who gets lost while Pa is planting trees?

16. What flowers grow in the buffalo wallow?



Answers:



1. Aunt Docia

2. 20 miles

3. the washing

4. ride a horse

5. a swan

6. the suveyor's house

7. consumption

8. the polka and the waltz

9. they saw a wolf

10. swan's down

11. Mr. Boast's

12. popcorn

13. Rev. Alden

14. Mr. Edwards

15. Grace

16. violets

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