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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ma fix Pa when he comes in from Independence?
(a) A hot chicken sandwich with gravy
(b) A plate of eggs and salt pork
(c) A cup of coffee with brown sugar
(d) A cup of hot tea

2. Who is giving Laura medicine when she wakes up one day?
(a) An Indian medicine man
(b) Dr. Kotte
(c) Dr. Tan
(d) Ma

3. What does Pa wonder when they hear the Indian war cry over and over?
(a) How many he can kill before they get his family
(b) How the Indians learned to make the war cry
(c) If the Indians are coming that night
(d) If the Scotts and Mr. Edwards could hear the Indians

4. What does Pa make Ma while he is recovering from the illness?
(a) A spinning wheel
(b) A bread box
(c) A hair brush
(d) A rocking chair

5. What does Laura do with the stick that is on fire on the cabin floor?
(a) Throws it outside
(b) Stomps it out
(c) Throws it in the fireplace
(d) Throws a bucket of water on it

6. Why was Bunny shut in the stable?
(a) She has colic
(b) So she would not follow her mother
(c) She has a lame leg
(d) She is ready to birth a colt

7. Who is leading the Indians who ride past the house in Chapter 27?
(a) Chief Du Chene
(b) Five Indian chiefs
(c) American cavalrymen
(d) Chief Running Iron

8. Where is Pa when the chimney catches on fire?
(a) At Independence
(b) Hunting
(c) Helping Mr. Edwards
(d) Cutting logs

9. What does Ma do when an Indian comes in the house and speaks to Pa?
(a) Makes both Pa and the Indian dinner
(b) Sends the girls to the barn
(c) She ties Jack to the bed and hides Pa’s pistol
(d) Sits down with Pa and the Indian

10. What does Pa do when he comes in early from plowing?
(a) Hitches Pet and Patty to the wagon.
(b) Does all his chores and puts the animals in the barn
(c) Gets his gun to go hunting
(d) Takes his Saturday bath.

11. What does Ma say she and the girls would have done if the fire had come while Pa was gone?
(a) Gone to the Indian camp
(b) Run to Mr. Edwards
(c) Gone to the creek
(d) Stayed in the house

12. What does Mary and Laura do with their beads?
(a) Sew them on their shoes
(b) Sew them on their dresses
(c) Give them to their Ma
(d) Make a necklace for Carrie

13. What task must soon be done as the spring comes?
(a) Plowing
(b) Buying new land
(c) Building a bridge
(d) Digging a new cellar

14. What does Pa tell Laura the government will do about the Indians?
(a) They will sent the Indians west
(b) They will imprison the Indians
(c) They will send the Indians south
(d) They will let the Indians stay and share the land

15. Why does Pa bring Jack into the house the night he stops plowing early?
(a) The Indians are making more and more noise
(b) He is going over to the Scotts
(c) Jack needs a bath too
(d) The girls want to play with him

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the girls wear to bed?

2. How much milk does Pa get from the cow the first time he milks her?

3. What does Mr. Edwards say he did to get to the Ingalls house Christmas morning?

4. What does Pa say is the reasons the Indians are leaving in different directions?

5. What happens to Mr. Edwards when he visits them after Pa goes to Independence?

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