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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What wakes Laura in the middle of the night in Chapter 7?
(a) Carrie crying
(b) Her Pa drops his gun while cleaning it
(c) Wolf howls
(d) A cougar screams

2. Where do Laura and Ma make the beds in Chapter 5?
(a) They don't make any beds
(b) Under the wagon body
(c) Under the wagon canvas
(d) Near the fire ring

3. How does the family cross the Missouri River?
(a) On a bridge
(b) At a ford
(c) They do not cross the river but travel alongside it
(d) On a raft

4. How does Pa hold together the cabin door?
(a) With nails
(b) With ropes
(c) With sinews
(d) With pegs

5. What does Ma do with the dish-cloth when she finishes the dishes?
(a) Hangs it on the wagon
(b) Lays it out on some tall grass
(c) Hangs it on a clothesline
(d) Hangs it on a branch

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pa do with Jack when Pa leaves?

2. What does Pa plan to make after he lays the floor?

3. What does the family hear during the night of their first night traveling?

4. How far away does the nearest neighbor live?

5. What does Laura tell her Ma Laura would like to see now that they are in Indian territory?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the family do after Pa and Mr. Edwards finish the house, except for the roof?

2. How does Pa finish the fireplace and what does Ma do when he finishes it?

3. What does Laura tell her Ma she wants to see relating to Indians and what does Laura’s Ma tell her?

4. How does Jack appear at the camp on the prairie?

5. How does Laura end up wading in the creek?

6. Why does the family stop after traveling for a few hours?

7. How does Pa and Ma start the house and what happens to Ma as they are building the house?

8. What do Laura and Mary do after breakfast?

9. How does Pa encounter a huge wolf pack and what does he do when they are around him?

10. What does Pa do every morning when digging the well with Mr. Scott and what happens to Mr. Scott in the well one morning?

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