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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 did Laura do with Mary and Carrie when a burning stick fell into the cabin?
(a) Pulled the rocking chair away from the stick
(b) Slapped Mary to get her out of her paralyzed fear
(c) Nothing
(d) Yelled at Mary and grabbed Carrie

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

3. What does Ma say she feels after they watch the last of the Indians go by?
(a) Very happy
(b) Uncertain
(c) Let down
(d) Still afraid

4. What does Pa see in the treetops on his way home from the Scotts’?
(a) An Indian scout
(b) Nothing, it is night
(c) A Great Horned Owl
(d) A panther

5. What happens to Laura when she falls asleep waiting for her Pa to come home?
(a) Nothing happens to her
(b) She falls asleep at the kitchen table
(c) She begins to hear Indians at the door
(d) She goes to sleep and falls off the bench

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pa do to prepare for possible problems with the Indians?

2. Why does Pa look pleased when he comes in from plowing?

3. What does Pa say about the old trail by the house?

4. How did the cowboys and Pa bring a cow to their homestead?

5. What do the girls wear to bed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the family end up getting from the cattlemen and what does Pa get from it that night?

2. What does Pa agree to do for the cattlemen who come by the house and what do they offer him?

3. What happens when Mr. Edwards stops by to do chores when Pa goes to Independence?

4. What does Pa do after the Indians quiet down and some leave? Who does he meet and what does Pa find out about the Indians?

5. What does Pa begin to do in the spring and why is he doing it?

6. What do Pa and Mr. Scott hit before they get water in the well and what does Laura think of the water?

7. What do Mary and Laura do with their findings from the Indian village?

8. How does Jack, Pa and Ma feel about all the Indians going down the trail?

9. What does Pa eat when he feels better and what does Mrs. Scott think of his choice of foods?

10. How do Mary and Laura find out there is something going on with the Indians and what does Pa say is happening?

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