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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are bothering the girls at the creek?
(a) Jack is barking too much
(b) There is a crow that keeps buzzing them
(c) Mosquitoes
(d) Horseflies

2. What does Pa think caused the illness?
(a) The night air
(b) He has no opinion
(c) The cow's milk
(d) The mosquitoes

3. What is Laura doing at breakfast that her mother tells her to stop?
(a) Reading a book
(b) Pushing on Mary
(c) Singing
(d) Playing with her food

4. What method does Pa use to build the fireplace?
(a) Stone-set overlay
(b) Cross patch square
(c) Mortar and tar chinking
(d) Stick-and-daub

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ma complain about when Jack comes into the camp?

2. What does Laura do with the stick that is on fire on the cabin floor?

3. What did Pa use to finish off the logs he cut to open up the fireplace?

4. What does Pa do every morning before going down into the well he is digging?

5. What does Pa tell Laura could have caused trouble with the Indians?

(see the answer key)

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