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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the family come to own two mustangs?
(a) Pa buys them
(b) They find them attached to a wagon whose owner is dead
(c) Pa trades their horses for them
(d) Pa catches them wild on the prairie

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

3. What kind of hinges does Pa put on the cabin door?
(a) Leather ones
(b) Wood ones
(c) He does not use hinges because the door is sliding
(d) Metal ones

4. What does the family have for breakfast the morning after Jack returns?
(a) Cheese and toast
(b) Eggs and ham
(c) Porridge and milk
(d) Pancakes and bacon

5. What family does Pat say lives three miles away?
(a) The Scotts
(b) The Parkers
(c) The Roberts
(d) The Flynns

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Edwards tell Laura he is?

2. How many piles of logs does Pa make over the days?

3. Why did Pa and Patty come galloping into the homestead in Chapter 7?

4. Where does Pa put Pet and Patty after he un-harnessed them?

5. What is Laura doing at breakfast that her mother tells her to stop?

(see the answer key)

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