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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who helps Laura get Mary water when the family is sick?
(a) Jack
(b) Mr. Edwards
(c) Ma
(d) Pa

3. What does Mr. Edwards tell Ma about the Indians?
(a) They have all left
(b) They are meeting with the government next week
(c) They attacked the two bachelors last night
(d) They are all camped in the shelter of the bluffs

4. What does Ma do when the girls hear the Indians in the distance?
(a) Takes out Pa's pistol
(b) Loads the cannon for battle
(c) Brings the girls and Jack inside and locks the doors
(d) Tells them to ignore it

5. Who does Pa say is living about nine miles away?
(a) No one
(b) Two bachelors
(c) Two families who are living together
(d) The Olsons

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pa tell the Scotts is the reason he came to their house in the middle of the night?

2. Why was Bunny shut in the stable?

3. What do the girls wear to bed?

4. What does Pa say is the reason the prairie was burned?

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

(see the answer key)

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