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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where did the family with malaria come?
(a) Kentucky
(b) Minnesota
(c) Iowa
(d) Oklahoma

2. What does Ma complain about when Jack comes into the camp?
(a) Laura and Pa's screams wake the baby
(b) Laura gets all wet hugging him
(c) He is covered in thistles
(d) Jack wants food immediately

3. Where does the family spend the night the first day on the road?
(a) At Pepin
(b) At Ma's parents' house
(c) In an abandoned cabin
(d) At a trade station

4. What does Ma decide to do after the girls go to bed the night before Christmas?
(a) Goes to bed early
(b) Help Pa erect a bridge
(c) Hang their stockings
(d) Sings Christmas carols with Pa

5. What did Ma do to help Pa build the house when the logs were three logs high?
(a) Helped him lift the logs up.
(b) Held one end of the top log while Pa put the other end up
(c) Ma did not help with the house.
(d) Pulled on the lever while he rolled the log.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Pa decide to move the family?

2. Who helps Laura get Mary water when the family is sick?

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

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

5. With what does Ma stuff the bedstead mattress?

(see the answer key)

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