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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the Ingalls family live at the opening of the book?
(a) Missouri
(b) Kansas
(c) Minnesota
(d) Wisconsin

2. Why does Ma cook outside after they move into the nearly finished house?
(a) Ma likes to feel the breeze and the sun when she cooks
(b) The stove has not yet been set up
(c) The fireplace is not built
(d) IT is too hot to cook inside

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

4. How far from Independence does Pa say they are in Chapter 4?
(a) 100 miles
(b) 40 miles
(c) 35 miles
(d) 60 miles

5. What does the family hear during the night of their first night traveling?
(a) Howling wolves
(b) A tornado
(c) The ice breaking on the lake
(d) Two stags fighting

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the family have for breakfast the morning after Jack returns?

2. Where does Pa decide to move the family?

3. What do Laura and Pa wish when they hear wolves?

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

5. How is the family carrying their supplies and the people?

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