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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pa do when he comes home?
(a) Starts to clean the logs he brought
(b) Skins a rabbit
(c) Plays the fiddle
(d) Goes after the Indians

2. What did Pa use to finish off the logs he cut to open up the fireplace?
(a) Green oak slabs
(b) Metal sheeting
(c) He used more rocks
(d) Flat rocks

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

4. What does Pa build after he builds the bedstead?
(a) A clothes wardrobe
(b) A locked cabinet for their supplies
(c) Kitchen cabinets
(d) A dog house for Jack

5. What does Pa use for a temporary roof?
(a) The wagon canvas
(b) Tree branches tied together
(c) Thatch
(d) Woven prairie grasses

Short Answer Questions

1. How far from Independence does Pa say they are in Chapter 4?

2. What does Laura consider doing when the Indians enter the house?

3. Where does the family spend the night the first day on the road?

4. How does the family come to own two mustangs?

5. What do the men hit at the bottom of the well before water?

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