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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 is Laura doing at breakfast that her mother tells her to stop?
(a) Singing
(b) Playing with her food
(c) Reading a book
(d) Pushing on Mary

2. What happens to the wagon as they cross the creek?
(a) The right rear wheel gets stuck in the sandy bottom
(b) Nothing happens
(c) The front brake smashes on a rock
(d) One of the horses stumbles in the water

3. What method does Pa use to build the fireplace?
(a) Mortar and tar chinking
(b) Cross patch square
(c) Stick-and-daub
(d) Stone-set overlay

4. Why does Pa fill the tub with water in Chapter 4?
(a) For the horses to drink
(b) So Ma can do the laundry
(c) So the family can bathe
(d) So they can bathe Jack

5. What happened to Ma when a log fell on her?
(a) It sprained her ankle
(b) It broke her ankle
(c) It sprained her arm
(d) It killed her

Short Answer Questions

1. What family does Pat say lives three miles away?

2. Why does Laura worry about Jack and the crossing of the creek?

3. What are the first two logs Pa put into a ditch for the house called?

4. Where do Laura and Ma make the beds in Chapter 5?

5. What does Pa build after he builds the bedstead?

(see the answer key)

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