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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unusual about the two bachelors’ house?
(a) It is built partially underground
(b) It is built so that the middle of the house is on the line between their two farms
(c) It is not a log cabin
(d) It has two floors

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

3. What does Pa do when they first get back from the Indian village?
(a) Feed Jack dinner
(b) Take a bath
(c) Chop wood
(d) Milk the cow

4. Why did Pa tell Ma to leave the house in Chapter 10?
(a) He is putting a roof on the house
(b) It was smoky inside the fireplace
(c) He wants to paint the walls
(d) He is chinking the inside with smelly tar

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were there small holes in the ground at the Indian camp?

2. How does the family get the goods they need to travel?

3. What does Pa do every morning before going down into the well he is digging?

4. Where does the Ingalls family live at the opening of the book?

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

(see the answer key)

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