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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the girls say the Indians had eaten in the village?
(a) Quail
(b) Rabbits
(c) Cornmeal pancakes
(d) Fried Indian bread

2. What does Pa do with Pet and Patty when the fire is coming?
(a) Sends them to the creek
(b) Puts them behind the house
(c) Plows a furrow between the fire and the house
(d) Leaves them on the plow while he draws buckets of water

3. Who does Pa say has ridden past the house in the night?
(a) The Osage Pa has talked to
(b) Mr. Edwards
(c) Some soldiers
(d) No one he knows

4. What does Pa say they are taking out of Indian country with them that they didn’t have when they arrived?
(a) Experience
(b) A mule
(c) A cow and calf
(d) A lot of furs and seed

5. What are bothering the girls at the creek?
(a) There is a crow that keeps buzzing them
(b) Horseflies
(c) Mosquitoes
(d) Jack is barking too much

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Pa look pleased when he comes in from plowing?

2. How much milk does Pa get from the cow the first time he milks her?

3. What does Pa say the noise from the Indians is?

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

5. What massacre does Mrs. Scott talk to Ma about?

(see the answer key)

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