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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 does Pa tell the girls not to play with down at the creek?
(a) Spiders
(b) Snakes
(c) Rocks
(d) Frogs

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

3. Why didn’t Mary want to play hop-scotch?
(a) She does not think it to be ladylike
(b) She always loses to Laura
(c) She has a sore foot
(d) She wants to sew instead

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

5. What does Mr. Edwards say Santa was riding when Santa was in Independence?
(a) A large bay horse
(b) He was riding a large elk
(c) A sleigh pulled by mules
(d) A huge mule with donkeys loaded with presents

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the cowboys singing?

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

3. What does Pa say they are taking out of Indian country with them that they didn’t have when they arrived?

4. What does Pa feed Pet and Patty when he chains them to the feed-box?

5. With what does Ma stuff the bedstead mattress?

(see the answer key)

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