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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 say is the reason the prairie was burned?
(a) Indians do it every year to make a clear way for their horses
(b) Someone became careless with a campfire
(c) The Indians set it to drive off the white settlers
(d) Lightning struck the prairie somewhere

2. What are the first two logs Pa put into a ditch for the house called?
(a) Studs
(b) Sills
(c) Joists
(d) Foundation beams

3. What does Mr. Edwards tell Ma about the Indians?
(a) They attacked the two bachelors last night
(b) They are all camped in the shelter of the bluffs
(c) They are meeting with the government next week
(d) They have all left

4. How did the cowboys and Pa bring a cow to their homestead?
(a) They drove her with a herd dog
(b) They walked her on a rope
(c) They pulled her by ropes tied to her horns
(d) They hobbled her legs so she could not run

5. What does Pa tell Ma the folks in Independence are saying about the Indians?
(a) The Indians have said only the people there now can stay
(b) The government is going to make the white people leave the Indain land
(c) The Indians are going to start a war
(d) The Indians are going to leave for the west

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Pa go the second day after the Indians rode away?

2. What do the cowboys tell Pa they will give him for his help?

3. Where does Pa find Mr. Scott one morning?

4. Who is the only person Pet let touch her colt?

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

(see the answer key)

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