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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Pa go at the beginning of Chapter 11?
(a) Hunting
(b) To Independence
(c) Down to the creek for more logs
(d) To work with Mr. Edwards

2. How does Pa hold together the cabin door?
(a) With nails
(b) With ropes
(c) With pegs
(d) With sinews

3. What do the girls have to clean out of the house before they can move into it?
(a) All the wood chips
(b) The mud splatters from chinking the walls
(c) All the grass on the floor
(d) Any insects or ants they can find

4. How does Pa bring logs up from the creek bottom?
(a) By horse
(b) He brings them down the creek
(c) He uses the stripped-down wagon
(d) He rolls them on the ground

5. How does Pa fasten the barn door shut?
(a) With a chain
(b) With a latch
(c) With a pole
(d) With a handle

6. What does Patty do when Pet tries to eat Patty’s food?
(a) Kicks Pet
(b) Pushes Pet away
(c) Stomps on Pet's foot
(d) Nips Pet with her teeth

7. When does Pa decide they are going to leave?
(a) The end of Winter
(b) At the end of Spring
(c) August
(d) Summer

8. What does the family hear during the night of their first night traveling?
(a) The ice breaking on the lake
(b) Two stags fighting
(c) A tornado
(d) Howling wolves

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

10. What did Ma do to help Pa build the house when the logs were three logs high?
(a) Helped him lift the logs up.
(b) Held one end of the top log while Pa put the other end up
(c) Ma did not help with the house.
(d) Pulled on the lever while he rolled the log.

11. What does Pa plan to make after he lays the floor?
(a) A watering trough
(b) A crib for Carrie
(c) Bunk beds for Laura and Mary
(d) A bedstead for Ma and Pa

12. Who is the only person Pet let touch her colt?
(a) Ma
(b) Pa
(c) Carrie
(d) Laura

13. Why did Pa and Patty come galloping into the homestead in Chapter 7?
(a) There was a cougar chasing them
(b) Pa wanted to stretch Patty's legs
(c) They spotted a huge wolf pack
(d) Pa cuts his leg while hunting

14. What does Pa do with Jack when Pa leaves?
(a) Ties him to the wagon wheel
(b) Chains him to the stable
(c) Leaves him running loose
(d) Stakes him in front of the house on a rope

15. With what does Ma stuff the bedstead mattress?
(a) Grass
(b) Old rags
(c) Down feathers
(d) Straw tick

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Laura doing at breakfast that her mother tells her to stop?

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

4. What kind of hinges does Pa put on the cabin door?

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

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