2. How does the family come to own two mustangs?
(a) They find them attached to a wagon whose owner is dead
(b) Pa buys them
(c) Pa catches them wild on the prairie
(d) Pa trades their horses for them

3. Where does Pa find Mr. Scott one morning?
(a) Passed out in the bottom of the well
(b) Sleeping in the barn
(c) Feeding Jack venison
(d) Sitting on the front porch

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

5. How does the family get the goods they need to travel?
(a) They steal them
(b) They buy them with gold bullion
(c) They trade two cows for the needed supplies
(d) They trade for them with fur

6. What do the Indians make Ma do?
(a) Give them the quilts on the bed
(b) Give them money
(c) Make them cornbread
(d) Give them some meat from the storage area

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

8. What does Ma put on the mantel when it is finished?
(a) A china woman from Wisconsin
(b) A mantel clock
(c) Several cast iron pots
(d) Pictures of the family

9. Why does Pa want the family to move?
(a) He has lost his farm
(b) His brother is also moving there
(c) He believes that wild animals will overrun the area
(d) He thinks wild animals are being kept away from the area

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

11. What does Laura think of the water that comes from the bottom of the well?
(a) It seems to be a little cloudy
(b) It tastes like minerals
(c) It tastes a little like sulfur
(d) It is the best water she has ever had

12. What does Pa build after he builds the bedstead?
(a) A clothes wardrobe
(b) A dog house for Jack
(c) Kitchen cabinets
(d) A locked cabinet for their supplies

13. What does Laura tell her Ma Laura would like to see now that they are in Indian territory?
(a) An Indian village
(b) A papoose
(c) A teepee
(d) An Indian woman dressed in buckskins

14. What does Pa do every morning before going down into the well he is digging?
(a) Pours water from the creek into the well
(b) Changes into his old clothes
(c) Releases a bird into the well
(d) Sends a candle to the bottom

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