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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pa tell Laura could have caused trouble with the Indians?
(a) If they had taken one of the girls
(b) If Ma had not handed over the meat
(c) If Jack had bitten one of them
(d) If the Indians had killed Jack

2. Where do Laura and Ma make the beds in Chapter 5?
(a) They don't make any beds
(b) Under the wagon body
(c) Near the fire ring
(d) Under the wagon canvas

3. Why does Laura worry about Jack and the crossing of the creek?
(a) Jack has very short hair and the water is very cold
(b) Pa will not let Jack ride in the wagon
(c) Jack does not know how to swim
(d) Jack will not stay in the wagon

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

5. Who are in the house when two Indians enter it?
(a) Ma and Carrie
(b) Mary and Ma
(c) Ma
(d) Mary and Carrie

6. What kind of trees were around the place Pa chooses for a house?
(a) Oak
(b) None
(c) Pine
(d) Beech

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

8. What kind of floor does Pa make for the cabin?
(a) A brick floor
(b) He leaves the floor dirt
(c) A puncheon floor
(d) Gravel

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

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

11. Who does Pa say is living about nine miles away?
(a) Two bachelors
(b) No one
(c) The Olsons
(d) Two families who are living together

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

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

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

15. Where does Jack sleep the night he returns?
(a) In the wagon
(b) With the horses
(c) Under the wagon
(d) Under a tree

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Pa fasten the barn door shut?

2. What do Laura and Pa wish when they hear wolves?

3. What does Pa say very large wolves are called?

4. What do the men hit at the bottom of the well before water?

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

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