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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What do the men hit at the bottom of the well before water?
(a) Rock
(b) Clay
(c) Nothing
(d) Quicksand

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

5. Where does the family spend the night the first day on the road?
(a) At a trade station
(b) At Pepin
(c) In an abandoned cabin
(d) At Ma's parents' house

6. Where does the Ingalls family live at the opening of the book?
(a) Kansas
(b) Missouri
(c) Minnesota
(d) Wisconsin

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

8. Why does Ma cook outside after they move into the nearly finished house?
(a) The fireplace is not built
(b) Ma likes to feel the breeze and the sun when she cooks
(c) IT is too hot to cook inside
(d) The stove has not yet been set up

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

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

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

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

13. What does Mr. Edwards tell Laura he is?
(a) A failed banker
(b) An outlaw
(c) A wildcat
(d) A fur trapper

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

15. What river is near the Ingalls’ homestead site?
(a) The Mississippi River
(b) The Snake River
(c) The Verdigris River
(d) The Missouri River

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first food Ma cooked in the new fireplace?

2. What does Pa plan to make after he lays the floor?

3. Where does Pa get the nails to use on the roof?

4. With what does Ma stuff the bedstead mattress?

5. What does Pa do with Jack when Pa leaves?

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