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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ma do when the girls hear the Indians in the distance?
(a) Takes out Pa's pistol
(b) Brings the girls and Jack inside and locks the doors
(c) Tells them to ignore it
(d) Loads the cannon for battle

2. Where are the men taking the cattle?
(a) Independence
(b) Fort Dodge
(c) Kansas City
(d) Fort Laramie

3. Why did the cattle move so slowly?
(a) They ground was too rocky to run
(b) The herd was mostly cows with calves
(c) The cowboys' horses moved slowly
(d) They stopped to eat a lot

4. What surprise does Pa bring Ma from Independence?
(a) Two new pots and a hair comb
(b) A baby crib
(c) A new bolt of blue cloth
(d) Glass for the windows

5. What does Pa think caused the illness?
(a) The mosquitoes
(b) The cow's milk
(c) The night air
(d) He has no opinion

6. What does Ma say she and the girls would have done if the fire had come while Pa was gone?
(a) Stayed in the house
(b) Gone to the Indian camp
(c) Run to Mr. Edwards
(d) Gone to the creek

7. What do the pioneers call malaria?
(a) Fever 'n Augue
(b) The sleeping sickness
(c) Croup
(d) Chilblains

8. How much milk does Pa get from the cow the first time he milks her?
(a) About a cup
(b) Half a bucket
(c) None
(d) A bucketful

9. What game do Mary and Laura play with Carrie?
(a) Round the Bedstead
(b) Hide-and-Seek
(c) Patty-cake
(d) Go Call the Goose

10. What does Pa make Ma while he is recovering from the illness?
(a) A bread box
(b) A rocking chair
(c) A hair brush
(d) A spinning wheel

11. What does Pa say the noise from the Indians is?
(a) A jamboree
(b) Their spring meetup
(c) A dance
(d) A war chant

12. What is preventing Pa from playing the fiddle at night?
(a) It is raining too much
(b) Carrie is having a hard time sleeping at night
(c) He has broken one of the strings on his fiddle
(d) There are too many mosquitoes out

13. What do the cowboys tell Pa they will give him for his help?
(a) A new cow
(b) Two cows and a bull
(c) A cow, a bull, and a calf
(d) A side of beef

14. What was in the very bottom of the girls’ stockings?
(a) A shiny, new penny
(b) A handful of Indian beads
(c) A chocolate heart
(d) A small necklace

15. What does Pa tell Ma the folks in Independence are saying about the Indians?
(a) The Indians are going to leave for the west
(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 have said only the people there now can stay

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Laura when she falls asleep waiting for her Pa to come home?

2. What is in the middle of the combs Pa brings Mary and Laura?

3. Who told Pa that the Indians wanted to kill all the settlers?

4. What do the girls say the Indians had eaten in the village?

5. What happens to Mr. Edwards when he visits them after Pa goes to Independence?

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