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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Laura running as the three of them returned home from the village?
(a) She was racing Jack
(b) She was excited to show Ma her beads
(c) She was very hungry
(d) Her father was walking too fast for her to keep up

2. What kind of berries do Ma and Laura go to pick?
(a) Strawberries
(b) Blueberries
(c) Blackberries
(d) Raspberries

3. Where does Mr. Edwards tell the girls Santa said he last saw Edwards?
(a) When he was a young man on the Mississippi
(b) When he was lying on a cornhusk mattress in Tennessee
(c) In Wisconsin
(d) At his cabin on the prairie

4. What does Pa say is the reason the prairie was burned?
(a) Someone became careless with a campfire
(b) The Indians set it to drive off the white settlers
(c) Indians do it every year to make a clear way for their horses
(d) Lightning struck the prairie somewhere

5. What does Pa tell Ma to do when he hands her four dead geese?
(a) Cook only one
(b) Save the feathers
(c) Hang them outside
(d) He will take a dressed bird to Mr. Edwards

6. Who is giving Laura medicine when she wakes up one day?
(a) Dr. Tan
(b) Ma
(c) Dr. Kotte
(d) An Indian medicine man

7. What does Pa do when they first get back from the Indian village?
(a) Milk the cow
(b) Take a bath
(c) Feed Jack dinner
(d) Chop wood

8. What does Laura do with the stick that is on fire on the cabin floor?
(a) Throws it outside
(b) Stomps it out
(c) Throws it in the fireplace
(d) Throws a bucket of water on it

9. What does Pa say some of the settlers are talking about doing?
(a) Leaving the area
(b) Building a stockade
(c) Going and talking with the Indians
(d) Forming a militia

10. What does Pa say is the reasons the Indians are leaving in different directions?
(a) The Indians do not know where the buffalo are
(b) The Indians are going to surround the white settlers
(c) The Indians have quarreled among themselves
(d) The soldiers have told the Indians to go home

11. Who is leading the Indians who ride past the house in Chapter 27?
(a) Chief Du Chene
(b) American cavalrymen
(c) Five Indian chiefs
(d) Chief Running Iron

12. On what does Mrs. Scott blame the Ingalls’ illness?
(a) Eating watermelons
(b) The water in the well
(c) The mosquitoes
(d) The berries they ate

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

14. What does Pa do to prepare for possible problems with the Indians?
(a) Teaches the girls how to fire the pistol
(b) Teaches Jack to attack on command
(c) Uses all of his lead and makes bullets
(d) Muds the outside of the house so it will not burn

15. What task must soon be done as the spring comes?
(a) Digging a new cellar
(b) Buying new land
(c) Building a bridge
(d) Plowing

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ma do when the girls hear the Indians in the distance?

2. Why does Pa chain Jack to the stable door at night?

3. What does Pa tell the Scotts is the reason he came to their house in the middle of the night?

4. What does Pa do when he decides to take Jack to the Indian camp with him?

5. What kind of special treat does Pa bring from Independence?

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