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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ma decide to do after the girls go to bed the night before Christmas?
(a) Sings Christmas carols with Pa
(b) Goes to bed early
(c) Help Pa erect a bridge
(d) Hang their stockings

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

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

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

5. How does Pa get his boots off?
(a) Ma helps him
(b) He uses a shoe horn
(c) He never takes them off
(d) He uses a bootjack

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

7. What does Ma do when an Indian comes in the house and speaks to Pa?
(a) She ties Jack to the bed and hides Pa’s pistol
(b) Sits down with Pa and the Indian
(c) Sends the girls to the barn
(d) Makes both Pa and the Indian dinner

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

9. What does Pa do when he comes in early from plowing?
(a) Takes his Saturday bath.
(b) Hitches Pet and Patty to the wagon.
(c) Does all his chores and puts the animals in the barn
(d) Gets his gun to go hunting

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

11. What is sod?
(a) The high tops of the prairie grass
(b) The thick, tangled grass roots
(c) Rich, black dirt
(d) The roots and leaves of the prairie grass

12. What does Pa bring into the house the day before Christmas?
(a) A wooly mammoth
(b) A large turkey
(c) Five quail
(d) A small boar

13. What happens to Mr. Edwards when he visits them after Pa goes to Independence?
(a) He sprains his ankle
(b) He breaks his finger using the axe
(c) Jack chases him up the woodpile
(d) Nothing happens to him

14. What do the girls say the Indians had eaten in the village?
(a) Fried Indian bread
(b) Rabbits
(c) Cornmeal pancakes
(d) Quail

15. What does Mr. Edwards say Santa was riding when Santa was in Independence?
(a) He was riding a large elk
(b) A large bay horse
(c) A sleigh pulled by mules
(d) A huge mule with donkeys loaded with presents

Short Answer Questions

1. What game do Mary and Laura play with Carrie?

2. How much milk does Pa get from the cow the first time he milks her?

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

4. What do the pioneers call malaria?

5. What does Pa say the noise from the Indians is?

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