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

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

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

5. Why were there small holes in the ground at the Indian camp?
(a) The Indians used the holes for a game they played
(b) The holes were from teepee poles
(c) The camp was on the outskirts of a prairie dog community
(d) The holes were from drying racks for the Indians’ meat

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

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

8. What does Pa tell the Scotts is the reason he came to their house in the middle of the night?
(a) He thinks he heard a gunshot
(b) The cow ran away in their direction
(c) Jack ran off barking into the distance
(d) He does not talk to the Scotts

9. What does Ma say she feels after they watch the last of the Indians go by?
(a) Very happy
(b) Let down
(c) Still afraid
(d) Uncertain

10. Why didn’t Mary want to play hop-scotch?
(a) She has a sore foot
(b) She always loses to Laura
(c) She wants to sew instead
(d) She does not think it to be ladylike

11. What wakes the Ingalls in the night and causes Pa to jump out of his bed?
(a) A woman screaming
(b) The horses squealing
(c) Indians surrounding the house and yelling
(d) Wolves banging on the door

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

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

14. Why was Bunny shut in the stable?
(a) So she would not follow her mother
(b) She has a lame leg
(c) She has colic
(d) She is ready to birth a colt

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