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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Edwards tell Ma about the Indians?
(a) They are all camped in the shelter of the bluffs
(b) They have all left
(c) They attacked the two bachelors last night
(d) They are meeting with the government next week

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

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

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

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

6. What does Pa tell Laura the government will do about the Indians?
(a) They will let the Indians stay and share the land
(b) They will sent the Indians west
(c) They will send the Indians south
(d) They will imprison the Indians

7. What does Pa see in the treetops on his way home from the Scotts’?
(a) A Great Horned Owl
(b) An Indian scout
(c) A panther
(d) Nothing, it is night

8. What does Pa do when he decides to take Jack to the Indian camp with him?
(a) Pours water into a canteen for Jack to drink
(b) Makes Jack a long leash
(c) Leaves his gun for Ma
(d) Makes a quick collar for Jack out of an old belt

9. For what does Ma say they planned to use the bundle of furs the Indians did not take?
(a) The white sugar from Independence
(b) The plow and seed
(c) Salted pork
(d) Cornmeal and oats

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

11. What massacre does Mrs. Scott talk to Ma about?
(a) Wounded Knee Massacreq
(b) Fort Laramie Massacre
(c) The Homesteader Massacre
(d) The Minnesota Massacre

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

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

14. Who helps Laura get Mary water when the family is sick?
(a) Ma
(b) Pa
(c) Mr. Edwards
(d) Jack

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Laura bolt upright in the bed and scream?

2. How do Pa and Ma fight the fire?

3. What does Ma say she and the girls would have done if the fire had come while Pa was gone?

4. How did the cowboys and Pa bring a cow to their homestead?

5. Where does Pa go the second day after the Indians rode away?

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