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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Laura do with Mary and Carrie when a burning stick fell into the cabin?
(a) Pulled the rocking chair away from the stick
(b) Nothing
(c) Yelled at Mary and grabbed Carrie
(d) Slapped Mary to get her out of her paralyzed fear

2. 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

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

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

5. Who is taking care of the family when they are sick?
(a) The two bachelors
(b) Mrs. Scott
(c) Mr. Edwards
(d) No one

6. Who told Pa that the Indians wanted to kill all the settlers?
(a) Mr. Scott
(b) A soldier who came by the house.
(c) No one
(d) An Osage Indian

7. Why does Pa chain Jack to the stable door at night?
(a) Jack likes to sleep with the horses
(b) Mr. Edwards’ horses had been stolen
(c) To keep him from running off
(d) Jack cannot sleep in the house when Pa is there

8. What language does Pa think the Indian was speaking?
(a) He had no idea
(b) French
(c) Spanish
(d) Shoshone

9. What does Pa say about the old trail by the house?
(a) He did not know Indians still used it
(b) It is not used by the deer
(c) The animals use it to get to the water
(d) It is called a low road

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

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

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

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

14. What do the girls wear to bed?
(a) Flannel pajama pants
(b) Cotton gingham nightgowns
(c) Red flannel nightgowns
(d) Flower-pattern nightgowns

15. What kind of symptoms does the Ingalls family have when they fall sick?
(a) Aches and cold and hot flashes
(b) Severe headaches and high fevers
(c) Throwing up and not be able to eat
(d) Running noses, congested lungs and sore throats

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Edwards tell Ma about the Indians?

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

3. What does Mr. Edwards say he did to get to the Ingalls house Christmas morning?

4. Who does Pa say has ridden past the house in the night?

5. What does Pa see in the treetops on his way home from the Scotts’?

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