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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. What does Ma fix Pa when he comes in from Independence?
(a) A cup of hot tea
(b) A cup of coffee with brown sugar
(c) A hot chicken sandwich with gravy
(d) A plate of eggs and salt pork

3. 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) Sends the girls to the barn
(c) Makes both Pa and the Indian dinner
(d) Sits down with Pa and the Indian

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

5. What game do Mary and Laura play with Carrie?
(a) Hide-and-Seek
(b) Go Call the Goose
(c) Round the Bedstead
(d) Patty-cake

6. 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

7. What do the pioneers call malaria?
(a) The sleeping sickness
(b) Croup
(c) Chilblains
(d) Fever 'n Augue

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

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

10. What does Mary and Laura do with their beads?
(a) Give them to their Ma
(b) Sew them on their shoes
(c) Sew them on their dresses
(d) Make a necklace for Carrie

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

12. How did the cowboys and Pa bring a cow to their homestead?
(a) They pulled her by ropes tied to her horns
(b) They walked her on a rope
(c) They hobbled her legs so she could not run
(d) They drove her with a herd dog

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

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

15. What does Ma do with the first milk Pa gets from the cow?
(a) Makes butter
(b) Puts it into the cornbread
(c) Saves it for mashed potatoes
(d) Gives it to Carrie

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pa think caused the illness?

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

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

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

5. What does Pa say is the reasons the Indians are leaving in different directions?

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