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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Laura tell her Ma Laura would like to see now that they are in Indian territory?
(a) An Indian village
(b) A teepee
(c) An Indian woman dressed in buckskins
(d) A papoose

2. What do the girls have to clean out of the house before they can move into it?
(a) All the grass on the floor
(b) All the wood chips
(c) Any insects or ants they can find
(d) The mud splatters from chinking the walls

3. Why does Pa want the family to move?
(a) He believes that wild animals will overrun the area
(b) He has lost his farm
(c) He thinks wild animals are being kept away from the area
(d) His brother is also moving there

4. How does Pa hold together the cabin door?
(a) With pegs
(b) With sinews
(c) With ropes
(d) With nails

5. Where does Jack sleep the night he returns?
(a) Under a tree
(b) With the horses
(c) Under the wagon
(d) In the wagon

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Pa decide they are going to leave?

2. Where does Pa get the nails to use on the roof?

3. What does Ma do with the dish-cloth when she finishes the dishes?

4. What method does Pa use to build the fireplace?

5. How far away does the nearest neighbor live?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Pa finish the fireplace and what does Ma do when he finishes it?

2. What does Pa do about the homestead not having a fireplace?

3. Why does Pa have problems when he feeds Pet and Patty and how is the problem resolved?

4. What does the family do after Pa and Mr. Edwards finish the house, except for the roof?

5. What does Pa make for the cabin at the beginning of Chapter 12 and how does Ma help?

6. What does Pa do every morning when digging the well with Mr. Scott and what happens to Mr. Scott in the well one morning?

7. What does Laura tell her Pa about Jack and the Indians and what is his response?

8. Where do the Ingalls stop for supplies and where do they spend the first night on the road? What do they hear that first night?

9. How does Jack appear at the camp on the prairie?

10. What does Laura tell her Ma she wants to see relating to Indians and what does Laura’s Ma tell her?

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