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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 almost do when her father is not watching at the creek?
(a) Put her foot in the water
(b) Pick up a garden snake
(c) Splash Mary with water
(d) Throw a frog on Mary's lap

2. What kind of floor does Pa make for the cabin?
(a) Gravel
(b) A brick floor
(c) He leaves the floor dirt
(d) A puncheon floor

3. What are the first two logs Pa put into a ditch for the house called?
(a) Foundation beams
(b) Studs
(c) Sills
(d) Joists

4. Why did Pa tell Ma to leave the house in Chapter 10?
(a) He is chinking the inside with smelly tar
(b) He is putting a roof on the house
(c) He wants to paint the walls
(d) It was smoky inside the fireplace

5. Who drives the wagon across the ford?
(a) Mary
(b) Laura
(c) Ma
(d) Pa

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pa build after he builds the bedstead?

2. What do the men hit at the bottom of the well before water?

3. What does Mary sew on when Pa goes back to the creek for more rocks to finish the fireplace?

4. What does Pa do every morning before going down into the well he is digging?

5. What did Ma do to help Pa build the house when the logs were three logs high?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens when Laura and Mary are playing with Jack who is chained to the barn?

3. Why does Charles Ingalls want to move west?

4. What happens with Pet the day after the stable is built?

5. How does Pa encounter a huge wolf pack and what does he do when they are around him?

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. How does Pa begin to construct the fireplace?

8. Why is Pa not at the homestead on Sunday by suppertime?

9. How does the family get across the creek and who does not make it?

10. How does Pa acquire mustangs and what are the mustangs’ names?

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