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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 the family hear during the night of their first night traveling?
(a) A tornado
(b) Howling wolves
(c) Two stags fighting
(d) The ice breaking on the lake

2. What does Pa do when he comes home?
(a) Skins a rabbit
(b) Starts to clean the logs he brought
(c) Plays the fiddle
(d) Goes after the Indians

3. What does Pa feed Pet and Patty when he chains them to the feed-box?
(a) Hay
(b) Oats
(c) Corn
(d) Nothing

4. From where did the family with malaria come?
(a) Oklahoma
(b) Kentucky
(c) Iowa
(d) Minnesota

5. Why does Pa think the eyes they see in the dark are not from a wolf?
(a) The animal in the dark is too quiet
(b) The horses do not appear upset
(c) The animal in the dark is alone
(d) They shine green instead of red

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Pa go at the beginning of Chapter 11?

3. How far from Independence does Pa say they are in Chapter 4?

4. Where does the Ingalls family live at the opening of the book?

5. Who drives the wagon across the ford?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How long does it take for Mr. Edwards and Pa to finish the house and why is Mr. Edwards helping them?

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

5. What do Laura and Mary do after breakfast?

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

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

8. How does Pa and Ma start the house and what happens to Ma as they are building the house?

9. Why does Charles Ingalls want to move west?

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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