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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 Mary sew on when Pa goes back to the creek for more rocks to finish the fireplace?
(a) A new dress
(b) A tablecloth
(c) A new blouse
(d) A block on her quilt

2. What does Pa build after he builds the bedstead?
(a) A clothes wardrobe
(b) Kitchen cabinets
(c) A dog house for Jack
(d) A locked cabinet for their supplies

3. How does the family get the goods they need to travel?
(a) They buy them with gold bullion
(b) They trade for them with fur
(c) They trade two cows for the needed supplies
(d) They steal them

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

5. Why does Laura worry about Jack and the crossing of the creek?
(a) Jack does not know how to swim
(b) Pa will not let Jack ride in the wagon
(c) Jack will not stay in the wagon
(d) Jack has very short hair and the water is very cold

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first food Ma cooked in the new fireplace?

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

3. How many piles of logs does Pa make over the days?

4. Why does Ma cook outside after they move into the nearly finished house?

5. What is Laura doing at breakfast that her mother tells her to stop?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Laura worried about crossing the creek?

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

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

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

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

8. What does Mr. Edwards look like and what does he tell Laura he is?

9. What does Pa tell the family about their neighbors as they eat dinner Sunday evening?

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

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