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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. Who is the only person Pet let touch her colt?
(a) Ma
(b) Laura
(c) Carrie
(d) Pa

2. Where does Pa go at the beginning of Chapter 11?
(a) Hunting
(b) To Independence
(c) To work with Mr. Edwards
(d) Down to the creek for more logs

3. Where does the family spend the night the first day on the road?
(a) At Ma's parents' house
(b) At a trade station
(c) At Pepin
(d) In an abandoned cabin

4. What does Pa do with Jack when Pa leaves?
(a) Leaves him running loose
(b) Stakes him in front of the house on a rope
(c) Ties him to the wagon wheel
(d) Chains him to the stable

5. Who does Pa say is living about nine miles away?
(a) Two bachelors
(b) No one
(c) The Olsons
(d) Two families who are living together

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Pa want the family to move?

2. Where does Pa decide to move the family?

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

4. How does Pa hold together the cabin door?

5. What does Pa tell Laura could have caused trouble with the Indians?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Laura worried about crossing the creek?

3. 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?

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

5. What do Laura and Mary do after breakfast?

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

7. How does the house and the barn get doors?

8. Why does Charles Ingalls want to move west?

9. How does Laura end up wading in the creek?

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

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