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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) Throw a frog on Mary's lap
(c) Pick up a garden snake
(d) Splash Mary with water

2. What method does Pa use to build the fireplace?
(a) Stone-set overlay
(b) Stick-and-daub
(c) Cross patch square
(d) Mortar and tar chinking

3. What do the men hit at the bottom of the well before water?
(a) Quicksand
(b) Rock
(c) Clay
(d) Nothing

4. Why did Pa and Patty come galloping into the homestead in Chapter 7?
(a) Pa cuts his leg while hunting
(b) They spotted a huge wolf pack
(c) Pa wanted to stretch Patty's legs
(d) There was a cougar chasing them

5. What is Laura doing at breakfast that her mother tells her to stop?
(a) Singing
(b) Pushing on Mary
(c) Reading a book
(d) Playing with her food

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jack sleep the night he returns?

2. How big was the wolf pack Pa saw on the prairie?

3. What does Pa say very large wolves are called?

4. What happened to Ma when a log fell on her?

5. How does Pa bring logs up from the creek bottom?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Pa do with Pet and Patty when they camp on the prairie?

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

6. What do Laura and Mary do after breakfast?

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

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

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

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

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