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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 Pa tell Ma the folks in Independence are saying about the Indians?
(a) The Indians are going to start a war
(b) The government is going to make the white people leave the Indain land
(c) The Indians have said only the people there now can stay
(d) The Indians are going to leave for the west

2. What does the prairie fire look like from a distance?
(a) A great storm
(b) A hazy fog
(c) A sea of yellow wheat
(d) A mass of orange color

3. Where does Mr. Edwards tell the girls Santa said he last saw Edwards?
(a) At his cabin on the prairie
(b) In Wisconsin
(c) When he was lying on a cornhusk mattress in Tennessee
(d) When he was a young man on the Mississippi

4. What happens to Mr. Edwards when he visits them after Pa goes to Independence?
(a) He sprains his ankle
(b) He breaks his finger using the axe
(c) Nothing happens to him
(d) Jack chases him up the woodpile

5. What does Mr. Edwards say he did to get to the Ingalls house Christmas morning?
(a) He felled a tree at the creek to join up with the one Ma and Pa put there
(b) He took off his clothes and swam the creek
(c) He left two days before to go around the creek
(d) He went to Independence first and came from that direction

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pa bring into the house the day before Christmas?

2. What do the pioneers call malaria?

3. On what does Mrs. Scott blame the Ingalls’ illness?

4. What did Mr. Edwards bring with him to contribute to the meal?

5. For what does Ma say they planned to use the bundle of furs the Indians did not take?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the family end up getting from the cattlemen and what does Pa get from it that night?

2. What does Pa begin to do in the spring and why is he doing it?

3. What does Pa say is the scream and how is the problem solved?

4. Why do the girls worry about Christmas and the family worry about Mr. Edwards?

5. What does Pa agree to do for the cattlemen who come by the house and what do they offer him?

6. How do Mary and Laura find out there is something going on with the Indians and what does Pa say is happening?

7. How does Jack, Pa and Ma feel about all the Indians going down the trail?

8. What does Pa do after the Indians quiet down and some leave? Who does he meet and what does Pa find out about the Indians?

9. How does the family almost lose the furs Pa has collected and what do they lose?

10. What do Mary and Laura do with their findings from the Indian village?

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