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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 did Laura do with Mary and Carrie when a burning stick fell into the cabin?
(a) Yelled at Mary and grabbed Carrie
(b) Nothing
(c) Slapped Mary to get her out of her paralyzed fear
(d) Pulled the rocking chair away from the stick

2. What does Pa see that makes him say it is time for him to return to Independence?
(a) Geese flying south
(b) The sun coming out an hour earlier
(c) The first grass coming up
(d) Indians moving south

3. What is in the middle of the combs Pa brings Mary and Laura?
(a) A triangle with flowers
(b) A dog's head
(c) A star
(d) A flower

4. On what does Mrs. Scott blame the Ingalls’ illness?
(a) The berries they ate
(b) The water in the well
(c) Eating watermelons
(d) The mosquitoes

5. Why didn’t Mary want to play hop-scotch?
(a) She has a sore foot
(b) She wants to sew instead
(c) She always loses to Laura
(d) She does not think it to be ladylike

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pa say is the reasons the Indians are leaving in different directions?

2. What does Pa say is the reason the prairie was burned?

3. What does Ma say she and the girls would have done if the fire had come while Pa was gone?

4. What does the prairie fire look like from a distance?

5. What does Pa say some of the settlers are talking about doing?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens one day when the chimney catches on fire?

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

5. Why does the family worry about Pa getting back from Independence and what does he manage to bring with him without breaking it?

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

7. Why does Pa go to the Scotts’ in the middle of the night?

8. What do Mr. Scott and Mr. Edwards think about the prairie and what how do they feel about the Indians getting together?

9. How does the Ingalls family become sick?

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

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