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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 massacre does Mrs. Scott talk to Ma about?
(a) Fort Laramie Massacre
(b) Wounded Knee Massacreq
(c) The Homesteader Massacre
(d) The Minnesota Massacre

2. Who does Pa say has ridden past the house in the night?
(a) The Osage Pa has talked to
(b) Some soldiers
(c) Mr. Edwards
(d) No one he knows

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

4. What does Pa think caused the illness?
(a) The mosquitoes
(b) He has no opinion
(c) The night air
(d) The cow's milk

5. What does Pa see in the treetops on his way home from the Scotts’?
(a) A panther
(b) An Indian scout
(c) Nothing, it is night
(d) A Great Horned Owl

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Laura do with the stick that is on fire on the cabin floor?

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

3. What do the girls wear to bed?

4. Why was Bunny shut in the stable?

5. What does Pa tell the Scotts is the reason he came to their house in the middle of the night?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the Ingalls family become sick?

3. How does Mr. Edwards get to the Ingalls for Christmas and what does he bring with him?

4. What can the settlers hear from the Indians and how are the settlers feeling about what they hear?

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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