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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 Ma decide to do after the girls go to bed the night before Christmas?
(a) Hang their stockings
(b) Goes to bed early
(c) Sings Christmas carols with Pa
(d) Help Pa erect a bridge

2. Why did the cattle move so slowly?
(a) They ground was too rocky to run
(b) The herd was mostly cows with calves
(c) The cowboys' horses moved slowly
(d) They stopped to eat a lot

3. What does Ma fix Pa when he comes in from Independence?
(a) A cup of hot tea
(b) A hot chicken sandwich with gravy
(c) A plate of eggs and salt pork
(d) A cup of coffee with brown sugar

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

5. What game do Mary and Laura play with Carrie?
(a) Hide-and-Seek
(b) Patty-cake
(c) Round the Bedstead
(d) Go Call the Goose

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pa wonder when they hear the Indian war cry over and over?

2. What language does Pa think the Indian was speaking?

3. What wakes the Ingalls in the night and causes Pa to jump out of his bed?

4. What do the girls say the Indians had eaten in the village?

5. Who helps Laura get Mary water when the family is sick?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Ingalls family become sick?

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

3. 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?

4. What does Pa eat when he feels better and what does Mrs. Scott think of his choice of foods?

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

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

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

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

9. Who helps the Ingalls family when they are sick and how do they help them?

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

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