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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 kind of berries do Ma and Laura go to pick?
(a) Strawberries
(b) Raspberries
(c) Blackberries
(d) Blueberries
2. What is preventing Pa from playing the fiddle at night?
(a) There are too many mosquitoes out
(b) He has broken one of the strings on his fiddle
(c) Carrie is having a hard time sleeping at night
(d) It is raining too much
3. What does Ma do when the girls hear the Indians in the distance?
(a) Loads the cannon for battle
(b) Takes out Pa's pistol
(c) Brings the girls and Jack inside and locks the doors
(d) Tells them to ignore it
4. What does Pa say some of the settlers are talking about doing?
(a) Leaving the area
(b) Forming a militia
(c) Going and talking with the Indians
(d) Building a stockade
5. What happens to Mr. Edwards when he visits them after Pa goes to Independence?
(a) Nothing happens to him
(b) Jack chases him up the woodpile
(c) He breaks his finger using the axe
(d) He sprains his ankle
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is giving Laura medicine when she wakes up one day?
2. Why didn’t Mary want to play hop-scotch?
3. How was Pa finally able to milk the cow?
4. What does Pa do when he comes in early from plowing?
5. What does Pa say the noise from the Indians is?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the Ingalls family become sick?
2. What does Pa agree to do for the cattlemen who come by the house and what do they offer him?
3. What do Mr. Scott and Mr. Edwards think about the prairie and what how do they feel about the Indians getting together?
4. Who helps the Ingalls family when they are sick and how do they help them?
5. What does Pa eat when he feels better and what does Mrs. Scott think of his choice of foods?
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 does Pa begin to do in the spring and why is he doing it?
8. Where does Pa take Mary and Laura in Chapter 14 and what do they find there?
9. How does Jack, Pa and Ma feel about all the Indians going down the trail?
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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