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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Laura do with Mary and Carrie when a burning stick fell into the cabin?

2. What task must soon be done as the spring comes?

3. Why was Bunny shut in the stable?

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

5. Who does Pa say has ridden past the house in the night?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Where does Pa take Mary and Laura in Chapter 14 and what do they find there?

5. How does the Ingalls family become sick?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do you think the reflection of Laura looking back on her life might be very different then her life had actually been? Do you think Laura sees her past as being better than it was? Why or why not? Use examples from Little House on the Prairie to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Characters are an important part of what makes Little House on the Prairie interesting. Discuss the following:

Thoroughly discuss and analyze Laura. What are her strengths and weaknesses? How does she contribute to the plot? Is she a sympathetic character? Is she usually likable? Seldom likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas. Use the same criteria to thoroughly discuss and analyze Pa and Ma.

Essay Topic 3

Pa's gamble of settling early in Indian territory does not pay off. After receiving conflicting information for several months, the family learns of the government's decision that the white settlers must leave the Indian territory; they will be removed by force if necessary. Pa will not wait for this indignity, so the family leaves.

Compare the ways in which the Ingalls have to leave the home they have built because they have encroached on Indian land to what happens to Indians when they are made to move by the government. Use examples from Little House on the Prairie to support your answer.

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