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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the date of the first day of the journey?
(a) July 5th.
(b) July 17th.
(c) June 25th.
(d) July 7th.

2. Where did the animals pulling the wagons generally get watered?
(a) Water barrels.
(b) All of these.
(c) Wells.
(d) Rivers.

3. How many towns did the Wilders pass every day they were in Nebraska?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

4. What did one woman say all the people in Missouri had never seen?
(a) A motor car.
(b) A real church.
(c) A schoolhouse.
(d) An organ.

5. Who made Laura's sewing box?
(a) Her daughter.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her son.

6. Where did the Wilders decide to move when the banks started failing?
(a) South Dakota.
(b) Missouri.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) North Dakota.

7. What caused the banks to collapse in the place where Rose was born?
(a) Small population.
(b) Robberies.
(c) High rate of inflation.
(d) Foreclosures.

8. Which of the following was NOT considered one of the "Miss" States to Rose at the beginning of the book?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Miss Dakota.
(c) Missouri.
(d) Missconsin.

9. What did the Wilders call the place where they chose to move to?
(a) The Land of the Big Red Apple.
(b) The Land of the Juicy Peach.
(c) The Land of the Golden Wheat.
(d) The Land of the Crawling Vineyard.

10. What did Sherwin call the place where the Wilders chose to move to?
(a) The Lacn of Opportunity.
(b) The Land of Fortune.
(c) The Land of Plenty.
(d) The Land of Promise.

11. The price of which of the following items was NOT listed in Chapter 2?
(a) Food.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Lumber.
(d) Land.

12. How long did the crops fail in the place Rose was born?
(a) 6 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 8 years.
(d) 4 years.

13. What did the Wilders do when they stopped with the Canadian woman?
(a) Avoided each other.
(b) Sang songs.
(c) Swapped stories.
(d) Sold supplies.

14. What did Rose's parents get sick with at the beginning of the book?
(a) Typhoid.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Diphtheria.

15. How long was Rose's father on jury duty?
(a) 5 days.
(b) 5 weeks.
(c) 4 days.
(d) 4 weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What got lost on August 5th?

2. Why did a man not let the Wilders camp on his property?

3. How many bushels did Almanzo say a big grain field in South Dakota would reap at harvest?

4. What was Almanzo's nickname?

5. What kind of group picture is included in the first chapter?

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