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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did the new land have many acres of?
(a) Rolling fields.
(b) Apple trees.
(c) Uncleared timber.
(d) Thorny bushes.
2. How did Laura respond to the missing money?
(a) Fretted and fumed.
(b) Went to church to pray.
(c) Got to work making more money.
(d) Searched the wagon.
3. What was clabber?
(a) Hard tack.
(b) Curdled milk.
(c) Bear jerkey.
(d) Gravy.
4. How much money did the split wood sell for in town?
(a) 40 cents.
(b) 70 cents.
(c) 60 cents.
(d) 50 cents.
5. Why did people in Kansas not like Missouri?
(a) It got too cold.
(b) The people were backward.
(c) The food was bad.
(d) There were lots of immigrants there.
6. What relieved Laura when Prince was stopped after being spooked?
(a) He was not stolen.
(b) He did not bite her.
(c) He was not injured.
(d) He came back willingly.
7. How did Laura describe the people in St. Marys?
(a) Judgmental.
(b) Hospitable.
(c) Strange.
(d) Religious.
8. Why did the people in Fort Scott not plant in the good land?
(a) They were not farmers.
(b) They didn't want the population to boom.
(c) They didn't know how.
(d) There was no economy.
9. Where did the Wilders get some letters?
(a) Marysville.
(b) Fort Scott.
(c) Ridgeton.
(d) Topeka.
10. What time did the Wilders reach their destination?
(a) 1:30 pm.
(b) 11:30 am.
(c) 12:30 am.
(d) 10:30 am.
11. Who found the missing money?
(a) Laura.
(b) Paul.
(c) Almanzo.
(d) Rose.
12. Why did Almanzo hire a man to help him clear land?
(a) He wanted to make a friend.
(b) His family was starving.
(c) Laura got hurt.
(d) He couldn't do it alone.
13. What spooked Prince?
(a) A car.
(b) A gun.
(c) A train.
(d) A black man.
14. What would Almanzo have to do to make an orchard on his new land?
(a) Put down fertilizer.
(b) Buy good seeds.
(c) Clear land.
(d) Plant seedlings.
15. What did Rose and Paul find full of fun and excitement when they first got to Mansfield?
(a) The animals.
(b) The hut.
(c) The big town.
(d) The forest.
Short Answer Questions
1. How much were the big watermelons at Ash Grove?
2. What kind of house was on the new land?
3. What was the longest distance the Wilders traveled in one day while in Kansas?
4. Who did Almanzo talk to when he learned Sherwin's whereabouts?
5. What did Laura do all day on their first Sunday in Missouri?
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