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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ma complain about when Jack comes into the camp?
(a) He is covered in thistles
(b) Laura and Pa's screams wake the baby
(c) Laura gets all wet hugging him
(d) Jack wants food immediately

2. How does the family cross the Missouri River?
(a) They do not cross the river but travel alongside it
(b) On a raft
(c) At a ford
(d) On a bridge

3. Where does Pa put Pet and Patty after he un-harnessed them?
(a) In a corral
(b) Ties them to some bushes so they can eat
(c) On a picket line
(d) In the barn

4. What does Patty do when Pet tries to eat Patty’s food?
(a) Stomps on Pet's foot
(b) Kicks Pet
(c) Nips Pet with her teeth
(d) Pushes Pet away

5. What does Ma do with the dish-cloth when she finishes the dishes?
(a) Lays it out on some tall grass
(b) Hangs it on the wagon
(c) Hangs it on a branch
(d) Hangs it on a clothesline

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pa feed Pet and Patty when he chains them to the feed-box?

2. Where does the family spend the night the first day on the road?

3. Where does the Ingalls family live at the opening of the book?

4. What does the family hear during the night of their first night traveling?

5. When does Pa decide they are going to leave?

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