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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Edwards tell Laura he is?
(a) A fur trapper
(b) A failed banker
(c) A wildcat
(d) An outlaw

2. What does the family hear during the night of their first night traveling?
(a) A tornado
(b) The ice breaking on the lake
(c) Two stags fighting
(d) Howling wolves

3. Who drives the wagon across the ford?
(a) Laura
(b) Pa
(c) Mary
(d) Ma

4. What do Laura and Pa wish when they hear wolves?
(a) That the pack was not so close
(b) That the wolves would finish hunting quickly and leave
(c) That Jack was with them
(d) That they were already in a house

5. What is Laura doing at breakfast that her mother tells her to stop?
(a) Reading a book
(b) Singing
(c) Playing with her food
(d) Pushing on Mary

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the first state through which the Ingalls family travels?

3. What did Ma do to help Pa build the house when the logs were three logs high?

4. How does the family come to own two mustangs?

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

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