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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 Pa use for a temporary roof?
(a) Tree branches tied together
(b) Woven prairie grasses
(c) The wagon canvas
(d) Thatch

2. How does the family come to own two mustangs?
(a) Pa catches them wild on the prairie
(b) They find them attached to a wagon whose owner is dead
(c) Pa buys them
(d) Pa trades their horses for them

3. Why does Pa think the eyes they see in the dark are not from a wolf?
(a) The animal in the dark is alone
(b) They shine green instead of red
(c) The animal in the dark is too quiet
(d) The horses do not appear upset

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

5. How much of the house does Pa and Mr. Edwards get done the first day he comes over?
(a) All but the windows and roof
(b) Two-thirds of it
(c) All but the roof
(d) Half of it

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jack sleep the night he returns?

2. What is Laura doing at breakfast that her mother tells her to stop?

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

4. What does Ma complain about when Jack comes into the camp?

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

(see the answer key)

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