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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is preventing Pa from playing the fiddle at night?
(a) There are too many mosquitoes out
(b) He has broken one of the strings on his fiddle
(c) Carrie is having a hard time sleeping at night
(d) It is raining too much

2. Why does Pa chain Jack to the stable door at night?
(a) To keep him from running off
(b) Jack likes to sleep with the horses
(c) Mr. Edwards’ horses had been stolen
(d) Jack cannot sleep in the house when Pa is there

3. What does Pa think caused the illness?
(a) The mosquitoes
(b) The cow's milk
(c) The night air
(d) He has no opinion

4. What does Laura almost do when her father is not watching at the creek?
(a) Splash Mary with water
(b) Put her foot in the water
(c) Pick up a garden snake
(d) Throw a frog on Mary's lap

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary and Laura do with their beads?

2. Why did Pa and Patty come galloping into the homestead in Chapter 7?

3. How much milk does Pa get from the cow the first time he milks her?

4. What does Ma fix Pa when he comes in from Independence?

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

(see the answer key)

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