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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-22.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did Pa tell Ma to leave the house in Chapter 10?
(a) He is putting a roof on the house
(b) He is chinking the inside with smelly tar
(c) He wants to paint the walls
(d) It was smoky inside the fireplace

3. For what does Ma say they planned to use the bundle of furs the Indians did not take?
(a) Cornmeal and oats
(b) Salted pork
(c) The plow and seed
(d) The white sugar from Independence

4. What happens to the wagon as they cross the creek?
(a) The right rear wheel gets stuck in the sandy bottom
(b) One of the horses stumbles in the water
(c) Nothing happens
(d) The front brake smashes on a rock

5. What does Pa say is the reason the prairie was burned?
(a) Lightning struck the prairie somewhere
(b) The Indians set it to drive off the white settlers
(c) Indians do it every year to make a clear way for their horses
(d) Someone became careless with a campfire

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pa do every morning before going down into the well he is digging?

2. What does Ma say she and the girls would have done if the fire had come while Pa was gone?

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

4. What do Laura and Pa wish when they hear wolves?

5. What did they name Pet’s colt?

(see the answer key)

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