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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the girls wear to bed?
(a) Flannel pajama pants
(b) Flower-pattern nightgowns
(c) Red flannel nightgowns
(d) Cotton gingham nightgowns

2. What does Ma do when an Indian comes in the house and speaks to Pa?
(a) Makes both Pa and the Indian dinner
(b) She ties Jack to the bed and hides Pa’s pistol
(c) Sits down with Pa and the Indian
(d) Sends the girls to the barn

3. What does Pa tell Ma to do when he hands her four dead geese?
(a) Hang them outside
(b) Save the feathers
(c) Cook only one
(d) He will take a dressed bird to Mr. Edwards

4. Why did the cattle move so slowly?
(a) The herd was mostly cows with calves
(b) They stopped to eat a lot
(c) They ground was too rocky to run
(d) The cowboys' horses moved slowly

5. Why were there small holes in the ground at the Indian camp?
(a) The camp was on the outskirts of a prairie dog community
(b) The holes were from teepee poles
(c) The Indians used the holes for a game they played
(d) The holes were from drying racks for the Indians’ meat

6. What happens to Mr. Edwards when he visits them after Pa goes to Independence?
(a) He sprains his ankle
(b) Jack chases him up the woodpile
(c) Nothing happens to him
(d) He breaks his finger using the axe

7. What does Mr. Edwards say Santa was riding when Santa was in Independence?
(a) A huge mule with donkeys loaded with presents
(b) A sleigh pulled by mules
(c) He was riding a large elk
(d) A large bay horse

8. What does Pa tell Laura the government will do about the Indians?
(a) They will sent the Indians west
(b) They will let the Indians stay and share the land
(c) They will send the Indians south
(d) They will imprison the Indians

9. Where is Pa when the chimney catches on fire?
(a) Hunting
(b) At Independence
(c) Cutting logs
(d) Helping Mr. Edwards

10. Why does Pa bring Jack into the house the night he stops plowing early?
(a) Jack needs a bath too
(b) The Indians are making more and more noise
(c) He is going over to the Scotts
(d) The girls want to play with him

11. Why was Bunny shut in the stable?
(a) She has colic
(b) So she would not follow her mother
(c) She has a lame leg
(d) She is ready to birth a colt

12. How do Pa and Ma fight the fire?
(a) Beating it with wet sacks
(b) Throwing dirt on it
(c) Dumping buckets of water on it
(d) They do not fight the fire

13. Why does Pa look pleased when he comes in from plowing?
(a) He has shot three rabbits while plowing
(b) The prairie fire has made plowing easier
(c) The Indians have quieted down
(d) Mr. Edwards came by and dropped off some butter

14. What does Pa tell Ma the folks in Independence are saying about the Indians?
(a) The Indians have said only the people there now can stay
(b) The Indians are going to start a war
(c) The government is going to make the white people leave the Indain land
(d) The Indians are going to leave for the west

15. What does Pa do to prepare for possible problems with the Indians?
(a) Muds the outside of the house so it will not burn
(b) Uses all of his lead and makes bullets
(c) Teaches Jack to attack on command
(d) Teaches the girls how to fire the pistol

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pa see in the treetops on his way home from the Scotts’?

2. What do the pioneers call malaria?

3. What did Laura do with Mary and Carrie when a burning stick fell into the cabin?

4. How does Pa get his boots off?

5. What does Pa make Ma while he is recovering from the illness?

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