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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Pa say has ridden past the house in the night?
(a) Mr. Edwards
(b) Some soldiers
(c) The Osage Pa has talked to
(d) No one he knows

2. Who is giving Laura medicine when she wakes up one day?
(a) Ma
(b) Dr. Kotte
(c) Dr. Tan
(d) An Indian medicine man

3. What does Pa do when he comes in early from plowing?
(a) Hitches Pet and Patty to the wagon.
(b) Does all his chores and puts the animals in the barn
(c) Gets his gun to go hunting
(d) Takes his Saturday bath.

4. What massacre does Mrs. Scott talk to Ma about?
(a) Fort Laramie Massacre
(b) The Minnesota Massacre
(c) Wounded Knee Massacreq
(d) The Homesteader Massacre

5. Why was Laura running as the three of them returned home from the village?
(a) She was excited to show Ma her beads
(b) She was racing Jack
(c) She was very hungry
(d) Her father was walking too fast for her to keep up

6. Why was Laura anxious about not having snow?
(a) There is too much mud to walk to the barn
(b) The creek is getting too high with all the rain
(c) The roof has begun to leak
(d) Santa needs snow for his reindeer

7. What does Ma fix Pa when he comes in from Independence?
(a) A plate of eggs and salt pork
(b) A cup of coffee with brown sugar
(c) A hot chicken sandwich with gravy
(d) A cup of hot tea

8. Who is leading the Indians who ride past the house in Chapter 27?
(a) American cavalrymen
(b) Chief Running Iron
(c) Five Indian chiefs
(d) Chief Du Chene

9. What does Ma say she feels after they watch the last of the Indians go by?
(a) Very happy
(b) Let down
(c) Still afraid
(d) Uncertain

10. What kind of symptoms does the Ingalls family have when they fall sick?
(a) Severe headaches and high fevers
(b) Aches and cold and hot flashes
(c) Running noses, congested lungs and sore throats
(d) Throwing up and not be able to eat

11. Who told Pa that the Indians wanted to kill all the settlers?
(a) No one
(b) An Osage Indian
(c) A soldier who came by the house.
(d) Mr. Scott

12. What happens to Laura when she falls asleep waiting for her Pa to come home?
(a) She begins to hear Indians at the door
(b) She goes to sleep and falls off the bench
(c) Nothing happens to her
(d) She falls asleep at the kitchen table

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

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

15. What does the prairie fire look like from a distance?
(a) A sea of yellow wheat
(b) A hazy fog
(c) A mass of orange color
(d) A great storm

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Laura do with the stick that is on fire on the cabin floor?

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

4. What do the girls wear to bed?

5. Why are the cowboys singing?

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