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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What do the pioneers call malaria?
(a) Croup
(b) Chilblains
(c) The sleeping sickness
(d) Fever 'n Augue

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

5. What does Pa do when he decides to take Jack to the Indian camp with him?
(a) Leaves his gun for Ma
(b) Makes Jack a long leash
(c) Makes a quick collar for Jack out of an old belt
(d) Pours water into a canteen for Jack to drink

6. What does Pa wonder when they hear the Indian war cry over and over?
(a) How many he can kill before they get his family
(b) How the Indians learned to make the war cry
(c) If the Indians are coming that night
(d) If the Scotts and Mr. Edwards could hear the Indians

7. What does Pa say is the reasons the Indians are leaving in different directions?
(a) The Indians do not know where the buffalo are
(b) The soldiers have told the Indians to go home
(c) The Indians are going to surround the white settlers
(d) The Indians have quarreled among themselves

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

9. What wakes the Ingalls in the night and causes Pa to jump out of his bed?
(a) Wolves banging on the door
(b) The horses squealing
(c) Indians surrounding the house and yelling
(d) A woman screaming

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

11. What does Pa bring into the house the day before Christmas?
(a) A wooly mammoth
(b) A small boar
(c) A large turkey
(d) Five quail

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

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

14. What task must soon be done as the spring comes?
(a) Digging a new cellar
(b) Buying new land
(c) Plowing
(d) Building a bridge

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Laura when she falls asleep waiting for her Pa to come home?

2. Where does Mr. Edwards tell the girls Santa said he last saw Edwards?

3. What is sod?

4. Where does Ma say the voice of Alfarata went?

5. Who told Pa that the Indians wanted to kill all the settlers?

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